Choose My BIRD Fabric

This is one of those things that I didn't realize I was attracted to until I realized how many bird-themed fabrics I had in my stash! Lol, apparently I like fabric with birds on it, who knew?

So, you know the drill, tell me which fabric you like best. Whichever fabric you help me pick (I'll choose whichever gets the most votes), I'm going to have to use it ALL up...that means NO leftover scraps like I usually have. Most of what I make will likely end up for sale in my Etsy shop.

Once I've used it all up, I'll choose something I made with the chosen fabric to give away! Here are this week's fabric choices:

Click on the image for a closer look! I've included a quarter to give you some sense of scale.

The first is almost like a bird toile, with lovely deep pinks on a cream background. The second is a gorgous colorful bird print on a light blue background. The third is a giant fun bird print on a white background.

All you need to do to enter the giveaway is:
*Leave a comment with your VOTE on which fabric I should use up this week or which one is your favorite, and

*Include an EMAIL ADDRESS where I can contact you should you win, (US and Canada residents only, sorry!). You can do this either by

1. Making sure your email is available through your blogger profile. (See here for help with that)



2. Leaving your email address in your comment.



3. Emailing me at mllevaleur (at) hotmail (dot) com with your email address, subject line "Giveaway email"



4. OR if I know you from a forum somewhere, leave your SCREEN NAME so I know who you are!

If I can't find a way to contact you, I'll just have to pick someone else, so make sure to do one of the above! :-)

I'll choose the winner randomly from among those who voted for the winning fabric, since I'd hate to send someone an item made from a fabric they don't love!

Please submit your vote before Wednesday evening at midnight (central time). I'll update this post with the winning fabric on Thursday, and then get to work! Check back early next week to see what I've made, and of course to see who has won the giveaway and what they won!

Choose my fabric! :-)

UPDATE: Looks like #3 is our winner. Sadly I seem to have caught a stomach bug so I'm having to take things slowly right now...but I'll use it up as soon as I can! Hopefully by early next week.

Floral Fabric Creations and Winner!

Finally, the floral fabric is all used up!

For the giveaway item this week I made...

Some cute fabric covered button magnets! This was my first time making fabric covered buttons, it was fun.


Next I made, yes, another composition notebook cover, lol.(Sorry about the awful lighting! It was already dark but I was determined to get this post up today.)


See, I bought dozens of the composition notebooks when they were only 10 cents each on clearance! (I mean, with my serious paper love, how could I not??) So I've been trying to use them up, and I'm planning to have a nice large stock by the busy pre-Christmas shopping season. This time, though, I made a ruffly flower instead of my usual petal flowers.

I enjoyed playing with the fabric figuring out how to do that. :-) This one is up for sale here.

Finally, with most of the fabric I made...


a half apron, which a fun bunch of ruffly flowers on it.


I really love how the flower cluster turned out!


It's up for sale here.

And now for this week's winner...

LORI!! Congrats, I'll be contacting you shortly to get your mailing address. :-)

I'll be posting the next fabric choices ASAP, only 2 weeks left!

Monday, Monday...

da daaaa, daa, da daa da..so good to me...da daaa, daa, da daa da..

Everybody now, sing with me! ;-)

So once again I'm behind, I'll do my best to have the floral fabric creations up by Monday, and get the next fabric choices up as well. Only 2 more weeks!

Choose My FLORAL Fabric

Alright, we're getting close! Only 3 weeks left...this week we'll be looking at some sweet floral fabrics.

So, you know the drill, tell me which fabric you like best. Whichever fabric you help me pick (I'll choose whichever gets the most votes), I'm going to have to use it ALL up...that means NO leftover scraps like I usually have. Most of what I make will likely end up for sale in my Etsy shop.

Once I've used it all up, I'll choose something I made with the chosen fabric to give away! Here are this week's fabric choices:


Click on the image for a closer look! I've included a quarter to give you some sense of scale.

The first is a lovely pastel floral with a subtle stripe running through it. Next is a floral fabric with a muted brown background and pink flowers that pop. Third is a bright floral with an orange, red, and fuschia mix.

All you need to do to enter the giveaway is:
*Leave a comment with your VOTE on which fabric I should use up this week or which one is your favorite, and

*Include an EMAIL ADDRESS where I can contact you should you win, (US and Canada residents only, sorry!). You can do this either by

1. Making sure your email is available through your blogger profile. (See here for help with that)



2. Leaving your email address in your comment.



3. Emailing me at mllevaleur (at) hotmail (dot) com with your email address, subject line "Giveaway email"



4. OR if I know you from a forum somewhere, leave your SCREEN NAME so I know who you are!

If I can't find a way to contact you, I'll just have to pick someone else, so make sure to do one of the above! :-)

I'll choose the winner randomly from among those who voted for the winning fabric, since I'd hate to send someone an item made from a fabric they don't love!

