Friday, May 1, 2009

SEWN..a New Site for Sewers...

Sarah Fielke is..( Sarah was the other half of Material Obsession in Sydney..Sarah has gone out on her own and this is what she has been up too)
The Creative Director of a new site for sewers, called SEWN. Exciting right? I KNOW. The website will have just about everything you can think of that you would want online as a sewer. There are forums, online advice from industry experts, conversion charts, colour wheels, free patterns and class listings.
There will be interviews with all your favourite designers, quilters, patterns makers and authors. There will be tutorials with Sarah and with other sewers from here and overseas, podcasts and coverage from shows and articles about all maner of exciting things.
Best of all, there are great unique gadgets - Fabricmatcher,(Sarah's Hubby) which is an online tool which lets you match patterns to fabrics and see what your project will look like without sewing a stitch, and Find Fabric, which is the niftiest thing that will find the fabric you are looking for without you having to search for it for hours on the internet. It's so clever it even searches shops in your vacinity first to save you on international postage. How cool is that?
Plus there will be an online buy and sell area called SEWiNg, which is where you can sell the stuff you sew to the people out there who don't sew - and some of the ones who do :)
The website will be up in June, but for now there is a holding page where you can go read about it and enter the competition to win cool stuff. SEWN is having their own competition you can enter at the link above, and then we are running a Blog Launch Party as well.
BLOGGERS TAKE NOTE: Do you have a blog and want to join in the party? Click the Mr Linky widget on my blog www.thelastpiece.typepad.com and add your blog to the giveaway roll. Here’s how it works.1. Decide you want to be a SEWN Launch Party Blog.2. Decide what you’re giving away! You don’t need to be a shop or a business to join in, if you want to give away a stack of fat quarters from your stash or something similar, that’s fine! Anyone can play.3. Click on Mr Linky and add your blog to the roll. Your blog will remain posted on SEWN for the duration of the competition, and will be listed among the first blogs to be in the SEWN blog register when the site goes live.4. Send an email to sfielke@ozemail.com.au so I have an email address to contact you at. That way we can send you competition details and extra prize info as it comes to hand, and remind you all of the Launch Party date as it gets closer. I won't spam you, just SEWN info.5. Download the SEWN Launch Party Giveaway button below and paste into your blog.6. Post on your blog about your giveaway and the SEWN Launch Party. Let your readers know about what you are giving away and what it’s all about!7. On the day of the giveaway, Monday, June 8, draw your winner, notify them and blog about it, and do a little dance! Why? Because you made another crafter happy, AND for doing it you were entered into a special draw for bloggers, to win your OWN set of prizes! Yay!!
I too have joined in the Blog Party Launch and I will be giving away 2 pieces of Fabric "Woodland Bloom"by Lila Tueller....so leave a comment here about the New Site & You will be in My Draw for the fabric...drawn Sunday 7th June...I am flying to Sydney on the Monday so will do mine a day early.... This is for Aus & N.Z entries ONLY..
Thanks for stopping by.....Maree

43 comments:

RED PEPPER QUILTS May 1, 2009 8:01 PM  

The new website sounds like a brilliant idea for all sewers and quilters alike. I can't wait for it to get started. Love the Woodland range of fabric you are giving away too!

Rita
Red Pepper Quilts

clare's craftroom May 1, 2009 8:02 PM  

Maree you have all the info , great job . I'd love to enter your giveaway thanks .

Anne-Lise at Rag, Tag, Bobtail May 1, 2009 9:14 PM  

The new site sounds very interesting. Will be sure to follow.

angela May 2, 2009 12:39 AM  

I love Woodland Bloom - enter me. I've joined the fun, too. Thanks

Angela
My Three Sons

GeNovena437 May 2, 2009 1:03 AM  

Does anyone else love those pjs?

I Love Baby Quilts! May 2, 2009 1:15 AM  

I can't wait for the site to be up! I would love to win the woodland bloom, please enter me in the drawing.

Robyn May 2, 2009 9:56 AM  

This sounds really great... I'm off to look now.
hugs
Robyn xx

Library Gal Quilts May 3, 2009 1:54 AM  

Love that beautiful fabric! Yes, please enter me and stop by my blog to enter my giveaway too!

Sue Cahill May 4, 2009 8:16 AM  

I am having so much fun with this set of giveaways and can't wait for the site to open.
Your fabrics are lovely.

Thanks for the chance to win!
Sue Cahill (sbonetsue at yahoo dot com)

quiltsister May 4, 2009 3:03 PM  

Count me in too Maree.

Thanks for the chance.

Kelly May 5, 2009 11:09 AM  

I love that fabric range, thanks for the chance to win some!

danielle May 7, 2009 9:50 AM  

great fabric- thanks for the chance to win!

sweet emmelie May 7, 2009 1:23 PM  

adorable fabrics, just love them!!

