Because Easter is coming up, and because you’re all such a swell bunch of readers, and because Access Commodities sent me this beautiful thread kit, and because it’s rainy and gloomy in Kansas and I need to make my own sunshine….
because of all of that….
… and the fact that I somehow deleted the article I was supposed to post today….
It’s time for a give-away!
Silk and gold threads are The Best, aren’t they? And I think you need some!
Besides, the colors are Springy.
This is the Agecroft Sweet Bag Thread Kit from Access Commodities, which I reviewed last week.
The kit comes with 13 gorgeous spools of silk and a spool of gold thread (#371 gold wire), and two bitty bottles of beautiful gold spangles.
Originally assembled as a kit for the Agecroft Sweet Bag featured in the EGA’s Needle Arts Magazine, the thread collection can be adapted to myriad embroidery projects – the color palette is beautiful and the threads – oh! – they’re just ….. *sigh* ….. the greatest silk. I love silk.
Here are the Rules for Entry:
1. Leave your comment on this post, on the website, not via e-mail or on any other post (you may go directly to the comment form on this post on the website by clicking this link – but only after you read the rest of the rules!)
2. Please answer the following question:
If you win, would you make the Agecroft Sweet Bag, or would you use the threads for some other purpose? (It doesn’t matter to me either way – it’s just a point of curiosity.)
3. Please make sure there’s a recognizable name on your comment.
4. The give-away closes at midnight (CST), this Saturday, April 23rd, and I’ll announce the winner on Monday morning.
The give-away is open to anyone, anywhere!
Now…. I’m off to find today’s lost blog post! Enjoy your day!
Update April 25: The give-away is now closed! Thanks to all who participated!
Oh, wouldn’t I be a happy Easter Bunny if I won
these silk threads. I’d use them quite happily
in a “micro” project and I already know which
one!
Thanks for the opportunity, Mary!
Joy Perkins with micro-stitchery.com
As cute as the Sweet Bag is, I would rather use the threads and spangles on a set of stoles I’m making for my husband. Some of the colors are just what I need to finish a few of the designs I’m planning.
I do love silks and golds and all kinds of speciality threads. I would use these threads for my “paintings with threads”. I use mixed media in my work. Mostly I embroider into my paintings.
I do read your wonderful blogs, although I don´t usually comment up until now
Thank you
Rags
Hi there! Gina in Industry, PA here. Were I to win this delicious thread selection, I would not make the Agecroft Sweet Bag (lovely though it is). Instead, I would use them to start my new inspiration – stumpwork mini-terrariums (terraria?). : D
Hi, Mary. I like the little bag, and would use the threads to make it up as designed. I have found that the best way for me to learn about new threads and fabrics is to make up a kit so that I am guided by someone else as I learn.
Thanks to Access Commodities for making this available.
Sandi in sunny Arizona.
If I win, I’ll seriously consider making the sweet bag if I can get the instructions in the UK. If not, however, I’ll be using at least some of them for my embroidered waistcoat project (details at http://elinorofkentdale.wordpress.com/ if you’re interested).
Either way, the threads will get used very happily. They look truly wonderful.
Love the site!! My daughter has become a great embroiderer and these would add a great texture and color element to her projects.
I would love to try using silk threads. They sound fun to use.
I too love silk, and would love to win this giveaway. The colors are absolutely luscious. I doubt if I would make the Aecroft Sweet Bay, but would use them in crazy quilt projects.
Gayle Schipper
Hi Mary!
Lovely threads, sure would like to win those! I never had the pleasure to experiment with silk yet. I probably would use the threads to embroider one of the old patterns in the antique online library book thing-a-ma-jig. I love the old floral stuff…
Here’s to good luck and loads of sunshine!
Gwen Kok, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
I might do the kit; then again, I might just luxuriate in just being able to sit and look at those gorgeous colors. I, too, just love, love, love silk.
Mary,
I would love to make the Agecroft Sweet Bag of course! Being a reenactor, it would make a wonderful costume accessory! Thanks for a great blog and website, and thanks for the chance to win! Easter Blessings to you all.
I think I’d just put them on a beautiful tray and look at them for a while and see what they tell me they want to be transformed into.
Probably would not stitch sweet bag, but would use in another design just to ge the feal of how the threads stitchup.
I think I would make the sweet bag pattern but would frame it! The threads are so pretty – I would leave them where I could see them! I am turning into a thread-a-holic because of all the great things I see on your blog – now I just have to slowly acquire some and try to use them!
I would definitely make the Ashcroft sweet bag — it would coordinate perfectly with my embroidered Elizabethan coif!
