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Inspiration For Your Entries to my Skirt Book Competition
Beginner’s Guide to Making Skirts Competition
Posted in Beginner's Guide to Making Skirts, Books by Wendy, Competitions, Sewing Patterns by Wendy, Social Media
Tagged beginners guide to skirts, beyond measure, ditto fabric, dressmaking competition, ernest wright & son, faberwood fabric, janome, Love Sewing magazine, miy skirts, sewing compeition, textile garden, win a sewing machine
MIY March 16 – Week 2 Round Up!
I need a time machine, I can’t believe another week has slipped by. It was another inspiring week of MIY March though and there are now almost 3300 #miymarch16 photos on Instagram. We’re taking over, I love it!!
Week 2’s themes covered everything from sewing heroes, peeping inside people’s sewing zones and embracing everything slow, here were mine and Emma’s top picks from each day (I have to admit this task gets harder every time as there are more and more great pictures to choose from):
DAY 7 – SEW & STYLE HEROES – what a varied bunch!
DAY 8 – SEW ZONE – a nosey peek behind the scenes of all those sewing spaces….
DAY 9 – SLEEVES – the humble sleeve in all its varied forms.
DAY 10 – TROUSERS OR PANTS? – in celebration of the worldwide and hilarious confusions this can cause!
DAY 11 – HOLD IT TOGETHER – our second Prizeday Friday sponsored by Textile Garden, this time 2 of these top 4 picks were the lucky winners of a voucher to spend on beautiful buttons and notions from Maggie.
And DAY 13 – SLOW – one of my favourites so far and something I plan to do more of this year.
Now how can you fail to be inspired by that lot?! If you’re feeling inspired enough to join in follow me @thatwendyward and Emma @dressmakerssocial on Instagram. Full details on how to join in are in this post.
As an added incentive, this week’s Prizeday Friday is from Ernest Wright & Son….!
Missed Week 1? It’s here.
MIY March is Back!!
Did you take part in MIY March last year?
If so, I hope you’ll be joining myself and Emma again and if not, you need to join in this year! MIY March (aka make-it-yourself March) is bigger and better for 2016, I’ve got 5 amazing sponsors offering some great prizes for each week during March.
Most of the prizes will be available internationally, but some will only be open to the UK, I’ll make that clear when I post that day’s topic.
Here’s the list of daily topics to whet your appetite and start planning your pictures, get thinking!
Here’s how to join in:
- everyday in March post a sewing themed photo to Instagram inspired by the daily topic from the list above, I will post a topic reminder each morning
- use the hashtag #miymarch16 in the caption of your picture
- follow me @thatwendyward and Emma @dressmakerssocial so that you know each day’s theme and can check out our daily top 4 and Prizeday Friday winners
- everyday myself and Emma will choose our favourite 4 pictures to share and repost with you all
- on Prizeday Fridays you will also need to follow the sponsor to enter and the sponsor will choose their winner from our favourite 4
- Prizeday Friday winners will be announced on Monday morning of the following week
- if your account is set to “private” no-one will be able to see your pics so you won’t be able to join in!
So, what’s not to like? Exercise your little grey cells, meet like-minded people from around the world, win prizes and get inspired!
If you’re not already on Instagram there is lots of help for how to set up your account and how to use Instagram here.
Look forward to meeting you!!
Posted in Competitions, MIY March, Other Events & Workshops, Social Media
Tagged Cico books, ditto fabrics, dressmakers social, ernest wright & son, instagram photo a day, Love Sewing magazine, make it yourself march, MIY collection, miymarch, miymarch16, prizeday fridays, textile garden, Wendy Ward