Welcome to Day 2 of our 12 Days Of Christmas celebration! Today we are giving away 2 dresses to one lucky winner! The 2 dresses included in this giveaway are designed to fit 18-inch dolls such as American Girl®. They are ready-made and will be shipped to you after the giveaway has ended. If you are interested in the sewing patterns for these dresses, please click the links below to learn more.
Giveaway Update: Congratulations to Teresa Bergan! You've won the beautiful dresses featured in today's giveaway, and have been contacted by email.
Bonus Fun For For Everyone! Today we are highlighting our 18-inch Doll Modern Dresses Pattern Collection at Pixie Faire. Simply add two patterns from this collection to your shopping cart, and enter discount code: DAY2BOGO in the discount box at checkout to get one of the patterns for FREE! This coupon code will be good for one day only and one use per customer, so don't miss out!
The beautifully handcrafted dresses featured are:
- A sweet floral Peyton's Pretty Dress by Laura Griffith of Love From Lola
- A chic yellow and grey Knot What I Expected Dress by Amy Walker of Seams To Streams
To enter the giveaway for the two handcrafted dresses, simply respond to this post and complete this sentence:
“My favorite sewing tip or trick is..."
Comments must be left (on this blog post) by midnight (Pacific), 12/26/2018.
One entry per person.
No purchase necessary, void where prohibited. Must be 18 or older to enter. While we wish we could run this contest everywhere, for legal reasons it is only open to eligible residents of the U.S. and Canada, not including Rhode Island. This contest is exclusively endorsed by Liberty Jane Clothing and Pixie Faire.
The winner will be chosen randomly from the comments received and contacted through the email provided in the comment.
We will choose a winner and update this post tomorrow to let everyone know who won.
Okay, good luck, and if we’ve forgotten anything we will modify and/or update this post as needed.
Happy New Year!
Cinnamon & The Liberty Jane / Pixie Faire Team
1211 Comments
My favorite trick is to cut a strip of light weight iron on stabilizer, sew it, right sides together along the hem line, then carefully fold it up, using the tip of the iron to secure it. When I know it is even and none of the stabilizer shows I iron it flat. Hem straight, secure and you can put all your fancy stitches along the hem any way you want.
When pressing a curve, press over a curve, either using a seamstress’ ham or even a rolled up towel. This gives the curve a smother shape, especially when making small garments such as doll clothes. When turning a lined bodice, for example, this eliminates bunching, and gives a nicer finish to the garment. Especially effective when pressing a set-in sleeve on any size garment.
My favorite sewing tip is to practice practice practice! And stretch yourself. You never know what you can do if you don’t try!
favorite sewing tip or trick is to use the right notion to get the job done . I love the wool mat and small iron for small projects
My favourite sewing tip or trick is, when sewing something stuffed (like a pillow or plush toy), to tie a tiny knot, push the needle through close to the seam and then, as far as needle will go, somewhere in the large middle, pull tight the thread, snip the thread, and the tail will pop back and be on the inside!