Wow! What a fantastic and generous giveaway! I can’t pass this one up
I’m not sure if I would do the Sweet Bag or not…I’m leaning towards no. I tend to embroider non-traditional embroidery patterns; I’ve also never had the chance to work with silk, so I would be very excited to win such a luxurious prize!
Oh, what a lovely give-away … I hope I don’t immediately disqualify myself here by saying I’m not actually sure what my answer would be! I don’t generally ‘do’ kits, so my immediate reaction is ‘use it for something else’, but this kit is so pretty, and I’ve been meaning to give crewel a go for quite some time now, so I’d be very tempted! What I might do is use the threads to make a bag like this one, but my own version of a crewel design on there. But then again, I’m no crewel expert, so I might play safe and make the kit.
Oh well … unless I win I can keep prevaricating and never decide!
If I won, I would make the Agecroft Sweet Bag. A sweet bag such as this is one of the many things on my long, long to do list and if I won it might be just the thing to get me started (after I have finished the many projects I came currently working on, of course
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Thank you the opportunity to win yet another gorgeous give-away.
Mary – I’m not sure how you manage to part with all these wonderful give-aways! I don’t think I would make the sweet bag. I would just love to try my hand at some silk & gold. Thanks so much.
I’m not sure at this point, I’d have to take a closer look at the kit again…
Thanks, this is very nice of you, I enjoy receiving your e-mails.
Tery
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I would use the thread for something of my own design. Since I like some elements of the sweet bag, I may adapt them for a new project from my own imagination.
Mary Ann
Those are just beautiful. I would love to use them when I try some free motion quilting just see how beautiful they are or perhaps I would just sit them on a table and stare at how gorgeous they are.
Thank you for the wonderful giveaway. I love your site and read your emails daily. Thanks for providing us with such wonderful work you do and wonderful tips.
Hi Mary,
I’ve been drooling over this since I saw it last week. Probably both – there looks like the would be enough for more than just the bag.
Asha
This is a lovely kit. I don’t think I would make the bag pattern. I think I would use the threads from the kit to make a table topper.
Those colours are crying out to become butterflies (on cushions for my two little girls).
OOH, if you pick me to win the thread kit, I would probably make the sweet bag. My chapter is going to have it as a program over the summer. I just LOVE the thread colors, and silk is something I’ve been wanting to work with more. Hopefully I’d have some left over to use in other ways as well.
love your blog!
I absolutely love using silks for their fine patina and smooth stitches. I feel like I have treated myself to the most delectable of experiences when stitching with silk. I would savor these colors and work them into pieces in progress as well as those yet to be. Then I would be able to enjoy them multiple times!
Hi Mary, This is a wonderful surprise! If I am the winner, I would make the bag and hope to have enough silk threads left over to make something else as well. I agree with you, silk is such a wonderful fiber to work with. Linda F
Oh, I also love silk! And especially after the winter we have had in the Northeast (snow and rain pretty much every day, all winter long) I NEED some sunshine as well! I haven`t had much experience with silk embroidery, having only cotton floss to date–so this would be the perfect pallette and opportunity to give it another try! I would make the Sweet Bag, as soon as I find the directions (no matter if I win this or not!)
It’s a gloomy day here in Northern Virginia, as well. If I were to win this beautiful prize, I would use the threads for Liturgical items for priests of the Institute of Christ the King. I have been motivated by your website – the pictures and the instructions and your enthusiasm – to complete the first set of small altar linens – on to the burse for the pall!
Being as I am a “Crazy Quilter”, I would probably utilize these threads in my “Crazy Quilt” world. Love them so much. Have only worked with Gold Thread once and only with about 6″ of it. Thanks so much for all of your hard work keeping us up on the world of embroidery. Thanks again.
I should love the opportunity to experiment on my current projects with the collection of real silk threads and gold spangles.
If I won this giveaway, I would be making the Agecroft Sweet Bag. Because I’m planning on stitching this bag with my EGA chapter. Eventually.
Hope you located your lost post!
Donna in Virginia
Oh wow, what a fantastic giveaway! I have been drooling over the kit since you posted about it last week. I would probably not use it to make the sweet bag, although the design is lovely. I’ve been stitching little birds for box lids lately, and I would probably use it for that. I see lots of feathers and flower petals when I look at that thread! I’ve never used any wire thread, so that would be a fun new thing to learn.
Thank you for doing all of these wonderful giveaways.
thanks for another needlework drawing! If I win, I’ll probably just drool over the threads for a while … then search for a design.
regards, Barb
If I win, I will probably make the Agecroft Sweet Bag with these fibers. Since I have never used this particular brand of silk before and would like to know how it behaves before I start using it in other projects.
