I finished my tutorial a couple weeks ago and forgot to post about it.... To celebrate I'm doing a giveaway for one of my BoHo bag kits. Just leave a comment on this post and the drawing will be November 3rd....
This kit includes a piece of high quality, home-decor focal fabric approx. 18 x 30" plus:
• 12 coordinating pieces of fabric large enough for 2-4 patches each and a variety of textures, sheens, colors, and patterns.
• Various lengths of coordinating gimps and cording.
• 4 lengths of various fringes suitable for use on pocket or flap might including 2 chainettes, 1 tasseled, and 1 bullion
• Various lengths of coordinating gimps and cording.
• 4 lengths of various fringes suitable for use on pocket or flap might including 2 chainettes, 1 tasseled, and 1 bullion
• 1 piece of fancy beaded fringe suitable for use on pocket or flap.
• 1 long piece of coordinating fabric suitable for a handle or for extra pieces.
• AND a surprise piece of lace or two .
• 1 long piece of coordinating fabric suitable for a handle or for extra pieces.
• AND a surprise piece of lace or two .
Not only did I finish the tutorial for my kind of bag but Pat Winter just published her book on BoHo Fever...which is available in print or digital version at http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/288760/follow
And I have about 1/2 dozen kits available on my Esty site... http://www.etsy.com/shop/olderrose
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116 comments:
Hi Gerry! I so enhoyed meeting you at the CQI retreat! I would just LOVE to be in your drawing to win your wonderful BOHO bag kit! thank you for so much inspiration!
Colleen Anderson
having problems posting comment. LouAnne here. Am leaving a comment as per instructions. Have no idea what a BOHO bag is - gonna go look at your tutorial. Perhaps if I win your kit, I can teach my group here in No.CA and spread BOHO fever?
what a fabulous way to enable another to make of these fun useful bags,, give em everything they need and then watch her have fun! Please count me in on a chance to win your wonderful giveaway!
Hi Gerry! I join Colleen A. in telling you how nice it was to meet you at the CQI retreat! I have always admired your work and meeting you in person was such a delight! I love your style and the BoHo Bag is something I want to try......so I am throwing my name in the ring for the drawing! Thanks for all you do for us with your wonderful work and inspiration! Josie Trevino
Hi Gerry Your boho bag is beautiful. Janie
Hi Gerry I just loved seeing your bag at the retreat and would love to be part of your give-a-way. Please add me to the list...
Hi Gerry. I loved your tutorial and I'd love to be entered in your draw. I hope Morris has recovered from his surgery....and from his Mom being away.
Hi Gerry. I am slowly working on a couple of bags following your tutorial. I ordered Pat's book today. I'd love one of your kits, or would be equally happy to with trims. I love the bags!
Hi Gerry!!! I just love your BOHO combinations and would love to win one!!! Will have to check out your tutorial!!! Hugs, Maire
Hi Gerry! I love your fabric combinations and color choices for the BOHO bags....hope to win one!!!
Hi Gerry, I would love to win this kit! then I could make my mom one.....
Thanks for the opportunity to win a lovely kit for a beautiful bag.
Hi Gerry, what a fabulous and stunning bag. It's a real inspiration to me as a beginning CQer. Now I'm off to check out yor etsy shop and your tutorial.
Lorraine3010
Great tutorial! Thanks, Gerry. I have to make one of these bags!
I love your work Thanks you for the giveaway
Deanna
It's absolutely amazing! Gorgeous purse and such a good tutorial that it inspires me to try and make one maybe soon! My biggest compliments!
Beautiful colorway, count me in!
Darlene @ ddoersch@yahoo.com
Well, I am seriously catching BOHO FEVER!! lol Count me in too please Gerry!
I love your BoHo bags and I would certainly love to win a kit. Please put my name in the hat. Blessings
Hi Gerry. I love your blog and look for you every day. To have the chance to win one of your wonderful kits would be great. Please count me in.
Pam. Hampshire UK.
Gerry, I really appreciate your blog and especially your block blog. I am really learning so much. Thank you for taking the time to do all the work that they entail. Your stash is to die for.
