Sew Mama Sew Giveaway

It's Sew, Mama, Sew giveaway week! Woot! The most wonderful week of the year!


Some of the things I made this year. Like my style? Start following along!
If we've never met before: Hi! Howdy! How you doing? My name is Jill and this is Made with Moxie. I make clothes, bags, quilts and other crafty crap. I've got two small kids, a fierce spirit, and I'll always give it to you straight. I live life to suck the marrow from it and have no regrets.

I'm keeping it short and sweet today though, since we all just want to know how to enter quickly so we can get on to entering other giveaways. I adore Instagram and Pinterest, so if you use those sites, let's get to know each other!

My only request is that you start following me on Instagram or Pinterest, then leave me a comment here telling me which you did. Heck, you can do both for a double entry. Please make sure you leave me your email address in your comment as well so I can let you know when you have won. ;)


I'm giving away a paper copy of the Alder Skirt pattern designed by imagine gnats. It's a simple skirt pattern that comes in a huge size range. Wear it with tights and boots in the cool weather or a tee and sandals when it gets warm. It's a sweet pattern because you can make it in so many different fabrics. One winner will be randomly selected on Monday, December 15th and will be notified by email. If you do not leave your email address a new winner will be chosen. Open to international entries.

Love Cotton & Steel? Enter to win a fat quarter pack of the yet to be released "Tokyo Train Ride" from Perfect Pattern Parcel, too! Click on the link above or the image below.



Happy winning, folks! And I can't wait to get to know y'all!

Orange: Shades of Me

What is Orange?
"Orange is a tiger lily, a carrot,
a feather from a parrot, a flame,
the wildest color you can name.


Orange is a happy day saying good-by
in a sunset that shocks the sky.
Orange is brave, Orange is bold,
it's bittersweet and marigold.


Orange is zip, Orange is dash,
the brightest stripe in a Roman sash.
Orange is an orange, also a mango
Orange is music of the tango.


Orange is the fur of the fiery fox,
the brightest crayon in the box.
And in the fall when the leaves are turning
Orange is the smell of a bonfire burning..."


Hayley of Welcome to the Mouse House and Celina of Petit a Petit are hosting an event called Shades of Me, a monochromatic selfish sewing event. Be sure to look at the lovely outfits these women has created, as well as my fellow Orange Ladies: Boy, Oh Boy, Oh Boy Crafts and Sew Chibi!

**Poetry taken from Hailstones and Halibut Bones by Mary O'Neill 1961**

Skirt pattern by Simplicity. Fabric from Ikea.

Make sure you enter the mega giveaway for over $1,000 worth of prizes here:
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Moxie Mondays are here!

I am so excited to announce that I am starting a new weekly event called Moxie Mondays! Moxie Mondays are a fun 24 hours of awesome flash giveaways on Instagram. It's easy to enter and you get to meet a new community of friends to add some creativity and spice to your Instagram feed. Plus, hello, the chance to win handmade prizes, crafting supplies and gift certificates. You don't need a blog to play, just Instagram on your phone!

Here's how to play:

1. Follow this week's hosts on Instagram:
@monkeypie
@bailjane
@casakelley
@thatmoxiegirl

2. Leave a comment on each host's giveaway image. (Tag a friend for an extra entry!)

3. Repost this week's Moxie Monday graphic on your Instagram with the hastag #moxiemondays and tag @thatmoxiegirl to enter the Mystery Moxie Giveaway.

On Tuesday morning, your hosts will randomly select winners and tag them in a comment.

It's that easy. Mondays just got so much more awesome, no?


Interested in cohosting a Moxie Monday? Shoot an email to Jill at thatmoxiegirl@gmail.com

Take *that* Mondays!

The Moxie Fat Quarter Pack: Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Week!

I'm going to keep this short and sweet so you can enter my giveaways and then hurry back to Sew, Mama, Sew to enter rest. Good luck and thanks for stopping by!


The Moxie Fat Quarter Pack:One fat quarter of each of my favorite skull fabrics.

a Rafflecopter giveaway Don't forget! I have three other giveaways here:
Three Hand Stamped Sea Bee Bar Towels
Bundle of 7 Indy Sewing Patterns worth over $85
Quilting Isn't Funny digital book by The Bitchy Stitcher

Thanks for stopping by and good luck in the giveaways today! Drawing will be pulled Sunday December 15th at 5pm EST.

Favorite Indy Patterns Bundle: Sew, Mama, Sew Giveaway Week

I'm going to keep this short and sweet so you can enter my giveaways and then hurry back to Sew, Mama, Sew to enter all the rest. Good luck and thanks for stopping by!