Ritta Knapp in Sunny Orlando
If I should be lucky enough to win that beautiful thread set I would make the Agecroft Sweet Bag design but frame it rather than make the bag. It’s a beautiful design and I think it would make a great framed piece.
Hope I win.
Karen
If I win, I will use the threads in my crazy quilting.
Oh wow, that is certainly drool-worthy. I can imagine 10 or so projects right off the top of my head that it’d be fabulous for. Right now I’m in the middle of planning a Venetian gown of about the 1540′s so all I can think of is that it’d be so very fabulous to do something like this shirt with the threads http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/workbox/extmencam3.htm but doing a sweetbag is very, very tempting and making one is certainly on my to-do list.
Hastings
I am especially excited about the possibility of being the fortunate recipient of this neat gift. In the event I am selecte, I will be utilizing the thread to embroider an heirloom church dress for my three year old great niece. She is an exceptional young lady and deserves something special to greet the summer in. I think a one of a kind dress will be just the ticket. Thank you for the opportunity. Have a blessed day!
I would love to be entered in your giveaway! I love silk threads, and the bag looks so cute!
Thank you!
Cynthia Lyons
If you win, would you make the Agecroft Sweet Bag, or would you use the threads for some other purpose?
Well, I probably would do both. I’ll try ASB first because I want to learn it. And then I’ll try something else when I get more ideas. I love silk too
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Regards,
Madhavi.
Whoa. Wow. Yum!!!
I’d skip the sweet bag and go do something far beyond my skill level with those, just to play and see what working with silk and gold is *really* like.
Would you believe I’ve never worked with either? AND I WANNA!
Knowing me, it will be suitably ‘easter’ in tone since almost everything I do is flowers and rabbits….LOL!
Happy Easter! The colours are lovely and I too love silks. I just finished a great workshop with silks and metals with the fabulous Margaret Kinsey. I think if I win (fingers, toes and eyes all crossed!) I would take the opportunity with “found” threads to experiment with a design of my own. It might end up being a bag, but I am tending towards small projects so it might be a Jacobean style needlecase/bag. Thanks Mary, and happy spring!
Happy Spring! Well, of course it’s pouring down rain here, gloomy and cold, so…not very “springish”….but hope “springs” eternal and soon the sun will shine and all of my lovely flowers will start blooming. I would use that gorgeous set of threads and bangles to make a sweet floral pillow for my spare bedroom. That room is pink, and is filled with beautiful antique furniture and my mother’s lovely garden floral sampler applique quilt backed in … you guessed it.. pink. Don’t you think a throw pillow on that bed done in these silks would be just yummy? I do. Have a wonderful day Mary. …. Brenda from Wilmington, Ohio
G’day there Mary,
I would most definitely make the Sweet Bag, full stop!
May your lost blog come scurrying home full pelt immediately and your home-made sunshine warm you through and through, heart, soul and body.
“The best blush to use is laughter, it puts roses in your cheeks and your soul” By that wonderful Chinese person Sum Wun.
Cheers, Kath.
Hi Mary!
Yes it is gray and drizzly in Ks isn’t it…..even in KCK today! I have been dying to try “thread painting” using Trish Burr’s DVD that I got. These threads would be perfect and beautiful! Thanks for another give away!
What a beautiful assortment of gold and silk. I would use the threads for the Ashcroft Sweet bag, it is beautiful.
Yes, I would love to learn how to use fine threads for the Agecroft Sweet Bag. I’m just finishing a Redwork Sampler from BirdBrainDesigns.net. I have been practicing embroidery since June 2010. All my learning mistakes have been worked out on a CQ Landscrape wallhanging.
hello mary
yes it is a beautiful kit……
beautiful colors……
i would probably make a wall art……
maybe the kit……
maybe flowers….
maybe still life(fowers theme)……
still making up my mind…..
thank you
and all the best
kiran seth
If my name was drawn I probably would use the silk in one of the many charts of Alessandra Adelaida that I so love.Thank You
Aaah..one of your reader’s lucky stars are shining !! I wish,I wish…:)
If I get those threads, I wouldn’t do the bag,I have another nice little flowery project in mind
Count me in please,
Thanks
Deepa Balagopal
Have a blessed Easter, Mary. While the sweet bag is beautiful, that is not what I would make with the thread kit. I would use it to make an Easter cross design – I have a Ukrainian design with a cross, a lamb, Pussy Willows, flowers, and Pysanky (the painted Easter eggs) which I would use it for. I think the colors would work beautifully. – Alessandra in CT
In the event I am selected, I will be utilizing the thread to make an heirloom summer dress for my three year old great niece. She is a special gift to our family and I think something special is in order for her to greet the summer. Thank you for the opportunity to participate. Have a blessed day!
