I am thrilled to announce our wonderful giveaway for our Lunch Bags! book. Our fabulous friends at Free Spirit/Westminster Fibers have sent us some of their amazing cotton laminates to give away. These cotton laminates are food safe and wipeable, so they are perfect for making the sandwich wraps, snack bags and lunch bags in our book.
We will give five lucky winners a fabric bundle containing one 1 yard cut, and three ½ yard cuts of cotton laminates from the fabric lines of Amy Butler, Heather Bailey, Anna Maria Horner, and Kaffe Fassett. This is enough fabric to line one lunch bag and three sandwich wraps or snack bags.
laminated cotton fabric bundles
If you haven’t felt these laminates yet, I will tell you that the hand on them is so light. Check out this wonderful blog post from the talented and charming Kathy Mack of Pink Chalk Studio that discusses how to sew with laminates. They are nothing like the stiffer oilcloth you may have encountered as tablecloths at ethnic restaurants. And did I mention that these laminated cottons are food safe? That means that they are BPA free. Instead, these cottons are laminated with a wipe-clean, food safe vinyl and who can resist these yummy patterns?
To be in the running for the Lunch Bags! giveaway, leave a comment at the end of this post telling us a bit about your current or recently completed sewing project. Comments will be closed at 9am PST on Monday, July 12th, 2010 and the five winners will be announced later that day.
Extra comment entries are available to you if you want to maximize your chances at being the giveaway winner! If you take one or more of the actions listed below, enter an extra comment for each, and in that comment tell us what you did and link to the proof where that’s possible.
- Subscribe to our Email Newsletter
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What a darling project and delicious fabrics…
Hope I win this one!!
Love the idea of the lunch bags. I teach at a couple of LQSs and at each I have a “Bag Lady Club” where we make a different bag each month. Sounds like a book I need to have. Currently I am working on class samples for the 4th quarter of 2010 and, as always having a good time.
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Pati Cook
Phoenix AZ
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I just finished making a pair of Easy Fit pants for my sister’s birthday. I would love to sew with the new laminated cottons. Thanks!
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Can’t wait to try out the patterns in this book and those fabulous fabrics.
I just finished quilt for a housewarming gift for my sister and her husband. I used a Cherry House Quilts pattern called “Foreign Currency” and used cool/dark colours. Thanks for the giveaway!
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what a great give away! I am very excited about this one.
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wonderful giveaway !! I’m currently working on new throw pillows.
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This looks like a great practical, environmentally sensitive idea.
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Just completed 3 beachbags and a king size quilt–just because I could’nt resist the fabric. Onward to a guild challange
wonderful fabrics and the lunch bags book looks really interesting. I also think these fabrics would be perfect for outdoor pillows. Really a nice way to brighten up outside gardens. My current projects are working on a logcabin in red/white/blue for my son while trying to start a wool crazy wall quilt.
I would definitely try making a basic bag/purse pattern using this laminate fabric…I live in the Northwest and waterproof is a definite plus for bags! Since I’m not into the latest HUGE totes I keep seeing patterns for, I’d bet there is a lunch bag or two in there that could easily pass for a purse.
Thanks for a great giveaway!
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Well, right now I am finishing a scrappy quilt I made as I went along from the bits left over from bag and apron projects.
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Great giveaway! Please count me in! I’m currently working five bags.
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My most recent project(s) were twin sized quilts for the three grandchildren that graduated from high school this month. Now I’m ready for something for ME. Kathie L in Allentown
I’m currently working on a fun sketch of the Eiffel Tower using a special piecing technique! Love working with “oil cloth”, here’s a good hint to making sewing oil cloth easier – invest in a Teflon foot – makes sewing the oil cloth a breeze!
I’ve seen a lunch bag tute made from vintage sheets that she used iron on vinyl which I can’t find anywhere. THese new fabrics will make the process a breeze!
I finished two nursing covers and matching burp cloths for recent baby showers. I have curtains and hemming a bridesmaid gown for one of my girls to do this week. I so want to make a few purses and I have another grandbaby coming that needs a quilt!
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Some of these bags are almost too nice just for lunch! I am a subscriber!
and I am gonna tweet this giveaway now!
Love the new Lunch Bags book and the fabrics are just awesome. I hope i am one of the 5 lucky winners!!
Lately, I have finished a baby quilt, made a purse, made a coin bag, made a naptime mat, made a frog and I’m quilting a queen sized quilt in my sewing machine when I don’t have another project going.
I am in the midst of several sewing projects: 1) sewing a pencil skirt for the second time 2) finishing up an Ocean Waves type quilt that has over 1200 pieces (the most complex quilt I’ve ever made!) 3) sewing a blouse with buttons for the first time. My usual vinyl lunch box has disappeared into thin air. I can’t find it anywhere for the last two months so a fabric lunch bag may be the perfect solution!
Compleated two “college quilts” for my great grandsons heading off from home. I also made hot pads from leftover blocks to give away at my family reunion. They were well appreciated.
I love all your books and projects. The only things is finding time to do it all. I would love to win this prize and make some great lunch bags. All my quilting frineds have nice bags and I use recycled paper bags when we meet once a week. I also signed up for your newsletter which I am looking forward to getting. Thanks so much for this offering.
What a cracking idea! It never occured to me to make natty bags especially for lunches…by the cover example though, they might look really smart as a genuine, hand bag!
I just finished a wall hanging called Carnival Star designed by Susan Cleveland. I made it with Cherrywood fabrics, and I’m very happy with it. I would love to make a lunchbag with the laminated fabrics. All the designers of the fabrics have fabrics that I drool over.
