12/22/11 Update: Winners Announced
Everyone on the Pink Chalk team has been talking non-stop about making handmade gifts this season. The trend of cooking our food at home and making things the old fashioned way reminds us that the satisfaction of a job well done with one’s own hands is a gift to ourselves and the people we share our lives with.
Handmade with Love is a celebration of making and giving gifts.
We invite you to link a tutorial you’ve written sometime in 2011 to one of the three categories below: Gifts for Friends, Gifts for Little Ones, and Deck the Halls. Tutorials that will inspire us all to make gifts for our friends and family, gifts for the little ones in our life, and gifts to decorate our homes for the holidays.
There’s some fun prizes too — see the details at the bottom of this post for contest guidelines.
Happy Holidays and Happy Handmade Gift Giving!
Contest Guidelines:
- Tutorial must have been written in 2011. To keep things fair and square links to tutorials written prior to January 1, 2011 will be removed.
- Limit of one tutorial entry per person per category.
- Tutorials accepted for submission November 15, 2011 through December 15, 2011.
- The Pink Chalk Fabrics Team will select 5 winners in each category. Beginning December 17, 2011 through December 21, 2011, the top 5 tutorial submissions in each category will be featured on the blog. Readers will vote for their favorite in each category. The top vote getter across all categories is the Grand Prize winner.
- One Grand Prize Winner: A Janome Hello Kitty Sewing Machine (yipppeee!!! go start writing that tutorial!)
- Two remaining 1st Place Category Winners: a $100 Gift Certificate to Pink Chalk Fabrics
- 12 remaining Top Tier Winners: a $20 Gift Certificate to Pink Chalk Fabrics
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Kathy Mack
Carrie + Diana
Wondering if gifts for our doggie friends count.
absolutely stephanie – I would categorize them as gifts for friends
Wondering if you have to have a blog to participate?
You need a location where you can post your tutorial online and provide a permalink. You could definitely do that on a website page. If anyone knows of other options for doing that please share. Thank you!
You could use Flickr, just put the instructions in the description for each photo, then put all the steps into a gallery or set for people to scroll through. Then you could link to the URL for the gallery. I’ve never tried it, but it might work.
This is going to be so much fun!
I can’t wait to see the tutorials that pop up! Great idea!
I am not sure I’ll have time to participate, but I just wanted to say how much I appreciate that you found a way (and were thoughtful enough) to include your European readers into this contest. Thank you!
I forgot to ask – is this only for sewing/quilting, or are other crafts such as knitting or crochet welcome as well?
I’m going to limit it to sewing/quilting Isabelle, but I’m already thinking about additional categories for next year. I think Yarn is something that we need to expand into. Thank you!
Thank you Kathy. Doggie friends tutorial is posted.
Great idea, so much talent out there, can’t wait to see all the ideas! Thanks!
I don’t have a tutorial but I sure am looking forward to see the entire collection of them here.
This will be my first time making handmade gifts with love & I’m really excited about it & am takin advantage of lots of fantastic tutorials – can’t wait to see all the wonderful efforts here.
I’m so looking forward to seeing all the tututorials.
Thanks for organising this.
What a great idea! I don’t have a tutorial, but I can use them.
So much fun Kathy and team, to have organzied this! Thank you!
I’m looking forward to seeing the tutorials!
Oohhh…I definitely have a tutorial to write! What a great idea!
Well I don’t blog but I sure use tutorials so I am very excited, thanks Kathy and team. And all the talented contributors!
Got to get thinking and checking my photos.
LOVE love love these projects. I have already got my sights on one that I will try out this weekend! (thanks to all who are posting their stuff, it’s great)
I’m so glad to see all of these links. I love making useful gifts for special friends.
Thanks for gathering these tutorials for us!
I liked the fabric line you showed Maude Asbury Calypso floral Thanks for this site
I’m loving check back to see all the new tutorials that are popping up.
What a great idea, I’ll definitely be using some of these tutorials!
I will be checking in on these links for “do-to” ideas on holiday gifting!
I am already enjoying these tutorials.
This is so awesome! Always looking for new ideas. Thanks for sponsoring this.
I am enjoying the tutorials; I especially liked the raggedy edge pillow from the Girl Who Quilts. I may have to try that one myself- she sure made it look easy!
Oh, silly me, I didn’t read that you can only enter one per category until after I entered too many! My apologies!! If you’d remove my Quilted Stripes Pillow entry from the gift giving and my Felt Flower Crown from the kids category, that would be great! So sorry!!
Thanks – a wonderful list of fabulous tutorials!
I LOVE this idea! I’ve linked up and can’t wait to browse all the links, there are never enough ideas to look at, are there! Thanks so much for doing this!
This is a wonderful idea! Thank you for hosting it!
These are wonderful! Thanks to everyone for sharing!!!!
What a fun, timely, and useful for all contest!
I’m participating in your contest and I think this is a great way to know different people and also learn new things
Thanks for the opportunity!
Thanks for this contest! I’m having fun checking in every couple of days to see what new projects have been posted.
WOW! Those are some awesome prizes!!! I’d better get cracking!
Oooh, I wanna play! This sounds like fun! What a great way to catch up on lots of great tutorials you may have missed throughout the year!
What a wonderful and inspirational resource. Love all the creativity being shared! ~Dee
Shucks! Missed the entry deadline : (
I just did a paper piecing tute and though it isn’t strictly christmas themed, I think it would be a lovely element in a design! I’ll look for this contest next year!
I love all the wonderful ideas!!
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Bellissimi tutti i tutorial e molto apprezzati con tanta fantasia. Partecipo volentieri. Grazie.