In the event I am selected, I will be utilizing the thread to make an heirloom summer dress for my three year old great niece. Have a blessed day!
I will make the Sweet Bag. I like the flowers and love the colors, and although I need to create with threads and fabric, I am not creative enough to come up with my own patterns or ideas of what to do with the threads.
I am in the process of ordering the Agecroft Sweet Bag thread kit, so I’d probably use those silks for something else. They look so spring-like and pretty! And well, I get no spring this year, moving from the southern to the northern hemisphere. I’ll need a reminder.
Hi Mary,
First of all thank you for this give away, you are very kind.
I think that the Agecroft Sweet Bag is a fabulous project. I would use the threads for it.
Happy Easter
Teres@ C
Hello Mary,
Again thanks for wonderful give away.
To answer the question I am not sure until I get the threads!! may be I will try for wall hanging..
love@regards
Lakshmi Sadala
Mary,
Once again, you are being very generous with your giveaway.
Yes, I would definitely use the threads to make the Agecroft Sweet Bag.
I’m a member of EGA, and have been admiring this project since receiving the March issue of Needle Arts. If I’m not the winner, I’ll be sending off to buy the kit of these hard-to-get supplies.
Since becoming aware of the Plimoth Plantation jacket, I’ve become fascinated with this style of stitching. Thanks also to Catherine Jordan for creating this project.
Amazing how one project can create so much interest. I’ve seen the jacket, at Winterthur, and it is stunning. Even more interesting as I’ve read some of the blog on its creation.
A big round of applause to everyone involved!
–JoanneP
Hi!
Ok, this is my first comment, even though I read you articles avery day. But this time I was so caught by the spring colours that I couldn’t resists posting to enter the contest
What would I do if I won? I doubt I’d do a sweet bag, that kind of design doesn’t appeal to me. I’d resort to some of my mom’s designs, flowers and the like, she used to be a great embroider, like her mother too. Now, age has given her problems with the hands, and I am continuing the tradition…
And even if I don’t win, thank you for your kindness and your lovely articles
I would definitely make the Sweet Bag. How nice of Catherine to share her design with EGA.
No, I doubt I’d make the bag, but I agree with you that the threads are beautiful. They would make a lovely addition to my stash. Metallics always add a very classy touch and I would love having them on hand!
I would use this kit put final embellishments on my Baltimore Album quiltM. Thanks for all you do! Stella in Ottawa
The bag is so sweet–I’d probably make the bag. I just love thread! If not I would definitely use it for my embroidery projects. Thanks for the chance to win.Pam Gonzalez
Hi. barbobbi here. If I were to win the silk give-away, I think I would use the silks to make somethings for my children–not sure just what…. Or maybe I would find the kit too irresistable and make it after all. I’d have to look at the kit and give thought to some other projects too before deciding. What a beautiful gift, Mary. As always, your generosity is amazing. Happy Easter!
Wow what a pretty giveaway, I don’t know if I would make the bag but I know that I would make something very pretty out of those beautiful threads…I have never used that brand of thread and it would be great to give them a try…Thanks for your wonderful newsletter.
Hi – I enjoy your blog postings a lot! Thanks for all the tips. If I wont the contest I may attempt to make Agecroft Sweet Bag!! Thanks.
If I were lucky enough to win this thread kit, I would definitely make the Agecroft Sweet Bag. I love Catherine Jordan’s designs! This one especially appeals to me!
Carolyn in Eastern NC
It is a gloomy day in Indiana also! I would love to use the threads to make the Agecroft Sweet Bag – it is beautiful. Thanks, Leslie aka lesannmill
I’d love to win that gorgeous thread kit. It would be great inspiration to get something new started.
Thanks for the opportunity to win. I would probably use the threads in some CQ blocks that I am currently making.
Hi Mary,
You are such a generous blogger. To be honest, I would make the sweetbag and then use what’s left of the beautiful colours to try and design something for myself – nice springy flowers, maybe a little thread painting or stumpwork – not sure, I’ll have to think about that just in case I win!
I would use it for my needlework (mostly cross stitch) projects. I love blending filaments and/or blended colors, and absolutely love adding a “bit” of sparkle to all things.
I would love to win the thread kit and make the Sweet Bag from the EGA magazine. The colors of the threads will brighten my day especially since Minneapolis is expecting 1″-3″ of snow tomorrow. Everything is so gray and cold here for being the middle of April. Spring is bound to happen soon!