I have so many things I could do with those gorgeous fabrics! Can’t wait to see who wins!
My current sewing projects are a few summer skirts that I can wear in this heat and humidity here in Missouri!
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Well, let’s see… last night I finished sewing myself a dress, today I made a wedding card using fabric, and tonight I’ll be making some quilt blocks. I’m also crocheting some african flower blocks and sewing up some hexagons!
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This looks like a great book. I joined your newsletter. I just finished making 8 quilts to donate to various charity groups and am looking for some new projects to undertake.
I am working on a baby blanket for a friend. The quilt sandwhich is sitting behind me waiting for me to quilt it
Once I do that I am starting another baby quilt for my cousins little baby boy.
Very fun looking book I am subscribed to the email.
Laminates and oil cloths look fun to work with. Working on a threadpainting right now.
Wonderful book and fabric giveaway! Would enjoy winning this one and sewing. Pink Chalk has wonderful fabric, service, and information. I’m glad that you mention Ms. Mack’s tutorial on laminates. Thanks.
I could use a new lunch bag and those fabrics would make a nice one. Right now I deciding want to piece/quilt next a lunch bag would be nice.
Oooh gorgeous!! My current project is pillowcases for my son from electric guitar fabric
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I made arani aranzo stuffed animals from japan w/felt fabric.
I am currently working on a quilt for my newest granddaughter who will arrive in August. I would love to win this fabric and be able to use it for myself.
Unfortunately, my latest project is packing up my fabric (and everything else) in preparation for a move. I’d love to make a new lunch bag for a new job after I settle into my new home.
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I would love to win these new fabrics (even if I don’t I’m definitely going to get the lunch bag book and some laminates!) I just finished a couple of charm square quilts. So much fun to make!
These fabrics would be perfect for a lot of projects. I need a new lunch bag. Hope I’m a winner.
Forgot to mention @StashBooks for the laminated fabric giveaway. .
I am busy making pillowcases and shopping bags for Christmas presents – and am looking for other things…these lunch bags would be PERFECT!
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I am always doing several things at one time but right now I am making a quilt for my aunt’s 90th birthday. I would love to win a copy of Lunch Bags they would make great gifts.
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Great book ! & super giveaway !
Currently finishing a baby quilt in
very bright colors & lots of polka dots…
very fun !
Working on cleaning out my sewing and craft room. Just finished making bookplates for a memorial gift for my church.
I last project was a skirt I made to wear to work. It is very comfortable.
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I just finished making chalk cloth placemats, check them out on my blog at
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What a great prize and lunch bag set of designs- I love the beautiful fabrics in the giveaway.
I have just finished a twin sized trip around the world quilt. I am a teacher and I am looking forward to having some quilting time this summer.
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Anna
I am working on completing some small stitchery projects. I make them for fun and then give them away as gifts. Great for the summer.
Debbie
What a fun book. Christmas gifts, here I come. and fabric too.
WOW
I just completed a tumbler quilt out of some very bright fabric and it turned out pretty cute.
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I’m working on the Cherri House quilt Welcome Spring at Moda Bake Shop using a Sanae Oz jelly roll and ivory Kona cotton. I’m loving how it’s turning out!
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I just finished making a small travel bag (with two zippers! and mesh pockets) for my husband for our thirteenth anniversary – the traditional gift is textiles, so I was excited about that!
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Currently I’m working on a baby quilt and an applique wall quilt. The babvy quilt is going to a friend’s friend whou will have a baby boy in July, and the wall quilt is for our younger daughter.
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Happy Days.
Bev.xoxo
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Happy days.
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I have just finished making a zig-zag bag. Days of sewing. All for my sister!!!!
Happy days.
Bev.xoxo
p.s. a great prize and interesting to hear that the material is a bit more enviromentally friendly than what was available before.
I would love to feel these laminated fabrics – I haven´t seen them here in Germany yet!
At the moment I´m working on some small lavender houses (small lavender fillder ornaments) for my next show coming up next week…
I already have the “Little Birds” badge on my blog!
I’ve been wanting to try these laminates for a couple months, but haven’t gotten around to purchasing any. Particularly interested in making the Amy Butler pattern for a rain “slicker” which uses these laminates! Can’t wait! Thanks for such a wonderful giveaway.
Love the idea of cute lunch bags! I’ve signed up for your newsletter, so please enter me into your drawing.
Thank you for a chance in your wonderful giveaway! I have just today finished stitching a sewing machine mat and pincushion in linen and Denyse Schmidt’s ‘Hope Valley’. Would be really interested in sewing with the laminates. I tried some years ago with limited success, so it would be lots of fun to try the new, improved version! Fingers crossed!!
Currently I am working on a BOM that is a UFO in progress, I am cutting out a muslin of a wrap skirt to learn garment sewing. With my scrap strips I am having so much fun cutting them into thin strips and hand sewing them into swirls to be used as flowers for embellishment or for buttons. I’ve crocheted a summer pool shawl and might use my scrappy white flowers on it.
I subscribe to your newsletter. I love my Birds book!! and I’m so excited to make them all!
I subscribe to your newsletter…it is great.
I have not tried the laminated cotton yet…and am excited to try.
I have tweeted about the website and give away.
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I’d love to win a copy of this book!
At the moment I’m making my second Shearwater kaftan (at least that’s my current WIP – I do have several others!!)
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I am just finishing a quilt (made of a sock monkey Jelly Roll) for my daughter’s roommate. Now I have to finish up a quilt for our local Habitat For Humanity family. I would love to win the lunch bag laminate fabric. Thanks!!
I just completed making 2 Burp Pads with baby’s name embroidered on them!
