Sew Retro Rose is 2!!!!
Actually, my blog turned 2 back on the 2nd of August and I TOTALLY forgot about it... it dawned on me when I was driving home from work last Friday - oops!!! And it got me thinking about my blog and its origins. I didn't start this with any other aim than to make sewing a less lonely past-time. The fact that people actually read my ramblings and are inspired by what I do just blows me away. So to celebrate my second blogiversary, and to reward my loyal bloggy-friends, I'm having a giveaway.
Who wants a dress made out of this pattern?
Not the bolero, just the dress
Yep, the pattern I used to make this dress:
And I'm also underway making two more versions for myself... but more on them later!
And just to make it clear, the dress I am offering here for this giveaway will be custom made to your measurements in a cotton fabric using this pattern, and won't have the ribbon trim. I have no fabric in mind for this, and will purchase the fabric after discussions with the winner. The giveaway is open to everyone, but I will ask that you pay for postage once the dress is finished.
So basically, you could own a custom made dress and all you need to pay is the price of postage from Australia to you. Pretty fair deal!!!
Right about now you're probably wondering how you can enter. I'm not going to do anything complicated, cause I just can't be bothered! All you need to do is comment on this post!!! If you want to say something lovely about me that would be really nice, but Stella will be picking the winner, and she very fair when it comes to these things...
Oh, and one entry per person.
The giveaway will be open for 7 days and the winner will be announced next Wednesday (Australian time - so thats Tuesday for all you people on the other side of the world).
Beccie
xxx
PS. You know how I love to reply to all your comments... well I'm going to refrain from doing that this time UNLESS you ask me a specific question about the giveaway or the dress. Hope thats okay with everyone!
UPDATE: The Giveaway is now closed - thank you for your entries!!! Winner will be announced on Thursday the 12th of September (Australian time).
PS. You know how I love to reply to all your comments... well I'm going to refrain from doing that this time UNLESS you ask me a specific question about the giveaway or the dress. Hope thats okay with everyone!
UPDATE: The Giveaway is now closed - thank you for your entries!!! Winner will be announced on Thursday the 12th of September (Australian time).
Hello Miss Beccie! FIRST POST! WIN! Happy birthday. So happy to have met you through Miss Sasha, and have come to love your blog. So much prettiness in one place!
ReplyDeleteLiz xx
PS Pick me, pick me! I'd love a custom dress!
This is very exciting. Happy late 2nd blog birthday wooo.
ReplyDeleteYou are amazing!!!
Love Dahra <3
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI have only just started following you and I just love seeing all your beautiful creations. I have one of your dresses on my wish list as I prefer having one off dresses that are unique and made with pride and passion. If I don't win this one I will talk to you about one anyway. :)
Erin ♡♥♡♥
Happy Blog Birthday! And thank you for the opportunity to win a gorgeous pattern. You have inspired me in so many ways, and I always enjoy reading you blog. Thanks again!
ReplyDeleteJust want to make sure that you could win a DRESS not the pattern Sarah - I want to keep the pattern :D
DeleteHappy blog birthday! What a fun giveaway!
ReplyDeleteWow! What an amazing giveaway. I love all the dresses you make and this one was especially awesome. Count me in. :) Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThis is such and amazing and wonderful giveaway! Thank you for offering such a wonderful gift to everyone.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your two year blogaversary. I wish everyone good luck.
My comment is to Miss Stella...... Please Please Please pick me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) Oh and congrats Beccie on an amazing page!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Blog Birthday!! Thank you for the amazing giveaway!
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday Sew Retro Rose! I'm a new follower and I have LOVED your posts. Thank you for being so generous - I would really like to own a version of this dress.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday to you! Happy Birthday tooo yooou! Happy Birthday Dear Sew Retro Roooossse! Happy Birthday toooo yooooou! Congratulations on reaching 2 bloggy years! Whoo hoo! I love my scotty cardigan so much, to have a gorgeous dress made by you would be like all my Christmas's come at once! Carly xx
ReplyDeleteWow, what a generous giveaway! I would love a custom-made dress. Congrats on your two year blogiversary!
ReplyDeleteI would LUV a Beccie Dress!
ReplyDeleteI always forget my blogging birthday too. But am holding a 1000 post one right now so make sure you go over and enter mine as well!
