Monday, May 25, 2009

Woo -- My First Giveaway!!!

I am super excited to tell you about SEWN! SEWN is new and innovative online quilting and sewing community for all lovers of fabric crafts. We have Tips and Innovative Tools to help with your projects, an Advice Centre for all your sewing questions, online forums and chats, and information on your local shops, sewing groups, quilt groups and classes. There will be articles, interviews and tutorials from industry experts, competitions and free patterns!
To help celebrate the launch of SEWN, I am giving away a copy of the wonderful Bend the Rules Sewing by Amy Karol of Angry Chicken. It is has the cutest projects, clear instructions and beautiful photographs.

To win, please leave a comment on this post. For an extra TWO entries, become a blog follower or leave me a comment letting me know you are one. FOR an extra THREE entries, link to my giveaway on Facebook or Twitter or your blog and let me know. You could have as many as SIX entries! I will randomly select the winner at 8 p.m. Central Daylight Time on June 8, 2009. Be sure that I have a way to contact you in case you are the winner!!!! Thanks for playing!

Ooh -- be sure to click on the SEWN icon at the top of this post. It will take you to the SEWN website where you can enter their AMAZING launch giveaway.
THANK YOU SO MUCH - COMMENTS ARE NOW CLOSED!

236 comments:

  1. Oh and I forgot - but you already know - I'm a follower!!

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  2. This book is fantastic... I just got Meet Me At Mikes for mums day too... I Facebook-ed and twittered for you girl... and we're joining the party too...YAY!!

    xo Steph

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  3. OMG, embarrassment, I thought I was already following you. Well, I definitely am now! And I'm reposting this on FB, not just for the extra chances to win, but because I love Ashlee.

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  4. Oohhhh what an awesome giveaway!! I would be tickled pink to win this book!

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  5. How exciting! That book looks super cute!

    I follow you through my RSS feed. Do you have a twitter?

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  6. SEWN sounds great!
    And so does the awesome giveaway, what I wouldn't DO! lol
    Been a follower for a good long time now too. :D

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  7. I would love to win! count me in please!

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  8. just found your site and i love it!

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  9. Oh how fun! Thanks for the great tips!!!

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  10. Oh I would LOVE to win this Ash! Shoot and I already follow you :) haha I'll link you up on my facebook and twitter though!

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  11. OOOO OOOO Pick me, Pick me!!!!

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  12. I want to go in the hat please!

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  13. hello friend! just checking in, i would love to win the book! i am a follower and will add the facebook!!!!
    love the projects you've posted.

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  14. What a great giveaway...please count me in!

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  15. This book looks great!!!
    Thanks a lot for the chance to win it!

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  16. I'm a follower now!! Woohoo! 2 more entries!!!

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  17. I love to bend the rules! I hope the book has shortcuts! I am an amateur seamstress at best and can use all the help I can get when it comes to sewing. I tried making some bags recently and really need to practice more I think! sierramuse8 at aol dot com.

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  18. I had checked this book out of the library earlier. I would love to own it! :)

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  19. I don't even know how to sew on a button. The book will not help me. I think I just need you to come spend some time at my house. Linking to Facebook now! xoxo

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  20. ohh I would love to have this book!!!! thanks for the giveaway

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  21. I love to sew, so this book would be great to have.
    paryjeja at sbcglobal dot net

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  22. I love to sew but could sure use some help

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  23. i love sewing and learning new way to do it this books sounds awesome

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  24. I have begin to sew with my sewing machine. I am learning and trying so many different things. This book sounds like it could really help me to learn more. Thank you.

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  25. This sounds like a terrific book!

    ajcmeyer AT go DOT com

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  26. Tweet, Tweet! #1
    http://twitter.com/amolino/status/1943690969

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  27. Tweet, Tweet! #2
    http://twitter.com/amolino/status/1943690969

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  28. Tweet, Tweet! #3
    http://twitter.com/amolino/status/1943690969

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  29. I would love to add this to my sewing room, for some great ideas!

    hilaryglad at gmail dot com

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  30. I follow #1

    hilaryglad at gmail dot com

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  31. I follow #2

    hilaryglad at gmail dot com

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  32. I am trying to learn krafts and children sewing so I would love to have this book. Thanks

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  33. Just found your blog--and I am such a follower! I would love to win this book, I've had my "eyes" on it for awhile now! Thank you for the sweet offer.

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  34. I love sewing and would love to have this book. Thanks for the chance.

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  35. This would make me dust off my sewing machine.

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  36. I like to start some new sewing projects

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  37. I've been wanting this book. Thanks!

    izazbz@yahoo.com

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  38. And I am a follower - you have great taste!

