Patterns, patchworks and projects
Jenny and Angel from Stumbles & Stitches announce today they are hosting the Feather Your Nest Sew Along. They urge all sewists (themselves included) to do some projects for their own homes. Jenny explains,
All through April, Angel and I will show progress on our own projects, fabulous guests will share tutorials, and some lucky winner(s) will win prizes donated by awesome sponsors.
This sounds like fun. Find out more, go to their announcement post, Hear, Hear! We’ve Got An Announcement!.
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(The link for the sew along is http://stumblesandstitches.blogspot.ca/2012/03/hear-hear-weve-got-announcement.html)
Thank you for posting about this – I popped over to check it out and it looks like fun – I like that they want to see upcycled and repurposed materials!
Sandra, Thank you for giving me the correct link to this event. –Scarlett
Hi Scarlett, thank you so much for posting our sew/stitch-along. I just saw this post, I don’t know how I missed it!!
The details for signing up are here: http://stumblesandstitches.blogspot.com/2012/04/feather-your-nest.html. Deadline for signing up is April 22, and deadline for submitting your entry is April 29. The prizes are so great, and we will draw one of the 3 winners randomly from the pool of participants.
Thanks again!! 🙂