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I recently stitched some skirts for me and planning to sew some frocks for my nieces soon.
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My current project is a William Morris applique quilt by designer Patricia Cox. I love this project but I just moved 2 weeks ago and am surrounded by boxes so my lovely project is sitting there waiting for me to pick it up. Anyone want to help unpack?
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I recently just made some tea wallets for some tea drinkers. They were very excited about that. Next I plan to make a baby kimono and some baby bibs from denim. This vinyl fabric would be fun for bibs and diaper changing pads and my wheels are spinning with the possibilities!
Completed a lap size yellow brick road in batiks. It’s my largest free-motion quilting project to date.
I’m now following on twitter and just tweeted the giveaway.
Just signed up for the newsletter. Very excited about this book – saw some of the lunch bags at Market.
I love the idea of making a lunch bag1 My current project is a table runner for a wedding gift. The pattern is called “Waffle Time”.
Wedding quilts are dominating my summer sewing. The laminates sound like an interesting new sewing experience.
I have fallen in love with sewing! I used to sew years when I was younger and then life got in the way and now here I am in my prime (40ish) and love it. Mainly accessories. So to find this collection is great because on top of that I am an information freak too.
What a cute looking book…and I LOVE Amy Butler, Kaffe Fassett etc. fabrics!
I just finished a pillow for the Pillow Talk Swap. I have been wanting to work with laminates, and you have some beauties for this giveaway!
My current and most exciting project is a quilt for my first grandchild. She is being adopted from overseas and I am going on the trip to pick her up in only three weeks! Can’t wait.
how pretty! I didn’t even know they made special lunch bag fabrics!
Coincidentally, I am actually working on a quilt from the Little Birds book (the “Little Birds” quilt). I love birds (and have one!) so I just couldn’t resist the book when I saw it in the quilt shop!
My next project will be creating another jacket using recycled denim – this time in black. Can’t wait to see what it looks like! I love making bags too, so the patterns in this book would be a great addition to my collection. Thank you for a chance to win!
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Hve been working to finish up snuggle/nap quilts for three little nephews.
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I’m just finishing up a community quilt made from blocks and strips, alternating lime greens and magentas. Isn’t lime green the new “yellow”?? I just love it combined with all sorts of colors.
I am working on a quilt top. I should be quilting stuff, but its more fun to put a top together!
I recently made three pillows for my mother in law
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I brown bag it to work almost everyday. thta’s a lot of lunches. would love to make a funky lunch back from these fabrics. I’m in!
Margaret
funny I was acually about to make a lunch bag
I just finished a baby quilt for my daughter in lime green and gray hues. I’m currently working on sewing up a little dress for her. My next project: growth chart with heights embroidered.
OOOOH, I love this book (and the fabric too)! I mentioned this on my site today!
I just finished up some pantalets for my 2yo to wear under dresses.
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Just made a robe for my daughter using several fabrics from my stash. I’m currently completing a tunic top used as a demo garment in a sewing class I teach.
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Just signed up for your newsletter. Working on 3 quilts at the same time, Have spent the last 4 years embroidering patches and now in different stages of putting together. thanks for the giveaway!
Working on a cool summer skirt for myself.
My latest sewing project wasn’t pretty, but necessary: stitching together lengths of netting to keep the birds from feeding frenzies in my berry patch.
I just finished a set of hammocks for my current foster rats!
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What wonderful fabrics to choose from and washable too. I would make myself one for my mini quilt group to carry my lunch and one for my daughter who is an officer. Wouldn’t it look great sitting next to her in her squad car!
I’m in adoration of the Lunch Bags Book…I saw that apple cozy & OH MY!!!!!!!
I just finished this really cute wall hanging made up of 9blocks each with a 3-D purse. Each purse is actualle open at the top and Able to hold items. I am going to make more for holidays like Christmas for cards, Halloween for candy, etc. I can’t wait to sew and quilt each day.
Well since my Mom is visiting and I hate hand sewing and she loves it I decided to bust out the Happy Stacker pattern by Heather Bailey and let my Mom hand sew. It is so cute and since I have no kids I was sewing it as a gift but since I have seen how darn cute it is I don’t think I will be able to part with it and it might become a fixture in my sewing room!!!!
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I’ve been sewing my son’s lunch bags for quite a few years now but never used anything but cotton with batting(sorta quilt style).I’d love to try it with laminated fabrics.
My most recent project was several cupcake themed items for a cupcake swap on craftster. I just purchased some new fabrics today to make a jacket and maybe some skirts or pants.
Love the laminates–thing the newsletter is great.
My latest project was fabric apples and pears, too cute. My next, hopefully very soon, project will be Amy Butlers new raincoat pattern. We just have to decide on the fabric to use. Thanks so much for your giveaway.
I love to make dish rags for my self and to give away. They are easy to make and have many uses besides using them on dishes. I can make them various sizes also so if I need a rag to clean up small spills it is there, throw in the washing machine and can be used again and again.
I’ve just finished putting together a mini quilt from blocks I received in a swap, and am gearing up for the next round of swaps. I recently went back to work, so winning a book and making a new lunch bag would be fabulous!
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Just subscribed… and Love love the lunchbags.. they look fabulous!
Current projects are quilts for family, but I would like to have a current project of making lunch bags! LOL!
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I’ll be making a mass paperback book cover and a book bag soon.
I just finished up a quilt that’s been waiting to be quilted and bound…. LOVE it! So does my husband, which makes me feel even better! I would love to win this contest… I have two preschoolers and one of them has to take her own snacks to school, sooooo…. I new lunch bag would be great!
