The Winners Are:

#15 -  Cori Gilkey  “Since my chickadees are teens now I would have to choose the pyrex. Love the orange color; however, the skirt is adorable!” -please send me your address!

#8 - Jen Byard “Skirt please! My little niece Olivia would look adorable in this…pick me!” please send me measurements!!

Thanks so much for everyone who participated!  I have enough fabric to make 2 more skirts, email me {heather(at)heatherhalesdesigns(dot)com} if you are interested ($10 skirt + shipping). Thanks to everyone who sent in an order- if you are still interested let me know as I may come across another sheet!

thanks to all who entered, I’ll post the winners on sat

I realized today that I haven’t had a contest for July yet, nor did I have one for June.  OOPS!  So, to make up for it, this one will be really good….

I made my daughter a skirt today from a vintage sheet I found at Goodwill for $1.  Not only was it super easy, but it looks SO cute on her.

Here’s the deal, I will make someone’s daughter a vintage sheet skirt, with puff ball trim!  “But wait,” you say, “I don’t have a small daughter” .  For those who are not interested in a skirt I’m offering this cute small vintage pyrex serving dish in the butterfly pattern and I’ll fill it with bits of vintage sheets.

I’ll leave the comments open until friday July 18, and as always feel free to link back.  Just mention in the comments which prize you would like.

A few recent ebay purchases, unfortunately they are all incomplete.

Each envelope contains no more than 4 or 5 transfers, but I am happy to add any to my pattern collection. Here is a transfer from 216 that I am sharing today.

While looking up vogarts last week I decided to make a list of the patterns I am looking for, 231, 198, 160, 259, 260.  If anyone has these patterns I’m happy to swap with you, also if you see any of these whilst you click through ebay email me a link please!

I found out about a fabric/quilt/pattern estate sale 2 hours after it started, but I raced over anyway. After talking with the owners, I found that I missed all the embroidery patterns, they sold before I got there. I don’t even want to think about the fabric that I missed out on.

I did manage to snag a few vintage patterns from the 50’s & 60’s before a woman came by and bought ALL the patterns (three pattern drawers full worth). It was everything you could fit in a trash bag for $1 (you’re dying aren’t you? I would be if I read it on someone else’s blog). There were trunks and trunks, and boxes just full of fabric. I dug and dug and pulled out what I could that appealed to me. I also found an amazing needle point brown linen tote bag.

My husband if off with the camera so pictures of my finds will have to wait (like the cool nine patch quilt blocks). I did snag an old (and stained) embroidered kitchen towel, I bought it for the pattern. Since I can’t show you my finds I thought I would share the pattern from the towel with you.

Wouldn’t it be fun to do charity set of DOW towels?  If everyone chose a day and stitched a towel, then the set could be donated or sold for charity?

Congratulations to Christina, she is the winner of a fruit stamped towel. I hope you post pictures when it’s complete so we can all see it!

Thanks to everyone for entering!!

(a work in progress shot of a pillow I’m working on)

This month’s give away is for a “tea towel embroidery kit”. The kit includes 1-pre stamped flour sack towel (with the design of your choice), 1-gold eye needle (my fav.’s), and enough skeins of floss to complete the project (and if I’m feeling crafty this weekend, I might make a needle case).

I’ve rummaged through my stash of patterns to pull out three options for you. I’ve hunted through flickr and I don’t believe these workbasket patterns have been posted before. However, if you’ve seen me use a pattern before that you simply adore more than these…I’m willing to stamp the towel with another pattern for you.

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each image is slightly incomplete on purpose to prevent theft. If you are looking for a summer project leave me a comment and tell me which pattern is your favorite! Extra entries (as always) for sharing the link on your blog. Comments will be open until I go to bed on Saturday (17th) night!

I’ve been meaning to get a softie together for Softies For Mirabel to ship off to Pip for a few weeks now. I printed off Teresa Levy’s mouse pattern and gave it a wack. The results were awful (the pattern was great, it was my sewing that were the problem), the mouse looked like it had suffered a stroke. Thankfully my daughter isn’t very critical and is happy to haul mr. squeak around with her.

I decided to make my own pattern, a softie that wasn’t so small and that allowed for more hand sewing. Internet, please meet my new friend Ollie.

Best of all? I’m sharing the pattern. If someone would like to clean it up, please let me know, I’m struggling through illustrator. I did my best to explain how I pieced him together, but if my instructions aren’t clear please email me and I’ll try and help you.

I don’t know how to transition this but I know some of you are wondering how Saturday went. It went very well. Blissful Living is a studio that offers classes such as basic sewing, jewelry making, home storage, home decorating, digital scrapbooking, and personal style. The Personal Style class really appealed to me, believe it or not I am horrible about pairing clothes/shoes together. I’m trying to do all my shopping at J.Crew in an attempt to create a mixable wardrobe.

Heather Bailey was there and she had a few pieces from her new fabric collection. Swoon! She aptly described it as “spicy”, there are a few great reds in the mix. She was very friendly and so easy to talk with, she explained that her new collection should be in stores about July. Be sure to keep watching her blog though, she has LOTS of exciting things happening in the next few months.

Thanks for all the great comments- and thank you to everyone who hunted through their Valentines! I still haven’t found a card that I want to use, but I’m hunting ebay everyday!

The winner of the Vogart Rooster pattern is Joey! The winner of the Linky Love giveaway for the Vogart 192 pattern is Patty! Please send me your snail mail addresses and I’ll get these patterns out in the mail.

Because no post is complete without pictures here is my recently finished project, rocket ship burp cloths!

Yesterday I decided to swing by my favorite antique store just too see if they had any new/vintage patterns in. It was an incredibly successful trip, I was giddy like a kid in a sugar factory. I found four Vogart’s and one McCall’s transfer, a half gallon sized bag with Tri-chem, Artex and unknown patterns stuffed full and some vintage fabric (will be in the shop as soon as I can get good pics).

I guess I am a little bit late as last week was the vintage transfer week (thanks floresita, doe-c-doe and everyone else who posted patterns!) Here are the patterns that I am sharing from yesterdays finds:

Here is the best part though- I will be giving away a complete and uncut Vogart 646 transfer pattern.

All you have to do is leave me a comment, and if you link to this post from your blog I will enter you into the “linky love” give away (hee I just made that up!) for a chance to win another complete uncut Vogart transfer. The contest will end at 10pm PST on April 8, 2008.

**But WAIT**- I also need your help. I am working on an design for a client and I need to find a vintage cake graphic or illustration valentine with mommy and baby animals on it. If you could please search through your epherma for a fluffly vintage cake image vintage valentine I will become your new internet best friend! Actually if you have a valentine that I think will work I am willing to pay $5 for a high quality scan. Email me a photo of it, or send me a link to it on flickr- thanks!

A package arrived today with the vintage Superior 151 pattern I bought off ebay! I eagerly ripped it open and was so happy to see the crisp, complete never cut pattern!

I decided to share the love and scan this pattern for you. While I was at it I decided to scan a few of my Vogart’s in an attempt to help Floresita with her Vogart Index (here is another great resource, no actual patterns shared, but a list of what every pattern is and lots of envelope shots).

Sadly, my scans are not near as clean as doe-c-doe’s. I know my way around photoshop, but I can’t seem to figure out how everyone else can get such clean crisp lines. Forgive the smudges, I hope you enjoy them!