Monday, December 9, 2013

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway WEEK!

Welcome to the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Extravaganza!


This Giveaway has officially ended!

I look forward to the Sew Mama Giveaway every year.  This time I get to be the giver...and I have to say, I'm thrilled to be participating!


Being a new blogger (very new), I'm still finding my way, my voice and my own blogging style.  This giveaway is a great way to introduce ourselves, build readership and find some fantastic new blogs!

This is going to be fun...are you ready?  Set?  Let's go!!!

I have two prizes up for grabs!  Yippie!

THE FIRST PRIZE
A beautiful collection of Hand Dyed Fat Quarters (1 1/4 yard total).  Hand dying fabric is a new passion for me.  I love creating unique colors and textures.  I have many other fat quarter sets available in my Etsy shop, Twiggy & Opal.  



This set is bright and bold.  Perfect for so many projects.  The variation in the fabric is what I love the most!

THE SECOND PRIZE:  
A great combination of goodies!  A lovely, fragrant and beautiful bar of soap!  This soap is made by my lovely daughter Britt.  She is just getting ready to open her own Etsy shop 'Hello Soap'.  Also,  make-up bag with a vintage button heart on the front!


A great little 'pick me up' for anyone!

How about the rules?!  I bet you would like to know what you have to do to win, well....
a couple of back flips, do a happy dance?  NAH!  Let's keep it simple!

You have two chances to win:

#1.  Leave one comment and answer this question.  What is your favorite tool?  Quilting, sewing, power tool...anything!

#2.  Follow my blog and leave another comment saying you have done so.  If you already follow my blog leave a comment saying so.

RULES:
• This giveaway is open to EVERYONE. 

• If you’re a “no reply” or an anonymous commenter, include your email address in your 

  comment.
• Giveaway ends December 13 at 7pm CST

• I will pick two winners using Random generator and then announce the winner on my blog
  and notify via email.
Good luck!

Thank you for stopping by!  

THANK YOU SO MUCH!  
THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED AND I WILL POST THE WINNERS SOON!

356 comments :

  1. What great giveaways. Thanks for the chance to win. I love your hand dyed fabrics and home-made soap is so much nicer than the mass produced stuff.

    kj_hahn(at)telus(dot)net

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  2. My favorite tool is a chopstick I use for pushing out corners when I'm sewing, It's super cheap and works so well :)

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  3. My favorite tool is my crochet hook with the polymer clay handle. It makes it easier to crochet.

    Followed your blog!

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  4. I do follow this Blog already - and I love to see what you have to say each time I get a notification that there is a new post!

    Favorite tool - well, the obvious answer would be a crochet hook, or YARN, but I think I have to say instead that my enormous, mountainous, humongous megalo-yarn stash is my alltime-necessary tool to work with. I always have a coordinating yarn, no matter what the project calls for, without running out to the store. (Okay, most just think i am a hoarder - but there IS an upside.)

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  5. Thanks for a great giveaway. I can't work without my favourite scissors.
    ks(dot)eyles(at)yahoo(dot)co(dot)uk

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  6. I also follow this blog already and think you are doing a great job.

    My favorite tool - the one I am working with at the moment. :) Actually, I guess my spinning wheel.

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  7. My favorite tool is my rotary cutter. It helps me to cut accurately. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  8. My favorite tool is my reading glasses. Without which none of my quilting could be done. ;)

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  9. Following via bloglovin. Looking forward to you finding your voice. :D

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  10. My favorite tool is hand sewing! : ) espmax(at)gmail(dot)come

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  11. I love my my new scissors. How fun! Psimpsonfamily@gmail.com

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  12. I LOVE my knitting needles. Seems unnatural to like little pieces of wood so much, but they really are lovely.

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  13. My favorite tool is the walking foot for getting through all those layers of rag quilts.

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  14. My favorite tool is my kitchen aid mixer.

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  15. Okay, this may or may not count... you said favorite tool- and I don't sew, but I bake a lot, so my favorite tool is my whisk- love it. Use it all the time! Also, following you through bloglovin' :)

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  16. Love the hand dyed!!!! Something I want to try and do!

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  17. Hey Jayne! I've been following your blog from day 1:) My favorite tool is my sewing machine.....and crochet hook;) I have some of you work at home. You are one talented lady!

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  18. My favorite tool right now would have to be my Kitchen Aid mixer! Ha! I'm trying to make Christmas cookies. ;)

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  19. Hello- I'm a brand new follower today :)

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  20. Also, my favorite tool is my sewing machine. I'm getting to know it better and better lately.

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  21. My favorite tool is my computer...to buy all the other tools I need to make my quilts!