Hi Mary & happy spring! Can’t believe you are doing another give away so soon but I’m glad. If I won, I would probably do the embroidery but frame it rather than making the bag as I wouldn’t want it to get damaged with wear! Thanks, Sheila from CA
Hi Mary, you are so generous. I saw the Agecroft Sweet Bag in the EGA’s latest Needle Arts Magazine, and thought it would be lovely to embroider (I love embroidering bags). As it is always nice to use the right threads for a piece of embroidery, I would use the threads in your give away to embroider the bag – should I win. They are so beautiful to look at, anyway! Gay Booysen
Hi Mary, I fell in love with the Agecroft Sweet Bag when I first saw it in my EGA magazine. I’ve been wanting to try some of the techniques in the Sweet Bag project so I would most likely use them for that particular project. However, I also love threads, and sadly or gladly, am also a collector of them. Silk is my absolutely #1 favorite to embroider. It’s just so luscious and I don’t have any of of the Access Commodities fibers yet. I don’t have any spangles yet so those could be lots of fun. Thank you for such a lovely and informative site (especially the reviews and stitch videos) and, of course, the fun giveaways.
Thank you for making this link to comments.
i would not use the the thread to make the bag as I really don’t have any use for the bag. I would use it on projects like “Give Thanks” from Jenny of Elephantz. (www.elephantz.com) Thank you. Lorna
I never had the opportunity to work with silk threads and am just itching to work with them in a new project, but not the sweet bag. Thanks for an enlightning website.
I would use them for crazy quilting! The colors are just delicious!
I retired a few years ago and recently joined the East Texas Embroidery Guild after 30+ years away from any type of needlework. I have taken several wonderful classes with the Guild and supplies are usually provided for a nominal fee. However, once in a while, they will say to “bring thread from your stash.” What stash? LOL. I don’t have a stash yet. I probably would not make the Agecroft Sweet Bag, but would use the threads on one of the many beautiful Guild projects where we can choose the colors from our stash. Thank you for the generous offer.
I would either make the EGA sweetbag or a similar one that was published in Inspirations Magazine that I’ve always wanted to stitch.
I would make a men’s cap. I was calling it a nightcap but in research found that they were worn indoors and not just at night. I have a design in mind but am not sure whether to use silk or cotton. If I should win the silk that would make my mind up really quick.
Good Mary.
Weather i am getting it or not, i just wants to participate here because i am a regular reader of your news.
By the by i have to answer your question no?
I dont get threads like this in India, i will use this for all my embroidary needs.
Good you are giving away the threads is a very good attitue and I appreciate it.
Viji
Hello Mary
thanks for this new give-away it looks just lovely and I would so like to stitch this particular project. (This already shows that I would like to give the Sweet Bag a try).
Have a nice easter holiday!
Tina
Hi Mary!
I would make the Agecroft Sweet Bag! As I’m a member of EGA I have the magazine, which I dearly love. Good luck on finding the missing post. I hate when that happens.
Ooh, those threads are luscious. Hopefully, they will find a new home with me.
I would use them to embellish a crazy quilt block to help raise money for the Sendai relief effort sponsored by the crazy quilt international yahoo group.
Best wishes to you and thank-you for offering this giveaway to your blog readers. Hugs.
Dear Mary,
Yet another gorgeous giveaway. I would probably use the silk threads to make something other than what the kit was intended for. The Agecroft Sweet Bag is sweet (pardon the pun) but I would love to experiment with the silk threads on something smaller and work up to a larger project. I have very little experience with silk and no experience with gold thread at all!
Thanks again for the great give away opportunity! BTW the RSN video was fascinating yesterday! Makes me want to relocate to the UK and take the 2 year course. HA!
I would use the thread kit to embellish an Elizabethan coif. I’m in a re-enactment group and the kit would be perfect for the group’s Tudor Project that we are undertaking.
My goodness, those threads are just gorgeous. I would not be making Agecroft Sweet Bag. I am a crazy quilter, and those threads would just be fabulous to work with on an “Under the Sea” quilt that I’m in the planning stages of right now. The colors certainly are Springy, but they would work very well with my Under the Sea scheme also.
If I won the beautiful threads I would probably not make the Agecroft Sweet Bag. It is beautiful but not something I would use and no one I know would care for it……no, I don’t know a lot of people who have an appreciation for the needlearts. I do, however, have many charts that this would work wonderfully for and it would be a thrill to work with these wonderful threads again. Thanks for the chance to win them.
Brenda Schiesser
At least I enjoyed viewing the spring colors if not the spring weather here in Illinois. Thanks for that. No, I would not use them for the Agecroft Sweet Bag. Don’t have a specific project in mind right now, but have been trying to incorporate more silk into my “comfort zone”, so would use them to that end.
