SEWN - The Big Reveal

Entries to the blog competition are now closed. Please make sure you draw your blog prize by the end of day, Monday, June 8 where you are. 

If you have been a featured blog, don't forget to check back and see if you won a bloggers prize.

If you would like to offer a prize for a giveaway on SEWN in the coming weeks, please contact sarah@sewn.net.au and we can talk about what you would like to sponsor! Thanks so much to everyone for playing along and I hope you all had fun!

OK, you know how I've been promising I would tell you  what I'm going to get up to post MO? Well, the time is finally here. I am going to be....

 

 

The Creative Director of a new site for sewers, called SEWN. Exciting right? I KNOW. The website will have just about everything you can think of that you would want online as a sewer. There are forums, online advice from industry experts, conversion charts, colour wheels, free patterns and class listings.

There will be interviews with all your favourite designers, quilters, patterns makers and authors. There will be tutorials with me and with other sewers from here and overseas, podcasts and coverage from shows and articles about all maner of exciting things.

Best of all, there are great unique gadgets - Fabricmatcher, which is an online tool which lets you match patterns to fabrics and see what your project will look like without sewing a stitch, and Find Fabric, which is the niftiest thing that will find the fabric you are looking for without you having to search for it for hours on the internet. It's so clever it even searches shops in your vacinity first to save you on international postage. How cool is that?

Plus there will be an online buy and sell area called SEWiNg, which is where you can sell the stuff you sew to the people out there who don't sew - and some of the ones who do :)

I"M SO EXCITED. I have been busting to tell you all for AGES. The website will be up in June, but for now there is a holding page where you can go read about it and enter the competition to win cool stuff. SEWN is having their own competition you can enter at the link above, and then we are running a Blog Launch Party as well.

BLOGGERS TAKE NOTE: Do you have a blog and want to join in the party? Click the Mr Linky widget on my blog below and add your blog to the giveaway roll. Here’s how it works.

1.    Decide you want to be a SEWN Launch Party Blog.
2.    Decide what you’re giving away! You don’t need to be a shop or a business to join in, if you want to give away a stack of fat quarters from your stash or something similar, that’s fine! Anyone can play.
3.    Click on Mr Linky and add your blog to the roll. Your blog will remain posted on SEWN for the duration of the competition, and will be listed among the first blogs to be in the SEWN blog register when the site goes live.
4.    Send an email to sfielke@ozemail.com.au so I have an email address to contact you at. That way we can send you competition details and extra prize info as it comes to hand, and remind you all of the Launch Party date as it gets closer. I won't spam you, just SEWN info.
5.    Download the SEWN Launch Party Giveaway button below and paste into your blog.
6.    Post on your blog about your giveaway and the SEWN Launch Party. Let your readers know about what you are giving away and what it’s all about!
7.    On the day of the giveaway, Monday, June 8, draw your winner, notify them and blog about it, and do a little dance! Why? Because you made another crafter happy, AND for doing it you were entered into a special draw for bloggers, to win your OWN set of prizes! Yay!!

 

If you are a participating blog, or just want to join in the fun and help me let everyone know about SEWN, you can download the little button here for your blog roll. Either copy and paste the image with the link www.sewn.net.au or copy in the code below to your blog mechanics.

 

<a href=http://www.sewn.net.au target="_blank"><img  src="http://www.sewn.net.au/Portals/5/sewn%20button.png" alt="SEWN" border="0" /></a>

Phew, that's a lot of excitement for one post. One last thing though, a gratituous quilt shot taken using my NEW CAMERA!! No more fuzzy dark shots for you little blog! Sarah Fielke Material Obsession

 

Comments

[Caroline]

Wow - sounds wonderful, all the best with the launch!

[Rita]

Sarah! This new website sounds great! I can't wait for it to get started.

[Cardygirl]

Sounds great Sarah! Good luck.

[Maria]

Wow! What an ambitions project. I can't wait! We're not posting the info on our blogs just yet, are we?

[Sarah]

Clarification - you can post the info on your blog as soon as you're ready. Just download the button and paste it in to your sidebar - and then post about what you're giving away. Remember though that people will start clicking through as soon as they see the list to enter your draw, so you might want to get something up pretty quick! Have fun and thanks for entering so FAST!!

[Maree .W]

Congratulations Sarah that's Fantastic News....will be putting the Button on my blog that's for sure...
cheers

[Isa]

Hi Sarah
I look forward to the actual launch
I've posted a giveaway on my blog

[Lorraine]

Can't wait to see the outcome of this news !!

[Jackie]

Hi Sarah, This site sounds fantastic and I would like to participate in the blog draw. I will most likely be back over the weekend to post and sign in for Mr. Linky. Thanks!!

[fiberchick]

Conrats! Looking forward to the new site...

[2hippos]

Great idea! And your quilt is beautiful!

[pam]

Congratulations!

[Amy @ parkcitygirl]

Sounds like fun!! Love your star quilt at the bottom ;)

[Carolyn]

Wow, what a great idea. I can't wait for the launch in June. I have already entered the competition. Great to have some much home grown talent all on the one site and I'm sure the fabric search will be well used.

Congratulations!

[Kate Dixon]

Hi Sarah, I think I may have accidently entered twice! Sorry. You may need to delete one of my entries. Great comp and looking forward to seeing the new site!

[Valentina]

Thank You for doing all these wonderful things for all us to keep growing in our craft. Sarah, Go conquer the world, we are right behind you!

[Pam]

I am thrilled for you Sarah! It is just gonna be so much fun! xo Pam in Chico

[Terri]

Congratulations! The website sounds like it will be spectacular...can't wait till it's launch! BTW, your quilt is gorgeous!

[Melanie]

Good luck with the new website. First time I read this I thought the draw ended today (well yesterday now) because I wasn't reading too carefully. I can't wait for the launch and I love your quilt!

[Jenny Deura]

Sarah, I can't wait for the site to go live. What a great idea. The quilt looks fanastic. I hope you will share this pattern with us.

[Patrícia Sousa]

Great Idea! Can't wait for June!

[Lil]

wow, I'm really curious now

I wanted to check the other blogs but Mr Linky disappeared

[Kelly]

I've joined the party! Giveaway on my blog. I Can't wait until June!!

[Helen]

The new website sounds great! I'm in for the launch party!

[Handmaiden]

Count me in. Sounds like a fab site in the making. Congrats
Sharon

[Lois0607]

Hi - I added my post on the giveaway today. Cannot wait to see the site. Thanks
Lois

[Tania]

OK - very exciting - for you and us. Consider me counted in!

[Jane]

What a beautiful quilt! I'll put in a link to my Stitchminx Blog with some sewing info. Thanks so much, Sarah!

[Junie Moon]

What a wonderful new venture. I'm signed up and ready for some blog party fun.

[Deanna]

Oh - i just bought your book - first one i think - Material obsession!
Good luck with your new venture - i will be reading as often as possible!