The winner of Pooches and Pickups from yesterday's giveaway is #57 - Lori.
I would have them go grocery shopping! It's my least favorite thing to do, and I haven't gone in two weeks. It needs to be done desperately!
And now onto today's goodies. Since we're half way through, today is a big one! There will be 3 winners!
Winner number one will receive a FQ pack of Modern Whimsy in Meadow
And the lovely Amanda Murphy, a fellow designer with Robert Kaufman and a talented pattern designer, has created a really beautiful pattern called Bejeweled. She used Modern Whimsy for her sample and it is simply gorgeous. Amanda has kindly provided me with a few copies to giveaway to you! So winners 2 and 3 will each receive a copy of Amanda's pattern, Bejeweled. Thanks Amanda!
I also wanted to show off my new chair cover. It's for the chair I use at my sewing machine and I just love the way it turned out. Its one of my favorite chairs in the house.
Well thanks for sticking with me through this long post!
- To be registered to win, just leave a comment here on this post.
- Please make sure you I have a way to contact you :)
- Entries from around the world welcome!! I'm happy to ship your prizes to wherever you might be.
- In your comment tell me what you'd do with Seven swans-a-swimming.
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144 comments:
Gorgeous fabric! Thanks for the giveaway.
I quess I would have to dig a pond for my seven swans a swimming. I really do have lots of unfinished tasks to do already but swans are beautiful. Those Lords and ladies would of really helped. Thanks for the amazing giveaway
7 swans a swimming would make a beautiful addition to our yard. But then I would have to make a pond and keep the dogs from chasing them. Love this fabric. I sure hope I win! Thanks for a chance!
My kids love feeding the ducks at the zoo. I'm sure swans would be no different. This could keep them busy for a while. It's like having our own zoo in the back yard, except we don't have a pond. That could be problematic.
Amazing fabric!!! hmm, I think I would definitely make a quilt for one of my girls with the fabric, or maybe add some solids and make a quilt for all 3 of my girls!!!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I'd have to set the swans up behind glass and then i'd have a great live episode of CatTV. i'm sure my cats would be entertained for hours.
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i don't think swans would survive very long in our yard... everything is frozen solid. besides, what do swans provide besides looking pretty? oh wait, can you use swan feathers to feather a pillow??? yes!!!
Love this fabric :) I would flood my back yard and let those beautiful swans swim around and bring a bit of the exotic to my landscape!
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I would give them a pond n my back yard and add them to my laying hens. Swans give eggs right?
These are beautiful fabrics! Thank you for the opportunity.
As a dancer, I immediately thought of Swan Lake. I guess my answer is to use them as inspiration to choreograph my own dance!
Oh my, this line is just so pretty! I would give him to my Dad to put on my parent's pond at their new house! :)
I do have a pond, but I think it'd only hold one uncomfortable swan at a time, which couldn't be very fun for the swan. Perhaps I'd send them off to the pond/lake a few blocks away in my neighbourhood. Which isn't very fun, but what else are you going to do with so many swans? I guess you could try to wrangle them into a swan parade.
Love to have this!!!! syates@umc.edu
If someone gave me seven swans, I'd give them right back. Birds and I don't get along.
This fabric though? WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY better. =) Lovely!
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Oh, I really need those seven swans. We always have sooooo many geese in the pond behind our house. These geese leave lots of "presents" in our backyard. Swans protect their territory and chase the geese away. Bring on the swans!
I cannot wait for this fabric to come out! It will be perfect for a spring quilt!
Let's see, the swans. I suppose my 5 year old would make us dig a pond for them...so let's hope I never actually have Seven Swans a Swimming.
How lovely is that fabric!
With 7 swans we'd have to enlarge the pond in our new house rather than fill it in! Though they might scare the puppy somewhat! :)
Seven swans-a-swimming would be wonderful to view from my living room window, so I would dredge a lake, stock it with yummy fish and provide a wonderful home for the swans there. Hopefully, they would return after flying South during the cold winter here.
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Hmm...I'm honestly a little afraid of birds, especially those of the large pecking variety. So I'd probably send them on their merry way.
oh my gosh Laurie, this line is sooooo good! Honestly, I'd probably do cushions for my dining table. We just moved into a new home and cushions with the swans would go so good!
