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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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  1. Laura Avatar
    Laura

    What a nice surprise! The calendar looks lovely!
    I hadn’t really thought about next year (still in the what-I-can-do-before-December mode)… I’d love to travel somewhere outside of Canada (where I live) and complete a Sprint distance Triathlon!!

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  2. lekki Avatar
    lekki

    Hi Melissa. hmmm, if I get good enough at te reo Maori this year then I’d like to progress to level 4 next year. So I shall have to work hard and do some more practice. I have a great tutor and I’m in a great group of people in the class, we all support each other and have become friends. The new coffee cosy looks good with the mismatched buttons, I love things that go together but aren’t perfect matches, you have a real knack for co-ordinating your notions 🙂

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  3. Brianna Siegrist Avatar
    Brianna Siegrist

    I’d like to make a braided rug… 🙂 Maybe by 2011 I will have collected all the wool I need.
    😉

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  4. Frauke Avatar
    Frauke

    Hallo Melissa,
    it seems to be an interesting calendar.
    Next Jear I planed to use more time to spend in my creativity. More time to draw, or learn to quilling…
    Liebe Grüße
    Frauke from germany

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  5. samantha hall Avatar
    samantha hall

    there are so many things i would like to do in the next year. My biggest goal is to make a quilt.. or bake bread… hahaha

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  6. Kat Avatar
    Kat

    Congratulations on your patterns being published – although readers are obviously the lucky ones! Me, I would like to be a mother in 2011.

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  7. Jessywolfy Avatar
    Jessywolfy

    My goal is to set up my craft room. As it all sits, hidden and away from the kids, I barely have time to get it out, set anything up and then put it all away. 🙂

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  8. Victoria Avatar
    Victoria

    Next year I would like to take my sons to meet their great grandmother in Scotland, they haven’t met her yet 🙂

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  9. ~Heather Avatar
    ~Heather

    Oooh, lovely! I’m hoping to make more things to donate to our preschool auction and to give away as gifts. (Apparently planning ahead is the best way to do this!)

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  10. Julie Avatar
    Julie

    Congrats for your patterns being published in the calendar – and thank you for giving one away! Next year, I hope to find and take more time to sew my own clothes.
    Have a great weekend.

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  11. Christina J. Avatar
    Christina J.

    We would like to take a train trip next year, because it didn’t work out this year.

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  12. Amy Avatar
    Amy

    I would like to take a sewing class next year and learn more about clothes making. Very doubtful, but it would definitely be special if it happened.

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  13. Karen Avatar
    Karen

    Congratulations on the calendar! Next year I would sure like to learn how to make my own pants.

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  14. Kelby Avatar
    Kelby

    In 2011 my husband, my son and I will be making our last preparations for our move from Florida to Alaska. I have never lived anywhere but this small Florida town… This move will be frightening yet exciting!! I would love to hang this calendar in our new home, wherever that may be.

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  15. Dwan Evans Avatar
    Dwan Evans

    Well, I’d like to alter my duvet that is for a King sized comforter (I have a queen now). It’s been on the “to do list” for several years. Maybe, I’ll get to it before the year is over.
    Dwan

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  16. Andrea Avatar
    Andrea

    How sweet! And congratulations. Next year I hope to apply for graduate school…and slow down (are those incompatible?)

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  17. Glitzerkeks Avatar
    Glitzerkeks

    I would love to visit my dear friend in New York and spend some speciall time with her. I havent seen her in soooo long! And miss her!!!!!

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  18. Amanda Avatar
    Amanda

    congratulations! I would love to be printing textiles in 2011. It’s an ambitious goal for me but I’m hopeful!

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  19. Alyssa Faith Avatar
    Alyssa Faith

    Next year I’d like to learn how to drive with a stick shift, make yorkshire pudding and be more helpful to my parents!

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  20. jasmin Avatar
    jasmin

    i secretly dream of going back to newzealand after finishing my bachelor of arts and learn some more about pacif arts…but to be honest, i dream about that since i left nz two years ago! it could be usefull to sew some stuff to sell on the way… 🙂

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  21. knofje; Avatar
    knofje;

    Congrats!
    uhm.. I’d love to have a copy, so lets think; I’m probably going to Africa next year, for work.

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  22. Jen Gough Avatar
    Jen Gough

    Love the fabric you used! I would like to sew a quilt next year for each of my 4 children…
    Thanks!

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  23. aubrey Avatar
    aubrey

    I’d like to make a quilt for my son. I’m also hoping for a trip to Ireland – I just found out my brother is going to be there for 6 months.

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  24. craftydill Avatar
    craftydill

    how exciting to have your creations in the calendar! next year i really want to tackle simplifying my home- getting rid of the things that don’t get used or have seen better days and only bringing in things that are needed. this plan also includes painting and some small home improvements. have a wonderful weekend! -michelle

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  25. sarita Avatar
    sarita

    Congrats to you! I’ve long been a happy reader of your blog and would love the opportunity to win this calender…;)
    Next year I’m hoping to move to the country..woohoo, can’t wait!! Thank you..xx

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  26. Yvette Avatar
    Yvette

    Oh my goodness, what do I want to do next year … wake up each morning healthy and not too grumpy … enjoy everyday, no matter what the weather is … and craft to my hearts content.
    Oh, I’d like a newer house and car. More trips to the coast. Some shopping trips. But since funds are limited, I will just take each wonderful day as it comes.
    Hugs

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  27. Courtney Avatar
    Courtney

    next year i’m going to have my machine fully serviced!

