Wednesday 4 January 2012

New Year Giveaway!

One of my goals for this year is to pass on makes, patterns, fabrics etc that either just don't work for me for one reason or another or that I've finished with.  Instead of hanging on to them, I'd like to see them have a new lease of life with a shiny new owner.  So that's the theme of my giveaway, hopefully there will be something in here that floats your boat.

First is my McCall's 2401 dress, which I made when I was taking my dressmaking course.  

It's a lovely, simple style, but as I bemoaned in this post, it just seems to slip through the net for me when it comes to actually wearing it.  It's made from a quilting weight cotton which is a Liberty design, reissued for the V & A Quilting Exhibition in 2010.  It's a McCall's size 14, measurements from the back of the pattern being: 36in bust, 28in waist and 38in hips.  I took it in a tiny bit at the sides, but apart from that it's sewn up straight from the pattern.  The fabric has been washed once prior to making, and the dress has never been worn.  For this part of the giveaway, I'll also chuck in the rest of the fabric (roughly 57in wide x 19in high) and four covered buttons.  The buttons were originally attached to the front of the dress but have since been snipped off.  

Second up is Simplicity 6298 - a fab Go-Go boot-wearing dress pattern from 1965.  Yeah baby! The pattern is a size 14, 34 inch bust.
Finally, I'd like to offer my copy of this awesome book to one of my readers: Sew Your Own by Jean-Paul Flintoff.
I bought it after reading about it on Zoe's blog.  She subsequently managed to bag an interview with the author, which I highly recommend you check out.  If you're interested in general thrift, being a better consumer and finding out what drives people to investigate making their own clothes (as well as indulging in other crafts), then this is the book for you.  It's also fascinating to read about the experiences of a sewing 'dude'. As Zoe says, 'I'd be surprised if there was nothing you found in it which touched you.' 

To enter, just leave a comment after this post stating which part of the giveaway you're interested in (you're more than welcome to enter all three parts). The giveaway is open worldwide and closes at midnight GMT on Wednesday 11th January.  The winner will be chosen at random after this date and notified by e-mail. 
Good luck everybody! x

84 comments:

  1. oh I would so love to win this, you are my size!! Also I love the new look of the blog.
    Happy New Year!

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  2. I'd love to have a read of the book, I added it to my wishlist after reading Zoe's blog but haven't been able to purchase it yet!

    Thanks for the give aways!

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  3. Hi Jane

    I'd love to put my name in the hat for the book. I hope it would inspire me to carry on sewing when I already have a drawer full of patterns just waiting for me.

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  4. How nice of you to offer your handmade dress! But it is not my size. I really like the pattern! It is retro with a modern twist. The book sounds resourceful too. Thank you for the chance!

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  5. I love that handmade dress, Jane! But I can see why it's not quite your style. I'd adore that fab dress pattern, though, so please consider me for that! xx

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  6. I would love either of the three but I especially love that dress and it is my size! You did a beautiful job- thanks for offering it up in this generous giveaway.

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  7. Both the dress and the pattern are too small for me, but I'd love the book.

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  8. please put me in for the book. I read the blog post too. It seems so very interesting

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  9. The dress won't fit me, shame. I would love a chance to win the book. Thanks for your generosity!

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  10. This is such a great idea, Jane! I've considered doing a similar thing, but haven't gotten my act together yet to actually do it.

    I would love to be in the drawing for the pattern - probably a little young for me, but I love it!

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  11. Happy new year! I would love to win the dress pattern, it's cute and exactly my size! :)

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  12. I'd love to have the book or the pattern.
    Your blog is great! One blog more to my readinglist. :)
    Happy, happy New Year!

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  13. I would love a chance to own the book! Thanks so much

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  14. I'd love the book please! Thank you for the chance x

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  15. I'd love a chance to win the pattern or the book! :)
    The dress is gorgeous, but your measurements don't match mine :( I envy your little waist!
    Ashley x

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  16. Hi!
    I'd love enter all three parts of this giveaway.
    Gina - www.macadentada.blogspot.com
    Portugal

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  17. I would love the dress please!!

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  18. Very generous of you, Jane. Unfortunately, our body types do not match up and I wouldn't fit your lovely dress. But I'd love to read that book, so please put me down for that.

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  19. How lovely of you!
    I'm far too enormous for the dress or pattern, but would love to go in the hat for the book please :)

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  20. I'm not your usual reader, I confess to being 62, but that simplicity pattern jumped out at me. It is one of the styles we were allowed to choose to make our our senior year 1967/68 school uniform summer dress! Fabric was also specified - either a cream or light blue cotton poplin.
    Younger members of the all-girls school had to stick with the regular school dress - a very old-fashioned-by-then shirt dress with full skirt in narrow red or green stripe, the skirt was cut so the sripes were horizontal!
    At least this pattern gave a nod to the styles of the swinging sixties, though skirt lengths were a constant battle in school.