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  23. Already follow you and love your work Jayne!

    My favorite tool...oy that's a tough one!!! At the end of the day, it would have to be my sewing machine. All my other tools would be useless if I didn't have my machine to put it all together at the end.

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  24. My favorite tool is my collection of rulers - keeping everything accurate!
    beth(dot)sebastian(at)gmail(dot)com

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  25. scissors....love my scissors...have dozens

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  26. Jayne,
    I already follow you my dear. My favsy tool is my cordless drill. Can't live without it (plus the extra battery). :-)

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  27. Unfortunately the seam ripper. Thanks!

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  28. My fave tool is my rotary cutter, I'd not quilt if I had to cut up everything with scissors. Thanks for the chance!

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  29. I love my rotary cutter! That soap looks divine! I'd love to win either one of these prizes!

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  30. My glue gun and at Christmas time my light keeper pro Christmas light fixer gun.

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  31. Rotary cutter is definitely my favorite tool - wonder how we ever survived before it was invented!

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  32. I just started following your blog about a week ago and I'm really glad I did!

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  33. I have a Bloc Loc for making HSTs and I use it all the time and love it! amateurquilter at gmail

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  34. My favorite tool is the mini rotary cutter. I hardly ever use scissors to cut patterns anymore!

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  35. My favorite tool is my immersion blender- I use it almost every day for quick meals- soup, curries, smoothies...Thanks for the giveaway!

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  36. hmm my drill machine ... but for sewing ... my rotary cutter + the rulers ..

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  37. I am a new follower on bloglovin. Merry Christmas. crystalbluern at onlineok dot com

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  38. One of my many seam rippers...which ever one I manage to find. Merry Christmas. crystalbluern at onlineok dot com

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  39. it's a toss up between my seam ripper and embroidery snip.

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  40. It's a toss up between a seam ripper and a paring knife.

    senstrings(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  41. My favorite tool is my tiny little paint brush so I can paint tiny little detail.
    Just started following you!

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  42. i follow via bloglovin'==thanks for your clear, easy to follow tutorials!

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  43. My old sewing machine. I was just told it will only straight stitch, but I still love it.

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  44. Rotary cutter. Nice blog..gorgeous fabrics and colors. Thank you!

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  45. Oh, my favorite tool ... what a hard one to answer! The most handy is, of course, a phillips head screw driver. The one that makes me feel the most powerful is the electric drill. But the one that I use more often than any other is probably my sewing machine, followed closely by my seam ripper. lol Needless to say, I love sewing, but NOT unsewing!

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  46. And I think I'm a follower - I'm still trying to get used to Mr. Reader, which has (finally!!) allowed me to get back to reading all my blogs. Oh, google reader, you are sorely missed!

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  47. Frixion Pens. I use these for marking a lot.

    syvisser@gmail(dot)com

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  48. Bloglovin follower.

    syvisser@gmail(dot)com

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  49. My favorite tool is a pencil. I can create, write , or draw with it!

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  50. Me me me! I follow you via my reader -- thanks!!!

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  51. My favorite tool currently is still my 12" rotary cutting mat. I do not know what I did without that thing.

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  52. My favorite tool is an antique hand-powered drill!

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  53. It may not be my favorite tool, but it's my most used tool and saves many of my projects - My seam ripper!

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  54. My favorite tool is my little pair of sharp embroidery scissors. Thank you!

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  55. Hmm. Does a snowblower count as a tool? It's pretty big, but proved pretty awesome this week when we got two feet of snow at our house.

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  56. My favourite, favourite tool is my old sewing machine. I can't imagine life without it!

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  57. I love my Kitchenaid mixer! :) I do smile a lot when I use my overlock machine, too.

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  58. So so lovely, my favourite tool is my mini seam ripper! I can get it into any little stitch and I need to use it A LOT!
    Ps. I'm giving with giveaway day too!

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  59. Love my rotary cutter! Great giveaway.:)

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  60. I love my Dremel tool... so versatile!

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  61. My serger.
    I think I love it even more than my sewing machine!
    Thanks for the giveaway!

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  62. It's a toss-up between my sewing machine (without which I would be far too lazy to sew!) or my camera!

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  63. i like my scientific calculator.

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  64. What lovely prizes. My favorite tool is my Vitamix. I use it every day.

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  65. I love my sewing machine. She just hums for me!

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  66. My favorite tool is the Add-a-Quarter ruler. Thank you for the giveaway!

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  67. My favorite tool is a crochet hook.

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  68. Love my microwave! Hope a non-sewing tool is ok. Thank you.