Oh my, this is just gorgeous thread!! If I were lucky enough to win, I’d use in in my collage work. I work with silks, velvets, brocade, etc., and these threads would be perfect for my embroidery work on the collages. Thanks for a wonderful giveaway! Good luck finding your lost post!
hugs, Sue K
Mary – I would love to do the sweet bag as it is offered in the magazine and I’ll tell you why. I am just starting to really get into emboidery again after many years and find that I really need to do designs that I can refer to pictures or that have instructions to guide me. Then at some point I can deviate a little and let my own creativity take over. But if I try to start a design without that initial guidance I find I end up in a mess. This sweet bag thread is oh,so gorgeous and also not in my budget (if my husband has anything to say about it) – so I hope I win because it will give me a chance to work on something really special. I am studying to do First Person Interpretation of Betsy Ross at living history events and this would be a spendid thing to be working on while I am in costume – shadowing my instructor.
Thanks!
Mary Ann Kronk
the Nacient Needle
Awesome packet of threads – I would probably create the most perfect project to do with those gorgeous colors. I have lots of projects to get done and these would make some of my choices so much easier. Thanks you for this wonderful opportunity. Judy C
I would use the threads first for the Agecroft Sweet Bag–but, knowing how much thread there is, especially on the 371 gold–there are many, many other things on my to-do list, my wish list, my fantasy list, and my in-my-next-life list.
Ann
Does #1 ever win? – maybe I should have waited. Lol Judy C
Hi,
I would love to win these fibers, I would certainly make the Agecroft Sweet bag. When I received that issue I was studying the bag. It is beautiful, The colors are beautiful, and I love to work with silk……..
Cheryl H
I think those threads are simply gorgeous. I am working on a stained glass window design from an old synagogue in Eastern Europe to give my husband for his 50th birthday in September. I think these threads would make it sparkle and add just the right highlights to my piece.
Dear Mary,
Silk threads- oh my goodness! What an incredible giveaway! I LOVE sweet bags and have always wanted to slow down long enough to find a pattern and begin. This sounds like a wonderful opportunity to do just that- thank you very much!
Have a lovely Easter- and may the sun come out again soon!
Peg in NJ
Yes, yes, yes, I would use these gorgeous threads to make the Agecroft Sweet Bag! Thank you, Mary, for this Easter gift to your readers! Sending you a bag of sunshine from the SE of France…
Sharon in France
I love the look of these threads. I will not be making the bag but would use these threads for another purpose. I am recreating and/or mending many of the vestments and other church clothes that our Priests use at Mass. They have many old vestments from various churches in Europe and Italy and I am working to restore them. I have a hard time finding silk and gold threads for this work and therefore, these would be excellent for the task at hand. Happy Easter to you and your readers.
Oh yes I will embroider the agecroft bag, and use them for other embroidery.
You give us with you blog the chance to go farther and try new stitches and projects.
any thanks. Have a good day. Clau
Please enter me in your give away. I believe I would use the threads for a project of my own design.
WOW! the thread is almost to beautiful to use. Maybe place them in a clear vase for display…I can think of several projects, cross stitch, and embroidery, and to add a bit of bling to my suits I am stitching. Endless, the possibilities are endless!
I don’t have the pattern for the Agecroft sweet Bag so I would use the threads for one of the sweet bags featured in the Inspirations magazine which I have long wanted to stitch.
Good morning! I haven’t entered before but this was right up my alley. I have been working on Celtic and Norse designs and thought these supplies would be perfect for that. Alas when I looked at the kit I thought the bag would be great for the SCA group I am part of. Could be a great edition to my rapier garb! Now I can daydream about both. Perhaps make the kit and use leftovers for my next medieval piece! Hmm…
I would love to win this kit and would make the bag and use all the leftover threads in other projects.
Thanks for the goodies.
Gloomy in Kansas and Glooooomy in Michigan with snow and ice to boot! But your prize is sunshine in an email! Oh, I just have to enter. First, I would need to go visit all your places to try and learn as much as I could about the technique and practice and then yes, I do believe I would make that stinkin’ cute project for just lookin’ at! Those are mouth watering colors that make me ache for spring to sprung already. I shall hope the lucky machine picks me but if not I will extend my congrats to the winner! Thanks for the Easter Present of Hope! May you too have a lovely day with you and yours.
Chris Beresford from Clarkston, MI
I’ll definitely make the sweet bag!
That pack is simply gorgeous! Those threads would go so beautifully with the sari silk ribbons and fabric scraps I am using at the moment – I have recently discovered hand pieced crazy quilting and fabric embellishment! They can be used for embroidery, needle lace, trims and braids, fine lace crochet and woven embellishments, and the spangles are a perfect match for the bits of brocade that come on the end of the sari ribbons. I can just imagine how they would feel running through my fingers as I sew! It would be a match made in textile heaven! I’m sure whoever wins them will appreciate them as much as I would. Thank you for offering them.
cheers, Caroline
The bag is very nice with lots of learning opportunities, so I would strongly consider stitching it. But hopefully, there would be enough thread left for another project. The Ashcroft bag doesn’t particularly look like a big thread eater. Thanks for the opportunity to win this set of threads.