    Enid Gilchrist's Kindergarten

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  39. Sounds wonderful.

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  40. So generous!! Please count me in.

    I've just subscribed to your blog too.

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  41. Love to have a chance to win this great prize ...thanks !!

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  42. I love this book! :) I have checked it out from the library more times than I want to admit... can you say late fees! Thanks for the chance!!!
    email: bluebird dot blessings @ yahoo.com

    I also tweeted about you bluebirdblessin

    And if I did it right I am now following your blog! ;)

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  43. I'd love to win this awesome book.

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  44. Would love to win this awesome book ~ easy to follow instructions would be a blessing. I got a sewing machine for Christmas and have a hard time following sewing pattern instructions.

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  45. Following via google blogger (missesprincess)

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  46. Ohh, I love sewing books. They always have such great ideas, and this one looks wonderful. Thanks for the great give away.

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  47. ohh, and I became a follower. The great thing about the Sewn grand opening has been finding all these new blogs to read.

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  48. I've been wanting that book for ages! Please put my name in the draw. I'm a follower so I'll make another comment about that in case I'm supposed to.

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  49. I'm a follower. Also forgot to add my email address. galaxie_bleu(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  50. I've not seen this book, but if it can stretch my sewing creativity, I sure could use it!

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  51. Wow great giveaway!
    Thank you for the chance to win!

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  52. I would love that book! I've just added you to my google reader (jrm344 at hotmail dot com)

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  53. Ooh, I just found you and am now a follower! I haven't been horribly successful 'bending the rules' while sewing, so I have got a thing or two to learn!

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  54. I will love to win this book..thanks for the giveaway

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  55. This is such a good way to find such inspiring blogs. Really like what I see :)

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  56. I always wanted a copy of this book...been checking it out of the library for the past year! Thanks for hosting!!!

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  57. I'm now a follower of your blog :-)

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  58. I love you sight very cute. Thanks for the chance to win

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  59. I would love to win this. I am now a follower, and made a link to you on Facebook. Yay for six entries!

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  60. I would love a chance to win this book!

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  61. wow I would love this book. Feel free to visit me and see what I am giving away.

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  62. Woo Hoo! I just subscribed to your blog. It is always fun to find more friends who love pretty things!

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  63. I would love to win this book!
    Pretty please with a cherry on top?
    Thanks for your great giveaway!
    Candice
    candicekay@iprimus.com.au

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  64. I hope I win! I am going to try making the ruffled tank tomorow! Love it!

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  65. Oh please enter me-I would love this book!
    smchester at gmail dot com

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  66. I'm following you!
    smchester at gmail dot com

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  67. I really like your site and love this book! I am becoming an offical follower today. I plan to link to your contest tonight. thanks for being so creative!

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  68. What a generous giveaway and what a funky lil blog you have!

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  69. Oh - looks like a fabulous book! Thanks for being such a generous blogger and for a great giveaway.

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  70. And I've just become a follower of your blog!

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  71. Hi all!
    What a great giveaway!!! Is it open to international readers? If so, please count me in. I would love to have this book. I will keep my fingers crossed until June 8th.

    Warm regards,

    Elena. :)

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  72. I just linked from my blog to yours - I really want to win!

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  73. This book sounds really good. I am always looking for shortcuts!

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  74. that looks like a cool book. browsed your blog - funny and charming.

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  75. Lovely blog. Lovely prize. I've just become a follower and look forward to my next visit.
    Christine

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  76. Love the book giveaway! And I thought I already followed you but apparently I don't do...now I do. :) And, off to tweet about it. xoxoxo

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  77. Oh my...
    This is an amazing prize!!!
    so cool!
    I've joinned this wonderful party too!
    It's so much fun!

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  78. Oh... and I'm following your blog!
    :)

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  79. What a nice giveaway! I've had my eye on this book.

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  80. I will follow her.....Yep, you now have me as an official follower. Great giveaway! Thanks for participating!

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  81. Oh, please pick me! I really want this book! Thank you for the chance to win.

    Christina
    cmatthies@hotmail.com

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  82. I love to sew. Happy to find a forum of like minds.

    judy7885 at gmail dot com

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  83. I would LOVE to win this book!

    Deborah
    comfortjoydesignsATgmailDOTcom

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  84. I just became a follower!!! Thanks so much!

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  85. I would love so much to win that beautiful book! Can't wait for the win day!

    I would love for you to come to my blog and enter my giveaway if you like.
    Thank you sooooooo much for the chance to win!
    Have a blessed day! Prairie Flower

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  86. cool. very cool.
    count me in,
    I have a giveaway too! come see!

