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sewing calendar giveaway

July 30, 2010

A couple of nights ago I made a new cover for our coffee plunger, (as well as one for a friend and one for the shop). The beloved coffee press is something I use every day- I made my first cover for it a few years ago now, and elastic was starting to get a bit tired. This time I used mismatched buttons and a couple of extra layers of wool fabric, and it's doing the job nicely on these cold mornings we've been having.

In a strange coincidence, the very next morning I received an interesting-looking box from a US publisher on the doorstep. Inside was this 2011 'Sewing Calendar', compiled by Megan Smith and published by Accord Publishing. My little tutorial for this coffee cosy, and one other pattern was published in the calendar but I'd forgotten all about it.

It's a boxed set featuring lots of different craft projects from around the internet- enough to last you an entire year.

They kindly sent me two copies, so I have one Sewing Calendar to give away here. I'm happy to send it anywhere in the world. If you'd like it, just leave a comment telling me something special you'd like to do next year. 2011 seems kind of far away, doesn't it? But I'm sure it will come around soon enough.

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199 responses to “sewing calendar giveaway”

Kate

July 30, 2010

Congratulations! Love the coffee plunger cover. Mmm I;d like to go to Paris next year,but i think that might just be a lovely dream.

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guildmaker

July 30, 2010

Love that cosy coffee! I’d like to be living on acerage, self sufficiently, in 2011.

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briar

July 30, 2010

well done you! thats so cool. Hmm next year, I would REALLY love to take my husband away for a wee holiday for our anniversay – that would be awesome.

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louana

July 30, 2010

How funny. Next year I’d really love to be more fit and active. I love your mismatched buttons.

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Dee

July 30, 2010

congratulations, how cool!
something special next year? the same as this year, but do it even better 🙂

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Jacqui

July 30, 2010

Next year I’d really like to stop adding so many things to my ‘To Do’ list and concentrate on just a few things and really enjoy doing them. More of less!
Love the idea of a sewing calendar! And your press cosy, it’s lovely.

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Tinylovely

July 30, 2010

Lucky you what a nice surprise. What a good idea to keep your coffee hot. Next year I hope to be adding to our family 🙂 and seriously sew a lot more of our clothes.

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Aunt LoLo

July 30, 2010

Oh, I have the 2010 calendar. I LOVE it!
What do I want to do in 2011? Well…work up the courage to try for munchkin #3? How’s that? ACK.

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catherine

July 30, 2010

I like the cozy, particularly the fact that you went for mismatched buttons this time.
I am without my stuff at the moment as our house is having renovations done and I’m crashing at my friends with kids and hubby. So to compensate for not having my crafty stuff available I’m looking at crafty blogs everyday. It’s all so inspirational.

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Gillian

July 30, 2010

I just discovered your lovely blog and will be following along. I recently spent a lovely holiday with my daughters in the US – we re-decorated my younger daughters living room in reds, oranges and yellows – morrocan inspired! and the kitchen in hot pink, black and white! Now I am inspired and next year I want to re-do our office/spare room.
Gillian

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margie oomen

July 30, 2010

Calendars and cozies makes for a lovely post

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wintu nancy

July 30, 2010

My special treat for next year would be to have our grand daughter, who will be 13 in 2011, come to visit us for most of the summer. She lives in Germany and we don’t get to have enough time with her. She wants to learn to sew, so we could have many quiet days to see if she likes sewing.

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JJ

July 30, 2010

Fun, we could use one of those coffee cozies! I think I’d like to travel with our little one. He’s just at the age to really enjoy it and I miss it…

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Viki

July 30, 2010

I love the coffee cosy, and think we need one of those in our house. A must for cold mornings and tired parents of a toddler!
We are expecting our second child at the end of this year, so I know that 2011 will be a busy one. Hopefully I can continue some of the projects I have on my to-do-list which I have written during my ‘nesting’ stage!
Thank you for your inspirational blog 🙂

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Bek

July 30, 2010

Lovely cosy and looks like a great little calendar. Congrats on being featured! Next year does seem so far away right now, but it will be so special to get to know my (3rd) new baby (due in 5 weeks) and watch our family grow together.

