Have you come across Lotta Jansdotter's latest collection Glimma yet?
You may have seen sneak previews posted around the internet recently.
It is to die for.
Maybe I am seeing it with rose tinted spectacles, as it is no secret that Lotta is my absolute idol in the world of fabric design. As far as I am concerned everything she does turns to gold.
And I defy you to disagree.
The new collection, due to be released by Windham Fabrics in April next year is even better than the 2 previous collections we all fell in love with.
The colours in this collection are a little more subdued than both Echo and Bella and I think that is what I am liking.
As well as the collection being crammed with her trademark quirky Scandinavian designs, there are also some coordinating solids, which I think will make the collection as a whole a real hit.
I have been lucky enough to get a couple of charm packs of Glimma and have been having a great time playing with them. I have decided that this year's Christmas hand sewing project will be using Glimma and at the weekend picked this design using Lynne's Lozenge template.
It is a really pretty design to use and I think Glimma is shown off beautifully with it. The only trouble is the rate I am going I don't think there'll be much left to do with it over Christmas.
Being the impatient soul that I am where beautiful fabric is concerned, before I had decided on the above EPP project I just had to have a quick play with just a little piece of Glimma. I had to double check I liked it. You know, just to be sure.
It's ok I do...
If you read the title carefully by now you will be itching to know what the word "giveaway" is doing in there...
as a thank you for all your support throughout the year following my blog and leaving your lovely comments (I do so love reading your comments) I am giving away to one lucky reader, wherever in the world you may live, one of my precious charm packs.
That's how much I must love you ;-)
All I'd like you to do is leave me a comment telling me what you would do with the charm pack should you win. Oh and please make sure I have a way of contacting you to let you know you have won.
That is all. I will pick a winner on Friday in the hope that you have half a chance of receiving the pack in time to join me in having a play over the holidays.
x
59 comments:
Love the colours that line is going to be a great hit! I think I would do some simple patchwork to really showcase the prints! Thanks for the chance to win.
I love Lotta's fabrics too, I think you're dead right with the EPP and I am planning a cushion using the Spring Carnival pattern but haven't selected fabrics yet, these would be lovely! Thanks for the give away!
There a few quilting blocks I'm dying to try and it would be perfect
Oh how gorgeous. I am with you on this one, I keep drooling over Lotta's fabric too and I would so love to get my hands on some Glimma. I am determined to make some zipper pouches, make up bags, pencil cases and these fabrics would be perfect for that.
Ooo, a cushion probably but it is so hard to decide without having it in my grubby mits!
beautiful! i think i would use them for EPP hexagons.
mmm... lovely colors (and prints!), indeed. what would I do... what, oh what would I do... I guess I'd have to have a little play time with them.(something for the bedroom, perhaps? yes.) and since this is the first holiday season since my separation, I happen to have almost all of Christmas day to spend by my lonesome, doing whatever I wish.
I'd use the charms to make a tote bag or zipped pouches!
Is Glimma available in the UK yet??
I like the idea of a cushion cover or zip pouches or any number of things!
Nossa!!!!Então você me ama muito...Sou viciada em EPP,e seu sorteio é de tecidos maravilhosos,abriu internacional....O que falta?..Ser eu a ganhadora.Obrigada.Seguidora cheia de esperaça e feliz.Que o seu NATAL seja Abençoado e cheio de paz.Amém?
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I'm no good at guessing in advance what I'd do with a certain fabric, I have to play around with it before I "know". I'd say the colours would make a great bag...
To show off the wonderful patterns and colours I think that I would turn them into snowballs and make a lap quilt for myself.
I would throw it all over the floor and roll around on it.
Wow,wow,wow! How generous of you to share. I am just learning hexies, so that is what I would do. Thanks so much!
Ooo gorgeous, we have the builders starting work on our house in the new year so i won't have a sewing space, I NEED to find some handsewing projects and this would be ideal, maybe I'll have a pile of EPP finished to make pouches and quilts with by the end of it!
thanks for the giveaway
Father Christmas is bringing me a new book with charm pack ideas, so would be great to win
Ooh, I am a huge Lotta Jansdotter fan too! I have an idea for a quilt called Letters from Lotta - you will just have to imagine what that might involve...
My house was designed by a Scandinavian company and I would love to make a wall hanging for my stairwell in Scandi colours - I guess Glimma would appear there or possibly in a table runner for the dining room table!
I still have some Echo FQs waiting to be cut up but a charm pack is ideal - the deed is already done!
The fabrics are so gentle and lovely. Thank you for sharing your fabric, that is love of your readers beyond question. I am seriously into hexagons using EPP at theminute to make bags with, so I would probably use my charm pack for that. Of course, first I would spend some time looking at it all adoringly before I could cut into it. I do a problem cutting into new fabric!
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I'd definitely make some quirky little cushions for my bed!
You're right! The prints are wonderful in this range! But even better that there are matching solids! ( I found Bella tricky finding matching solids without using boring cream or grey!) Thanks for the giveaway, I would make another quilt- this one for my eldest son. I gave my Bella quilt to my younger son!