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  21. that book sounds like an interesting read

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  22. Wow, mmmmmm would love to win any of your prizes. Particularly would love to win the book so that I once read I can pass it round and show people what sanity is!

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  23. Oh, I've been wishing to read that book! So count me in! Just for the book giveaway...

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  24. I'd love to go in the giveaway for the pattern Jane! I love the style and would definitely wear it - the sixties is much more 'me' than the forties lol!

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  25. I would love to win the dress, it's exactly my size! The book would also be really interesting. Thanks so much!

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  26. Ohhh what a lovely giveaway! I would love the dress but not sure it would fit as my waist stretches embarrasingly to a 30" :(

    The pattern is gorgeous and is definitely 'me' so this would be top of my list, failing which the book sounds super too... too much choice!

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  27. Hi there, I'd love to get a chance to win that book! Thanks so much for hosting this giveaway.

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  28. I would love a chance to win the pattern.
    The dress is adorable and looks great on you, can't believe you're giving it away, but it's pretty awesome of you.
    -J

    wingsto.blogspot.com

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  29. Hi Jane. I'm a new blogger and it's my first time commenting, hope that's OK, but I'd love the pattern. Thanks for the opportunity!

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  30. Hi Jane
    I'd love to win the dress please! Just my size :)
    Thank you!

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  31. Hi Jane! I'd love to win the Mod pattern! It's so cute and the size is the right one for me! Grazie!!!
    Patrizia

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  32. Hi Jane, thanks for the giveaway! I would love to win the pattern, I have been looking for a dress like this for years (literally, years!), but anything I find in the shops is WAY too short, so this would spur me to get on with it and sew my own!

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  33. Hi, just started reading your blog, hope you don't mind me jumping on the giveaway train!

    I would really love the dress but alas but bottom or tummy wouldn't as they are considerably bigger than a 14 so if I was to win something would it be possible to get the book, looks informative and fun, just what I need.

    xxx

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  34. I'd love to win the book!
    Pity, that the dress wouldn´t fit my measures, it looks great.

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  35. I'd like to throw my hat in for the book, while wishing the dress would fit me. Sigh.

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  36. The dress is super cute, but alas we are not the same size (I so envy your tiny waist!).

    However, would you be so kind as to enter me for the pattern AND the book?

    Thank you!
    tina_crossgrove(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  37. Hi Jane, what a great giveaway. Your dress is lovely but I'm afraid it wouldn't fit me but I would love to be entered for both the pattern and the book. Thank you.

    Kate x

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  38. While the dress is great, sadly it's no where near my size, I'd love the book though as it would fit anyone.

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  39. I'll take the book if possible.
    Thank you!

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  40. Happy New Year Jane!
    What a generous giveaway.
    Please put my name in the hat:o)

    I'd love to have my name in for your gorgeous 'Handmade Jane' dress.
    And seconds up, please put me in for the book. I thought Zoes interview was really good, and have yet to get around to getting the book, so would love a chance to bag one :o)

    have a great week, and take care,
    Donna x

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  41. Oh, I'd love to win the Simplicity pattern or the Sew Your Own book! Thanks for the giveaway!

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  42. Oh wow - such a generous giveaway! I would love love love to win that dress (altho I may have to take the bust in a bit..sigh) or the book.

    P.S. Looking forward to Friday!

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  43. Thanks for hosting this give-away. Please put me in for the pattern and book. Thanks a million.

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  44. What a great giveaway, and what a great resolution! I'm currently culling my closet of everything that just isn't "right". It's therapeutic!

    I'd love to enter for that pattern and the book please! :)

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  45. Oooh, I would love to win the pretty, pretty red dress! I love the fabric and the style and it's my measurements exactly!!

    What a great resolution - I think I may play copycat and do the same. :)

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  46. Oh I still have time to enter and this is my size!!

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  47. How very generous of you! I would love a chance at that wonderful dress! And the book....thank you!

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  48. Sweet giveaway! I like the dress, but it's not my size, so I'd like to put my name in the running for both the pattern and the book. I'd love either! Thanks!

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  49. Sew Your Own by Jean-Paul Flintoff please!!

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  50. Hi Jane! I would love to win the pattern or the book. (I think that I am going to read it now, in any case!) Thanks!

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  51. I personally think that dress looks cute as a button on you.

    Thank you so much for all that you do, you're one of the sewing bloggers who's got me back into sewing.

