Please Vote in the Dress Up Your Roll Competition

The voting is now on in the Dress Up Your Roll Competition. The winner is decided by judges but they want a bit of help by all of us voting for our favourites.

Go to Jane's blog Want It, Need It, Quilt and click on the Flickr link to see all the entrants. Come back to Jane's blog & vote for your favourite.

Remember my entry ; )

So pick a favourite & vote so one of us wins a lovely $100 voucher from Jane's shop or from the Fat Quarter Shop if an overseas entrant. There are some beauties, fun, pretty or clever - take your pick!

Happy stitching
Tracee xx

My Dress Up Your Roll Comp Entry

My loo roll is sooooo pretty, it's so pretty, it's so witty, how pretty it is!

Yes, my entry for the Dress Up Your Roll challenge is finished & so pretty it has me singing. I also feel like I should be wearing one of those gone with the wind dresses & carrying a parasol while swaying from side to side but the line has to be drawn somewhere. That corsetting would be far to hot to wear on a 39 degree day in Perth!

Quilt Jane from Want It, Need It Quilt is running this fun little competition to find unique ways to gussy up the spare loo roll. The range of entries on the Flickr group page is just amazing, from the Leaning Tower of Pisa (very fitting!), to an Angry Bird, a Sock Monkey, foundation priced roses to the men & womens toilet sign. Check them out, they are fantastic. A lot of very creative ideas.

I decided to use my leftovers from my All My Lovely Sewing Things wall hanging (by Val Laird) I finished in August last year. It was made with a charm pack of Breakfast at Tiffany's by Fig Tree & fittingly purchased from Quilt Jane's shop. Her prices for precuts are seldom beaten, so check it out. I just saw Vintage Modern by Bonnie & Camille charm packs for $10 each.

I only used half of each charm squares so had just enough left for my roll cover. I decided not to use the blue & just stick with the creamy, orangey colours with the deep chocolate brown to provide a lift. So having 2.5 x 5 inch strips available, I decided to cut them in half & sew up 7 strips then cut them into 1.25 widths to make lots & lots of little squares, about 140 - what was I thinking!

I didn't stress about matching corners like normal, just sewed them together haphazardly. There is not enough stress available in the world to have matched up all those little squares! I then added an olive green top & made a drawstring bag. So here's my Patchwork Pumpkin!

I figure I can put a scary face on it for Halloween! But the vision was not finished there. The pumpkin was about to get a makeover & be made into something of floral sophistication befitting Fig Tree Fabrics. The addition of a matching handmade flower brooch made all the difference. I used creamy yellow fabric that toned in with the charm pack & a little left over square from the charm pack to cover the button & tie it all together.

I can't believe it - it turned out even better than I planned, so good I want to show it off. I figure once a  month I will bare the loo roll again & use it is a carry bag for my mug & badge for when I go to WA Quilters Guild sewing nights.

Did I mention - I love my flower! I made it last night while watching the movie Sweeney Todd. Johnny Depp in a musical - mmmm - at least he got to dress up as strangley as always but that movie contains more blood than Dexter! Not one of JD's better movies.

The Dress Up Your Roll Competition doesn't close until 1st April so there is still time to enter and there is a $100 voucher to Jane's shop up for grabs (The Fat Quarter shop if you are overseas). Details are all here on Jane's blog.

Happy stitching
Tracee xx

Win 2 Tickets To The Craft & Quilt Fair

Here's a nice competition most of us would like to win. The prize is only worth $30 but what quilter doesn't want 2 tickets to The Quilt & Craft Fair in yor nearest city. There is a double pass up for grabs for Launceston, Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane & Adelaide.

The competition is being run by Quilters Companion magazine who unfortunately haven't heard of the internet yet so you have to enter by snail mail. This is from the latest issue of Quilters Companion  No 53, Yearbook 2012, page 18.

The following is a direct copy from the magazine;

To be in the draw send an envelope addressed as follows;

Universal Magazines
QC#53 Treasures
Locked Bag 154
North Ryde NSW 1670

On the back of the envelope write your name & address. Most importantly, tell us  in 20 words or less why you would like to win. e.g

Brutus Beefkitten
Quiltkitty Kingdom
Awful Hot Perth WA 6666
I would like to win because.......

Draws are open to Australia Residents only. Entries will be judged and winners chosen on the basis of orginality. Letters must be received by Wednesday 14th March 2012.

Good luck! I'll be after the Perth tickets, it's the highlight of the quilting year seeing so much new & yummy stuff in one place. My credit card will be polished, walking shoes brought out & the girls all rallied for a fun day out.

Happy stitching
Tracee xx

Dress Up Your Roll Competition

I figure if I am going to be up in the middle of the night stressing about little Brun's surgery tomorrow I might as well be catching up on some blogging.

Here is a new challenge that Jane from Want it, Need it, Quilt is running. If you are looking for something different from the usual mug rug, table runner, quilt block challenges then check this out. The mission, should you accept it, is to make a cover for the humble loo roll. It can be pretty, comic, embellished - anything you want. Jane has a tutorial on her blog today too to give you ideas.

Here's a link from earlier on Jane's blog to go to the rules, important dates (we have until 1st March to complete ) & prizes. Yes, a $100 voucher could be yours as well the infamy of being the 2012 Loo Roll Dress Designer of the Year.

Blog about it & you can win packs of Aurifil thread too. So when next you are in the loo, contemplate the fate of that lonely, naked loo roll & how you can pretty it up!


Happy stitching
Tracee xx