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Today’s giveaway sponsor is Patty Young of Modkid. Patty is a textile designer, author and pattern designer. Patty along with her husband, Jon, also owns and operates MODKID LLC and serves in the role of Lead Designer. MODKID, LLC specializes in high quality boutique-style sewing patterns which include children’s clothes, doll outfits, purses and other assorted accessories and home furnishings. Her patterns are unique, fresh and timeless.
Patty is generously offering PDFs of four of her patterns: Nassau Beach Bag, Sun and Surf Tote, Lunch Bag, and Jewelry Roll to one winner.
The Nassau Beach Bag is large and sturdy enough to hold two rolled up beach towels and a change of clothes. It also has a couple of interior pockets, perfect for storing your sunblock and shades. A pair of braided fabric straps with large decorative bows gives this bag extra flair. Take it to the beach, a picnic, swim lessons or on vacation. Sewn up in Patty’s Textured Basics fabric collection, it will look super fresh and Summery!
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I’d love to be taught by Nancy Zieman! I love the bags she makes on her show.
I’d actually love to get them from my grandmothers. I wasn’t old enough to be trusted with scissors when one passed away, and the other one tried to teach me, but I wasn’t interested with what she had to say, and I regret that.
I would love to have Jenny Doan pay me a visit and help me sew a fabulous quilt!
Would love to learn from my mom. That woman could make anything!!
Thanks for the chance to win!!
I would have one of the local quilters demonstrate and guide me how to quilt well with a home sewing machine. [And my next choice would be to find someone who instinctively understands how to select fabrics for home projects… teach me the ins and outs of color/print combining for effect.]
Ooh, so many wonderful sewers out there! If my Mom was still living, I would spend another day sewing with her. It would be fun to be able to take a class with you learning even more professional looking techniques for zippers and how to do rivets. I want to learn to add rivets to my bags.
I would love to learn some FMQ by anyone who knows. Thanks
I would love to have Jeni Baker come to my sewing room and teach me how to pull fabrics from my stash to coordinate on a project. I have serious color issues. Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love to have someone from Wild Ginger drop by and talk fit. I use their software to draft clothing patterns and I love it!
Hmmm….fun to dream of this actually happening! If I had a time travel machine, I think I would choose a sewist who made gowns for Queen Elizabeth I!
I would love to learn free-motion quilting. So maybe Natalia Bonner. I have her book, but I need more help and more practice.
It would be Bonnie Hunter so I could use up all my scraps
Nicole Mallalieu would move into my house for a month and teach me how to design and sew fab-u-lous handbags.
I would love to be taught the knowledge that both my grandmothers had. They were both amazingly talented ladies! They were both in the National Embroidery Guild, could knit and crochet beautiful items, could take almost any fabric and turn it into a well tailored garment, and so many other things. Sadly, by the time I was old enough to be interested in the skills that they both possessed, I lived many, many miles away and gleaning all that information was impossible. Now they are both gone and so is their knowledge. 🙁 Neither of them would have been considered “modern” or even considered that fmq on a domestic machine was feasible, but can you imagine the knowledge that either one had in their 90+ years life?!
i have taught my grand daughter
I wish my grandma could teach me how to sew clothes. The ones she made for my mom and aunties were fantastic!
Elizabeth Hartman to help me with colour choice!!
I would pick Angela Walters teaching some FMQ
I would also pick Angela Walters! OMG, her free-motion quilting is stunning!
Famous person? Sandra Betzina.
Hmmm I think I would have Eleanor Burns pop round to teach me a quilt technique or two!
I would choose a lesson in FMQ by someone who really knows it and can teach well.
I’d pick Angela Walters for a FMQ lesson.
Maybe you could show me how to get perfect piping on a pocket ;o)
I’d choose Jenny Doan-she makes things look easy. I have pieced a top and now need to learn how to machine quilt it!
I would love to have my great grandmother here to teach me hand quilting !!
Hmmm……it would have to be someone who could help get me better acquainted with quilting…..maybe Pat Sloan….she’s so nice and full of all kinds of great info!
I would have YOU (Sara Lawson) come into my home and show me everything you know about making my own binding and applying it to a quilt.
I would love to be taught FMQ by Angela Walters.
I would love to have Leah Day teach me FMQ! Thanks
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Would love to learn fmq from Natalia Bonner or Angela Walters!
I want to learn garment sewing for myself so I would like a lesson from Sew Charleston or Made by Rae.
I think I would have them teach me draping or tailoring.
Gail doane is my favorite teacher. I have taken classes with her about 4 times. Her skills are amazing and she’s so nice. I would love for gail to give me a private class!
so hard to pick, but I’d give anything to sit and sew with my Aunt Pat
Would love to have Jenny Doan come..& teach me all the cool quilts she makes! 🙂 Pat Sloan would be fun too..wishe SHE was my neighbor! 🙂
I love watching Jenny Doan’s videos. She seems like a warm and very down to earth person. I would love to make a quilt with her.
I’d love someone to come teach me draping and fitting with sewing…
While I’ve come a long way with my FMQ and I’m pretty good at it on my domestic, I think there is always room to learn more….I’ve def got to pick Leah Day! I found her blog just after she started it up and never knew there were others out there that did that stuff on a domestic until just recently….but, being as she is only 45 minutes from me, there’s a chance it COULD happen…plus, she seems pretty cool and well rounded too, jack of all trades kinda like myself, so, I’d def pick her.
Nancy Zeiman . Knit sewing
A sewing machine expert to teach me how to use my dusty treadle and avocado Kenmore to their full effects!
I would love to get some tips and techniques from Nicole Mailleau.
Noodlehead, and her divided basket!! Want one of those so bad….
free motion quilting from one of my local quilt shop experts.
I would pick Nancy Zieman. Any topic she wants but her bags are awesome.
I think Sara can come for coffee and a chat if she gets around to teaching me more stuff that is the bonus;-)
Candy Glendening would be my first choice for a private FMQ lesson.
I’d like to have Jenny Doan from the Missouri Star Quilt Co. come and show me some quilting. She is so entertaining and makes it all look so easy.
This is a tough one! Would you come over and make bags with me? Thanks for the fun!
I am shy and self-conscious about my sewing, so I would probably have an anxiety attack!! But what I would really love to learn about is interfacing with Sara Lawson, because I love making bags (obviously!!)
I don’t care who it would be, I would just like to have someone teach me free motion quilting.
Every person who has ever told me its just to hard to sew.
Angela Walters teaching longarm quilting.
I think I’d like to have someone come teach me FMQ as I’m too scared to try.
I would love to have Jenny Doan come and teach me how to quilt. I’m terrified of the the light/dark and matching fabric’s to make a quilt. I want to try one so bad but it would take me forever to pick fabric and I would probably have a meltdown. Now, sewing up bags, that’s a different story.