    I'd love to enter all three sections of the draw. The more entries the better chance I have to maybe, possibly win something :)

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  52. Hi Jane,
    I'd love to put my name in for the pattern. I've only been sewing for a little while - just wanted you to know that it was your denim ginger that got me started! So...thanks!

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  53. Happy New Year!
    I'm a new subscriber and I love your blog so much,...

    Please put me in for the book. I read the blog post and am eager to check it out. ^^

    Thank you for the kindness..

    Lucy

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  54. Happy new year Jane. Such a shame when you spend so much time making something only never to wear it. But at least the joy of making and learning is still a factor. Not my size I'm sad to say but the pattern is and I love it, so can you put me in that list please. My goodness me I think you created a monster with this post!!! Speak to you soon xxx

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  55. Hey, I'd like to be in for the chance of the book please :)Beautiful dress you have there, but sad to say sooo not my size :(

    love emilylovesbagpuss@blogspot.com

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  56. Love the material of the dress, but sadly, it's not my size -_-
    So, I will enter for the book (seems so interesting!)

    xx ^^

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  57. Your dress is lovely, and so is the pattern, but not my size. However, Sew Your Own book sounds fascinating, so I'd like to put forward my comment-entry for the book! Thanks for a great giveaway

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  58. I would love to win the dress pattern! I usually get my Mum to help me with making dresses but this year I have signed up to sewing classes and am determined to make this change!
    katie
    x

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  59. Wow, what a brilliant and generous giveaway!

    The dress is lovely (and *exactly* my measurements!) but I'd be equally happy with the pattern or the book!

    Happy new year to you too!

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  60. Awesome dress! I'd love to win it, but I'd especially love love love to win the book, I have just started with sewing and my boyfriend got me a sewing machine for Christmas, but it seems I have no patterns! It would help tremendously:) love, msveve

    msveve.blogspot.com
    ronkostrou@gmail.com

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  61. I would love to win the dress - I love the fabric and the covered buttons!

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  62. Ooh please enter me into the book giveaway. I just signed up for a (non-sewing-related) event where John-Paul Flintoff happens to be the speaker, so it'd be great to read the book beforehand! Thanks for the giveaway x

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  63. I'd like to enter for the dress or the book! I love that fabric, and the book is on my to-read list!

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  64. Ooh, any one of those would be great! Yes please :)

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  65. Hi Jane - I'd love to win a copy of the 'man book'! Cath x

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  66. I love Your blog. I would like to win the pattern;)
    -eitsu-
    kaivolanmaki@saunalahti.fi

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  67. Wow Jane, this is a very generous giveaway!

    I would love the McCalls dress or the book, either would be fantastic.

    Thanks x

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  68. Would love to win the pattern and book!

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  69. I would love to win the dress!
    rjs682 at yahoo dot com

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  70. Hi Jane, Great giveaway, I love the personal touch...and I'd love the dress! hips and bust fine, but I'd need to do a little work on the waist, but then maybe this is the incentive I need :) x

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  71. I'd love to win the Sew Your Own book. It sounds so interesting. Thanks for the chance to win!

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  72. The dress is lovely but unfortunately not my size! I am so sorry about it!
    Thank you very much for your giveaway. Please put me in for the pattern.
    LG
    Angie

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  73. What a great blog have just found it. Would luv to go into the draw to win the book or the pattern thank you. Candy :)

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  74. Thank you for sharing, I would love the book, Sew your Own for my daughter, she lives the recycle, upcycle way of life.

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  75. Hi Jane, Happy New Year and thanks for the giveaway ! I LOVE books so if I were lucky enough to win I would love the book first and foremost, but would not mind the pattern either. Your dress is a beaut but would not fit me, boo ! Hope you have a brilliant 2012 ! K x

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  76. Ooh, I do believe that dress would fit!! The book looks interesting too, but the Simplicity pattern sounds a tad tight around the bust.

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  77. What a great giveaway. I am so sad, that the dress is too small for me. But I would love to have the book or the pattern, too

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  78. Loving the blog makeover Jane.

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  79. Great giveaway!! i would love the dress!
    tmc480 at yahoo dot com

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  80. I'm diggin' the sleeve length on the McCalls 2401 beauty, great to camo my
    5osomething flappy wings. Also, love the flattering waist design. I can't see why you want to part with it? I'm in!

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  81. Love the book! The dresses are too tiny for me and am hopeless at drafting!

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  82. Happy new year!
    I love the look of that vintage pattern - please would you include me in the draw for it?

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  83. I would love to win that dress!
    Thanks
    ryanac32 at yahoo dot com

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  84. I would *love* to win that dress! It's just my measurements! :)

    salvagedstrawberrympls@gmail.com

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