After finding your web site off another site I shared it with my daughters they both found it very helpful watching the videos and your helpful tips. I am sure between the 3 of us we would put to good use the beautiful thread.
Have a nice Easter
Judy
Hi Mary!!! I would love to win this!! I think I would first make up that lovely Agecroft sweet bag and use the leftovers for something I would design! The colors are so lucious!! Thanks again!
Linda Mc Loughlin
No I probably will not make the Agecroft Sweet Bag.
I love getting your emails. They are enjoyable and very informative. Emboridery was the first thing my mother taught me when I was a little girl and she instilled in me a love for sewing as well. My mom could do anything from crochet, knitting, emborodery, crewel and sewing anything. She made a lot of mine and my siblings clothes as well as our childrens. My daughter received her first sewing machine from my mother when she was 7 and after my mother passed away in 1992, my dauhter was 8 years old and we made a memory quilt from scraps of fabric of clothes that were made for both of them. Such a wonderful memory piece. We have several of her crewel projects framed and hanging on our walls. Sorry to go on so. Thank you again for your emails.
Hi,
Thanks once again for running a very generous giveaway ….. you are spoiling us!
I wouldn’t use the thread for the Sweet Bag but only because I don’t know of anywhere in the UK that sells it.
I have been experimenting with Spirograph patterns and I think I would use it for that.
PS: I also have joined your facebook enjoy reading your comments.
Judy
OHOHOH I would so love to get my hands on that silk. I bought the thread kit for the jacket when it was in the January sale at hedgehogs. am wanting to do something with it.I don’t want to waste it without a pattern to go by.This would be great because there is a pattern to go with this one. I would definitely do the sweet bag to get my feet wet with silk.
What a glorious gift the thread would be. I would use it for something that I already have. I’m in a, finish the ‘stuff’ you already have mode. There is nothing that I have that wouldn’t be dramatically more beautiful with this packet of threads.
I do want to make the sweet bag. I have always wanted a small and pretty bag I could use when I am dressed up in a simple black dress.
I would probably use these beautiful silks on a rooster project. I have a pattern a I downloaded from your website months ago. This would be perfect for that pattern.
I am coo coo for Roosters and chickens!
Thanks for such a wonderful website!
If I won the silk and gold thread threads, I would use them for embroidering on my crazy quilt. I love crazy quilting because the options are endless, as are the types of thread that can be used. These would be perfect.
Hi Mary!
Happy Easter!
I love the colors of the threads, but nope I wouldn’t make the bag. My delight is surface embellishment of my weaving. Amazingly enough, the fabric on my loom would work perfectly with the threads you are giving away. I will use them to embroider and enhance the weaving (which will become a jacket eventually).
Thank you for this opportunity to try the fabulous threads!
Helen B of CO
Hello Mary,
It’s midnight here in Shepparton, Australia, but I can’t go to bed without entering your competition – like you I looooove silk!! Thanks so much for offering this thread kit, which I have been lusting after ever since you first mentioned it…
I won’t make the bag if I win; I’m fairly new to needle arts, and I am trying to build up a stash of gorgeous threads without completely beggaring myself!
I totally love your website, and blog, thanks for sharing the love… I’d like to return the favour with links to a couple of sites dear to me: http://www.johnstoncollection.org (read about the Christmas Tour – the Shepparton Creative Textile Group is decorating the Yellow Room this year, so eexciting!!), and http://www.atasda.org.au/maharajahs-garden.htm – the contents of the Saffron suitcase are on display here in Shepp at the moment.
Have a lovely Easter, Mary, thanks again for the giveaway
Judith
Hi Mary–
Thanks for another wonderful giveaway!
I think that I would probably not use these for the Agecroft bag, but would use them for another project similar in style.
I have in my head a sweet bag with stumpwork on it, and these colors fit nicely with the color scheme my brain has created.
Carol S.
I wouldn’t do the bag but i would use the threads for many other projects!!!
caroline D Québec
Beautiful threads! I would use them in my Crazy Quilting. I do love the sweet bag, but don’t have the magazine for the directions.
Well Mary, since I don’t have the supplies or instructions for the complete bag, I would use them in embroidery work on a crazy patch item! The threads look beautiful in the picture! Oh and for your information, I find I too delete work or mail from my computer by mistake!
Have a Blessed Easter!
Yes, I would use the threads for the Agecroft Sweet Bag: it looks like a lovely project, unlike anything I’ve tried before, and I’m up for a challenge!