This seams like a great ideal. i’m always looking for new gift ideas. I made a bag for one of great nieces yesterday. She is 7 years old.All girl.
I saw/felt some of these laminates on a shop hop last week, and they are nice! I think they would be lovely to work with. Thank you for the giveaway!
I’ve subscribed to your newsletter … maybe for the second time – I can’t remember! And I got City Quilts for my birthday – great book! I can’t decide what to make first. Thank you!
I am in the middle of making my very first quilt! It’s a small lap quilt for my mother in the nursing home. I am so excited to finish it.
This is a great idea. I’m a nurse and bring my own lunch since the cafeteria may be closed by the time we finally get a break. It would be fun to have a unique bag.
I just finished a purse and a few legal pad covers. I am now working on some PJ’s for my little boys.
I love all scrap/stash projects. Would love to win the laminate bundle.
I subscribed to your newsletter – can’t wait!
I love those fabrics….Cannot wait to get hands on that book!
imworking on a stitch along that is calld counting my blessings
very cute, but the progress is slow.. it kind of fits my life style at the moment with 3 little ones around me
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Just finished the Monique Dress by Serendipity Studios in Poodle by Jennifer Paganelli. I’m currently working on a downsized version of the City Harbour quilt from the book City Quilts by Cherri House. I have been wanting to make something with the new laminates for quite some time. My college aged daughter could use a lunch bag. These fabrics and book would be perfect for that!
Most recent completed project … short list on the completed ones! But did just finish quilting a top yesteday, and last month finished 3 for Q4K’s. Ongoing … a dozen or so, and am cutting for yet another today!
Love these laminates, and the designers are some of my faves … pick ME!
I live in a small town and the quilters in our town are all very involved in our local shop. On Mother’s Day one of our town’s most prolific, talented, generous quilter’s suddenly passed away. We all called her Mema and she was the reason a lot of learned to quilt. She taught me…she even taught the owner of the shop. She was an amazing hand applique artist. My most recent project was binding an incredible baby quilt she didn’t finish before she died.
One of her favorite things I made for her was a small round , quilted, zippered pouch she carried in her purse. It held her favorite sweetener for her iced tea. I love making useful items from stash. I’d like to try using the laminated fabric tool
Thanks
I have recently finished a men’s dress shirt, great sense of accomplishment.
I LOVE the new Lunch Bag book! The laminates would be perfect!
I just finished up a little hexi dot & gnome pillow – very cute!
i am sewing a lined jacket for myself out of thrifted material
My most recent project is a baby quilt, simple yellow brick road pattern in modern colors – orange, grey, blue. I am sewing the binding on and hope to be finished soon!
I always have a lot of projects going on. One is a Re-Vision quilt project, where several members of my quilting group exchanged unfinished quilts in brown paper bags. We are to finish them any way we want, such as totes, jackets, painted or embellished wall quilts…can’t wait to see what everyone comes up with.
Ooohhh, current projects? Today I am working on a pincushion for a give-away/swap, yesterday I started 2 new block of the month quilts. I have a lot stacked up, just waiting for me.
Hello, my current project is a two-tone fabric tote that took me all of yesterday to construct, but only halfway. I’m in a quandry b/c I just can’t figure out how my sides should attach to the exterior body, but I’m hopeful. I love sewing and love challenges so this too will be accomplished. I am not a newbie, nor do I have 20 years of experience under my belt, but fall somewhere in the middle, so I’m always in the learning phase. Would love to know what laminate cotton feels like and the wonderful things to make with it.
I love this site, just decovered it. The giveaway is fun and I’d love to start my way to taking a great lunch bag to work. thanks for the great information. Off to join the newsletter too.
Just joined the newletter…not sure how to prove it? but hope this gets me an extra entry in the contest. Looking forward to getting the enewletter
A make-up bag as a present for my niece – is my recent make. Thanks for a great giveaway.
Love small projects and think the lunch bags would be fun. The laminate fabric sounds wonderful.
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I just recently finished up some Miche bag covers for my mom for her birthday – they sew up fast and she was thrilled.
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I’d love to win this!
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And I have a link to your giveaway on my blog, under “Other Quilty Giveaways.”
Also, my own next giveaway starts 7/14/10!
I would love to play with the laminated cottons, how interesting!
I just finished my daughter’s “Princess” quilt – only 5 months late for her birthday. I was just telling hubby the other day that I’d like a new luchbag, and that I’d like to try to make one.
I just finished a tote bag for a friend’s birthday. Wish I had known the laminates were available. It sounds like a great idea.
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And added a badge to my blog TheCraftyUnicornQuilting.blogspot.com Yes, I REALLY want to win this.
What an interesting product. The first thought I had was grocery store tote bags. I’m on the Raleigh NC Quilt Symposium committee for 2011. Part of my reponsibility is gifts for the teachers. The ideas are perking.
At this year’s symposium in charlotte NC I took a design class w/Cynthia Corbin. That’s what I’ve been working on since. Two quilts finished and one to go. I loved her class.
this book looks amazing!
oops hit enter too soon. I’ve been making bags for myself as if they’re going out of style and finished a few quilt bee blocks
I just made a bag to attach to a walker out of the laminated cotton. It was a 90th birthday gift for my Aunt, she loved the pretty pastel flowers and butterflies on the fabric. I’d love to win some of this fabric to explore what else I can fabricate.
I am currently working on a 3D art quilt.
Oh how I love bags! Right now I’m working on a lap quilt out of a pattern I saw online.
