Don't Hate Me Cause I'm Lucky.

BOOM.

I could effuse on my love of all things hotpatterns, 

but you all probably want to cut me right about now.

I heart Trudy.

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that is all.

j/k!!  There's more!

I cannot WAIT to see what amazing patterns

are coming my way next year!!!!!!!!!

and...

WOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Know what is even sweeter?  My birthday is tomorrow!  How appropriate. Yes? In honor of my disgusting random draw good fortune, I will be setting aside all UFOs and cutting out and sewing up this gorgeous vintagey blouse, the Metropolitan Tie Me Down Blouse:

See you on the flipside, Black Friday shoppers!!!!!!

we have a winner!

And it's lucky #17!

That would be Forrest, of Presser Foot Propaganda. 

Congratulations Forrest!  Shoot me an email with your address and I'll get your package mailed out asap.

Thank you everyone, for the sweet comments and playing along.

Shabby Apple Dress Winner!

Woohoo!  Another blogiversary prize!

Random.org has generated comment number 8 as the lucky girl:

And number 8 is...Gaylen!  (Affectionately known as "gmarie" in the sewing blogosphere!)

Gaylen, you'll be wearing this adorable Shabby Apple dress for spring.  Email me for details, woman. Congratulations!

 

 And a huge Thank You to Shabby Apple for providing the dress and giveaway to my readers.

Don't forget you can still place an order with Shabby Apple and use the special Quality Time coupon code to receive 10% off!

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a WINNER & a Shabby Apple giveaway!

This fabulous package of goodies:

will be going to lucky # 79!

  That would be commenter Hell's Belle! Here's her comment:

Hell's Belle, thank you so much for commenting! Now you'll have some beautiful vintage dresses to master.  Vintage techniques are amazingly simple and clear and I think you'll find them much more precise than modern patterns.  Please send your mailing address to jemimabean at gmail dot com so I can pack up your box!

Oh, but WAIT!  We're not done blogiversarizing yet...  The wonderfully vintage and fun shabbyapple.com has generously offered my readers a real treat!  They have prepared a dress giveaway for one lucky winner!

If you've never been to Shabby Apple, you're missing out!  They have a wide assortment of women's dresses, but they also have accessories, fashionable maternity dresses, and the sweetest little girl's clothes too.

Two of my very favorite (current) lines include...

1943

and...

South Pacific

Such wonderful eye candy, am I right?  It was SO hard to pick just ONE dress to give away here on the blog, but I have chosen one that I think is beautiful, timeless, and flattering to a variety of shapes and sizes.  Not to mention very vintage feeling!   Are you ready for the reveal??

You, fabulous readers, have the chance to win this beauty:

Marseilles

Front & back views:

 

 

Just lovely...

To enter to win, here's the "rules":

1.  Visit the Shabby Apple website and then come back and leave a comment telling me what YOUR favorite line is!

2.  For two additional chances to win...you can "Like" Shabby Apple on their Facebook page, AND "Follow" Shabby Apple on their Twitter.  Then come back and leave a comment for each to let me know you've done so.

3.  Limited to 3 comments per entry as noted above please!

4.  This giveaway is only available to US shipping addresses. 

I'll be accepting comments through TUESDAY at midnight!  Wednesday we'll have the big winner party!  (Party hats required).

But WAIT...there's more!  Shabby Apple has also provided a 10% coupon code for any reader of my blog.  If you don't happen to be the lucky girl who wins this dress, you can still shop and use this coupon on your order:

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Good Luck Good Luck Good Luck!!!  

And a big old Thank You Shabby Apple!