This fabric is so darn cute!
Swans a swimming, hmmmm. I think I would donate them to the local park for the pond there and then the entire community could be blessed. I have kitties, and my kitties would try to chase them, which would end badly for the kitties as swans are very big and very strong!
Thx for the lovely giveaway! Well, I will take a photo of them and publish to my blog :)
Love the fabric and pattern. There is a big pond across the street where I could send them to swim. Or this time of year, I would have to strap on 7 pairs of skates and send them out to the pond.
Oooh bunny selvedges!!
I'd have the swans waddling on the front garden to make it look like I really was the Queen!
Love the new line! I would let me kids play with the swans, they would love that!!!
hmmm ... considering that I live in an apartment ... 7 swans-a-swimming would be kinda amusing considering they would be in our small bath tub. Instead I should take them out to the farmland and find a big pond for them to swim in. Here's to hoping they don't freeze their little tail feathers off.
Beautiful fabric, as always, I can't wait for it to be released. :-)
A cute selvedge is such great attention to detail- my dog would just bark and go crazy so I would shoo the swans away with the lure of bread
Love this fabric! It so wants to come live with me. :0) Let's see...seven swans a-swimming....I'm not sure what I'd do with them. My three dogs would have too much fun with them if I kept them. Maybe I'd give them to the zoo so they would be happy. Yep, that's the ticket!
Great giveaway! Thanks for the chance! :0)
I'd kind of leash them together & pull my boat so I could pretend I was Santa in his sleigh-the acquatic version.
I would rent my seven swans to brides! That way many people could enjoy their beauty and I would make some extra fabric money!!
I would attach nets to their feet and have them skim our pool of all the dang leaves that are floating around!!
I would LOVE to have seven swans swimming around outside my house (or walking or flying or whatever else swans do). They're so peaceful to watch. I'd just let them do their thing and smile every time I saw them.
I'm not sure what I would do with 7 swans a swimming since I live in the middle of Los Angeles, but I am sure there is a nice swimming pool nearby.
beautiful fabrics ..............7 swans a swimming would be down on the stream in front of our house !!
I'd give them a wide berth as the last time we found a swan in our garden it chased the children and hissed a lot!!
I would enjoy watching the 7 swans-a-swimming scatter as my lab chased after them! :)
Oh my, the chair-back cover and bunny selvage are too cute for words! :) With seven swans a swimming, I would attach scrubbers to their feet and put them to work cleaning my bathtub.
I would show the seven swans a swimming to my son. I'm sure he'd watch with fascination. :)
7 swans a swimming would keep the kitty entertained for a hours. She's already obsessed with the little birds in the backyard...chattering at them through the window. Swans might throw her over the edge.
I want them up on the high board to see if they really CAN do a decent swan dive.
oooh love the selvages - too cute. I would make the swans go down to the local river and show the ugly duckling in the reeds all the possibilities in the world!
I get them to chase the neighbours' cats away! 7 swans should definitely be up to that challenge! I love your bunny selvedges :)
Love this fabric, so cute!
I'd probably unleash the swans into my parent's swimming pool (in warmer weather of course). They'd get a kick out of it at first but would then no doubt call animal control and write me out of their wills.
Thanks for the giveaway! Like another commenter I would let them loose in our local river - would be wonderful to see amongst the ducks, swamp hens and occasional pelican!
I would put the swans in my backyard and let my grandsons chase them around - they would have a blast.
Ohhhhh I love Modern Whimsy.....and those swans would be quite happy on our pond...floating peacefully.
I'd have to take them down to the river quick and enjoy the sight of them swimming and flying! My children would freak out if we kept them! thanks for another fantastic chance to win.
So pretty Laurie! Love the selvage!! Seven swans a swimming would be quite happy here at the condo because there is a large "pond" throughout the complex. I doubt I could get away with keeping them all though because my mother would be sure to steal a couple for her pond. lol
Oh my God, I forgot about the stooory :(((
So, here's a story about a man and a fish. :D
I would build a pond and watch them swim . . . I think swans are so beautiful. Thanks for the chance!
With 3 kids under 5, I don't think I could handle 7 swans. Perhaps I could send them to the zoo or the park to inspire other people?