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sy

July 30, 2010

the cozy is so cute. congratulations on being published 😀 i really want to do a one project every month thing for a year, maybe one cozy every month? 2011 would be a good year to start.

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Ramona

July 30, 2010

congrats! my goal for next year will be to finish more projects than I start. not that I have to finish every project that I start, or even that I have already started, but just, proportionately, finish more…

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Rhea

July 30, 2010

I love the cozy 🙂 Next year will be a hectic year..baby due in November so I will have a little one crawling around while my older two are in school. I’ve only just started sewing (inspired by blogs such as yours) and I would really love to continue that despite having a more hectic schedule.

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gretchen mornin

July 30, 2010

I would like to…. go away for a romantic weekend with my partner and without the kids staying beach front in the caravan… bliss.

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Eunhwa

July 30, 2010

Hello Melissa! I would like to generate less trash next year as much as I can. And of course, start painting, now that I have bought myself a set of acrylic paint. Love your cozies!

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martha

July 30, 2010

2011 does seem far away! But I’d really like to do more traveling next year, especially to visit friends that live far away.
Will you be able to sell the pattern outside of the sewing calendar?

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tinyhappy

July 30, 2010

hey martha, travel seems like a good plan!
you can actually find the pattern for free on my blog- its here.. http://tinyhappy.typepad.com/tiny_happy/2008/11/hot-coffee-for-everyone-a-tutorial.html

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whitney

July 30, 2010

i would like to make a quilt next year. the original plan was to make it this year, but in the event that that does not happen, next year will do. i don’t know how there are all these people in the world with babies who find the time to make quilts – but i wish i was one of them.

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cat

July 30, 2010

What a neat surprise, so lovely to get something you have forgotten about. Your new coffee cozies look great, so good I feel the need to go and make myself another cup of coffee! I think I would like a trip to Europe next year… but somehow I don’t think that will happen… nice to dream though!

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Clare

July 30, 2010

I would love to buy a house next year! And to hang that beautiful calendar in it 🙂

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Erica

July 30, 2010

I am looking foward to spending all of 2011 with my husband… he is in the military and has been away for almost a year. I would like also become the healthiest I’ve ever been. Thanks for the great giveaway!

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Nigel and jo Coles

July 30, 2010

What a cool giveaway! I’m going to make the very most of 2011 with my youngest daughter having her last year as a pre-schooler. An end of an era.

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Amy

July 30, 2010

my hubs and I are hoping to move next year into our “forever home” that is if we can sell the one we currently own!

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Marian M-S

July 30, 2010

What a lovely surprise 🙂 I love the cozy…I like French presses, but they do get cool quick…this is such a good idea! Next year I will have to echo Clare and say buy a house. And make it a home with lots of homemade projects like this one 🙂

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karen

July 30, 2010

Hello, I’ve followed your blog for a while but never been bold enough to leave a message. I think the calendar is a lovely idea – a great way to be inspired every day! I am in a sewing/craft group in Sydney with some lovely parents from my children’s primary school – including some parents whose children have since flown away to high school – we meet at each other’s houses once a fortnight and sew quilts, bags etc to raise money for the school at their fetes and concerts etc It’s a lovely way for us to keep in touch and learn from each other. Anyway, we are planning to go on a trip together to Japan next year to ‘look’ at fabric (ie shop) and also be inspired by their beautiful art and craft.

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Lil

July 30, 2010

mmm, so much to look forwrad to in 2011 already. My baby turning one. My husband starting back at school ;-)..my daughter starting 4 year old Kindy and my eldest son starting 2nd grade…phew..that’s just the tip of the iceberg..with all these milestones a lovley calendar would help me keep with up with all our dates! Love the coffee cozy too 🙂

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Rosa in The Antipodes

July 30, 2010

WOW, 2011! But it’s just around the corner…Hummm, what do I would love to do in 2011? I wish I could travel more within NZ. Well, I could even be wishful and dream about a long travel to my home country in the other side of the world…Snif! I’m a bit sad now, I might get this coffee cozy pattern and give it a go, just because it’s beautiful and beauty it’s enough to make everybody happy!
Enjoy this beautiful sunny day (at least up here in Welly)!