I am working on a quilt for my son as we will be moving later this month. He has had the same dinosaur quilt for almost 10 years. He does still sleep with it every night, but I thought a new room needs a new quilt
My latest sewing has been a blitz of quilt tops, a feat made possible by a summer break from teaching. I just finished a lovely one-patch quilt–a coverlet, really–for my bedroom. It was one of those projects that I started collecting fabrics for abour three years ago, but just now finished up. I hope to tackle a few more projects before summer ends, and I think a lunch bag would be great one (so I can carry my lunch to school in style!).
I hadn’t realized you had such a selection of badges for blogs. I put up the “Celebrate Handmade” badge–very cute–on my blog at http://occasionalpiece.wordpress.com. Thanks for the nudge to do this.
I’ve been a subscriber to your newsletters for some time–and enjoy getting them.
I blogged about this giveaway here (http://occasionalpiece.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/lunch-bag-fabric-giveaway) but the post is not only about the giveway, but also about C & T (the parent company of Stash Books) as well.
BTW, if I had to chose a bundle that I’d like to win, it would have to be the Kaffe Fassett group in the middle back of the display. I already have the Amy Butler fabric–love it!
I recently finished a quilt I started for my grandson when he was born (6 years ago). I put it away and didn’t come back to it until a couple weeks ago. I finished it along with making bumper pads, crib skirt, diaper stacker, blanket and 3 pillows for my daughter who is expecting her third boy! Feels good to have them all completed. Now to make a quilt for her oldest son and then a quilt for our grandson on the way.
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I blogged about the giveaway on http://www.jayteespatchworkplace.blogspot.com
My most recent sewing project is a wall hanging called the Comfort of Psalms. It is for my church’s Harvest Sale in Sept. Now it’s ready to be quilted.
I blogged about your giveaway on Jaytee’s Patchwork Place blog
I’ve just finished some little girls’ dresses.
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Cool looking lunch bags. Anyone would be proud to use them
I just signed up for your newsletter. I’m very excited about the laminated fabrics which will go beautifully into my Green Ideas for the Studio workshop and lecture. I’ve been hoping to find a book that talks about these fabrics, especially for lunch bags and reusable sandwich covers. Thank you!
Love the thought of working with the new laminates!
I just finished a memory quilt for a gentlemen who lost his wife to cancer earlier this year. He was very sentimental about it, and while I had never done one of these before, I just couldn’t say no to him.
I’m signed up for the newsletter, have a blog badge, and would love to win a fabric bundle. They are gorgeous!!
Thanks!
I always enjoy your newsletters and free projects. I love quilting and make bags, any sort of bag. You cannot compare anything with the satisfaction of making something with beautiful fabric. The feel of the fabric between your fingers and the mixing of different colours is just something you cannot describe.
I love these bags!!! would love to win!!!!
I have been working on my son’s well loved baby blankie–he is 10 and I still need to make sure he is not using it so I can snag it and repair. It is a comfort to him. Also working on several baby quilts and a pattern and an art quilt–of course all of these are multiples…always have lots of projects going at the same time.
I am currently reinventing my entire life around my BIG DREAM of having a design business that produces individuated fashion and lifestyle textiles in harmony to the planet and all living things. Even though everything is in an infantile stage, I am moving forward by making some clothing for myself from recycled materials. My favorite piece under construction is a skirt I’m making from a pair of paisley pants. I believe in recycling everything.
I love these bags. They would be perfect to take my lunch to work. I am working on a tee for me with the saying Gma’s Taxi the best job in town on it and a car the color or my car. I am also working on a quilt as you go quilt. I have it about half done. It is amazing what a couple days off will do.
I’d really like to see these laminated fabrics — what potential!
These look fabulous – I love any sort of tote bags! I just finished a fabric bowl using clothesline and 2 1/2″ fabric strips.
cool bags! look fun to try!
My most recent sewing project was bunting for my son’s first birthday party. His theme was Angels baseball and my Mom had soem of Angel’s fabric on hand even! So it was team colors plus team fabric (although it was an old logo), and was very summery! Thanks for the opportunity.
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I just finished a This and That Quilt, Titled Summer Haven. Now, I am anxious to try the Cotton laminates after reading about them in the Newsletter. The colours are gorgeous.
I love these lunch bags, and I am teaching a group of teens how to sew this would be ideal for back to school. Jane
I teach a “bag ladies” class and can’t wait to to try these new laminates. I think they will be a great hit.
wow, what I could do with those!!
My latest project has been a needlefelted garden. I would love to update my “tired” luch bag with some of this stash. Thanks for a chance to win.
Fabulous Gift Idea. Wait, fabulous gift for me idea!
i just finished the best duck beach towel for the 1 yr old next door for his birthday
Hopefully you’ll soon see my published pattern featuring a lunch bag (with 2 ways to carry it), a placemat, a napkin, and a sandwich bag with an additional 2 free patterns for a utensil bag and a coaster – definitely decorating your lunch time! Be real cute to specialize making kits for your friends/family interests such as dogs, cats, a certain hat group, etc. Main thing, have fun with what you create!
I have been busy repurposing sweaters with too many holes ror the thrift shop to sell. with the wool ones, I loosly mend the holes than felt in my washer. I do 1 cycle with soap and 2 with plain water. I tie each sweater in a separate pillow case and put 3 sweaters in a load with a pair of old shoes to add to the adgitation. They come out with most holes self mended. I dry in the dryer on the lowest setting, then cut and sew them into tote bags. I use sleeves for handles. The ribbed cuff and bottom get used for outside pockets. I line them with “too small to use” fabric pieces adding inside pockets and a double bottom for strength. I have given many away to friends and people in need of a bag to replace worn out paper ones carried to the free meals program here.