Please submit your vote before Monday evening at midnight (central time). I'll update this post with the winning fabric on Tuesday, and then get to work! Check back at the latest on Friday to see what I've made, and of course to see who has won the giveaway and what they won!

Choose my fabric! :-)

UPDATE: And #3 is our winner! Thanks everyone, check back later this week to see what has been made and who won the giveaway!

Damask Creations and Winner

Goodness, I'm falling more and more behind! Ok, here's what I made this week.

First is the giveaway item...

a composition notebook cover! I just loved finding coordinating fabrics and ribbon, so much fun. :-)


I made another one that is up for sale here.

Next I tried out a new item, a pleated tote.



It's lined, has a magnetic closure, and one pocket inside.

I really love how this turned out! I *heart* the oversized bow on the front, and the adorable single pleat. :-)

It's up for sale in my shop here.

Next up, I made another plastic bag dispenser.

And then I made some more decoupaged letters. These are so much fun!

I made one set that saysDREAM:

and another that says SEW, with slightly larger letters:

This fabric was just lovely to work with, I almost wish I had more of it to use!

Alright, now for the winner...

AMANDA!! Congrats, I'll be contacting you shortly to get your address. :-)

Ok, I'll be posting the next fabric choices tomorrow...only 3 more weeks left in the Great Fabric Destash Challenge, so join in while you can!

Choose My DAMASK Fabric

Alright folks, I know I'm not the only damask lover out there. I had such a hard time trying to choose which ones to post!! I was almost tempted to put more than 3 options, but I figured that would just make your job harder. ;-)

So, you know the drill, tell me which fabric you like best. Whichever fabric you help me pick (I'll choose whichever gets the most votes), I'm going to have to use it ALL up...that means NO leftover scraps like I usually have. Most of what I make will likely end up for sale in my Etsy shop.

Once I've used it all up, I'll choose something I made with the chosen fabric to give away! Here are this week's fabric choices:


Click on the image for a closer look! I've included a quarter to give you some sense of scale.

You probably recognize a couple of these, the first is the green and aqua damask which I thought probably didn't get a fair chance the last time around because the color of the pic wasn't so great initially. The second is a lovely large damask with greens and aquas as well (I really wasn't trying to match colors this time, lol, it just kind of happened!) I have about one yard of it. And finally, from the orange choices quite a while ago is this aqua and orange damask, of which I have less than a yard.

All you need to do to enter the giveaway is:
*Leave a comment with your VOTE on which fabric I should use up this week or which one is your favorite, and

*Include an EMAIL ADDRESS where I can contact you should you win, (US and Canada residents only, sorry!). You can do this either by

1. Making sure your email is available through your blogger profile. (See here for help with that)



2. Leaving your email address in your comment.



3. Emailing me at mllevaleur (at) hotmail (dot) com with your email address, subject line "Giveaway email"



4. OR if I know you from a forum somewhere, leave your SCREEN NAME so I know who you are!

If I can't find a way to contact you, I'll just have to pick someone else, so make sure to do one of the above! :-)

I'll choose the winner randomly from among those who voted for the winning fabric, since I'd hate to send someone an item made from a fabric they don't love!

Please submit your vote before Saturday evening at midnight (central time). I'll update this post with the winning fabric on Sunday, and then get to work! Check back at the latest on Friday to see what I've made, and of course to see who has won the giveaway and what they won!

Choose my fabric! :-)

UPDATE: Clear winner is #2! Check back later this week to see what I've made and who won.

Toile Creations and Winner!

The toile fabric is all used up! Each time I work with toile I end up falling in love with it even more...I don't know if it's the pretty ladies in bustly dresses or what, lol, I just can't get enough.

So, for this week I made a few new items that I haven't done before, and I'm so pleased with the results. I didn't have a lot of the fabric, so I resorted to decoupage yet again to make the most of what I did have.

First, the giveaway item...

Some wooden letters that spell LOVE, decoupaged and ready to hang with pretty little bows. :-)


Once again, so simple to do, a wonderful way to use up scraps, and the result just makes me smile!


It was lots of fun trying to figure out the placement for the letters, so that you get just a peek of one particular lady or the pretty trees or the lamb.


