Hi Bag of the Month Club members!  We've been working really hard at getting your prize sponsors organized for you and I'm proud to announce that our 9 wonderful sponsors have been VERY generous to us and we are lucky enough to have 14 PRIZE BUNDLES to give away.

If you are a Club member, please have a look through the prizes and link up your completed bag photos to the FLICKR GROUP.  If you are not a member, it's not too late to join, just CLICK HERE and you can read all about it.  The past month's patterns will be sent to you.  Sew much fun ;)

** You can enter as many bags as you like by July 15th.  Please give us a couple of clear photos of your bag so we can see inside and out.  (The judges are yet to be designated, but the designers will not be judging their own pattern.) 

Our Sponsors and their prizes:

January Pattern:
1st Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Pink Castle Fabrics
20£ Gift Certificate from Minerva Crafts
3 PDF Sewing Patterns of the Winners choice from Sew Sweetness
4 Spools of Aurifil Thread

2nd Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Pink Chalk Fabrics

February Pattern
1st Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Pink Castle Fabrics
20£ Gift Certificate from Minerva Crafts
3 PDF Sewing Patterns of the Winners choice from Emmaline Bags
4 Spools of Aurifil Thread

2nd Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Pink Chalk Fabrics

March Pattern:
1st Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Southern Fabrics
20£ Gift Certificate from Minerva Crafts
3 PDF Sewing Patterns of the Winners choice from Sewing Patterns by Mrs. H.
4 Spools of Aurifil Thread

2nd Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Pink Chalk Fabrics

April Pattern:
1st Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Online Fabric Store
20£ Gift Certificate from Village Haberdashery
3 PDF Sewing Patterns of the Winners choice from Betz White
4 Spools of Aurifil Thread

2nd Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Pink Chalk Fabrics

May Pattern:
1st Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Online Fabric Store
20£ Gift Certificate from Village Haberdashery
3 PDF Sewing Patterns of the Winners choice from Noodlehead
4 Spools of Aurifil Thread

2nd Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Pink Chalk Fabrics

June Pattern:
1st Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Crimson Tate Fabrics
20£ Gift Certificate from Village Haberdashery
3 PDF Sewing Patterns of the Winners choice from Chris W. Designs
4 Spools of Aurifil Thread

2nd Prize:
25$ Gift Certificate from Pink Chalk Fabrics

Random prizes:
1st Prize:
50$ Gift Certificate Fat Quarter Shop
12 Spools of Aurifil Thread

2nd Prize:
50$ Gift Certificate from Fat Quarter Shop
4 Spools of Aurifil Thread

Our Sponsors!! I'm so proud to be part of this amazing collection of designers in the Bag of the Month Club, but I have to say - I am most excited about giving all of these wonderful prizes.  We couldn't do it without these wonderful sponsors. Thank you to them!

Aurifil

Crimson Tate

Fat Quarter Shop

Minerva Crafts

Online Fabric Store

Pink Chalk Fabrics

Pink Castle Fabrics

Southern Fabric

The Village Haberdashery

Now who's sewing? Do you want to make win some prizes?  Join up some nice clear photos in the FLICKR group.  Enter as many you like.

May all of your bags be handmade ;)

 

Woohoo!  Finally got some sewing done last weekend.  I finished up the June, July and August foundation paper pieced quilt blocks that I'm doing in the Lucky Stars BOM hosted by Don't Call Me Betsy.  I think this quilt is really starting to come together, but it's getting increasingly hard for me to pick fabrics from my selected stash that have enough contrast between lights and darks.  I'm finding a lot of my fabrics fall into the medium (warm) level when it comes to colour values.

Here are the blocks, I particularly LOVE July, but June and August didn't turn out how I had envisioned.  But.. I don't think they are horrible.  They will go with the rest of the blocks even though I don't think they look good individually.  You can see the rest of the blocks HERE in the flickr set on my photostream.

June Block - Sunlight Star

July Block - Dulcet Star

August Block - Pinwheel Star

AUGUST SPECIAL:
"Double Happiness" Zipper charms!  Right now I have a special going on my website where you get a free gift if you purchase over $15.00 worth of bag hardware/purse supplies.  (This does not include sewing pattern purchases and this promotion is only available while supplies last.)  Get yourself a double happiness zipper pull, they are cute!



What else have I been doing?  We have a new puppy named Laney.  She is a mixed collie/lab/terrier (possibly), 6 months old, and we adopted her from the Second Chance Animal Rescue Society that operates here in Alberta. She's a lovely companion for our 8 year old son. We love her, but my flower beds have lovely new holes in them, so that keeps me busy.  When I'm not filling holes, I'm PLANNING the next time I can get some bag making and tutorials done.  Summer is so short here in Canada, so I guess I'm making the most of it too!

Thank you for reading! I would love to hear what you've been up to.

Laney, 6 months old.

 

I've just spotted some wonderful Emmaline Bags in some Etsy shops.  What a thrill to find these gorgeous bags out there for sale.  I love the fabric choices and I'm pretty proud that these wonderful seamstresses have chosen my Emmaline pattern to sell in their shops.

Here is Melinda's version, made up in some gorgeous Amy Butler fabric and contrasting jean bag straps.  Melinda, lives over in Perth, Western Australia.  You can find her shop, Millie Mollie Mandies Bag Emporium, and more bag photos HERE

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Susie at Susie's Creations by Richie416, had made up two really beautiful Emmaline bags in fabrics that just make me want to fly directly to France (a dream of mine) with her bags in tow.  Susie is from Islip, New York, and her Etsy shop is HERE.


And another of Susie's Emmaline Bags:


Wow... I think I'll try to find some more!  Oh please share your bags with me!  Some day in the near future, I might actually get around to putting that "Share Page" together.  In the mean time, please share your bags in my Flickr group.  The link is in the upper right corner of this blog.  You see that little box with the blue and red dots?  Click there!

Thank you for looking!!

I  LOVE  seeing the handbags that you creative sewers are stitching up with my ePatterns.  I've had a few wonderful emails from happy sewists this week showing me some of their Emmaline Bags.  I'm going to have to leave the house through the garage today because my head is so big it won't fit through the front door.  And... I have a really large front door.   Maaike from Maaike's Blog has shared her pretty version of the Emmaline Bag on her blog.  I think it says some really nice things, but if anyone will pop over and translate - I'd appreciate it!  Here is her version, isn't it pretty and "summery"!

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Maaike's Floral Emmaline Bag

I'm thinking I should create a page here on my blog where I can post some pics of your bags. What do you think?  If any of you would like to share your pics of bags created by Emmaline Bags & Sewing Patterns ePatterns or Tutorials, please email them to me at: MY EMAIL
Remember, you can always share you bag in my Flickr group too!

I can't wait to share Ruby's bag too, but I'm going to wait patiently because she wants to feature it on her blog Zaaberry in a few weeks and I don't want to spoil it!

Thank you for looking, keep on sharing... Please!