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  69. My favorite tool is my thread snips.

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  70. I am a new follower of your blog.

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  71. new blog follower via Bloglovin.

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  72. My favorite tool is my lint roller. I use it all the time. Especially on the sewing table and cutting tablet o clean up messy threads and cotton dust and fibers quickly. Also to go over projects quickly before I quilt them. And of course to clean my clothing up quickly after a sewing session. And my favorite use is after ripping out a seam to help pull all those pesky little threads out.

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  73. my bathtub is my favorite tool. tool, you ask? why, yes. it is my tool for sanity. :-)

    would love to try that soap and the little bag is darling! thanks for the chance.

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  74. I love my cutting mat. Couldn't live without it! angelamiller387@hotmail.com

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  75. My favorite tool(s) are my angled paint brush(es)

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  76. My tablet, it's addicting. Second would be my sewing machine.
    cidtwoatcoxdotnet
    Thank you.

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  77. I adore 505 Basting Spray even though I'm trying to wean myself off it and use pins!

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  78. I couldn't live without my seam ripper!

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  79. New follower via The Old Reader!

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  80. My favorite tool is my Kitchenaid Stand Mixer.

    urchiken at gmail dot com

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  81. my serger!

    jessicarwarfield at gmail dot com

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  82. My favorite tool is my wooden iron and a washable glue stick. I love your blog and your work is beyond magnificent. If I sound a little biased, I am and you know why.

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  83. My favorite tool is my electric cordless tea kettle.

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  84. Yes, I follow your blog via email.

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  85. My favorite tool is my microplane grater. I just love that thing!

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  86. I love my new heart rate monitor and GPS watch so cool to be able to see where I have been and my pace etc.

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  87. Can I say my cutting table? Great space, wonderful height. I just wish I wouldn't use it as a convenient dump space. Thanks.

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  88. I'm following! :D My favorite tool is definitely my sewing machine... It's my workhorse and I LOVE IT!

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  89. I enjoy following you and I love my blowtorch. Good for torching creme brulee and precious metal clay. Just not at the same time!

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  90. I love my rotary cutter. It makes life so much easier!

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  91. Oh I love that make up bag! I really love wonder clips, they make binding so easy!

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  92. My fave tool is my camera. I am never without it... you just never want to miss a good shot. Love the hand=dyes, which I am salivating for :)
    textilerecycler@yahoo(dot)com

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  93. Following! Yeah.... textilerecycler@yahoo(dot)com

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  94. My computer is my favorite tool :) Beautiful hand dyes!

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  95. Favourite quilting tool - my sewing gauge! I am a new quilter and don't have a quilting machine or even quilting feet so the 1/4" mark on my gauge is important.

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  96. I am always grabbing for my snips. Thanks for the chance, fingers crossed for the soap and bag.

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  97. Great hand dyes! I love my ultra sharp little embroidery scissors that can snip off thread right next to the fabric.

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  98. My favorite tool is my Clover seam ripper

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  99. I love my embroidery scissors.

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  100. Both give-aways are fantastic and thank you for the opportunity.I sew and quilt a lot so a ruler will always be my favorite tool.

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  101. I follow you on Bloglovin and Like you on Facebook.

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  102. I'd say an awl is my favorite :) You can punch holes in leather with it, use it for book binding, curl wire around it for jewelry making, pick a block of ice apart with it (I never have but you could ;) )

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    1. Oh and lets not forget its a great personal safety device, if you wind up walking home late, its so much more reassuring to carry that in your palm. Not that I've ever had to, but just sayin.

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  103. I think scissors are my favorite tool! crossing my fingers for that soap + make up bag!

    tinaotherworld(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  104. Rotary cutter, rulers and mat! And my machines. Interesting question.

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  105. Sad to admit it, but my seam ripper may be my best friend, LOL.

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  106. My favourite tool is my good scissors.

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  107. My favourite tool is my sewing machine.

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  108. and I am following you in bloglovin

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  109. Thanks for the opportunity - I love the hand dyed fabric, I'm already imagining what that would look like with some neutral linen. I love my set square - which sounds really boring, but I use it in my day job and in my crafty pursuits so, so much I would be truly lost without it

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  110. Those fabrics are beautiful!

    jachelno at gmail dot com

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  111. Thanks for the opportunity to win such gorgeous items!
    My favorite tool is my dear 'Nina' sewing machine, can't live without her! :)

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  112. I'm following you from today. Great blog!

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  113. Wonderful giveaway!! I love my hair dryer - if I don;t use it my hair kinks out to the right and I look (more) ridiculous tahn I should!!

