Lymetastic Giveaway

YAY a giveaway. I feel like it has been forever since I did a giveaway. This month's giveaway item is the fantastic clutch I made for the Turn the Corner Gala. It was a big hit, everyone loved it. Now it can be yours!!!

About the clutch... The outer fabric is a silky, shiny black. The fabric flowers are handmade. The sequined ribbon adds a lot of fun to the design. The inner lining is a green paisley print. The clutch closes with a magnetic snap. Large enough for your phone and the essentials!

Dates
Entries will be recorded from Monday January 17th through Sunday January 23rd. The winner will be announced on Monday January 24th.

How to Enter 

1. On the blog- Every comment left on this blog between now and the 24th will count as one entry. You may enter as many times as you like.
2. On the blog- Follow the blog for an extra entry (see sidebar).
3. Twitter- Tweet about this giveaway to your followers, be sure to include @upcycledbyash in the tweet so I know you tweeted. 
4. Facebook- "like" the Upcycled by Ash FB Page and leave a comment on the wall.
5. Facebook- Post about the giveaway on Facebook. Be sure to include @Upcycled by Ash in the post so I know you did it.

You may enter every day and as many time as you like. The more you comment and post, the more likely you are to win! All entries will be recorded and assigned a number, I will use an online random number generator to determine the winner.

There are buttons at the bottom of this post right above the comments to automatically post on your twitter and facebook profiles. USE THEM!

Grrr, shiny material is so hard to photograph!

Check out these Lymetastic chicks!

My Little Flower Gardern - linked tutorials

My little flower garden

Over the past two three days my mother-in-law and I have been making a dress for me to wear the Turn the Corner Gala I am attending in New York this November. OK, she has been making the dress. Despite the fact I made my wedding dress, I have a little phobia of making clothing. My mother-in-law on the other hand grew up in Holland and learned all about how to be a good wife in school; cooking, sewing, house cleaning, ironing... You should see her mend a sweater!

I have defaulted myself to making the fabric flowers to go on the dress and clutch. (Of course I am making a special bag for the fancy shindig!) My mother-in-law thinks the flowers are the hard part. She can't believe that I can do all these complicated things but I struggle to sew on a button.

These are the three flowers I have made so far, well the successes anyway. I have included the links to the tutorials I used for inspiration. I don't tend to follow any directions exactly so what I've created and what the tutorial teaches may not be the same. For example I totally dug the burned edges from the Mrs. Priss tutorial so I burned all the edges on my flowers.

Floppy Flower

I sort of followed this tutorial from Wise Craft Fall 2010. I didn't actually print out the templates or assemble it at all in the same way... I guess the only thing I did the same was fold the "petals" in half.
http://blairpeter.typepad.com/weblog/2006/03/fabric_flowers.html

Delicate Flower

I loved the flowers on the Mrs Priss Anthropologie Bonheur Necklace! I might need to buy the right fabric and actually try the necklace next.
http://mrspriss.com/2010/01/12/anthropologie-bonheur-necklace-tutorial/

Ribbon Flower 

This is a pretty typical and easy to make flower. It turned out great! I think this will be the flower I put on the belt of my dress!
http://sewing.craftgossip.com/tutorial-frayed-fabric-flower-brooch/2009/03/17/





To find flower tutorial, there are a ton of them, I browse through Google images for How to Make Fabric Flowers. When I see something I like I click and then follow the link to the actual website/blog with the tutorial. Not all the images end up linking to tutorials but a large percentage of them do.