Seven of my favorite Indy Sewing Patterns. Worth $85 value.
Clockwise from top left:
The Reversible Zippy Hoodie (18m-8y) by Amanda of Kitschy Coo
The Go To Cape for women by Andrea of Go To Patterns
The Bimaa Sweater for kids by Sarah of EmmylouBeeDoo
The Prefontaine Shorts for kids by Jill of Made with Moxie
The Commuter Cowl by Shannon of Very Shannon & Luvinthemommyhood
The Aragon Bag by Sara of Sew Sweetness
The Meridian Cardigan for women by Rachael of imagine gnats

a Rafflecopter giveaway Don't forget! I have three other giveaways here:
The Moxie Fat Quarter Pack
Three Hand Stamped Sea Bee Bar Towels
Quilting Isn't Funny digital book by The Bitchy Stitcher

Thanks for stopping by and good luck in the giveaways today! Drawing will be pulled Sunday December 15th at 5pm EST.

Three Hand Stamped Sea Bee Bar Towels: Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Week!

I'm going to keep this short and sweet so you can enter my giveaways and then hurry back to Sew, Mama, Sew to enter the rest. Good luck and thanks for stopping by!


Set of Three Hand Stamped Sea Bee Flour Sack Bar Towels.

a Rafflecopter giveaway
Don't forget! I have three other giveaways here:
Bundle of 7 Indy Sewing Patterns worth over $85
The Moxie Fat Quarter Pack
Quilting Isn't Funny digital book by The Bitchy Stitcher


Thanks for stopping by and good luck in the giveaways today! Drawing will be pulled Sunday December 15th at 5pm EST.

Big City Bags & a Giveaway!

If you know Sara Lawson of Sew Sweetness, then you know that Sara knows handbags. She has made so many gorgeous patterns and tutorials for handbags. Sara's a handmade fashionista's best friend. Plus, she looks so stinking cute in the dresses she makes!) Well, hold on to your hats and glasses folks, because I've got big news!


Sara has made a book!

Big-City Bags: Sew Handbags with Style, Sass, and Sophistication is set to be released next week and you get a sneak peak today! I was lucky enough to be one of Sara's bag testers as she was writing her book.

Take a look at one of the fabulous patterns in Big City Bags: the Wonderland Bag:


I've had to keep this baby a secret for so long! Just look at this fabulous bag. Everyone who sees it loves it, and very few ever even think it is handmade. I just love Sara's bag designs. They have beautiful structure and are laid out with nice pockets for easy convenience.


Big City Bags is chock full of gorgeous handbag patterns and included great tips to assembling them, like zippers, pockets, hardware and handles. From date night clutches to diaper bags and suitcases (yes! A suitcase) Sara's Big City Bags has a bag for every occasion.Sara has also included a great interfacing guide along with a conversion chart so you can know which types of interfacing are comparable between brands.


I can't wait to get my copy of Big City Bags and make another one. Sara and Martingale Press have been awesome enough to allow me to give away a digital copy of Big City Bags to one of my readers! Isn't that exciting!

Can't wait to get your hands on a physical copy of Big City Bags? Order a copy signed by Sara right here!


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The Sally Dress

My kids grow too fast to warrant my sewing very many clothes for them. They are in the prime of their growing and I swear they shoot up like fresh bean sprouts the instant I finish a garment for them. I do, however, love to make my daughter, Jane, dresses. She is such a princess, so when Shannon asked me to sew up her new pattern, The Sally Dress by Very Shannon, I was more than happy to.



A girlie girl at heart, Jane loves to wear dresses. I gladly sew them for her, not only because she loves them, but because I can make them so that they fit as a dress and she can then wear them as tunics and tops as she grows up, up, up.

In a Miley Cyrus world, I am in no rush to start dressing my three year old daughter in anything hootchie looking. The Sally Dress is an adorable vintage inspired dress with modern flair. It's modest and sweet as little girls should be, without the ruffles and uncomfortable details we all hated on our clothes as a kid. There are no zippers, snaps or buttons to fuss with (both she and I appreciate that) and the lined bodice means no seam allowances up against the skin.


All pattern desigers should make a note here. Kids love pockets. The Sally Dress has huge, lined pockets that remind me of the pockets in Treasure Pocket Pants from the book Sewing For Boys. The are just fabulous. Jane wants to keep her hands in them. She wants to twirl around with her hands in them. She wants to fill them with acorns and leaves and everything else she can find.


I made Jane's Sally Dress with one of the crazy sushi prints I got on my trip to Hawaii and a pink polka dot from JoAnn's. I wish I could pull off wearing a dress like this, without looking like a total nutter. The Sally Dress pattern sews up without a hitch, can be made in an afternoon, and is guaranteed to be loved by any little girl in your life. What more could you want out of a sewing pattern? A sale? A free pattern? I've got both for you today!

The Sally Dress is currently on sale as part of the Sew Fab Bundle. That's 26 patterns for less than $30. The only place else you an get patterns at a price like that is at JoAnn's on a sale Saturday, and who wants to deal with that madness?