Catherine
Love the bag !!! Great tutorial,love all the pictures. Thanks for a chance to win one of your kits.
Cynthia
loveneedlearts@sbcglobal.net
Hi Gerry,
Thanks for the opportunity to win such a fantastic give-away! By the way, my grandson loved the button -- he actually wanted to keep it, and, of course, I said no. I think it was the first time I denied one of his requests!
Hope all is well with you and your family. Warmest regards, Marilyn
Well, I've got my kit already and got it started using tips from both your tutorial and the bag I currently carry (messenger type) and love. Thank you for the tutorial and giveaway. I'm up to making a second one if I win the giveaway!
Cathy L
Wow! You made a gorgeous bag. And the colors you put together for the kit are fantastic
warm regards
Angela
Love your color combination- I am a blue person. Please count me in your drawing. thanks, Jane in MO
I would love to win your BOHO bag kit! Please include me in the draw. Thank you for the opportunity.
Your bag is beautiful. I would love a kit to make one.
Great tutorial and thank you for posting and promoting CQ!!Would love to win the give a way!! I made a purse and lots of people look it all over for the details. I read your advice on stitching and some of my stitching is coming loose, needs to be fixed. It is a great way to get people instersted in CQ!! Linda in NM
Gerry what a great tutorial, and beautiful bag!
I get mesmerized by the work you show including the BoHos. Count me in on the drawing! Carol in Clermont
I loved this bag when you showed the progress you had when making it. To be part of the giveaway would be great.
Regards,
Susan
Great tutorial as always! Would love to win the kit as still recovering from loss of everything in Labor Day Fires in Bastrop, Texas. Thanks for being so generous with you great creativity.
Debbie H.
Loved seeing your BOHO bag at the retreat and having a chance to talk with you about Stitchmap. Would love to have one of these kits to make up for carrying to spring meetings at EGA. Thanks for the opportunity.
What a generous give-a-way. I'd love to win! Love your blog Gerry, I read every post with much anticipation. Your photos are always clear and your critiques are always helpful.
Kathy
www.shawkl.com
Hi Gerry, well since you posted your give away on my birthday, I'm feeling lucky.
In case you're interested, I also posted it to my blog!
Take care, Gerry
This is on my "to-do" list, can"t wait to have time to try one of these! Please put my name in the hat, thanks, "shortstuff", oops I mean Debbie (Maine)
campmoxie@yahoo.com.au
I'd also love to be in on your drawing. This is my first time to your blog, and you've been saved on my "blog list" now. Thank you!
I still consider myself new to CQ but I would love to try to make this bag! It's GORGEOUS!!!
I would love to win one of your BoHo bag kits!! Please count me in, too! Wonderful tutorial, I think even I could manage to make one :)
This is an exquisite bag, right up my street. Thank you for the opportunity to enter a giveaway, I would love to make a bag like this.
I love hand made bags. Yours are so beautiful! Would love to try to make one.
Thanks for the give away!
carolshepp at gmail dot com
WOW - I loved your BOJO Bag...and also the journal cover. I think that my granddaughter would love to have a bag...so I should try to make one for a Christmas Gift! My journal is so plain-looking....I think it needs a spruce up! Thanks for the great ideas and tutorials! I'm never very lucky - but go ahead and throw my name in for the drawing. ha ha - you never know....
Pam pforristall@hotmail.com
If anyone has not looked at Gerry's etsy shop you should. Gerry has some really nice kits put together. I purchased one and had plenty to use in several bags! The kits contain items that are not readily found everywhere, just in Gerry's Magical Barn"!
Deb
Beautiful bag and delish Give-away.... Can't wait to try out your tut and make me a bag.
I'm usually not a big fan of crazy quilting, but I really like these bags! Great job!
Dear Gerry,
AYK.. I already bought one of your BOHO Kits from your Etsy and I really love it! However.. I also like this Kit in your give-away.. so what's the harm in trying... right?! I've had the pleasure of meeting you twice and really look forward to seeing you again in your button class at Val's Wichita, KS Retreat. Oh oh!... I better get packing! :) Hugs ~Ing
i love this bag! It looks wonderful, good job :)
Love anything boho....thanks for the chance to win....ciao4now64@yahoo.com
Your boho bags are so cute! I would love to win the kit!
