Monday, July 21, 2014

The Blouses are Finished! + GIVEAWAY!!!

After a marathon effort on Friday, Saturday and Sunday the blouses are all finished!!!!!!!

For a while there I never thought I would be saying that.  Sewing production line style is great for getting lots of the same thing done, but it was really beginning to do my head in.  Just the repetition!  And the last step before sewing the buttons on involved quite a number of smaller steps that took about an hour to complete for each one....

So yes, I love production line sewing - but maybe for smaller quantities than 8 of the same thing....

Anyway!  In celebration of getting my holiday wardrobe finished, I thought we'd have a fun giveaway!  I'm going to post the photos of the skirts and the blouses below, and I'd like you leave a comment on this blog post saying which goes with what.  The skirts will be numbered 1 to 7, and the blouses A to G, so comment and say 1C 2C 3G etc.

I hope that makes sense!  The people that get it right will be going into the draw to win a 'Make-An-Outfit-Like-Mine' Kit - (modern) border print fabric, zipper, and closure to make a skirt, and fabric, pattern (copy of mine), buttons, and matching thread to make a blouse!

I haven't put it all together yet, but here is the border print fabric for the skirt:

Yes, I should have ironed it....

Ok!  So I know you've seen them all before, but here are the skirts.  Note they are numbered in the top left hand corner.








And here are the blouses - also numbered in the top left corner!








Its going to involve a fair bit of scrolling backwards and forwards isn't it... sorry... but it will be worth it if you are picked the winner!!!

This little competition will be open from now until 9pm Sydney time on Thursday the 24th - so that's 4 days to work it out!  The winner will be drawn and announced in a new blog post on Friday that also shows everyone the completed outfits (or the correct answers) on my dress form.

Good luck!!!

Beccie
xxx


27 comments:

  1. So, here goes: 1C, 2B, 3D, 4A, 5E, 6F, and 7G

    How'd I do????

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  2. That was tough! 1f, 2b,3d,4a,5e,6c,7g. Hope I'm right the prize is lovely. What a fantastic achievement. Can't wait to see the right pairings.

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  3. Beccie,
    I believe they are paired 1c, 2f, 3a, 4d, 5e, 6b, 7g

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  4. This task caused me some headache in the early morning… I thought it would be easy, but then I realized that some colors looked different than in other posts, and some blouses would probably go with more than just one skirt. I never had luck so far with giveaways, but it's always so much fun to see Miss Stella drawing a winner (that's the best part about it!), so here's my answer: 1C, 2E, 3B, 4D, 5A, 6F, 7G.

    The border fabric is so lovely, and the flowers remind me of some flower patterns of feed sacks from the 1940s… So cute!

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  5. 1c
    2e
    3b
    4d
    5f


    I have no idea anymore!
    6f
    7g

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  6. This was harder then I thought! 1E 2G 3F 4A 5B 6C 7D. And can I just say again how much I love, love, love the fox hunt and hat box prints! :)
    -Emily

    vintagevisions27.blogspot.com

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  7. oke..my first comment just vanished..glad i wrote it down first..
    1C
    2A
    3B
    4D
    5E
    6F
    7G
    quite a challenge..but NICE!! :-)
    grtz
    irene

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  8. This is much harder than I thought it would be. Perhaps there's some more mixing and matching you can do with these outfits. ;) I can't wait to see them all together. Here's my guess:
    1E, 2A, 3B, 4D, 5C, 6F, 7G

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  9. 1C, 2E, 3A, 4D, 5B, 6F, 7G.
    Gaaaaahhhhhhhhhh

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  10. Very hard. 1C 2B 3D 4A 5E 6F 7G
    I love the skirts. Everytime I try to draft that style skirt, it comes out wonky. I have no idea what I am doing wrong.

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  11. OKAY
    1C .... 2E .... 3G ..... 4A .... 5F.....6D ...... 7B
    PHEW!!!!

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  12. Ok let's try this : 1f, 2b,3d,4a,5e,6c,7g. I'm glad we don't have to do 8 of them at once, tee-hee! Amazing work!

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  13. Maybe - 1C, 2A, 3B, 4D, 5E, 6F, 7G?

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  14. The possibilities are endless
    1C 2E 3A 4D 5B 6F 7G

    Can't wait to see you rocking these ensembles.

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  15. HOOOOORAY! Super FUN! Here are my guesses! 1E, 2A, 3G, 4D, 5C, 6F, 7G

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    1. Oops! 7 is supposed to be 7B on my guess above!

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  16. Skirt #5 was the toughest!
    This is what I've come up with:
    1C
    2E
    3B
    4D
    5G
    6F
    7A

    I hope I'm close!

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  17. LOL I cut and pasted them all into word and have been shifting them about. what a great comp. v. difficult to know how you'd arrange them. I've gone for :
    1C
    2E
    3A
    4D
    5B
    6F
    7G.

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  18. Okay, so this is what I've got.
    1c
    2a
    3b
    4d
    5e
    6f
    7g
    I have no idea if that's right! A few of them could go with others really easily (which is fortunate).

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  19. Wow, this is a bit rough! You'll definitely have more than one combo possible with these pieces, which is great!
    Here's my guess: 1F, 2E, 3D, 4A, 5B, 6C, 7G

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  20. Ok here's my guess:
    1C, 2E, 3D, 4A, 5B, 6F, 7G
    And now my brain hurts!
    <3 Ms Katt

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  21. Ok, here we go:
    1F, 2E, 3G, 4A, 5D, 6C 7B

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  22. lets see....
    1B 2E 3D 4A 5C 6F 7G definitely harder than I thought it would be!

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