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Winners & A Button-Picking Extravaganza

In the spirit of one my favorite blogs, I really did it up for the drawing this time around, People. Like a true Occupational Therapy Patient, I wrote the numbers of all entrants on buttons and then let my Man Boys draw the winners. Fun.

Small Man Boy drew from 216 buttons for the Fat Red, Black & White Box O' Love. With eyes closed, he dumped . . .

 

And picked . . .

 
And found the winner!

#16 gets the SUPER TERRIFIC PRIZE #1: the Fat Red, Black & White Box O' Love. 

It's KATIE, who said:

"I have been wanting some black and white gingham to make a top - and the rest of those awesome fabrics would probably go towards bags. Great giveaway!!"

We would love to see pictures of your top when you make it, Katie. High five for embracing gingham. (It's my uber-favorite always.)

Big Man Boy drew from 94 buttons for the Vintage Doubleknit Sidesaddle Bag (an extra little giveaway for my Regulars, who I imagine as sitting on my couch while I sew.)  With his eyes closed, he dumped . . .

And drew . . .

And found the winner!

Regular #20 on the Master List of Regulars gets SUPER TERRIFIC PRIZE #2: A Vintage Doubleknit Sidesaddle Bag.

It's MEG, my Best Buddy From College/Wienerdog Tricks Regular who I already made this Sidesaddle Bag for:

 . . . and who I know would want somebody else to share in the love--and who I am going to send another extra special ready-to-sew gift to (a fat stack of cut squares I didn't use when I put together my quilt.) Which will make her terribly happy.

So--with tension mounting and with both Man Boys COMPLETELY over the thrill of button picking, I approached the Man Spouse and asked him to participate in this Very Important Endeavor of Finding Another Regular to Send the Bag to.

I think he likes to be included.

So, Man Spouse closes his eyes and dumped . . .

and picked . . .

And found a winner!

Regular #80 on the Master List of Regulars wins the Vintage Doubleknit Sidesaddle Bag.

It's STACY!  who said:

"I love all your use of polyester. I have been a lurker for a while, but for that turquoise stripe I will come in."

Start watching the mailbox, Stacy, because the bag is yours. 

Thanks, Sew Mama Sew, for being the sort of place that brings us all together to do things like stay up into the wee hours clicking on other people's blogs and then writing numbers on the back of buttons. We appreciate all that you do over there at the hub of our Blog Solar System. You are the Sun to our Mars. 

Giveaway Day! (And Extra Love for My Regulars)

UPDATE: Okey-dokey, Friends--comments are now closed and I'll pick the winner any time now! Woo Hoo!

Welcome to Wienerdog Tricks--we're a blog committed to making stuff mostly with what we can find (think vintage polyester, rescued quilting cotton from a passle of thriftstores in a three-county area, garage sale fodder, and anything I can take home from my husband's aunt's barn).

Happy Giveaway Day! We've got TWO GIVEAWAYS over here at Wienerdog Tricks. 

SUPER TERRIFIC PRIZE #1

Here is the Fat Red, Black & White Box O' Love that I have put together just for you:

THE FABRIC (about a yard of most . . .give or take a yard)

 

And some nice mid-weight ticking:

  

And a fancy pile of red & black and white notions:

 

(a zipper, some elastic, a handful of snaps, white piping, red pom pom balls, red ric rac, a ready-made black & white checked loop-to-be. And a needle tomato. Everybody needs an extra needle tomato.)

But wait what's the catch what do I have to do that seems so nice of you I can't believe it.

I know. But you don't have to do anything to be in the running to win all this love, except to leave a comment and tell me what you think you'll do with it--and I will put you in for the drawing. It's that easy. Because we all love Sew Mama Sew and all they do to build our community and we have such mushy feelings that it makes us pile things up that we love and give them away. We can't help it.

SUPER TERRIFIC PRIZE #2

ALSO: this year, I've got this extra love for all my Wienerdog Tricks Regulars:

A Vintage Doubleknit Sidesaddle Bag (a really cool one with lime green & turq striped binding. Come. On.)

 

 

But what what's a Regular anyways because I have always wanted a bag made out of vintage polyester.

A Wiener Dog Tricks Regular is a person who hangs out here often and reads along. That's them listed over there on the right nav, so that when they click over they get to see their name in links and say to themselves See, I Belong Here. They also receive occasional super-secret emails from me that have things like Top Secret Patterns I'm Working On and stuff like that. One day really really really soon they'll be getting Big Fat Coupons to my Trick Shop (which will be opening the first week of June). So that's a Regular.

If you want to be one (and be entered in the drawing for the bag), just click on over here to sign up & be entered by leaving a comment, and I'll scoop you right up into the fold and put you in the drawing for this bag and consider you a Regular. And all will be right with the world as we know it. 

(And if you are an existing Regular, you are AUTOMATICALLY entered in the Regulars drawing. I know: that's a lot of love.)

I'll pick the winner on the 20th. Yeehaw.

Rescued-Fabric Apron Kits (and a Nifty Giveaway)

 

I'm giving away a couple of apron kits. Yep. Even better: Apron Kits from Rescued* Fabric. Even even better: Apron Kits from Rescued Fabric to make vintage-style aprons for little people. 

Apron kits as in all-the-pieces-are-cut-and-ready-to-sew. Guy. How fun. I know.

They'll turn into something just like this one:

 

 

 

Every kit comes with fabric all cut and ready to go and super easy directions for pulling off a nifty little vintage-style apron. You just sew 'em. They're even complete with cut-to-size pieces from my vintage ric-rac stash (ric-rac=gold). [I know: I'm. So. Nice. Dangit.]

Just for the hoot of it all, I'm giving away TWO for the annual Sew Mama Sew GIVEAWAY DAY. All you have to do to be eligible is leave a comment below any time before December 6th.  I'll pick a winner by random. If you want to say something more than, "Um, Hi." then I'd love to know what you think of the whole Apron Kit thing and to hear who you'd be giving it or making it for.

Here's the fab fabric for the two I'm giving away. . .

Green Vintage Bells with Red Vintage Bells:

 

Red Vintage Bells with 70s Patchworky Accents:

 

I'm in love with the apron kit. Hope you win and get to make one. 

[*Ginger, What's "Rescued Fabric"? This is the only fabric I sew with, but I thought it would be fun to share a little, so I've put these kits together. How fun! I know. It's fabric that was going to be FORGOTTEN about if I didn't save it: but I did. I found it at a thrift store or a garage sale or on some high shelf of my husband's aunt's barn . . . somewhere like that. And then I rescued it from its sad little hiding anonymity and brought it back out in the world to be purposable. Fabric is always sad when it's hiding. It likes to be out where the people are.]

P.S. I'll ship these anywheres, so if you're an international sort of friend, feel free to jump in this giveaway pool.