Love love love this collection! If I won this would be the basis of a baby quilt as I'm baking baby no. 3, lucky child!
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Oh what a great chance just before Christmas , has st nic come early ! Think I would have a go at producing my first quilt project maybe start small with a change mat or cot blanket just to see if I can do it ! Love what you have done with the cushion thanks for the chance x
love that fabric thank you for the chance
I can't believe you can bear to give away this charm pack - the colours are just so "you"!
I think I'd have to do some paper piecing, just so I get the chance to fondle them for longer and then I'd make some cushion covers!
What a fun collection of fabrics - so many possibilities. I'm into pillows right now, so I think I'd fashion the charms into a great pillow for our living room. Thanks for the preview!
I'm on a hexagon kick (they travel well); I would make hexies, and then fashion those into a pillow for my mod living room. :)
I'm just in the middle of changing jobs and moving across country to a new flat. All of my stuff has gone over in boxes already and I'm finishing up work on Friday, going off to see family for a week, and then moving in to my new place. It desperately needs some funky table mats to personalise it, as I can't put anything on the walls. These fabrics would be ideal.
So glad that you love us that much! I like this fabric style too and I would make some cushions to match my nearly completed quilt made in Echo. Di x
I am making a quilt right now with my Echo and Bella collection--I would love to have a bit of Glimma to add to it! I see some fabrics in your pictures that would be lovely.
I love the pillow you made. This collection is a must, am planning on making a quilt. Thanks for the giveaway.
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I love your EPP - I think this range would be perfect for a baby bag - super stylish for mumma but also suited for baby. It has the typical baby pink, but isn't typically 'baby' fabric.
I will make a tote or pouch :D
Thanks for the chance to win
I'm thinking some lovely cushions just like yours for the lounge
If I am honest, I would stare and drool at and on the charm pack for a little bit first THEN decide what to do with it :) Yum!!!!
I love Lotta Jansdotter and have a little bit of the other collections too. I would use some of it for my Spring Carnival and the rest to make a lovely cushion for my bed.
Thank you so much for the chance to win some Glimma!
This new collection is lovely! I wanted to make a dress with her last collection but as my first attempt at dress making it seemed extravagant. If I won this, I might make a plain skirt and make a patchwork rim around the bottom with this lovely fabric :)
I would mix it with a neutral solid and make a pillow or two. Love this line - thanks for sharing :-)
I would try to make my own Quilt. x
I liked Echo an awful lot but didn't think much of Bella. I was so happy to see Glimma - I think it is the best of the three lines. I love your pillow, and if I were to win I would make myself a pillow, too!
I would definitely use my pattern I bought from you to make a quilt....my first one! ..New year project!
The charm pack would be a great, but slightly cheating way, of building up my collection of "scraps" for a scrappy quilt.
Dang, I love her stuff. I think I would make a simple table runner so I could look at it all day long!
I think I would love to have a bag in this color. Thanks for the inspiration
I would make the husbeast a pair of quilted pants (underwear, not trousers) that he keeps asking me to make. He's a skinny minny so the rest would make a lovely cushion for me! Thanks for the chance to win! And I love your cushion.
The colors are great. I would add them to a quilt that I am going to make for myself soon. I haven't decided on a design yet.
Such a nice collection. I would use it to make cushions for my daughters to take with them when they go back to Uni to brighten up their rooms.
They look gorgeous! I think I'd make myself a cushion or three...or maybe some pillow cases...
What a wonderful giveaway! I adore the colours and patterns in this range and I think I would make cushions for our soon-to-arrive grey couch!! Pick meeeeeee! Please and thank you : -)
I love the Lotta's fabric too and can't wait to see the line in April. I think I'd make something hexie with it.
Happy Holidays! Meanwhile, I'll keep looking at your blog for ideas.
You are so nice to give any piece of these fabrics away. i would probably look at it for a while and then make it into a quilt. I think I could use a charm pack with a bunch of solids to make a quilt that featured the charms in some improv blocks.
My husband would love this line - very simple and modern, just like him. I think that means I'd make him a cushion for his study chair.
I would definitely like to make a cushion. Our living room sofas are looks very shabby, so my 2013 wish is to spruce it up with new cushions. Thanks for the giveaway.
I am so glad to have found your blog. You have such fun ideas and projects! I have a charm bag pattern saved on Pinterest and these would be perfect.
I am (fingers crossed) getting a sizzix big shot for Christmas so I'd use the Glimma to try out that and make a cushion or quilt! Thanks for being so generous - not sure I would be!
Ooh! a quilt, definitely. Lovely fabrics. Thanks for the chance to win.
Ahhhh this is soooo exciting to see this. I totally in love and this line isn't even out yet. If this were to livw with meI would … veer away from a quilt and do a pillow + wall-hanging to love and pet and call my own
Hope im not to late to join in for the giveaway.... Love Lottas fabrics...so I couldn't resist...:0)
I want to wish you a very GOD JUL ...Merry Christmas ...from Sweden!!!
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