I would send the swans to cheer for my son at his swim meet this weekend! Big 3 day meet, he could use the extra support, and they could just swim alongside him!
THanks again - I think I would take them down to the local water system where there are currently ducks and grumpy geese. It would be fun to see swans there too and lots of kids go there to feed the birds so they would love it too - and baby swans - too cute!
Well they've been dredging part of the marsh where I live so it might be nice to have the swans swimming here and my daughter can get to see them every day - such beautiful birds!
*sigh* Such beautiful fabric and the Bejeweled pattern looks great - thanks for the chance to win!
How did it get to Friday, btw? I seem to have missed a day this week!
I wold take them quickly out of my house - I am not cleaning up that mess! Then take them to the local duck park. Add some beauty there.
oooh ,lovely fabrics.
They would go right back out the door as quickly as they came in! I had a traumatic experience with them when I was a kid, and I'd hate to relive it!! :)
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Seven Swans a-swimming will be released into the ponds on our farm. It will be beautiful to watch them glide across the water. Thanks for the awesome fabric prize in your giveaway.
I would have them teach me how to swim. I did take lessons as a kid, but I'm a horrible swimmer!
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Seven Swans a swimming would be circling my house as an alarm system!
Oh, I"m not sure what to do with seven swans. Those birds are mean! Pretty, though... I think I like the idea of making them into an alarm system....
Since I'm not a fan of swans (they eat seedling- seriously they can mow your garden to bare dirt) I'd be out in the yard shooing them away.
wow this is a great giveaway! Thank you so much.
What to do with seven swans a swimming?? Set them free I suppose! Who would want all that swan poop in their yard?
I just ordered this fabric from Pink Chalk but I would GLADLY take some more!!!
Hmmm. Swans mate for life, right? I guess I'd feel sorry for the "single" one. Maybe. "Alarm system" is a good idea.
I asked my 8 year old and she said, "I'd make a boat and tie ropes on it to put around the swan's necks and make them pull me!" :)
What a great prize! I live right across the road from a lake/protected bird reserve, so I think they would really enjoy meeting our local pelicans :)
Well, this is your easiest question yet. Our neighbor has a beautiful pond and some lovely (albeit crabby) swans a'swimmin' there. So I'd invite the seven visitors to take a day off and join Karl's flock.
i think some sychronized swimming would be in order.
I'd stay away from them! Swans are really mean birds. I'd just let them swim and hope they don't like your lawn too much! I hope I win the fabric! It would be beautiful in one of the kiddie quilts my mom makes for charity.
Well in Australia one of our sporting teams are the Sydney Swans - i'd be quite happy to just watch them swim for a bit!
Seven swans a swimming? I'd follow them around the edge of the water and take lots of pictures.
Lovely fabrics once again, so pretty! In this weather I'd probably admire them from afar if I saw seven swans swimming outside =P
Seven swans a swimming..maybe they could catch some fish for our dinner! Love your new line, so springy!
I'd give those seven swans the job of chasing all the Canadian geese out of our local ponds and taking over the job of swimming there. Kathie L in Allentown
I would watch them swim they are so beautiful. I may try to capture them by painting them.
Sell them to buy fabric -- way too messy to have swans around and they can be cranky...Jan
I'd definitely get them out of my tub. That's the only place they could be swimming over here....giggle.
I would take those seven swans and put them with all the other swans that live around here. I would make sure to find open water first!!!!
Unfortunately, we live in a desert. My friend has chickens and a little pond but there isn't room for even one swan to swim more than 3 or 4 leg pulls. I'm afraid they would fly the coop at my house and head over to a larger pond, where some wiseguy kid would shoot them with a 22. So if they turned up I'd have to return them to sender.
Seven swans a swimming? I would make a pond in my yard and have them live there if they want to so I could admire them! Your fabric is so cute!
We live on a river between 2 lakes & every spring we have a pair of swans floating around waiting for the ice to melt on the lakes. I would LOVE to see 7 swans a swimmin instead of 2. They are soooooo beautiful!!! Great giveaway - thanks for the chance to win.
Thanks for the giveaway. My yard is too small for seven swans a swimming. However, we live near a golf course with a nice big pond. I'm sure they would love to live there, and I could visit them.