Happy blog-birthday Beccie! ofcourse I'd love to enter this giveaway, would be so fabulous to own a dress made by you! keep up the good work, your blog and your talent are amazing! :) xx Kim
ReplyDeleteI absolutely ADORE your dress! I'm so glad that you decided to make yourself the perfect outfit. There is nothing worse than wearing something you are not feeling. It ruins your day. Absolutely the worst!
ReplyDeleteWow what a nice surprise! As I am just starting to set up a vintage inspired wardrobe, a become original would be la pièce de résistance! You are an inspiration
ReplyDeleteYou always have the best giveaways!! Definitely count me in! I adore your blog and love reading about your vintage sewing adventures!!xoxoxo
ReplyDeleteHappy 2nd birthday, keep up the excellent work!!
ReplyDeleteTwo years of a creative, informative and entertaining blog and only growing more so in every aspect. Thank you for your time in sharing this with us all.
ReplyDeleteVeronica
This is pretty much the most amazing giveaway ever! I would LOVE to win a handmade dress. Congratulations on your second blog birthday!
ReplyDeleteEleanor - South Africa
eleanorkrause87 at gmail dot com
I love your giveaways! Cross my fingers so hard every time! Adore your blog, one of the ones I always click to read.
ReplyDeleteBeccie, I am following since only a few weeks now, but I try to read each new post and some of the older ones too. There's so much inspiration for us vintage sewers, you know I admire your style, your talent and your dresses - I guess everything.
ReplyDeleteAnd this is the best giveaway I have ever heard of! Even if I own the same pattern, it would be veeeeery glad to be chosen by sweet Stella. :)
Happy birthday, and thanks for this lovely idea!
DorisColanero, Switzerland, aka Mrs. Button
Hi Beccie! =)
ReplyDeleteHappy 2 years and many more! I want to first say thank you for this awesome giveaway!! Something custom made and one-a-kind is so valuable and special! I'm a cosplayer who's done DIY and now has moved that interest to vintage fashion. I thrift when I can hoping to find vintage pieces but I think I would be more successful in sewing my own clothing. I hope to continue to learn from this blog and expand my sewing skills. Keep on creating beautiful work and thanks again! -Lexi (^____^)
Congrats on 2 years! I'd love this dress made to measure by you. The collar is fab as is the bolero (I know, not included) .....Ah.... dreaming of being the winner...
ReplyDeleteHappy blog birthday! Your projects are so inspirational. Thank you for sharing them with the internet world :)
ReplyDeleteHappy late birthday! Your version of the dress turned out so well and you looked wonderful! I love your idea for this giveaway, just marvelous! I hope I win. :)
ReplyDelete-Emily
Emily's Vintage Visions
vintagevisions27@gmail.com
Happy Blog-iversary! I'd love a dress like this
ReplyDeleteHappy 2nd birthday. I would love to win a handmade dress and wear it to a wedding of a dear friend in October. I really hope to win :)
ReplyDeleteKelly
Congratulations on your blog birthday! I've loved following your sewing adventures (and the gorgeous work you do with Sherbet Birdie & Miss Lucy). You inspire me so much to create my own clothes (though I don't think I could do anything nearly as good as you.... yet!)
ReplyDeleteI love a collared dress and the gorgeous dress-it-up-or-dress-it-down possibilities this dress provides and would be honoured to win one!
Until then, I look forward to seeing your beautiful creations.
xx
Happy Second Blogiversary Beccie! I do love your inspirational posts, particularly as I am a self-taught vintage inspired sewer too - albeit nowhere near as experienced and skilled as I have only sewn a stack of circle skirts so far. On your suggestion I have purchased Gerties amazing sewing book and hope to expand my repertoire. My first task will be to make a cute capped sleeve shirt with a peterpan collar out of extremely cute donut material from spotlight. I would love to win one of your amazing custom dresses and although the navy is stunning I cannot wait to see your hydrangea creation - I love pastels sooo much especially lilac and pink! Love Adele xoxox (dele168@live.com)
ReplyDeleteHAPPY SECOND BIRTHDAY TO SEW RETRO ROSE
ReplyDeletecongratulations on another year of pretty frocks,bakelite bangles victory rolls and parasols!
fingers crossed for me in this competition,on a university student budget and timetable i don't have funds or time to make myself pretty frocks :(
Its always exciting following the progress of your many beautiful creations Miss Beccie
xx
Happy Birthday Sew Retro Rose!
