Hello everyone!

So we’re back again today with yet more sponsors for our charity raffle for Sew Up North.

As I’m sure you know, the event has currently sold out and we do have a waiting list for tickets; you need a ticket if you want to join us at the final venue for the fabric swap and raffle (and more chatting!) thanks to health and safety requirements to please, please do let us know if you have a ticket but your plans change.

Anyway, on to more good stuff!

So, from our next round of amazing sponsors, we have the following goodies being added to the prize pool and your day!

I’m sure you’re all well aware of Love Sewing and its fantastic content for sewists, whether you be a dressmaker or a quilter. Amy and the team have generously donated 4 books to the prize pool, including the fab new book from Wendy Ward (OK, I’m biased, I was on the blog tour where i made the Peak T-shirt Dress but it genuinely is a great book), A Beginner’s Guide To Sewing With Knitted Fabrics. There’s also a copy of each of Complete Guide to Dressmaking, First Time Garment Fitting and Handmade Living.

Fabricate is a lovely little independent shop based in Roberttown, not too far from Ikea if you’re heading that way. You can read all about them in the current issue of Love Sewing. As well as a great range of fabrics, patterns and haberdashery, they run a range of courses and Philippa has donated a place on a workshop of the winner’s choice to the prize pool.

Beyond Measure is a wonderful online shop stocking all kinds of beautiful goodies, be it japanese embroidery needles, leather scissor cases, hand turned wooden pin cushions or other such fabulousness. Grace has once again kindly supported us and has donated a £20 voucher for her online shop to the pool.

Girl Charlee specialise in stretchy fabrics of all kinds. Whether you’re after lovely french terry, ponte roma, spandex or single jersey, they stock a wide range of plains and distinct prints. Mark and the team have donated a £25 gift card to the prize pool and will also be offering a 15% discount to attendees: details will be included in the email that will be sent out to ticket holders prior to the event.

Like Sew Amazing  is a new online fabric and haberdashery store run by Sarah, who stocks a carefully curated range of fabrics, haberdashery and patterns. As a long time blogger and sewist herself, Sarah has an eye for fabrics that you really want to sew with. She has kindly donated a £25 voucher for her site to the pool.

So there you have it! Lots more reasons to save a few pennies for the raffle. Just for info, tickets will be on sale on the day for £1 each, so save a few coins when you’re shopping!

Sal xx

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Can you believe it?!! Sew Up North is happening tomorrow?!!

When we both decided to organise our own “Up North” meeting…. we never of thought it would turn out to be quite popular! We must be doing something right!!

Just a quick Post as we have some more lovely Raffle Prizes!!

The ever so awesome Sewing World Magazine has donated another Prize to the Raffle!!! Say what?!!

It’s a 12 month Magazine Subscription to their magazine which is worth a whopping £60.00!!

If you are attending tomorrow, you’ll be crazy to buy any tickets from the vast array of prizes that are on offer!!

Here’s a quick list:

£20 Gift Voucher from B and M Fabrics

£20 voucher from Beyond Measure

£30 Voucher from Cotton Reel Studio

Sew Caroline Weekend Style Book, Fabric and trim From Elenaor aka nelandnora 

A beautiful 2m length of fabric and a £15 voucher from Fabbadashery

Oh Sew Quaint Macaroon Pattern Weights from Fabricate

2m of any Fabric from Girl Charlee

Bundle of magazines from Love Sewing Magazine

£200 Fabric Bundle from Minervacrafts

Pair of beautiful little tins, packed with sewing goodies like threads, pins, snip scissors, needles, pin cushion from School of Sew

A Mystery Bundle from Sew Crafty Shop

Book and Fat Quarter Bundle and 12 Month Subscription from Sewing World Magazine.

£30 Voucher from Sewisfaction

5 pdf patterns of the winner’s choice from Sew Over It

2 pdf patterns of the winner’s choice from Tilly and The Buttons

A massive 15 Raffle prizes on offer here all in the Aid of The Yorkshire Air Ambulance

So we hope you are all ready for tomorrow then

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Hi there!

It’s time for another Sew Up North sponsor update.  We’ve had some incredible prizes so far I think (check here for the full list) but we aren’t finished yet!

I do an awful lot of my fabric shopping online, Don’t we all?! But it’s great when a good, local(to becca) bricks and mortar shop where I can go and stroke the fabric.  I think a lack of these types of shops in the past has been one of the main things that stopped me being passionate about sewing earlier in life.

Becca was thrilled to hear about Fabricate opening in Roberttown, a whole 5 minutes from her mum’s house…. wish I had Sewing Shops round me!!!  Fabricate is a small but perfectly formed shop housing a beautiful collection of fabrics, everything from pretty cottons through organic and Art Gallery jerseys to denims and viscose.  There are also lots of tempting haberdashery items such as Merchant and Mills goodies, patterns by the likes of Tilly and the Buttons and Sew Over It and kits by Clothkits.  And for good measure, they run a wide range of workshops on site in their bright, lovely studio (there was one running when Becca called in today and she was distinctly jealous!)

They also stock the fab Oh Sew Quaint pattern weights and Phillipa has very kindly donated a set of the macarons to our raffle prize.  Yay!!!

Obviously that will require me or Becca not to pinch them before then….. If you want more detail on them, I’ve reviewed the similar Fondant Fancies version earlier this year….yeah I’m one lucky so and so!! They would compliment my Fondant Fancies!!

We’ve also got some postcards with a discount code on for the goody bags, so you could enjoy 15% off in the shop – well worth the trip. And if you’re like Becca and her Daughter Katie, you could always pop into Ikea for lunch afterwards! Well why not, I love Swedish Meatballs!! The Food of course….not something else Hahahaha!

Thank you Philippa, you’re awesome!

Sal x

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