A new week...and a little fabric giveaway

Last week despite all the shop related woes of moving to 'Cloud technology'. (There has to be something amusing to say about that doesn't there?)Fabric related episodes of disappointment, (swiftly resolved - thank you Elspeth), was good fun.

It was good to have the chldren at home, although I haven't adjusted to the 'quiet' of the house now they're back at school. It's really weird to be hearing 'silence' again during the day. The weather was brilliant for the half term break and we spent quite a bit of it outside.

To add to the chaos of the week some new custom built shelves were installed for the shop and they're just brilliant in a shelf organising kind of way. They make much better use of the space and distribute the weight of the fabric in a much better way. Making it easier for me to get the fabric out and put it back. (Hooray!) The downside is ...... that I can see all the fabric side by side and it can beg even louder to become something else.... all those colours and patterns interacting.... It's quite distracting actually.

A positive side effect of the new shelving has been to force a bit of a look at some of the fabric that no longer lives on a 'bolt', either because they've been cut as fat quarters or because they're the end bits that I always seem to get left as I near the end of a 6.85 metre (What kind of measure is that, when the way you cut fabric is based on metres or half metres?), nine or thriteen metres bolts. The carboard inners get recycled either as compost...... or as fantastically useful 'kneeling' pads at the allottment. One doesn't appreciate muddy knees you know.....!

So, as I don't seem to have had a giveaway for a while I wondered if one of you might find these useful? Some of them are fat quarters other pieces are a little smaller. Definitely useful for patchwork....

Definitely pretty...

I really like that fabric by Heather Bailey (the one with the large yellow flower ) - it's so fresh looking and just gorgeous. then there's some Woodland Bloom by Lila Tueller and some of Amy's fabrics from the Daisy Chain range.

Everyone is welcome to join in, just drop me a comment and say hello. I (the computer ) will randomly generate a number on the 10th June (6.00p.m. BST), which will be the day after my daughters twelth birthday....... so I'm unlikely to forget.

Which reminds me, I need to get hold of some edible glitter ..... she wants a cake like the ones on Kirstie Allsop's Handmade Home. Looks good and potentially very messy, I wonder how that crafty endeavour will go!

Comments

[Janie Owen]

love to win such beautiful fabric

[cherrie]

Oo-la-la! What little beauties. I especially love the red or is it pink large flowers. Very happy fabrics.

[Dolores Sedore]

These are fabrics I don't have in my stash and so it would be nice to work 'outside my usual' and get out of the comfort zone. They are very pretty fabrics and I have seen some patterns I would love to try out with them.

[Fabricandbags]

Lovely jubbly - I do rather like the yellow flowered one, but they are all very pretty and would be made to feel most welcome in my home!

Cheers
Anne

[Nancy]

Ooh what lovely fabric you have there. Thanks for being willing to share it. I especially like the Daisy Chain fabrics.

[Lin]

Weren't Kirstys cakes wonderful! If you can't find the glitter I can pop into our local cake decorating shop? I feel that I need to sew again after seeing the fabrics!

[michelle]

You have a beautiful eye for fabrics. These are lovely and so much fun for a contest- the pink and green flowers are my fav!

[Jane Weston]

Beautiful fabrics...please count me in. I love the one on the end with the little print...very sweet.

[Torya]

I would love to win that fabric - the colours are beautiful!

[BarbaraG]

Yummy fabrics! I could put them to good use (after I sit and enjoy them for the sheer loveliness of their colors and patterns)

[maria]

Love,Love,Love those fabrics.

[Mary Smith]

Those are lovely fabrics and it's so generous of you to share with some lucky person. I'm just getting back to sewing after a long absence, so I'm low on bits and pieces.

[gill]

love them all!!

[Nova]

Edible glitter? Eep.

[hannah]

Glad to hear that the site is back to normal :) Would love to see a photo of the glittery cake (if it manages to stay uneaten for long enough ;))

[dottycookie]

All very pretty indeed.

Good luck with the glitter - I speak from experience when I say that once you've tried it you'll never be able to leave a cupcake unglittered again!

[Kat]

I love the fabric with the pink flowers and the green one. I've seen so many lovely fabrics recently I can feel the need to make a patchwork quilt for my little girl.

Good luck with the cake

[Amy Lane]

Wow, gorgeous fabrics, especially that lovely big flower. They would be most welcome in my home :-)

Amy x

[Helen]

Love the fabrics and would really like to add them to my "stash"

[Sue Cahill]

What lovely fabrics, so colorful and happy. I would love to be entered.

[Lace hearts]

I'd love to enter your giveaway, please. What gorgeous fabric.
My eldest was 12 last Oct. I couldn't believe it... how fast time flies. Edible glitter is fantastic. I always sprinkle liberally on their cakes, and their friends always love it.

[Maranda]

Lovely fabric:)

[Andrea]

They are lovelyfabrics. Some I have not seen before. I could do with a fabric injection at the moment too.
I found some glittery type stuff in Tesco. It was pink and may have had a barbie logo on it in the cooking section, or lakeland plastics might have something.

[Nicole]

Oooo pretty! Who doesn't love Amy Bulter fun!

[Barbara Godfrey]

What a yummy selection!