I make the acrylic and cotton sweaters into everything from doll outfits to patchwork quilt squares for lap robes. I actually turned one into a jacket for a friend by adding contrasting pockets and trim from other sweaters.
This all started with me not wanting useable items thrown away. I would love a chance to work with this laminated cloth for a lunch bag. It sounds like an item with endless uses from baby bibs to a cover for an ice pack. It would be great to use to slip over the head rest on airplane rides. That laminated side would be great at keeping the head lice, etc., away from both children and adults.
whether I win some or not, I hope I have a chance to play with this fabric soon.
I am a lunch bagger and taking one to work would be sooo great. All the girls would want one and I would just have to make them one.
What a great idea – looking forward to getting my hands on this fabric. Currently working on several quilts including my first Hawaiian one
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Ha I forgot my comment on my recent project!!! It’s the Manhattan Bag from Pink Sand Beach Designs. I have made several for friends and this one is for my Mom! She’ll be so excited!
I sewed a rolled pouch for my drawing pens and other tools.
i would be the envey of all the ladies in my factory, it sure would beat the little bag i have now, while iam rate here ill sign up for your newsletter.
I love, love, love this novel new book. What great quilt show boutique items. Bonnie
The lunch bags are so much fun – takes brown bagging it to a new level!
what pretty fabrics! I love the lunch bag and water bottle c arrier idea!
Would love to win the Lunch Bag Giveaway. BEV
This bag would be great for work!!!
I’m binding a wall hanging that’s been a year in the making. It’s a McKenna Ryan pattern(s) — The quilting seemed to take forever, but the results were worth it.
I am making a quilt based on a baby blanket tutorial from Moda Bake Shop. However, instead of simply sewing the honeybun blocks together, I added white strips in between to make them stand out. I am using Soiree fabric from Moda. The quilt top is nearly done – yay!
Laminate me, baby!! This sounds so fun!!
These lunch bags are cool. My GD’s would love; one starts school in September.
WOW. She would be the envy of all.
Love to win a laminated lunch bag, especially from such lovely modern fabrics!
Which project would you like to know about? LOL! OK, the UFO that is getting most of my attention and the one I want to finish next….is one where I’m making for the Pets on Quilts Show. Has a lot of animal fabrics!
SewCalGal
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Love to win a laminated lunch bag, especially from such lovely modern fabrics! I’ve been working on a zigzag quilt, but so far am not loving my fabrics choices. too many dark and not enough difference in value to make the pattern pop.
Oh well I may just start another quilt until this ones “speaks” to me. 
Finally a lunch bag for an adult! Fun fabrics and a lunch bag that fits my needs.
Oh these fabrics look yummy! My latest project was a pillowcase for the 1 million pillowcase challenge, quick and easy!
The fabrics are beautiful. I would love that book also. My daughter and I made a lunch bag a year ago. But it was out of a cotton and thus has to be machine washed frequently. Currently I am working on baby quilts with my daughters who have friends that are having babies this summer.
What a fun giveaway!
I can’t wait to get an email from you!
Would LOVE to win the Lunch bag!! I have just returned to sewing and quilting after a hiatus of several years….raising children and working full time….I have recently had to work part time and care for my elderly mom, but this has given me an opportunity start sewing again….and I love it!…thank you !
Oh, these look so fun – I’d love to try them out! I’m working on a sewing a door organizer for a recent grad to take to college next Fall, and need another project for after that.
I still have a child in school who takes her lunch every day. She would love a custom lunchbag!
Since this is my birthday week, it would be a great surprise and gift. So, with that said, I hope I win. The fabrics are beautiful.
What a very cool idea!
Last project sewing and knitting a felted purse. Laminates, I’m thinking lunchbags are great gift for secretary’s day if I can resist keeping it for myself.
Oh How my little great granddaughters would love these to start school with this fall. The envy of everyone!! Am sure that they would like that Mamie did something really cute for them since she does so much charity sewing Have just completed 7 gowns for Hospice . Am a regular contrributor to AC4C who gives to folks all over the world. Mostly it is baby clothes for fetuses or newborns but we also do adult things. Right now I am working with a church group that is making quilts for wherever they are needed (it’s a World Organization), If it would help my chances to win I can show where I do a great variety of sewing and crocheting help. Gloria a 74 year old great grandmother in hot and sticky and rainy Florida
These will be fun to make and give as gifts!
What great fabrics! They look like they would be a lot of fun to work with. i am currently working on multiple projects- I have a coouple of quilts to bind, I am working on a new bag pattern, a couple more quilts that need to be quilted… lots in the stash!
Have been hoping to get back to several unfinished projects, the oldest of which is a wedding quilt for my nephew whose baby daughter just turned two!
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I already subscribe to your newsletter!! Wish it came out more frequently as I am a book lover.
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Like Judy above, my birthday is this week also. I think giving out birthday presents would be a great idea for you to consider!
If I had a blog, I’d certain mention this giveaway and post a link to this post as well asplace a badge on my site!
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I love the lunch bags fabric, beats the old paper bag. The colours are exciting and dazzling and the bags are cool.
I have been seeing the laminate cotton advertised, and I am intrigued! I would love to have a pretty lunch bag!
I recently finished quilting a customer’s lone star quilt so now I get to work on some of my own projects. I have several baby quilts in the queue, a wedding quilt to help with, and a school color themed log cabin lap quilt to complete as a belated Valentines day quilt. No end in sight!
I am working on a fused applique pattern called Almost Poppy. I would like to make lunch bags for my grandson who is starting preschool.
I had never seem the laminate cotton before…would love to win!…I’m working on a cat quilt right now…..trying to use up at least some of my cat fabric
Would love to make a sweet lunchbag for my daughter’s first year in school.