Shannon has also graciously offered a free copy of The Sally Dress to a Made with Moxie reader! To enter the giveaway, use the Raffflecopter widget below.


Can't stand wait to see if you win and want your own copy of The Sally Dress now?
Click over to the Very Shannon shop.

Want to get the super Sew Fab deal and buy the entire bundle that includes the Sally Dress?
Go get it right here before it's gone.

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Disclosure: I received this pattern free as part of The Sally Pattern Dress Tour. All opinions my own.



Thank you for stopping in and happy stitching!

Sew, Mama, Sew! Giveaway: Moxie Fat Quarter Pack

The Moxie Fat Quarter Pack: One fat quarter of each of my favorite skull fabrics from my personal collection.

How to enter: Leave one comment in this post for each of the following:

1. Become a Follower of Made with Moxie (or be a current one) either via RSS, email or Bloglovin'.

2. Follow me on Instagram.

3. Follow me on Facebook.

4. Tell my which of my Tutorials you would like to try.

Thanks for stopping by and good luck in the giveaways today! Drawing will be pulled Friday May 10th at 11pm EST.

Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Week *CLOSED*

**This giveaway is officially closed.** Howdy there! I'm Jill and welcome to Made with Moxie. Today I am offering one of my custom Carry All Clutches and Auriful threads as part of the Sew, Mama, Sew: Giveaway Week.

While the giveaways are what ya'll are here for, I've got to tell you that I added lots of new blogs to my Google Reader during the May SMS giveaway. And now, five months later, I have gained new friends, new skills, and participated in new swaps and events.Yeah, I got a little huggy on you there. Did you see the rainbow as that unicorn ran by?

The three ways to enter to win one of my Carry All Clutch bags:

1. Leave a comment on this blog post. Tell me what what sewing skill you would like to learn this year.
2. Decide my blog is awesome sauce. Follow my blog. Leave a comment telling me you did this. Current followers please enter too!
3. 'Like' my Facebook Page. Leave me a comment and telling me you did.

The winner will be drawn Friday, December 7th at 5pm EST. International entries are welcome! (Who doesn't love airmail?) If you are a no-reply blogger, leave me your email address in your comment so I can contact you if you win.Please check your Google profile to ensure you "share your email address."

The Carry All Clutch has a lobster claw clasp to hook on your keys or clip it into your bag or a belt loop. Front pouch holds essential cards and license. Inside zippered pocket holds cellphone, chapstick, cash, etc. Large enough to fit iPhones, Droids, and Windows phones.

Winner will choose from one of the above four pattern choices. Two additional winners will be selected to win a sample pack of Aurifil thread.

So, stick around and become a follower. I'll teach you to make all sorts of awesome things. In between you can read about my misadventures in being a stay at home mom. Pull up a chair and grab a cup of coffee. Make sure it isn't too hot; I don't want a lawsuit when you laugh so hard it shoots out your nose.

Welcome to Made with Moxie! And good luck!

My postal worker hates me

She's a lazy woman and doesn't like to get out of her mail truck which is what she has to do when I get large or more packages than she can jam into our mailbox. For someone who gets to wear jeans to work and sits on her tush all day she complains a lot. I want to tell her that the UPS and FedEx men never whine about the number of packages I get. And, quiet frankly, are much more attractive.

I won Fern's Frocks first SMS giveaway which was a set of 4 coasters made from this awesome owl fabric. When they arrived this week my daughter confiscated them along with a cute Hello Kitty ring. She loves it and wears it day and night on her index finger, like a mob boss.

To a two year old and an infant, coasters are great toys, so I decided to tear open a teeny hole in the seam of each and filled them with rice. Now they have a sweet set of owl bags to toss around. I also plan to microwave them so my husband can give me a faux hot rock massage. He thinks I'm kidding. I think I may need to make more.


Packages for the DS Charm Swap have been arriving everyday (much to postal worker's chagrin.) There are piles and piles of lovely Denyse Schmidt charm squares all over my cutting table. It's a shame I have to send the all back. I am fighting the urge to just run to the Mexican boarder with my sewing machine and live out the rest of my days in hiding, but with an impressive sized DS quilt.

I was checking off packages from my charm swap participant list and had one I couldn't find on my list. I was worried someone sent me fabric and had not signed up for an official spot. Or that I had royally screwed something up. Turns out it was the fabric I won on ImagineGnats' SMS giveaway from Contemporary Cloth Store!

It was a seriously generous offering of a half yard of each print. Thank you! I can't tell you how much I love the colors in the Stockholm line by Kaufman and the hand is amazing. I'm browsing for a fun quilt pattern for them right now. I need to make a new quilt so I can photograph it wrapped around my husband, shirtless, eating a spicy burrito.

You think I'm kidding, but I intend to have him be Mr. March in the 2013 Q.S.M.A.S.B.C. by the Bitchy Stitcher.

I wonder, do you think these colors compliment a naked man eating a burrito? :D