Welcome to Giveaway Day. A little background: Sew Mama Sew sponsors a “Blog Giveaway Day” in May every year. To participate, you sign up, your name is added to a long list of other blogs who are also participating and then you post your giveaway. At the end of the week, winners are chosen and prizes are awarded. Visit Sew Mama Sew to see the complete list and enter to win all kinds of groovy stuff.
MY GIVEAWAY:
Prize Number One is one of my Little Frame Loom kits in cherry red.
It is a simple weaving loom which is great for small projects and is easy to learn for kids and beginners. You can use a wide variety of materials for weaving – yarn, recycled plastic, paper, novelty fibers.
The kit includes:
• 7 x 5 ¼ inch frame loom
• beater comb for packing the rows of weaving together
• needle-style shuttles in 2 lengths
• instructions with color diagrams & photos, including two ways to warp and finish your project
• link to additional video instructions
I designed the loom and tools and have them laser cut for me from acrylic plastic.Prize Number Two is a tiny quilting hoop ornament in pink and green “flying geese” triangles. The bamboo hoop is just an inch across and the fabric is digitally printed and then hand quilted with some tiny stitches. I also designed these hoops and have them laser cut from bamboo plywood.
(The links above are to similar items in my etsy shop if you want to see more details or photos.)
HOW TO ENTER:
- Leave a comment on this post and answer the following question: Which would you most like to learn how to do: weaving or quilting? Why?
- Be sure to include your email address so I can contact you when you win. (If you put it in the box, it won’t be displayed to the public.) Yes, I will ship internationally.
- Contest will be open through May 25.
- Please don’t worry if your comment doesn’t show up immediately. I have to approve it first and I will do that as often as I can throughout the day. :)
Contest is now closed. Thank you!
I have done a little quilting but I would love to learn to weave as it looks like so much fun!
Thank you for the generous giveaway!
I’d most like to learn how to weave; I can already sew, so weaving would be a brand new skill for me. I also don’t tend to get on very well with yarn crafts like knitting and crochet, so it might be another way in for me!
I know both of them. Quilting still do it, and weaving oh my god, I was a little girl then, I know I loved it and even let my Grannie finishing it as a little bag with a zipper. You’re frame is so so great, will have to go look at you’re shop. It’s something that my boy will love, he is creative and of course the big sister would love it too. You rock girl, a beautiful design.
kknow quilting would love weaving! thank you!
I have two friends who have been learning how to weave their own obi’s for their kimonos. They presented me with some darling coasters they wove themselves recently and I was smitten! I would enjoy winning your mini weaving loom and trying my hand at weaving myself. What fun! Thanks for the chance and please feel free to come and join my giveaway too!
I think I’d like to try weaving. Quilting would still be interesting to learn but something about weaving draws me more.
I’d like to learn both, but probably will tackle quilting first, since I already have what I need. However, I’d love to win the loom so my kids and I can learn the basics together. Thanks!
Hi Beka! I would most love to learn weaving because I haven’t done it since I was at school :)
I would most like to learn how to weave. It is something I have thought would grow at a satisfying rate and create an interesting fabric. I remember doing this as a child in primary school when I was about 7 or 8 years old and really enjoyed it. I think it has great recyling possibilities too. I have just started knitting and can already see that I will end up with so many yarn scraps. I see weaving as a great way to use those scraps rather than binning them.
I’m a mediocre quilter and mediocre weaver! I’d probably more like to focus on quilting, as my mother’s gone weaving-crazy and is no longer quilting. But weaving with a big loom, not just a rigid heddle loom, and getting fancy twill patterns and such would be fun. I like math.
I would love to learn how to weave. When I was young, my mom gave me a little plastic loom. I remember spending hours trying to make a sweater…and ending up with something more like a giant washcloth.
I still remember that loom fondly, though.
Thank you for the chance!
i’d love a chance to win! i’d like to learn how to weave, since i’m already a quilter :) but of course, there’s always more to learn!
I love the loom! I’m learning to quilt now. In fact I’m giving away a doll quilt on my blog. I really enjoy watching the pieces come together to form a beautiful ‘picture’. I would love to learn to weave too (never tried it). Actually, there are so many handcrafts out there that I want to learn. :) Thank you for participating in the giveaway. Blessings!
Since I am already learning how to quilt, I feel I have to answer that I’d like to learn weaving. It’s always intrigued me and I know my son and daughter would enjoy it as well. Creating designs and then translating them to the woven project, is right up their alley.
Hi! Love your giveaway!
I never thought about weaving before until I saw this loom. That’s something new that I would like to try. Thanks!
what a great giveaway!! i already quilt, so i’m intrigued by your frame loom – looks like fun!
I would love to learn how to weave since I already know how to quilt.
I remember using a loom many years ago for a girl scout project and would love to learn how to use one.
Lovely giveaway. I’d love to learn to weave on a loom!