I made two sets, so the other is up for sale on Etsy here. I think I'll definitely be making more of these letters, I find decoupage almost theraputic, I love to just switch something on Netflix and sit and paint glue on things and see the fabric bond like magic, like they were meant to be together. There is definitely a sense of instant gratification!

Ok ok, enough about that...next up are some sweet votives I made, again just using Mod Podge to glue on the fabric to some old glass votives I had sitting around.



I just love how the light shines through. :-)


These are up for sale here.

And finally, I did do a bit of sewing! I made something similar to my usual notebook covers, but instead of small notebooks I used composition notebooks, which allowed me a little more room to embellish. ;-)


Isn't the flower fun? And the ribbon was a last minute addition that kind of spontaneously happened, which I LOVE!


The great thing is, I was able to stock up on a bunch of composition notebooks from all the after school stuff being clearanced, yay for frugality!


I have two of these available in my shop here.

Alright, now for this week's winner....

If Toys Could Talk! :-) Congrats, I'll be sending you an email shortly to get your mailing address.

Thanks as always everyone, check back tomorrow for the next group of fabrics.

Choose my TOILE Fabric

So as I mentioned before, this is going to be the final month of my destash challenge. We're done with colors and color combos, and we're going to be looking at groupings of prints from now until the end. First up is one of my long time favorites, toile! I have a crazy love for toile that I simply can't explain, so naturally I have a ton of it in many different colors. It was hard enough just choosing 3 to show here!

So, you know the drill, tell me which fabric you like best. Whichever fabric you help me pick (I'll choose whichever gets the most votes), I'm going to have to use it ALL up...that means NO leftover scraps like I usually have. Most of what I make will likely end up for sale in my Etsy shop.

Once I've used it all up, I'll choose something I made with the chosen fabric to give away! Here are this week's fabric choices:


Click on the image for a closer look! I've included a quarter to give you some sense of scale.

The first is actually a very large toile on a lovely linen fabric. The second is a brown asian toile on a creamy yellow background (the colors didn't show up all the great, sorry!) And the third is pink on pink toile, I love the girliness of this one! It's what I have on my wall covering a cork board in my sewing room. :-) Not much left of it, though.

All you need to do to enter the giveaway is:
*Leave a comment with your VOTE on which fabric I should use up this week or which one is your favorite, and

*Include an EMAIL ADDRESS where I can contact you should you win, (US and Canada residents only, sorry!). You can do this either by

1. Making sure your email is available through your blogger profile. (See here for help with that)



2. Leaving your email address in your comment.



3. Emailing me at mllevaleur (at) hotmail (dot) com with your email address, subject line "Giveaway email"



4. OR if I know you from a forum somewhere, leave your SCREEN NAME so I know who you are!

If I can't find a way to contact you, I'll just have to pick someone else, so make sure to do one of the above! :-)

I'll choose the winner randomly from among those who voted for the winning fabric, since I'd hate to send someone an item made from a fabric they don't love!

Please submit your vote before Saturday evening at midnight (central time). I'll update this post with the winning fabric on Sunday, and then get to work! Check back at the latest on Friday to see what I've made, and of course to see who has won the giveaway and what they won!

Choose my fabric! :-)

UPDATE: Looks like #1 is our winner! Check back later this week to see what I've made and who has won. :-)

Pink and Green Fabric Creations and Winner

Alright, I'm not completely caught up, but definitely in a better place than I was last week, breaks are good!

You've waited long enough, so let's get right to the pink and green stuff.

This week as the giveaway prize I made...

a fabric box! This was fun to design and make, although it took me a few tries! I designed it so that it can be disassembled and packed flat. To assemble it you just slide the ribbons through the holes and tie a pretty bow. :-)



I made another that is up in my Etsy shop here.

I also made a fabric tray, also able to be packed flat with sweet ribbons on each corner that you just tie together to assemble.

This one could also be reversed, the creases would just need to be ironed out and then reversed. I made two of these, both available in my shop.

Next I made a flouncy apron

which is available here.

And then I made a notebook cover (I clearly liked this fabric combo together!)

That's available here.

Finally, I with the leftovers I made 6 ruffly tissue holders.

I just love the little peekaboo ruffles...I'm considering making a tutorial for these in the future.


Those are up for sale here.

And now for the winner of the giveaway...

Kristi!! Congrats, I'll be emailing you shortly to get your address. :-)

Thanks everyone, the next fabrics will be up tomorrow!