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
Press as you sew! Pressing with your appropriate iron setting for your fabric is such an easy way to get a clean and beautiful finish to your project. So keep the ironing board up and iron ready to go!
My favorite sewing tip/trick is to change your sewing machine needle frequently. I teach quilting classes and am amazed how many students say they only change their needles if they break one! A sharp burr-free needle will give you a much better end result. When quilting, I change my needle at least once per project; if the quilt is a large one, I change more often. When sewing smaller things such as AG doll clothes, I change the needle about every 8 hours.
My favorite tip. Is to relax and enjoy your time sewing, if you get frustrated, walk away for awhile and come and try again.
My favorite sewing tip is use your iron!! It’s the only time I use mine! lol Beginners—press your seams & everything goes together much more smoothly. You can often pick up a fat pillow for ironing called a “tailor’s ham” or a tiny travel ironing board that folds flat, from thrift stores for next to nothing, so no huge ironing board needed. Also, clip threads at end of each seam.
My favorite sewing trick is to keep thin strips of Velcro or generic “hook & loop” tape. I learned to cut thick/wide hook & loop tape lengthwise-into halves or even into thirds. I use the thin strips for my doll clothes, but have learned to use the thin strips on even my adult size pillows & other household items that I sew. So learning doll sewing techniques has changed my whole approach to sewing anything, not just doll clothes.