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  114. The first tool that came to mind when I read your question was my drill press. I like to craft with wood too and this wonderful tool has made life so much easier.
    Love the colors you have dyed these fabrics. Very bold and bright.

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  115. I follow the blog via email now, I didn't know you started one - silly me! My favorite tool is my sewing machine - I've been using it to make more gifts for family and myself than to sell things lately, but I love sitting down with tea and spending hours with the happy little buzzz noise :)

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  116. My email is divinemslulu@gmail.com

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  117. I've signed in to follow you. My favorite tool is the rotary cutter. Such a time saver!

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  118. Love you hand died fabrics! Colors are wonderful.

    My favorite tool is little clip that attached to my shirt holding my snippy scissors on a retractable cord. I wear if from morning to night and have even been found at the post office or out on a bike ride with it still attached.

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  119. I wish your daughter well with her new venture. My favorite, and most expensive, tool is...me. Seriously, if I'm unable to sew, quilt, knit, spin, felt, do my farm work, etc., it all comes to a screeching halt.
    My favorite tool is me and I take Very Good Care of me -smile-.

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  120. I've been intrigued with hand-dyed fabrics, but haven't taken time to try it out! My favorite tool is a little pick tool from a nutcracker set my mom had since I was a child. I use it to guide the seams to the foot when I'm putting on binding by machine, and also to straighten out corners after I turn fabric back to the right side. And it didn't cost me a dime!

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  121. I'm a new follower, fellow Quiltsy and look forward to reading your posts.

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  122. These days I really appreciate my LINT ROLLER!
    What a genius invention!

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  123. Your hand dyes are just stunning! I am a new follower via Bloglovin:-)

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  124. I love my snips! Thanks for the chance to win. ksmith8@emich.edu

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  125. I follow on GFC and BL-karrie smith. Your fabric is so pretty!

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  126. My favorite is my OXO tongs -- they're the best!

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  127. Love your hand dyed fabric, I plan to check out your etsy shop... Maybe I will win one of the gift certificates and buy some of your fabric! Anyway, my favorite thing lately is fabric glue with the fine points. I use it in paper piecing and other places I need to match precisely.

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  128. My favorite tool is my Kitchenaid mixer. Best present ever!

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  129. fabric marking pens.. which i long to own

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  130. My favorite tool would be my screwdriver set. I couldn't live without it.

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  131. Sadly, my favorite tool is a seam ripper. I "seam" to use it a lot! Thanks for the give away!

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  132. I love my little clover iron for when I quilt or do cloths! :)

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  133. My knitting needles at the moment. Great giveaway hope I win, Thanks!
    knittingmad(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  134. New follower on Instagram, Thanks!
    knittingmad(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  135. My paper cutter. There is just something great about being able to cut a straight line!

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  136. My favorite tool is my sewing/embroidery machine :)

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  137. I follow your blog
    hiccupsandsunshine(at)yahoo(dot)com

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  138. Favorite tool is my retractable tape measure, I use it for all different crafts from sewing to knitting! Thank you for the great giveaway!

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  139. Tweezers....immensely useful!

    dewiec(at)yahoo(dot)ca

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  140. My standmixer in my kitchen is my favorite tool.

    Deborah
    pinkscissorsdesign @gmail .com
    Pink Scissors Design on Etsy

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  141. I love my teeny embroidery scissors - I use them when I'm doing handwork or when snipping threads while machine quilting.

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  142. I love to use a drill. I'm currently putting in built-in shelves and love how quickly things get going with a drill.

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  143. My favourite tool is my food mixer we just love to bake.

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  144. My secateurs. They fit in my back pocket and have come in very 'handy'.

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  145. My wiggle weeder. Took me 2 years to track one down in the US and I wont' go without it coming spring

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  146. My sewing machine its old and reliable

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  147. Sanders...Belt sanders, finish sanders, sanding blocks. I really love refinishing furniture, "scratching" paper, etc. :)

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  148. My favorite tool is my credit card! Thanks for the chance!

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  149. My favorite "tool" is my elmers washable glue stick. I use it tons while sewing.

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  150. Well since I just got done ripping out some binding that wasn't sewn on to great I would have to say my seam ripper!

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  151. How about my SpotBot carpet cleaner….I have little people making messes at my house:) Thanks for the giveaway! Amy @ gasudimack(at)sbcglobal(dot)net

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  152. My favorite tool is binding clips; just makes my life easier

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  153. I have to say my seam ripper....I think I use it more than I'd like to admit! Also, my sewing machine! I can honestly say I don't think I would enjoy sewing in the least had machines not been invented!

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  154. my sewing machine. have a great holiday

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