ReplyDeleteThanks Beccie for the blog, I'm new here, found you through the Threadmill Facebook page, and have really enjoyed reading about your sewing adventures. I'm glad to know there are other people who decide to sew something the day before an event, I have hemmed dresses on the way to events before!
I love the tips too, always good to see how other people do things
Naomi
Eeeeppp! I'd LOVE a handmade dress by you! Unfortuantly the ones I have so far attempted myself are not anything as amazing as you do! Still learning :)xoxo amber_walker@live.com.au
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! I've loved reading your blog, and I love to read about a fellow aussie sewist :)
ReplyDeleteAll the best,
(Another) Bec
Happy Belated Birthday wishes! I found your blog when searching for inspiration to start sewing. It's a scary sewing world out there for beginners and your posts were super helpful and amazing to see what you could create! By no means am I near your expertise but the biggest thanks for the little push to get started. Looking forward to your next year of blogging Beccie xxx
ReplyDeleteOh yay! Supercute prize. That was a fast blog birthday. They grow up so fast!
ReplyDeleteOMG I got excited thinking you were giving away the pattern you made that gorgeous dress from! But a dress, custom made made by you?!!!! WOW best giveaway ever! And happy happy blog birthday to you, here's to many more.
ReplyDeleteBon anniversaire! I adore your posts and sewing skills, I'm always tell aspiring sewers to check you out ^_^
ReplyDeleteIf I won this competition the dress would be one of my most prized possessions because it was made by you :)
Congratulations, Beccie! Love the blog. Your work is always inspiring.
ReplyDeleteHappy Blog bday:)
ReplyDeleteI WOULD LOVE TO WIN THIS... HOPING WRITING IN CAPITALS WILL HELP ME STAND OUT HAHAHAHAH
Seriously thought, would be awesome :) X
Happy Belated Birthday!
ReplyDeleteAugust 2nd was my daughter's 4th birthday, so you picked an excellent birthday (she's pretty awesome, if I do say so myself).
I would love to win! What woman wouldn't want to win an amazing, custom made dress?
uh wow! that is a little more than awesome. and quite brave lol. Joyeux anniversaire!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe hydrangea dress looks great!
ReplyDeleteMy dog is also called Stella so maybe luck will be on my side this time...? Crossing my fingers!
I hope I'm not too late to enter this! I doubt Stella will pick me twice but there's no harm in trying. YAY!
ReplyDeleteOH my goodness! You sewing Goddess
ReplyDeletePick me! Pick me!
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this dress is so perfect with the wonderful collar and the perfect shape to fit a curvy gal!!! i love it so much and would cherish it and love it like it was my child (like i do with anything 50's inspired) please don't think i am strange for saying that. i just love 50's things and even more than that, i love handmade things.xxxxxxxxxxxx
ReplyDeleteYou are so clever, i would love to win a dress made by the fabulous Sew Retro Rose <3
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love the whole outfit! The best part about watching you put things together is how much time you put into making each detail exactly perfect. I love how you added the umbrella and lovely jewelry on your right arm. I would absolutely love to have one of your outfits!
ReplyDeleteI love love love how your dress turned out and I love reading about all the lovely things you make. Happy birthday!!! :)
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad I got to see this dress in person at the Fifties Fair! It's a shame I'm far too shy to introduce myself, you are an absolute sewing inspiration =)
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Happy Birthday. The new version of this dress is super sweet. Even if I don't win, I NEED something similar....
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday! I admire your sewing skills and would be over the moon if I won
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday from Germany! :)
ReplyDeleteAs a seamstress myself I'm very glad I stumbled upon your blog a couple weeks ago. It is so inspiring to see what you can create with your own hands and imagination and I really do like your sense for colors, fabrics and all other bits and bobs :)
I wish all the best for you!
Greetings!
Happy Bloggerversary! I thought I had commented the other day, though I don't see it, so I must not have hit send or something crazy. The dress is lovely (and the bolero so cute), but I really love your 3rd version of it the best.
ReplyDeleteA very lovely dress and an inspiring blog.
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