It's Time For Another Giveaway!!

Welcome to another Handmade Giveaway.
Today's giveaway is sponsored by Bette Shaw of Handmade By Bette.

Bette is a crafter and designer. Today's giveaway is one of her multi-use, cross-body totes.   Your kindle, Mini Ipad, or nook will fit perfectly in this bag or use it when you only want to carry a few things with you.  Perfect for flea market shopping.

 

You can earn up to three entries by doing the following...

1. Visit Bette's Etsy shop, http://www.handmadebybette.com and come back here and post a comment with your favorite item in her shop. Be sure and leave your email address so we can contact you if you win.

2. Earn one extra entry by becoming a follower of this blog thru Google Friend Connect or Linky Followers.. Already a follower? Just let us know so we can give you credit.

3. Earn an extra entry by sharing the link to this giveaway on your Blog, Facebook, Pinterest or Twitter. Be sure and let us know you have done this and where.

(USA and Canada entries only, please)

The giveaway will start today, Saturday, September 14. The last day to enter will be Sept. 27, 2013 and the winner will be announced on Sept. 28, 2013. We will announce it here and contact you by the email address you have left. 

Have fun and good luck!

Would you like to sponsor a giveaway? Are you interested in promoting your store or blog. If so, just email us.

We would be happy to send you the details. byyourhandsblog@gmail.com

Today's Featured Shop -- Polly's Creations

Today's featured shop is Polly's Creations.    Pauline designs and makes one of a kind jewelry and fabric Ipad cases.

Amethyst necklace set with matching bracelet and earrings

Copper and pearl 16 inch necklace

Blue lapis necklace and earring set

Dogs and Cats IPad Case

Be sure and visit Pauline's shop to see all that she has available.  https://www.etsy.com/shop/PollysCreations

Witches Stitches -Fabric Christmas Sheep

The holidays are right around the corner and one of the things I enjoy decorating with is anything that looks antique.  I like the prints that are out there that are from the late 1800’s. I especially like sheep.  You can use any animal or item you like, I just like using an image of sheep. I have several small feather trees that I like to put in a display and I like having a few sheep with them. The ones I made are very easy and look like they are 100 years old.

All you have to do is print a few images of sheep onto cotton fabric. The process is very easy. Cut a piece of fabric and a piece of freezer paper the same size as a standard piece of printer paper. Then iron the freezer paper onto the fabric. Now you can feed this through the printer and print whatever you choose onto your fabric. I choose some antique images of sheep. I made the images different sizes and then printed them onto my fabric. After I have done this I peel the freezer paper off the back of my sheep images. I then sew around the image with a backing piece of the same fabric, leaving the bottom open.  I cut around the image. I can now stuff the piece with sawdust. After I do this I sew the bottom together and then use a box pleat to make it stand up. I now have a fabric sheep that looks great with my antique holiday display. You can make these sheep any size up to 8” x 11”. I make 3, making one larger than the rest. This then looks like a sheep and 2 lambs.  As I said you can use any image you want. By stuffing it with sawdust, gives it an antique feel and makes it weighted enough to stand on its own.
As always if you have any questions please give me a shout. Have a great day.

Faith

Handmade Spotlight - Pumpkins!

Check out this great selection of handmade cats. You can view this entire treasury 

by Clicking Here, or you can click on each item to see it in greater detail.

Primitive Crow and Pumpkin D... PrimitiveBlack...	Primitive Ghost Door Doll wi... angelbugprims
Set of 2 Primitive Cloth Pum... PrimitiveBlack...	Pumpkin Soap "Pumpkin S... DaisyKays
10 Primitive Metal Rimmed Ha... ChooseMoose	Large Primitive Crow with 3 ... PrimitiveBlack...
Hand Painted Primitive-Folk ... JennysToleShed	Extreme Primitive Folk Art L... FolkArtandPrim...
Gypsy The Primitive Black Ca... scaredycatprim...	Primitive Crow, Sunflower an... YorkiesPrimiti...
Primitive Scarecrow with Pum... PrimitiveBlack...	Primitive Pumpkin crow stack... ahlcoopedup
Primitive Pumpkin Doll with ... PrimitiveBlack...	Primitive Needle Punch Pillo... thetalkingcrow
3 Primitive Fall Halloween S... oldgoatprims	Primitive Crow on the Pumpki... VintageTrimmin...

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Tuesday Tutorial - Burlap Bag Jack-O-Lantern

Burlap seems to be really popular right now for decorating and I've found a really cute video tutorial for making a jack-o-lantern decoration out of a burlap bag.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

 

Happy Fall!
Deena Davis
www.byyourhands.com