Random Scrap Bag Challenge Voter Winner!

How are your weekends going?  Nearly gone?  Horrid isn’t it!?!  …
One of you randomly picked voters from the Japanese Scrap Bag Challenge might just have a little postpone Monday happy dance, as I will be sending you a little scrap bag of my own:
So, Congratulations to:

Jan at Isisjem, who commented:

"Hadley’s School tags should win because they are different but useful to many people and applications.
Eilidh’s diamond scrappy stocking should win because it looks so fine and has a lovely story to go with it.
Ali of VeryBerry boy and girl bootees are just too darn cute not to win. I actually want some adult slippers just like them. "

.. couldn’t agree more Jan, and I love that you picked the first three in reverse order!  Kismet.
Please email me your address details and I’ll get a little something in the post to you …

In other exciting news … have you read this?  Yes! Lynne@Lily’s has joined the Fat Quarterly team! That’s like Inspiration Overload! … Congratulations Lynne! 

What larks, Pip!

Ta-Ta-Ta TaTaTa Taaaaaaaa! Japanese Scrap Bag Challenge Winner!

Months of crafting and snapping and posting and commenting are over. 

The votes are in and have been counted.  I was absolutely meticulous about this and discarded a few votes that had been entered more than once and took the total over three ... In kindness, let’s say that was just over enthusiasm on the part of some voters … no vote fixing here, my friends … oh no ...



The Japanese Scrap Bag Challenge gauntlet was enthusiastically and creatively taken up by The Magnificent Nine:

A. Hadley - school tags

B. Emily - sandwich bag

C. Bianca - japanophile muff

D. Beth - Pleat front Sorbetto top

E. Alli - eating out pouch

F. Ella - belly dancing corset and bra trim

G. Sarah - tic tac toe & puzzle

H. Eilidh - diamond scrappy stocking

I. Ali VeryBerry - boy & girl bootees

Only one couple have danced their way to earn the right to lift the mirrorball.  (Sorry, seem to be channelling Strictly …)



Goodness me! It was a close run thing … A total of 372 votes !!

It was vay vay exciting checking the spreadsheet to see how things were going - every day the Top 3 changed!

So, in customary style, let’s go in reverse order ….


In third place, with 52 votes …..

Hadley from FlyingBlindOnARocketCycle and her tremendtastic tags!

In 2nd Place, with 55 votes:

Eilidh’s divine scraptastic diamond stocking!

And the Winner, with a whopping 81 votes …

Ali at VeryBerryHandmade’s Bootiliciously Scrappy Baby Bootees!

YAY!!

Congratulations Ali! - you get to wear the crown and sash as 2011 Eternal Pings Scrap Bag Challenge Queen ...  you will be receiving a year’s subscription to the Eternal Maker’s Japanese Swatch Club. 




Thank you so so much to everyone who took part with such wonderful enthusiasm and creativity.  You’re all winners …. man …. Thank you too to Anna at The Eternal Maker for suggesting and sponsoring the challenge!  You all rock!

Tomorrow I’ll announce my voter giveaway winner, but for today, let’s just drool over those bootees again … after all, that’s exactly what the babies will be doing! Bwahaha!

yum!

Eternal Maker - Japanese Scrap Bag Challenge - Final Votes Please …

OK lovely people … if you haven’t voted yet … now is your last chance … I’m extending this until midnight THURSDAY (UK time) because I know a few people who want to vote but maybe are a little jet lagged from Quilt Market :)

To sum up, these are our wonderful entries:


and you can vote here
The winner will receive a year’s subscription to Eternal Maker’s Japanese Swatch Club
The entries are awesome [a word I can type but can’t actually say because I’m a Brit and I find it tricky]

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In other, related, news … have you seen the new Echino Fall 2011 line? … S W O O N …  here are a few pics … all available from the Eternal Maker  …

What I love about Echino is that you can obsess and build a stash over time and it will always work well together … genius!
So, go vote, please … your blogfriends need you!
Or go buy, please … your local UK fabric store needs you too!

Vote for your Fabbest Favourite - Eternal Maker Japanese Scrap Bag Challenge -

Hoorah!  It’s time to start voting for your fave Japanese Scrap Bag Challenge project!

Voting will run for a week, closing at midnight UK time Wednesday 2nd November and couldn’t be simpler - you can either vote below using the embedded form or go here … I’ll be posting the link during the week too …

Here’s a little visual reminder of all the wonderfulness …

and here’s where you get to vote: 

Happy Voting! 

And a big big thank you to The Eternal Maker  and to all the brilliant Scrap Bag Challengees for taking part … Good Luck!!