WoW! My daughter would LOVE a bag like this. Hope I win the giveaway. :)
Thanks for the pattern!
what a great bag. I would love to do this for my mom.
Oh WOW, a chance to win a Boho bag kit. Thank-you ever so much for making this offer, Gerry. I dearly and purely hope that kit decides it wants to come live with me. LOL Diane
I didn't know what a Boho bag was until I looked at the tutorial. Oh my, these are just gorgeous. It's wonderful that you have offered the chance for someone to win a kit. Very kind of you. -S.Faloon
Wow - who wouldn't want a chance to win something this opulent! A boho bag is in my future plans, for sure. They are gorgeous. Thanks for a chance to win some further inspiration to make one!
Wow, I am so excited about this giveaway! I love boho bags and have yet to try my hand at making one. They are amazing :)
How very generous of you! I would love to win this kit. I have admired your bags so much and it would be a great birthday present for myself! Thank you for the opportunity to win it.
Kathy aka The Mad Stitcher
The only way I could make one of these bags right now is to win this giveaway.
Fingers crossed,
Melissa B.
mbabecka@gmail.com
Throw my name in that hat, Gerry!
Pick me..Pick me...
what a fabulous giveaway. :)
This is something I've been wanting to do for a while now. So win or lose I'm gonna get my hands into it :)
Such a lovely bag and wonderful kit! Hope Lady Luck is with me!
I would LOVE to win! I'd like to say that I'd make it for my super-crafty best friend for a Christmas gift, but if I'm being truthful, I think I'd gift it to myself as a "Happy New Baby" gift (my due date is Nov. 5). ;0)
Hi Gerry,
I am working on a bag following your tutorial. . I'd love one of your kits so I can make a bag as impressive as your. I love the bags!
Carol in AL
A beautiful bag. Can't wait for the giveaway (not that I would mind having two bags), already going thru my fabrics and trims to see if I can do this too!
your bag is just very wonderful . i loved the giveaway. count me in too , i would love to win this.
Hi Gerry
Blog doesnt like me tonight- its gone and chewed up my first try- anyway --Thank you for such a clear and consise boho bag making tute.I also enjoyed reading Susans differences as well.Loved all of the photos as well - love it big time!!!
love n hugs bear xoxox
Really appreciate your tutorials and would love to make it a BoHo Ho Christmas for a special friend.
This is just Beautiful. I love your work
I would just love to win one of your kits! It sure would help me learn how to choose all those wonderful trims!
Huggs, Nancy
Hi Gerry: Always enjoy your blog - your kits look fabulous.
I would love to win one of your kits and make one of my own.
Thanks, Denise
I have never seen these beautiful bags before. One way or another I will have one. Winning the draw on this one would be a very nice way to get one. Thanx!
This is the perfect occasion to get all the stuff needed to make such a bag.
Hopefully I will be the lucky winner ;)
Definitely going to make one of these. Hopefully with your kit. Thanks for sharing your great work. New CQ member
Lynn
These bags are awesome! I have a friend that made herself one. I would love to make one for myself!
What a beautiful bag. Thanks for the tutorial and thanks for the chance to win your giveaway.
Hi Gerry, I too have yet to see a "live" BOHO bag, but if I win and follow your tutorial..I think I could soon! Thankyou for your generosity and the opportunity. Maureen
Wow, I am sooo glad I found your blog! I just recently made my 1st "crazy quilt" project (which needs to be a little crazier to be classified as crazy) lol but I book marked your blog and look forward to seeing more projects and info!
I have been following your tutorial - and am in such awe of your work
Thank you so very much for giving me the chance of entering your giveaway for such a treasure of a bag
It'll be a very treasured item and an heirloom for whoever is the lucky person wins it - I am certain. Just imagine the feeling of holding and owning and original work of art - that no-one else in the whole world would have!
Good luck everyone
How fun it would be to win your kit. No need to mail it to me, just bring it along to Wichita.