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Sara

July 30, 2010

I would love to finally get my sewing business up and running by next year. Some days is seems almost impossible to take care of the kids, work part time, run a camp, and start up a new business but it will get there. Thanks for asking!

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allison

July 30, 2010

oh, i was admiring your coffee press cozy earlier and wondering if i could make my own for my husband’s christmas present. i would love to get my hands on the tutorial.
next year i’d like to finish my degree and get a j.o.b. exciting stuff!

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Jacilyn

July 30, 2010

The cozy is so wonderful…it makes me want to run and buy a coffee press.
Next year I want to go to Hawaii and do some whale watching.

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melissa p.

July 30, 2010

i would like to finish quilts for my daughter and son. they’ve been in process for far too long! i’d also like to spin and knit a sweater for myself. that’s a pretty big list for me….but if i plan right, it may work out!
great press cover!

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Sarah

July 30, 2010

I’m inspired by your coffee cozy – I’ll have to make one. Next year I’m hoping I’ll be able to go to New Zealand for a conference and see the south island for the first time!

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michelle

July 30, 2010

How coincidental that I’m sitting here reading your blog drinking a cup of plunger coffee – something I rarely do! Really cool fabric, love it! Thank you kindly for the tutorial, now I’ve got my weekend sussed out…

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fiona

July 30, 2010

the sewing calendar of tutorials will sit so nicely on my worktable! and i like the fabric you used for your new coffee plunger cosy.
i’ve never had french food before so i’d hope to have a nice french meal in a cosy place with Brian, perhaps and hopefully for our wedding anni in 2011.

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Ann

July 30, 2010

That calendar looks to be a lovely bit of crafty-inspiration! I only hope that I would be able to find plenty of time during the earlier parts of the year to try out some of the projects as the something-special that I’d like to do next year involves starting my family with my husband.

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Hanna

July 30, 2010

oooh lovely 🙂
Well next year, I want to plan a family holdiay, somewhere quiet and peaceful where all you want to do is lounge around and read 🙂
xx

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siew

July 30, 2010

I need to clean up my basement and organize it into some useful space. Seemingly huge task but it needs to be done!

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Rebecca

July 30, 2010

Congratulations on the calendar. Aren’t the best surprises the special things that we’re reminded of having accomplished?
In 2011, I’d like to create a more peaceful home for my family. We’re currently living in limbo for the forseeable future… so being able to finally settle, create a routine and simplify life sounds really good about now. (Along with making some new friends now that we’ve moved 3,000 miles away from everyone we know!)

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elizabeth

July 30, 2010

Lovely cozy! As for 2011, I want to better my sewing and knitting skills.
Blessings, Elizabeth

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Sarah S

July 30, 2010

Love the cozies – thinking of making one as a Xmas present for a work colleague. Hmm, next year…I’d love to do more clothes sewing and maybe go to a quilting night class…if time and schedules will let me.

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dilemmalou

July 30, 2010

I love the gentle beauty of your blog, and find it very inspiring!
Something that I plan to do next year is learn how to play the ukulele that my lovely boyfriend gave me last birthday (that and make more time for crafting!)

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The Chocolate Cat

July 30, 2010

In 2011 I would like to take some time back for ‘me’ to allow me to create without feeling guilty!

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Tracy

July 30, 2010

I would like to have finished by degree as a naturopath and medicinal herbalist. Also, I recently (this week) found your blog and LOVE LOVE LOVE your bunnies! They are so vintage and darling 🙂 You make very beautiful items 🙂

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wendy

July 30, 2010

I’d like to open my online store next year (actually, that was the plan for this year… hasn’t happened yet…)

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Kristy-Lee

July 30, 2010

How fabulous to be published in the calendar – congratulations!
In 2011 I would like to start my own crafty adventures blog, sharing some of my work and ideas as a way of ‘paying forward’ the constant inspiration I get from blogs such as yours.

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