Its a Handmade Christmas Competition Winners

Thankyou so much to everyone who submitted entries to our 'Its a Handmade Christmas' competition. I enjoyed seeing all the lovely handmade creations and again found it difficult to choose a winner, soooo

FIRST PRIZE

Congratulations to Becci! I was very impressed with her first ever 'quilt' and thought this was very inspiring to others. Your prize includes Shannon Lamden's 'Cookies' fabric, trims and appliques, several patterns by Melly & Me, Pink Fig, Amy Butler, Valori Wells, a book 'Home Sweet Home' by Jane Cumberbatch which provides 60 divine projects for today's domestic diva to make, bag handles, buttons and echino fabric. Please refer to my November post to view Becci's entry.

SECOND PRIZE

Congratulations Bree! Bree submitted photos of a beautiful bag made from Amy Butler fabrics, and a couple of lovely wall art pieces as her handmade gifts.

Third Prize: How can I not award a prize to all the other entries in our competition when they were all so creative and inspiring. Thankyou Lorraine, Yvonne, Karen and Susan for your wonderful entries and a $10 Kelani Voucher will be mailed to you this week.

Its a Handmade Christmas Entries

More fabulous customer 'Its a Handmade Christmas' entries. Oooh how am I going to choose, please feel free to comment to help me out! Please also visit my blog post dated November 28th to have a look at some of the other wonderful entries!

Karen has been busy with her handmade Christmas gifts this year. Well done Karen!

Sensational Tote-able Towel by Karen. Karen used Anna Maria Horner's clever Tote-able Towel Tutorial to make these beauties .

What a clever way of getting your children to carry their own towels to and from the beach and they look pretty stylish too!

There are many other great tutorials by Anna Maria Horner here as well as the most beautiful inspirational photographs. Speaking of the extremely talented Anna Maria Horner, we have received her COMPLETE NEW 'Good Folks' fabric collection and this will be available in our store very soon! The feel of this new collection of fabrics is amazing and you will not be disappointed.

Susan has also done a wonderful job with her Handmade Christmas gifts and I particularly love her 'Ballerina Bag' above - every princess needs one of these! Thankyou Susan for sharing so many of your handmade gifts with us all!

The recipient of this gift will be excited with this Space Boy to cuddle!

Susan has handmade this lovely pinafore, pants and booties set for a Secret Santa gift.

Shorts made from Erin Michael's Monkey N Round fabric.

Susan's last entry are these fantastic fabric buckets.

Thanks Lorraine for your second entry of lovely pillows in Amy Butler's 'Daisy Bouquet Mist' and 'Binky' softie from the Melly & Me range of patterns.

Again thanks to those who have forwarded me images and Good Luck!

Kelani Fabric Gift Vouchers - We currently have many orders for Kelani Fabric gift vouchers for Christmas presents. If you are wanting any last minute Christmas gifts for friends and family requesting what you would like for Christmas why not a Kelani Fabric Gift Voucher. We can post these over the next few days and will be received prior to Christmas. How Much - Your Choice!

20% off Saffron Craig's Beautiful Christmas Fabric Range!

AS SEEN IN HOME BEAUTIFUL!

Talented Saffron Craig's beautiful Australian handscreen printed Christmas panels have been in our shop for a while now and we have limited stocks! If your quick you too can make some fantastic unique and bright Christmas decorations, Christmas stockings, appliques or many other Christmas handmade creations and with this sale price they are not to be missed!



Use this fabulous Christmas stocking fabric panel to make one stocking or make two by purchasing the coordinating sunburst fabric to back each stocking! These stockings are also the perfect size for a bottle of red or white wine and would be a creative Xmas gift idea for friends, family, and work colleagues or fill with chocolate or soaps as a beautiful gift for the childrens teachers.



Stocking panels also have extra beautiful designs down the sides that can also be backed with sunburst coordinating fabric to make sensational Christmas decorations for your tree, mantle or gift giving. Another idea would be to use these to decorate your Christmas lunch or dinner table or use your imagination to create beautiful handmade Christmas cards or placecards.

Saffron has really picked up on the spirit and festivities of Christmas with her fabulous 'Christmas Decorations' panel above.

Make exquisite and unique decorations for the tree.......

or for the mantle, door hanging, windows etc etc...

or whip up some stand-out appliques for Christmas tees, onesies and singlets or that 'special' Christmas quilt!

All of the images above are courtesy of Saffron Craig who really is an amazingly talented Australian fabric designer and I have had the pleasure of getting to know her over the past few months - Thanks Saffron!!!

Please keep an eye on my blog for some postings of fabulous customer creation entries for our current 'Its a Handmade Christmas' competition. Send images of your handmade gifts to gallery@kelanifabric.com.au for your chance to win a fabulous surprise gift pack. On the 20th December I will post the winning entry and prize pack. Remember, entries do not necessarily need to be made using fabric for this competition as long as they are a handmade Christmas gift!

Its a Handmade Christmas Competition

I have launched our 'Its a Handmade Christmas' competition recently and here are some pics from a few of our entries. Thankyou so much to those customers that have sent pics of their inspiring handmade Christmas creations and good luck in the competition!

Karen has been both inventive and creative with her appliqued tee with a super hero cape that is detachable via press studs.

Karen has also made these pretty tops using the Pink Fig 'Olivia Top' pattern.

Ultra cool shorts for some very lucky boy for Christmas made by Lorraine using the wonderful car print from the latest Echino fabric collection.

A collection of lovely images from Yvonne displaying her fabulous Advent Calendar with embroidered Christmas trees and all!

Bree has made this beautiful bag from Amy Butler 'Daisy Chain' fabrics using the Melly & Me 'Dolcetto Bag' pattern. This is my favourite colourway from the 'Daisy Chain' collection. I just love the soft cool aquas and greys!

Bree has covered three canvases in the fabulous japanese Matryoshka Doll fabric. A simple but so effective wall hanging and the perfect Christmas gift for someone special.

Bree has been busy and has also made this adorable and very creative wall hanging using fabrics, hand sewn sequins, buttons and beads. Some little fairy princess is going to love this pressie!

Becci has made this wonderful quilt for her daughter using various fabrics from her 'stash'. Becci mentioned that this was her first quilt - you would not know it and what an inspiration to others thinking of making their first quilt!!



Becci has made this lovely festive top from the fabulous Pink Fig 'Lily Top' pattern using Christmas fabrics.

It is not too late to enter. Why not make my decision even more difficult by forwarding any images of your handmade Christmas gift/s to gallery@kelanifabric.com.au and you will be in the running to receive a fantastic surprise gift pack filled with lots of goodies.


Winner and prize pack will be posted here on the 20th December.


Good Luck!