Love the lunch bags and would love to try the fun fabrics.
I love the laminated fabrics! Would love to win some. Currently I am working on a baby quilt for my great-grandaughter. She is due in January.
would really like to try these laminated fabrics. I work in a quilt shop and always looking for great products to work with.
I am new at sewing. I started doing quilts and clothes for the grandchildren ( pajama,s) ago.
I think that this would be a great project to do up. It sure would be handy when I take the grandchildren to the park for the day.
I just love tha lunch bag and the colors of the materials.
They would mke nice Christmas presents also.
I sure hope I win .
I have a new lunchbag on my project list. Would love to use one of these fabrics for it!
My recent projects have been bags, wall hangings, and placemats. I all ready subscribe to your news letter.
Would be really interested in feeling and working with the laminates and making the lunch bag. Already wondering if it has a pouch to put a chiller in ! What am I doing at the moment ? Customized some T shirts with a youth group for a fashion show, used up some fabrics and made coasters, A decorative bag with “hanging ” pages in ……and a stump doll….
I’ve seen this fabric on the blogs but not in real life. Would love to try it! The book looks fun1
I never win anything so would really like to win this fantastic prize !!
I have found my Retreat gift — Hooray. Every year in January I go on a 5 day retreat with 22 of my closest quilting friends – we all make or take gifts for each other – a reward for busy lives as wives, mothers and hard workers – making some of these items will be perfect – why didn’t I think of this? I’ll be a winner even if I don’t get picked..
Those new laminates are beautiful! Wouldn’t that make lunch more fun?
I love this lunchbag (and the book)! I have not seen the laminated fabrics. How cool. I am currently working on a Christmas tree skirt. Since I seem to do more starting and not enough finishing, hopefully it will be ready for 2012!
My grandchildren want beach/lake bags, the laminate would be perfect for these 5 projects.
The new fabrics and book look like such a cool project! Can’t wait to try them! Have granddaughters and a wonderful daughter and daughter-in-law who would really enjoy these! I just finished sewing up 2 gathered skirts and 2 satin square “toppers” with 13″ wide monograms for the foyer tables for a wedding to be held tomorrow. Today I am making an heirloom pillow for them with their monogram embroidered on it. I am also working on senior bibs and walker bags for my sister (& friends) in Assisted Living in Idaho (Christmas gifts). Just finished piecing a queen sized quilt top for our guest room (a week ago) and have another quilt (king size) started as a wedding gift for my daughter. She won’t get it until her first anniversary, but that’s okay!
Love, love, love the new laminates (designs are wonderful) fabrics – and can’t wait to try them all. I haven’t seen the inside of the book, but the cover bag is soooo cute that I know I’ll have to have the book!
as a kid at heart adult, would love to take my lunch in something besides a recycled brown bag. These fabric would make lunch a fun and colorful.
What a great gift idea, you can even use them to wrap small presents, (two of one gift).
Would love to feel these fabrics. I am working on a computer theme quilt for one of my sons. No pattern so I am havin “fun” planning as I go
Currently I am sewing “Little Dresses for Africa” and trying to get the last batch of 10 done to ship out on Mon. July 12th
Would love an extra chance to win these great fabrics and I’m a newsletter subscriber
I just finished making a purse shaped gift box out of carboard and scrapbook paper! I wanted to make a cute gift box for the purse I just completed for a friend of mine and I came across this idea on the web. It is in a purple and pink square and is shaped like an evening bag. Adorable!
Thanks for letting me enter.
Kathy
I would really like to win the laminated fabric. Love the colors and prints. Janice
i love this fabric,i hope and pray i win it i gave away most of my huge fabric stash.love gina from ginasart
The cotton laminates look awesome! My most recent sewing project were ATCs for a monthly ‘colour groupies’ exchange. We work on a color combination every month. The ATCs are not up on my blog yet as they remain a surprise until they have been received by all, but you can see some other fabric ATCs I made for the group HERE!
Thanks for the chance at the give-away!
my current project is organizing a swap block for my yahoo mail list. i plan on checking out my local quilt shop for the lunch bag book. sounds like a great idea. and winning the laminated fabrics would be a treat!
maggie
Currently I’ve been quilting other’s quilt tops. I’ve got a Schnibble in the making and tote bags to make next. Thanks for the chance. I must admit I would love to win this only because I have some fun novelties to use for kids too!
I like to incorporate new quilting ideas into placemats and matching potholders. Laminated fabric has great potential for al fresco dining.
Great book
I’m planning on retiring from my “day” job within a year and would love to flaunt a lunch bag this fabulous for that last bit of time! And then….on to my next book with C&T!
I sure would like to win something. It would be awsome to recieve this latest lunch bag give away. they look adorable.
I love these fabrics and would be thrilled to be a winner in this giveaway. I was just thinking about doing a project with laminates!
Just finishing a sweatshirt jacket that I started four years ago! I have a new sewing machine with lots of fancy stitches and am using the stitches to embelish!
I am soooo addicted to bags of any kind, tote bags, etc. These look amazing!
I really think the laminated fabrics are so versitile for so many everyday projects: lunch bags, placemats, chair pads, etc. I sure would love to win this fabric grouping. Can’t wait to get the book and try the patterns. Thanks for all of your ideas.
Those laminated fabrics are great! I’ve been making some snack bags but this would work even better. Can’t wait to peek inside the lunch bag book.
Just finished some fabric clutches and have been wanting to try them in laminated cotton!
Also have a daughter who wants to make her own lunch bag set – perfect timing!