Swans are so beautiful.
Wow thanks for a chance to win an awesome giveaway! Seven swans a swimming...hmm well if you mean real swans I would try to find homes for them... my 2 little boys(2 yrs and 1 yr) are a handful. Could you imagine them with Seven swans...I wouldn't have a chance. LOL If you mean the fabric there are so many wonderful things to be done with that pretty fabric.
P.s. I also saw your sleep mask tut and wanted to say I thought it was so cute having Clara model for you. What a cute puppy!
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What beautiful fabrics! Thanks for the giveaway. Let's see seven swans a swimming.... I'm not a big fan of birds so I would probably send them over to my mother-in-law's so she could enjoy them.
A lovely swan pie would be delicious....just kidding. I would just add them to the rest of the madhouse here!
OK, I linked over here from Amand's blog & I love her patterns so I am "in" for this giveaway!! Thank you. As for the 7 swans: our local lakes are currently frozen over, but if you give them to me in summer, I'll release them to glide beautifully over Liberty Lake.
Such lovely fabrics! I'd have to hide the swans from the kitty.
Lovely fabrics,definitely I'd make a quilt for my mom, she loves that colors :)
Would probably make a lap quilt. Thanks for the giveaway
Thanks for a lovely giveaway, I follow Amanda and have come over from her blog. I live in France and the seven swans would be taken to our local lake to be with the ducks and herons already there.
If I had 7 swans a swimming, I would probably let them loose in the pond near where my parents live. Then all the kids who live near them would have awesome swans to go feed! :)
I'm kind of afraid of birds. We have loads of Canada Geese here and I was traumatized as a child trying to feed those aggressive things some bread crumbs! But I will admire the birds if they are over in your yard, I'm sure they're lovely!
I would start a swan variety act and take my seven swans on tour. ;) Thanks for the giveaway!
I would add one (ugly red nosed) duckling to the seven swimming swans, hook them to a watersled, and have Santa deliver presents to the waterfront areas.
I would use this lovely fabric for pillows -- wonderful!
Love the chair cover! Not sure what I would do with some swans. Although we do have a c--p load of geese who hang out here at our lake in Denver all winter!
Seven Swans a-swimming - I guess I would need to forget about the new shed and build a swimming pool so they could swim. Thankfully it is summer here so I guess we would have fun with a pool. Although the kindest thing to do would be to release them in the wetlands at the end of the road. So no pool and the shed goes up, Phew - that is my new sewing room.
Swim with them!
The seven swans a swimming could teach my kids to swim. :)
Seven swans a swimming need treats. So I'd sit by the pond, on my bench with the weeping willow branches hanging gracefully overhead and feed my lovely swans.
Thanks for the giveaway.
The seven swans would never be left alone by my children... and would need a pond :) Thanks for the giveaway!
Thank you for the giveaway, I love this fabric! With seven swans I'd be able to keep my son entertained for hours!
My niece would love to watch the Swans :D
Thanks for the chance!
I'd set them free in my backyard to eat all the snails and slugs they could find:)
I'd set them free on the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia! There are plenty of black swans there to keep them company! Thanks for the giveaway! The fabric selvedges are wonderful!
I love your chair cover, such a gorgeous way to showcase such beautiful fabrics. Thanks for another lovely giveaway.
I love that chair cover. Woohoo for the prize packs. Thanks for the chance to win.
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Oh what a lovely prize! I'd have to build a small pond in our yard for those lovely seven swans and look out my window at the beautiful view.
Thanks for a chance to win.
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Love Amanda Murphy's new patterns. Love the fabric. Love 7 swans-a-swimming as long as they were swimming with their mates in the Torrens River which meanders through Adelaide, South Australlia. Christmas is a great time for old friends to get together and to make new ones. So from a balmy 70-80 happy holidays.
Thanks for the chance to win your giveaway. Bejewelled is my faorite of the Amanda Murphy patterns.
I agree with Zuzan, the Seven Swans a Swimming would be great in he Torrens River in South Australia. That's far enough from Michigan. They SCARE me. Beautiful, bright fabric. Tamsyn
Swans are the national bird of Finland (where I live) so it would be great to win something in yoru giveaway today.