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  87. i'm following you now! are you following me?

    ;-)

    love all your craftiness!

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  88. Looks like a fun book! Thanks for the giveaway...

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  89. I've heard this is a great book, I'd love to have this copy!

    Doris
    auntiedart(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  90. I'd love to win this great book. Thanks for holding a sweet giveaway. How fun! Please sign me up.

    Jody

    lagitanmystique(at)q(dot)com

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  91. Yay, please let me win...I have been trying to get this from the library but so far they don't carry it. Thanks for offering it up!!!

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  92. What a great giveaway!!
    count me in, please :)
    hugs Isabel

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  93. What a great giveaway. Love the book. Thanks for joining SEWN.

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  94. ooh! this book looks amazing! i love her blog. thanks for the opportunity! ;)

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  95. Fun giveaway! It is a great book! I'd love to win!

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  96. what a lovely giveaway. thanks for taking part!

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  97. What a fantastic giveaway! I would love the chance to be in to win.

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  98. I love this book! If I win, the library can have their copy back!

    sandyandcosmo(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  99. Id love to expand beyond quilting and your book looks like the trick!
    THanks
    Krousegirl2ataoldotcom
    Jenny

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  100. Oh super fun!!! I would love to win!!!

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  101. I'm a follower. I would seriously love to win this adorable book.

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  102. I want to read this book!

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  103. I love your adorbale projects and that book looks awesome!!

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  104. I would love to own this book! I don't have a very big crafting, sewing library!

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  105. I just found your blog and I am IN LOVE!

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  106. I linked to the facebook thingy!

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  107. Ann (oceanian@lycos.com)June 5, 2009 at 8:03 AM

    Ooh this book is good. I hope I win a copy! Please put me in the draw.

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  108. Awesome giveaway! I just became a follower of your blog. Thanks!

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  109. Your blog is great. Thanks for the inspiration. I added your giveaway to my facebook.

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  110. This book looks so neat. I hope I win! Pick me :-)

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  111. I found your blog via Joy's Hope and love it!! I am trying you tank top tutorial on one of my tank tops. I just began following your blog and twittered about you on twitter under my name GalMolly. i would love to win this book!!! Have a great weekend!!!
    ~Molly P

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  112. I would love to win this book!

    Thanks for the shot!
    Leilani
    one18fifteen@aol.com

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  113. I am a new follower. I have come across this blog before, now i'm excited to see more of it. maybe i'll get some inspiration and get out my sewing machine!

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  114. I am a new follower. I have come across this blog before, now i'm excited to see more of it. maybe i'll get some inspiration and get out my sewing machine!

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  115. Seriuosly the best book ever! I can't wait for her new one this fall! If I end up as your lucky winner, please pass this on to your #2 lucky lady!!

    Karen G.

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  116. I REALLY WANT TO WIN THIS SO I AM A FOLLOWER OF YOUR BLOG AND HAVE ALSO LINKED TO IT ON FACEBOOK. PICK ME PLEASE

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  117. Thanks for the givaway, I have seen that book and would love to win it!

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  118. Fantastic book and how generous of you to have it up for a giveaway!
    Lotta

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  119. This is definitely a book I would love to own. Thanks for the contest.

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  120. Christina - xristya@rock.com - Glad to find someone, finally, who bends the rules and am intrigued at what I can learn from this book! Thanks for the chance to win it and congratulations on your first giveaway!

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  121. want to try my luck on your giveaway!
    i am your follower too!
    if you like batek prints try your luck at mine!

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  122. What a great blog. This is my first time entering a giveaway. How exciting.

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  123. I've just become a follower of your blog and I also placed a link on my facebook page.

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  124. I love the idea of Sewn. I can't wait for it to go live.
    bryghtrose at gmail dot com

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  125. I love the idea of Sewn. I can't wait for it to go live.
    bryghtrose at gmail dot com

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  126. What a nice giveaway! I have just subscribed to your blog with Google Reader, that way I won't miss a post. Thanks!

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  127. I've heard so many great things about this book!

    Thank you for the chance to join in.

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  128. What a sweet giveaway! I would love to win.

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  129. I need some good summer reading for my porch swing this year! Bending the rules is so hard for me...this might liberate my sewing some and help me not focus so much on inconsequencial details.

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  130. I'd like to enter, please!

    ikkinlala AT yahoo DOT ca

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  131. Love to sew and also love to try new ways do to things. This book really fills the bill.

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  132. You can never have too many books.