Marci
marcih@kc.rr.com
I'd love a chance to enter for this fabulous kit!!
Thanks for the great giveaway :)
kimberlybreid@hotmail.com
This is a wonderful giveaway. I would love to win the kit. Handbags and jewelry are my passions. Thanks
Omg, how beautiful. Been doing some crazy quilting and was trying to figure out what do with these panels i have completed. TY
I love purses and would love to win one of yours
your BoHo bag is beautiful. I would love to win one of your kits to make my own.
Thanks for the tutorial. Looks like a fun and interesting project.
sweepster49 at comcast dot net
Wow! What cool stuff. Nothing better than a bunch of trims!
I am just starting to think about crazy quilting and would love a smaller project to see if I can actually want to do this type of project.
What a great giveaway. I know I would love to be the proud owner of this prize. I love messing about with material like this. I do hope I can win, but thanks for the chance.
Add me to the list of people who would love to win this kit! I've been drooling over your boho bag and want one, too! :-)
Wow...This looks like so much fun! I can't wait to make one. I have lots of laces, doilies, trims, hankies and linens to work with...just need to find some tapestries. Great tutorial! Sue
What a fun bag to make Please enter me in the drawing. It will be fun to make
I can't seem to post a comment unless I use anonymous, but I would like to enter in the drawing. Thanks for the tutorial.
Barb
craftirn@cox.net
Eu adoraria ganhar este brinde. Obrigado.Sou brasileira. helenahvenancio@hotmail.com
sooo cute would LOVE to be entered in the giveaway.debinidaho@yahoo.com
Please add my name, too. How much fun to create a unique bag!!!
leliaevelyn at gmail dot com
Lovely bag!!I would love to make 1 or a couple of hundred of these!!This might inspire me to dust off my sewing machine,thank you for a wonderful giveaway!! nangymama@yahoo.com
Thanks for a chance to win this lovely bag - it looks like great fun!
Sorry but the form isn't working properly (in Safari) and wouldn't allow me to comment with my google profile.
Smitchak( at gmail)
Wow! These look like fun!
Sounds awesome. Those bags are very beautiful. I would love to win a kit.
ebbtide45 at yahoo.com
Gerry your book cover is wonderful!
Morris has such an elegant nose!
thank you for sharing such great tips I have learned alot from you!
Flora in Bothell
Hi Gerry,
Please may I be in the draw to try my luck at winning one of your delightful bags.
I saw them for real at the retreat and they are so beautiful.
Hugs Pam Cornwall UK
Hi Gerry
I just came by to look at what you have been doing and found your gorgeous boho bag tutorial and giveaway. You did such a fantastic job with the tutorial and so easy to follow. Well done!
I'd be so happy to be in your draw too so I can go crazy.
Hugs,
Suzy
Oh,how fun! I love your work!
Jeanne
This looks like more fun than a person should have!
Beryl
Ohhh, I like your bag designs for this boho bag!!!
debyeo at hotmail dot com
wow! Your bag is gorgeous. Love the colors. Charleen
Definitely going to have to try making one (or more!) of these bags!
What a wonderful creation. I am new to crazy quilting, and would love to be a part of the give away. Please enter me in your contest.
Lucinda in NC
jersix16@yahoo.com
love the boho bags. have thought about making one.....this could be the catalyst!
What a great opportunity. I would love to make a BOHO bag for my mom, so this would be my chance. Thanks so much.
Thanks for the chance to win one of these fabulous kits! I love your BOHO bags.
katiedidit
odgbk at AOL dot com
Thank you for the chance to enter your contest. I'm just learning how to do CQ, and I'd love to try this bag.
This looks soooo fun!!
Thanks so much for a wonderful blog!! I sure enjoy everything you do! And - your buttons are to die for - someday I will have one!!Watching the migrating bird flocks this morning makes me think of your blog and your button birds! So much fun and so beautiful! Enjoy this day...
Judy
PS - I love the Mary Poppins look of you and your bag!
Your Boho bags are really gorgeous. And it really inspires me to try making one too. But will it still be easy even for starters to make Boho bags?
TheBuenaOnda.com
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