These look like great fabrics and the book looks like fun too. I’m thinking maybe some great Christmas gifts might be in there!!! Right now, I’m not doing too much sewing – had a baby under 2 weeks ago, but have some charm quilts in progress that I hope to return to before too long.
I am currently working on a Ricky Tims style Convergence quilt from his Convergence book, published by C & T. I am using some of Ricky’s hand dyed fabrics and some of my own hand dyes along with commercial prints. It’s looking good. Elisabeth Bourdet
I cannot wait for this book and fabric whether I win or not I NEED this in my life for my husband who is a faithful lunch packer, for my vegan earthful daughter and her fam. and their lunch packing and for my endless quest for unique reusable wrappings for gifts. My current projects for Christmas just finished are the cotton dishcloths made from cotton yarn but to use as body scrubs and closer to christmas i will make the sugar body scrubs and a baby quilt for one of my sisters who just welcomed her first grandchild Jack.
I was just thinking I could use a new lunch bag when I came across your email announcing the giveaway. The fabrics look lovely, I could use a nice surprise like this one just about now!
No time for Quilting, my last project was a costume for my Grandson’s 5th Grade Opera, he was playing Dr. Bartello in the Barber of Seville.
Thank you for this opportunity to win these beautiful fabrics and purse!!
I am doing textiles books, it’s really fun!
Just finish with my flat zipper travel bags of laminated fabric; the laminated fabric is also suitable for shoes-wet bathing clothes-laundry in the suitcase.
These bags look wonderful! I’ve been wanting to try to sew something from the new laminated fabrics.
These bags look fun and stylish. I take my lunch to work everyday in a worn out, years old cooler bag I was given when I bought my car in 1994! I would love by styling with one of these new lunch bags.
What a smashing idea—-can’t wait to share with my mimi group–picture this—10 ladies pulling out their newly created “lunch bags”—-
Love the idea of modern fabrics in laminate, but have only seen them online, not in real life! Last project for me was a quilt, so maybe I am getting ready to do something else, like a lunch bag… Thanks for the giveaway!
These laminated fabrics are beautiful. I haven’t seen them in the quilt shops I frequent, so I am hoping to win some!
I am a quilter this type of fabric would be something new to try and see what projects might come to design. Is this new cotton UV and outdoor resistant. I am getting ready to make cushions and back cushions color a would be great. Thank you. Jaime
Love these lunch bags. Can’t wait to have the book at the stores.
They picked some of my favorite designs, so you know they will go to a very good home! I bought oilcloth to make a mat to go under my dogs’ crates at agility class (to minimize the amount of dirt we haul home!), but found a woven mat at World Market that was already done. What will I do with 3 yards of oil cloth???
My latest project was binding and labels on several quilts I showed yesterday at the Sisters Outdoor Quilt Show. Done is good! Kathy
I love making bags and have just completed 2 stable bags as gifts to my craft daughters. When opened out these bags stay stable and allow you to inspect the contents easily and with lots of light. I’d just love to incorporate some lunch bags to go with them.
that fabric is beautiful and useful! love it. the lunch bags are handy, too.
The fabric looks lovely and I’m sure will make lovely projects from the book. I’m excited to have a chance to win! It’ll be fun to find out who the lucky person is.
Wow! I just started volunteering at a women’ domestic violence center, where we are making bags. B-more bags/ hruthmd.org If i win I can share it with them.
I have just recently completed a set of cozy seat belt covers and upcycled two colorful cotton voile Indian gathered skirts into cafe curtains with matching valances. I am currently sewing up more curtains to block excess sunlight for my master bedroom.Recently I’ve been dreaming of the lovely laminates on Pink Chalk Fabrics website. Using these upbeat laminate prints to fashion into charming lunch Bags would be indeed a summer crafting treat. Thanks for featuring the book, Lunch Bags in this giveaway.
What beautiful designer fabrics with the added bonus of being laminated, lots of project possibilities. I am currently piecing an Aurora Borealis wallhanging consisting of diamond shaped blocks and color gradations using batiks. Will be visually stunning!
I love the bags…thanks for the giveaway! I recently finished some pillowcases for my daughter to take to college.
Love, love, love this fabric! What a great giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win it!
I’ve been wanting to try using the laminated fabric in another project, so if I win I will have a reason to get to it sooner than later.
looking forward to the possibility of being a winner!!!!! thanks for the chance!
I have never felt or even seen this fabric yet in our area. I’ve been thinking of making one of the lunch sacks. The fabric seems beatiful. My recent quilting project was a Lone Star quilt for someone. It was a bit challenging, but it came out nice. I hope she likes it as much as I do. Thank you for showing these and posting them in your blog.
I think these lunch bags would make great gifts for my friends.
Sandy
What fun! Can’t wait to see if I won
My current project is learning to make resusable sandwich bags….which is how I found your blog! I love the lunch bags!
The most recent sewing project was a joint quilt top done with my sister. We are pleased with how it turned out!
Comments for this giveaway are now closed! Thank you all for your great comments – we love hearing about your latest creative endeavors. The five winners of this giveaway will be announced later today!
The laminated fabrics look very interesting! I can see any one of them sewn into a large bag to carry other projects. I belong to a group that meets at a quilt shop(Binders, Borders and Squares) on Fridays. We are called the “Crazy Eights”. We work on any and all UFO’s we bring from home. A bag made from the laminated fabric would inspire us to complete even more projects.
tres joli le sac sur la couverture du livre,,,je pense que l’interieur du livre doit être tout aussi bien…
This new fabric is so interesting. I would love to try sewing with it.
I would love to be able to win this awesome lunch bag!
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