.....and the winner of the challenge is ...

I don't know if you remember the cushion I made in September to participate at The Sewing Fold Fab Challenge. The challenge consisted in Successfully execute pleating, pin-tucking and / or smocking in a finished piece.

Here is the project that I did to participated to the challenge, a Canadian smocked pillow.

 

 

All entries were beautiful, each project had something unique and beautiful.

If you want  to see all the challenge entries click here.

 

After a whole month of voting, I received the results of the challenge, and the

winners  were announced here

 

 

I have the joy to announce that the project that has received more votes was my

Canadian smoked pillow.
I want to thank everyone who voted for my smocked pillow and I want to share with

you, the lovely gold badge I received.

 

I will take a minute of your time to let you know that there is a new challenge.

The challenge this month is to make a scarf, if you are interested in the

challenge, all the information is here.

 

 

 

See you soon with my new projects and tutorials, thank you for your visit.

Have a happy sewing day.
Marisa.

 



My Canadian Smocking pillow

The advantage of having a deadline is that I am forced to devote myself to complete the project. I finished my pillow and I love how it turned out. The most important thing for me is that I tried a technique that always caught my attention, the canadian smocking.  Here is the project with which I will participate to the challenge, a smockig canadian pillow.

 

 

I found this challenge while visiting Pam's blog ( Threading My Way ), is a blog I

visit regularly and that I love, I recommend it to you in case you have never

yet visited. From Pam's blog I went to visit the blog of Rikka (Ricochet and Away) 

and is another blog I discovered and that I love, I also recommend it to you, she

has nice projects and tutorials,  is on Rikka's blog that I found the challenge.

 

 

I want to show more photos I took, I tried to put in value the 3D effect that is

achieved with this technique. Here are more pictures

 

 

 

If you want to jump on the adventure of making a canadian smocking, Rikka has in

her blog the link to the tutorial, click here,   by reading her post you will find 

the link to the Canadian Smocking tutorial.

I'm linking this to Threading My Way, to Creating My Way to Succes, and Skip To My Lou.
 

Thanks for your visit to my blog.

Have a nice day.
Marisa.


The Fab Fold Sewing Challenge

This is the first time that I will participate at The Sewing Fold Fab Challenge.

 

 

  The challenge is to: Successfully execute pleating, pin-tucking and / or smocking

in a finished piece.

 

After some reflection, I decided to learn to do  "Canadian Smocking". Luckily there

is a good tutorial, Ricochet has it on their website, click here, in her post

you are going to find the link to the Canadian Smocking tutorial.

To participate I decided to make a cushion. Today I want to share with you one of

the first pictures I took, I just finished doing the smocking on the front of the

cushion, on the back side I will add a zipper. When finished I will share with you

the rest of the photos.

 

 

The deadline to finish this project is September 30. If anyone is interested to participate in

this challenge or if you'd like to look at the blogs of people who will participate

click here.

 

Have a nice day!

Marisa.