Love the legs on that chair, wow! And as for the 7 swans, well, my gym pool has been closed for redo for 8 months now and is supposed to reopen by Christmas (pending inspections). I'd herd those swans right through the front lobby and into the pool, inspection or not, and show 'em the swimmers have grown very restless! No brainer, and thanks for the giveawy.
Ummmm, seven swans a swimming would have to be put in our community's pond, with little red ribbons tied safely around their necks for a photo opportunity...no swans would be endangered during the process...thanks for the great chance to win and fun with this question!
Those swans can get swimming and clean our pool so that we can take a dip this summer!
Thanks for the giveaway :)
Sevens swans a swimming towards my swan-a-phobic sister, mwahahaha!!
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Seven swans a swimming would be lovely in a pond for an outdoor wedding.
I would name them after my family - my parents and four siblings.
Let's see I would have to add a little pond for visitors to sit and enjoy the beauty of nature...yep that is what I would do with 7 swans a swimming....just imagine wondering across something like that so unexpectly and enjoying the beauty of it.....Happy Holidays...a wonderful give a way and Happy Holidays to you.
I would photograph them and then find a donation location.
I would sit and watch them, love how gorgeous swans are...that would be fun :)
The chair cover looks great and I love the material. Spring is in the air when seven swans a swimming glide across the reflecting lake. I can't wait for Spring - my favorite time of the year.
Thanks so much for the giveaway! Merry Christmas!
I'd place them on one of the ponds in my subdivision where they'd be very pretty. Thanks!
I'd have to install a hot tub (a rather large one) and build some sort of addition onto the house for it. Minnesota is cold right now. The 10,000 lakes are freezing over, you know! Live on a farm, but took down the barn years ago. The 8 maids-a-milking retired.
I would put the swans in the lake behind our property. They would be very happy. I would then buy the best binoculars I could find so I could watch them in my leisure. Could my swans fly away??? Blessings, Lee
If I had seven swans a swimming, I would have to have a pond to put them in. Wouldnt that be lovely to sit on the porch and watch on a spring day!
the outside of my home is really lacking a Christmas decoration/feeling
I believe this would take care of that problem
Really nice fabric. I would make pillows. Thanks for a nice giveaway.
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This fabric collection is just wonderful. It make think of spring. I would have to make a home for the seven swans a swimming and hope that they stay around forever.
Love the bunnies!! I would put the 7 Swans A Swimmin' in the creek that runs through my yard...that way they could continue to swim.
Beautiful fabric. Well my neighbor just put in a pond this year so i could put them there and then i could sit on deck and watch them swim around.
Love this fabric and I would make a chair cover for my sewing room.
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All those who make the adorable selvage projects would sure like some of the bunnies...such beautiful colors on the fabrics.....
Think I'd have to release those seven-swans-a-swimming in the pond behind our house in hopes they would find some other designs to work their magic with for my newest project.........want to make a chair cover for my sewing chair!!!!!!!!
I guess I'd have to put the Seven Swans a Swimming in the bathtub! Love your fabric, just gorgeous!! johncathyg@msn.com
I would let them walk around my yard and look pretty
I guess I would build a pond for those 7 swans a swimming. They got to have a place to swim.
Amanda sent me to your blog.
Thanks for a chance to win this giveaway.
I'd love the Seven Swans! We have our own big pond and could provide a nice home! LOL!
I would thank the person giving me the Seven Swans but then would have to find them a great home with a beautiful pond and lots of land as I just don't have a yard big enough and they would probably drive my Chow crazy. Love the fabric, particularly the selvages - some of the best I have ever seen. Would love to win a pattern. Thanks.
Wouldn't it be so much fun to make a tree skirt out of the Seven Swans..."seven swans a swimming around the christmas tree" {insert singing here :) } thanks for the giveaway!
Well...I could say they would look great in the pond out back but I would be lying! I'm afraid I would be forced to cut them up...:o( YES I'm a slasher...a ripper...a cutter!! BUT I always feel remorseful and try to piece them back together again into some pleasing design! SEW honestly...those lovely Seven Swans are NOT safe around here!! I would turn them into a quilt or a table cloth or a pillow...or maybe all three!! The scissors are waiting....THANKS FOR THE CHANCE!!
Have a wonderful Christmas!
Paulette
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