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  28. alexis Avatar
    alexis

    coffee is my favorite thing in the morning, sadly, on weekdays i’m so rushed to get out the door that i have to use my coffee maker instead of french press.
    this next year i really want to make a quilt for myself. my idea for a while has been to embroider some of my favorite leonard cohen lyrics on strips of linen and incorpoate it with strips of some fabric i’ve been saving. i’m hoping for a queen size quilt.
    i just need to find more time in everyday!

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  29. kirsty Avatar
    kirsty

    Congratulations on the calender. I’ll be 40 at the end of next year, I’d like to visit the Christmas markets in Copenhagen – and get my own website up and running!

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  30. Melinda Avatar
    Melinda

    Lovely coffee cosy and lovely calendar! What a treat 🙂

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  31. Sol Avatar
    Sol

    I want to see the tulips bloom in Amsterdam in the spring.
    Hugs from Sol

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  32. Léa Martin Lord Avatar
    Léa Martin Lord

    nwxt year….finally finishing a quilt would be nice! I always seem to leave quilts unfinished…wonder why !!:P

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  33. mica lynch Avatar
    mica lynch

    melissa, you are amazing, ive just recently discovered this page and i love seeing all youre wonderful creations! i tried to make bread after you inspired me but it sucked….i like to blame it on peruvian ovens…they ruined it, not me.
    next year i want to make it back to NZ and meet my new neice, and hopefully bring the hubby back with me.
    you seem like you are doing great, give my love to your beautiful family.
    mica

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  34. megan Avatar
    megan

    Next year? It does seem far away…Go to some concerts, more camping, more traveling!! What a fun coincidence with the package!! And your coffee cozy looks great! Your blog is so inspiring! 🙂

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  35. Gilly Avatar
    Gilly

    Fancy forgetting about being published- you must be getting famous 🙂 I would love to go to my cousin’s winter wedding in Wanaka.

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  36. Michelle Rice Avatar
    Michelle Rice

    Congratulations on getting your crafts published in the calendar. Next year I would like to have my fourth child and savour family time more. I love my 3 daughters and am now enjoying spending the summer holidays with them at home (6 weeks of no school!) working on crafts, baking and just hanging out together. :o))

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  37. Annemari Avatar
    Annemari

    It’s a lovely cosy! Too bad that I don’t drink coffee, but maybe I could make one for my little water boiler. 🙂
    Next year I’d like to start some new hobby.

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  38. Paige Avatar
    Paige

    That looks like a super fun calendar, and congrats to you on being published in it!
    There are so many things I’d like to do in 2011, starting with sewing a few more clothing items for myself.

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  39. Mousy Brown Avatar
    Mousy Brown

    I’d like to hit 40 gracefully next year (or do I mean disgracefully???) – I’ll see what seems appropriate 😀

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  40. KS Avatar
    KS

    I’d like to cycle around Europe and learn to sew

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  41. Ms Lottie Avatar
    Ms Lottie

    Oh, I AM going to the Quilting Symposium in Queenstown! Squeeee! And I WANT to have saved enough to take some spending money.
    And I’d love to write the dates on that beautiful calendar.

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  42. Kristina Avatar
    Kristina

    I just had my grandmother’s old Singer fixed up and I need some things to sew! 🙂

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  43. moa Avatar
    moa

    cute cozies… I wish I used my plunger enough to warrant me building one too. Next Year at about this time me my husband and our two kids aged 4 and 7 are moving to the U.K, with the idea that we will work there and travel to Italy France Spain etc… Eek sounds scary just typing it 4 little kiwis in Big old Europe.
    xxx Moa

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  44. karen Avatar
    karen

    Yes, we like the idea too 😉 We’re hoping to run a stall at our local market selling some of our things to help with the costs. I love the way your blog is so simple yet very inspiring, like a breathe of fresh air – thank you.

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  45. Suzan Avatar
    Suzan

    Hi Melissa. I check in from time to time and still love the upside down seasons. Next year? Jerry and I are working on downsizing. Maybe we’ll be in our new little home by then.

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  46. kielz Avatar
    kielz

    I don’t know! My niece is moving in tomorrow, and the last year has been plague with ill health of family members. I am looking forward to crafting and baking with my niece and seeing all my family happy and healthy. Sounds a bit corny I guess, but it will be special for me 🙂

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  47. kellie Avatar
    kellie

    lovely!
    next year i would love to go on a trip to nepal and to have a permanant job to fund it 🙂

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  48. J. Marie Avatar
    J. Marie

    I thought I left this comment yesterday…but now I don’t see it. Hmmm…
    My brother brought up the idea of backpacking in Europe next summer. That would be so amazing!! However, if that doesn’t work out…I just want to get a job after I graduate. 🙂

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    Bealnamulla.blogspot.com

    Love your French press cover! Next year, I would like to go to Oslo-esp to see the beautiful Oslo opera house…and the Munch Museum.

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  50. heleen Avatar
    heleen

    i say this every year, but i’d really like to be more organised next year 🙂

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