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  133. I would love to win this book con5459(at)gmail(dot)com

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  134. I would love to have a copy of this.
    rsgrandinetti@yahoo.com

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  135. This looks like a great sewing book. I'd like to read it.

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  136. My daughter has taken up sewing. She took a class in school this and last year. She would so love to have this!

    kneecree at gmail dot com

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  137. Please add me to your drawing, I would love to win the book, cannot get it here in Mexico though :( so I hope I win it! :)
    Thank you for your generosity!

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  138. First time here (from a comment by http://outofthecrayonbox.blogspot.com/ posted on Like Merchant Ships that recommended http://handmadebeginnings.blogspot.com from which I followed another link here), enjoying looking around.
    tubospublic at gmail dot com

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  139. oh please enter me ;) thats a great giveaway!

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  140. What an exciting giveaway - it looks like an amazing book !! Thanks for the chance to play - SEWN is creating so much fun already!

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  141. ohmygoodness, i've been dying for this book! thanks so much for the opportunity to win it!

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  142. oooh, and i'm following you now too!

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  143. I will be sew excited if I win this book

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  144. I need some sewing inspiration. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  145. I have been wanting this book for a while now. Fingers crossed.

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  146. I would love the chance to win this.
    erma.hurtt@sbcglobal.net

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  147. i've blogged (hesitantly - i don't want more competition to win!!)about your giveaway, you can check it out here - http://craftydame.blogspot.com/2009/06/more-giveaways.html

    thanks again!

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  148. I would love to win this book! I need all the help I can get. :)

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  149. WOW! I think I am drooling! Thanks for the chance to win such an awesome prize!!!

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  150. I am now following. I would've anyway, but great plus that I get extra entries!!!

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  151. I would love this - my mom tried to teach me to sew - but it didn't work out!
    Thanks
    Sarah
    believedreamcourage (at) gmail.com

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  152. i also subscribed through googlereader

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  153. I love finding new sewing sources. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  154. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to win this book!
    Thank you!
    Mrs B

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  155. That book looks fantastic!!

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  156. I'm a follower. And I've blogged http://fullfurryhouse.blogspot.com/

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  157. This book is in my amazon "wish list"! Would be so cool to win it :-)

    Great give-away. And fun blog!

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  158. My sister would love this. Please accept my entry. Thank you.

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  159. since i always bend the rules, i might as well do it in sewing too. looks like a fun book

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  160. Ooooh count me in for 2 entries as I've just signed up as a follower too! Great blog - and what a generous giveaway, I've been coveting that book for a while now...

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  161. Oh I would love to win this, thanks for the chance.

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  162. I tweeted
    http://twitter.com/jblanton41/status/2068359854

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  163. tweeted
    http://twitter.com/jblanton41/status/2068359854

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  164. tweeted about your giveaway
    http://twitter.com/jblanton41/status/2068359854

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  165. I have recently taken up sewing and found your blog. I am love many of your posts. I am also a follower! I hope to win!!! amandawhorton607@hotmail.com

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  166. Great looking book with lots of inspiration. Thanks for participating in the SEWN launch give away.

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  167. I had seen this book in other blogs and this would be a great opportunity to enjoy it. I´m an active girl and I die to try something new. Please enter me for the giving away and thanks a lot.

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  168. Hello - thanks for the giveaway. Can't wait for the SEWN site to open.

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  169. regarding the great give away that you are having and the fact that i would love to win it, im so happy that i just found your blog cues you have alot of intresting things!
    so thanks for the giveaway!
    and i became a follower and blogged about your blog!

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  170. I love finding new and innovative methods of anything. I've been sewing for a very long time, so would love to learn something different.

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  171. I've been looking at this book in the store and it's been on my wishlist. I would love to win it!

    wandanamgreb(at)gmail(dot)com

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  172. Yay...I'm following you and now I'm enetering your giveaway...just to be clear...I really want to win that's all:)

    You know that though, right?

    Keeping everything crossed xxxxxx

    Tam xo

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  173. I'd love to see the inside of this book, cover looks so good.
    Theresa N
    weceno(At)yahoo(dot)com

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  174. I ALWAYS "bend the rules" so...sew a book to give me direction would be ABSOLUTELY wonderful! GO SEWN!!!

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  175. Count me in - I've heard lots of good things about this book! Enjoy your giveaway!

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  176. congrats on your first giveaway. i checked out the book and i would like to learn how to make an apron. something that is useful and at the same time appealing. thank you for the chance.

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  177. Love ths books idea about bending the rules when sewing, something I've always tried or done when sewing

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  178. Would love to win this book. Thanks for the chance to win.

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