Ooooh! I’d love to learn to weave. My mother did a lot of weaving growing up and I think it’s about time I learned too!
I know how to do some basic weaving and quilting. But I am entering this for my daughter who would love to weave. She loves doing crafts that focus her mind while she is doing something.
Thank you for the chance to enter your giveaway.
I love quilting, it helps me express myself. :) I love your ornament!
What a lovely loom! i bought a table loom a few months ago and I’m working up the courage to dive into this brach of crafting!
thanks for sharing
I’d love to try weaving! My stepmother is a serious professional weaver (her own business and all), but she lives thousands of miles from me. If she didn’t I’d be picking her brain all the time :). Plus, that loom looks like it would be great to try out with my daughter; she loves to play with my scraps while I’m sewing, and I bet she’d love to try weaving them.
I have never weaved before it looks like fun to learn i would love to sew with something I weaved.
I know how to quilt but this weaving really took my eye. I also have 4 young granddaughters that would love to give this a try. Thank you for the chance to win! Cindy
Hello from Frederick, MD (between Gettysburg, Baltimore, and Washington DC) My answer is weaving :) I think there is more info on the internet about quilting than weaving, so any additional info on weaving is wonderful!! I’ve watched the weavers at re-enactments and they are some of the most relaxed people, even with the canonball reinactments occuring behind them on the hour :)
I would enjoy learning to weave I think, because i already know the basics of quilting and I am a member of a fiber guild and ALL the other ladies weave. I would like to share in that with them.
I would choose weaving, for sure! My husband’s family name is based on their trade of weaving. They used to make beautiful tapestries for the Royals in England. I would love to learn how to keep up with the family traditions. :) Maybe weave the family tartan?
I would LOVE to learn how to weave on a loom! I already love sewing but have never tried weaving. It looks like it would be fun to try and to teach my neice – she would love that! :)
Jenny
I would choose weaving – haven’t done it since we used to weave potholders and bracelets in boarding school on two different kinds of loom, of course! Your little loom looks so cool – am dying to see it for myself!
I’d love to learn to weave (and so would my kids) & it would be great to use up all the ends-of-balls of yarn from knitting projects. What a great giveaway, thanks for the chance.
Lovely!
I can quilt, but would love to know more about weaving!
I’d love to learn how to weave! I’ve always been drawn to completed woven projects but never had the opportunity to learn how to do it! This would definitely be a huge help! Then I could start making things for my newborn daughter!
I’m totally freaking out here because I’ve been talking to a friend about getting my hands on one of those little weaving looms.
Oh, these are great! I’d really, really, really love to learn weaving! Quilting I’ve been messing round with for a little while. ;) Thank you for taking part in Giveaway Day and offering such cool goodies!
Weaving! I haven’t used a loom since I was a kid, but I recently scored a kid’s Harrisville Easy Weaver and Lap Loom on my local Freecycle list. I’m excited to play with them this summer. Oh, and the kids can play, too.
Well, I already know how to quilt, so I would LOVE to learn how to weave! I am learning how to spin, so weaving seems like a a natural progression in my fiber arts love affair. Now if I could only own my own sheep…..LOL!!
Currently I am trying to better my quilting skills, but I love learning new things so I’d love to try weaving. I always thought it sounded so cozy :)
I would really like to learn both, but weaving would be awesome!
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I would love to learn how to weave. I think it would also be something my 7-year-old would love to learn.
How clever! I would love to try my hand at weaving, esp with recycled plastics!
Thank you for your generosity.
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Both! I would love to learn to weave because I spin my own yarn and I could make some really cool projects. I also want to learn quilting because I have made a mini quilt but have not quilted it yet.
redzshadow at gmail dot com
I’d love to learn how to weave. I know how to make simple quilts already. I’d love to e able to weave my own cloth.
limor477 at aol dot com
I would love to learn to weave. I guess my great great grandfather was a fairly famous weaver and made some gorgeous blankets. I would be awesome to learn!
I would love to learn how to weave!
reeve at reevemusic dot com
Weaving. In India, we all grew up seeing Mahatma Gandhi’s charka (loom) in our history books and all over!. The charka, till date, is a symbol of attaining freedom via peaceful methods. Now his spinning wheels seems quite complicated to even give it a try, but this weaving loom sounds terrific.
Thanks for hosting this giveaway.
I want to learn quilting. I actually already know a little, but I would love to learn to do a pebble quilt, hand quilting, and actual designs. I just free motion quilt all of mine right now!!
Such a cute giveaway!!
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I’ve done a little bit of both. I took a loom weaving class probably 8 years ago and made a beautiful scarf for my MIL. I’ve also done bead looms. And I’ve made 2 baby quilts. I could use instruction in both though!!! This little loom is great and I would love to have it. Thanks for the opportunity!
I think I’d like to get better at quilting. I’ve done a little dabbling in it, but just don’t have the attention to detail needed. Weaving is super interesting to me too though – I think if I won, I’d want the loom.