FBF May 14, 2009 5:39 AM  

I'm really excited about the new site! I've been checking out all of the participating blogs, though this is the only one I've entered so far. Adorable fabrics!

Bec Clarke May 14, 2009 8:14 AM  

I love the idea of the information being all in one place. I have signed up, so glad you have too.

cinzia May 14, 2009 11:58 AM  

Well this has been another morning spent web surfing rather than doing what MUST be done! Sewn sounds as though it could be fun... but I wish it hadn't taken me all morning to check out all of the great links!

cinzia May 14, 2009 12:09 PM  

count me in your prizes sound fantastic

mrs smith May 14, 2009 9:30 PM  

Beautiful Blog and very cool giveaway! I found you through the SEWN site.

Margaret May 17, 2009 10:37 AM  

The new website sounds great. The fabric matcher and finder tools sound awesome!!! The more i read about sewn the more i am looking forward to it getting underway. As a new sewer it sounds like a fantastic tool.

Margaret

Jess May 18, 2009 3:20 PM  

Looking forward to the site being up! Love that fabric!

Kay aka dkswife May 20, 2009 7:03 AM  

I cannot wait until Sewn opens. It reminds me of how Ravelry.com is designed, and I loves me some Ravelry!

Lovely fabrics!

tashalou May 20, 2009 12:13 PM  

oooh gorgeous fabric!! I would love to go into the draw please :D
The new SEWN website sounds so exciting doesn't it!!

hcotten May 24, 2009 11:58 AM  

I love the fabric!

Lisa May 24, 2009 5:45 PM  

Beautiful! Thanks for the chance to win.

Anonymous May 25, 2009 10:33 PM  

Woodland fabric...cool. And a site for sewers and quilters...even better.
Deb - debyeo@hotmail.com

Stephanie and Carlos May 26, 2009 5:02 PM  

Lovely lovely fabric!! How great is sewn going to be!? I am joining in the fun too!!

xo Steph

esther (it means star) May 26, 2009 5:37 PM  

I too cant wait for the new site to be 'up'. So I have signed up for the email alert so I dont miss out. Your fabric giveaway is beautiful, please enter me. Thank you.

Deb May 27, 2009 9:06 AM  

Please count me in for your giveaway...who could resist such lovely fabric. The new site sounds like a great idea by the way.

Dawn May 28, 2009 12:51 PM  

The new website sounds fun!! I'm looking forward to the launch! Thanks for the giveaway!

L May 30, 2009 8:57 AM  

Oh I'd love to win that! I also can't wait for SEWN. I'm from the US so I hope that that's ok for the giveaway as I didn't read it being otherwise.

galaxie_bleu(at)yahoo(dot)com

Sue May 31, 2009 8:55 AM  

gorgeous fabrics, I've just joined in on the party.

ticklymoo June 1, 2009 9:45 AM  

I can't wait for the launch of Sewn! I have joined the party myself with my first giveaway.

SandyN June 2, 2009 7:37 PM  

I do love a party with presents. I would love to win you fabrics - so pretty.Thanks for your giveaway..

I just found your new blog site. I was going to join the paperbag swap but it was too scary. Maybe next time... Sandy

Sahra June 2, 2009 9:57 PM  

Oh how GORGEOUS are those fabrics! I cant wait for SEWN to be up and running.

Thankyou for such a lovely giveaway!

Sue June 3, 2009 6:05 AM  

Great fabric! Crossing my fingers that I have a lucky number!

momma rae June 4, 2009 9:27 AM  

i adore these fabrics! i am too excited about sewn! we have needed something like this in cyberspace and it's on it's way!! ;) thanks for the giveaway love!

Rafael's Mum June 4, 2009 6:47 PM  

that's lovely fabric ! Thanks for taking part.

Alesha June 4, 2009 7:25 PM  

Thanks for the giveaway! your quilts are beautiful!

eriven June 5, 2009 2:00 PM  

Lovely fabric, please count me in. I'm so looking forward to SEWN. THanks for participating.

Erin@1N3sew June 5, 2009 4:24 PM  

oh the green with pink prints so lovely. i have no green pink fabric yet in my stash...

count me in!

if anyone love batek prints please try your luck on my blog!

Melanie June 5, 2009 9:39 PM  

I've just signed up to participate in the giveaway as well. I love the pieces of fabric you're giving away, would love to be in with a chance :)

Amanda June 6, 2009 12:58 PM  

I, too, am excited about the new website. I prejoined today! I love the fabrics you are giving away. Please enter me in your drawing.

Melanie June 7, 2009 12:40 AM  

Thank you for the chance to win your give away!