Thanks for the opportunity to take part in the draw!
If I won I would use the threads for other projects. The problem would be which project. Access Commodies items are soooo nice. The silks etc. really upgrade any project
I think I’d use the silks for a magical themed design – fairies in floaty silk dresses and gossamer gold tipped wings calls to me! Of course, there would HAVE to be spangles everywhere – in the fiaires’ hair, on their dressesa ndw ings, and in the sky as well!
I’d also have to have some delicate flowers.
I already hav some gorgeous pale blue sky-like fabric that’s just waiting for inspiration to hit me – and I think you’ve got me there now, Mary!
I have a chart for some blackwork dragons that I’d love to stitch in brightly coloured metallics, so I think the two ideas could work well alongside each other – the soft sumptuous fairies, and the spiky, brash (but still friendly) dragons.
After all, isn’t that what the magic of stitching is all about?
Maureen (in the unseasonably warm UK)
If I won the silk threads, I would definitely make the Agecroft Sweet Bag. I am a member of a small EGA Guild in norther Idaho. We admired the bag and thought it might be a good project for our group. I would like to make the bag up and see if it can work into our curriculum.
I don’t have the pattern for the Agecroft Sweet Bag, so I would use the thread for another project. Which project? I won’t be able to decide that until I fondle those wonderful threads! Pam in IL
Gloomy day in Boston as well. Those colors are absolutely luscious – looks like the perfect Easter basket!
Mary ~
This is almost irresistible. I remember seeing the post a few days ago that featured the Agecroft Sweet Bag Kit and lusting after those threads! I just finished another project and I have been thinking the colors and design pattern in the sweet bag piece would be absolutely gorgeous as a framed and matted piece. I have a dear friend who will be celebrating a special birthday soon. But I wonder, could I part with it once I was done?? Hmmmm.
Thanks for offering this generous giveaway!
~Betsy
hi, I would like to be entered in your contest. No, I would not make the bag for the simple reason that I have so many other projects to finish, I do not want another project. hehehehe
Oh my gosh – what beautiful colors!! Makes my fingers itch just looking at them. I would check out the “Sweet Bag” pattern, but would probably use the silk threads for another project.
Oh my, those threads are beautiful….I don’t think I would make the Agecroft Bag but I’m sure I would come up with something very nice!
Absolutely to make the the Sweet Bag!!! Small bags, small boxes and small bowls are my delight!
Thank you Mary for these wonderful give-aways! It’s always fun to try! I would do the Agecroft Sweet Bag with these threads just to try them out. I am currently making an Elizabethan dress that requires some designs like this on the bodice so this would be a great way for me to learn how to do it and then have the bag to with the dress when all is finished. Keep up the great work!
Hugs! Sue
Mary,
Thank you for your blog.
I would love to stitch the sweet bag. I can also think of quite a few other uses for those threads. They are so beautiful!
If I were fortunate enough to win the silk/gold threads, I’d plan to make the sweet bag but I’d probably just treasure the threads for a while knowing I had a project for them.
Marlene S
Hi!!
The Sweet Bag is really not my cup of tea, so if I were to win I would most likely do one of the designs from “Lily’s Legacy”. They are really great!
Thanks and have a great Easter!
Kelly
What a generous woman you are! I wouldn’t make the sweet bag because I’ve got a spot on my wall for a piece that I’ve been looking at for several months, contemplating colors, stitches, etc. That’s what I’d do with this bag o’beauty.
Oh I would use them in several project. I am working on some Christmas decorations that would be perfect for some of these. And then I have a lot of other projects that I would like to try these on, some with butterflies/flowers, dragonflies/flowers and others.
Dear Mary,
It takes special people to turn a “things are not going my way” and dreary day into a day to do something beautiful for someone else. Thank you for your generosity again.
I had already planned to get a copy of the issue with the sweetbag instructions for a future project. If I should win the threads, I will not have to wait until I can put enough money aside to get them to begin the project. It will be like Christmas at Easter to me!
May your Easter be blessed, Mary.
Doris H Huston
I would stitch the most glorious gold encrusted coelacanth, a ‘living fossil’ fish. The gold spangles would be a smattering of scales. The fish body would be in the blues and greens.
~Mark
Yes, I would make the Agecroft bag and those colors are beautiful – better than Easter candy!!
I wouldn’t make the sweet bag… I would use the threads for a fabric photo album that i am in the process of designing…..
amehdiyah-from the dunes of dubai…
I am passionate about learning Goldwork and thread painting……….but not for a sweet bag. I would take a pattern off your site and use the threads for something fabulous for my daughter who is a very special person
Mary the rain is falling here in the valley in Nova Scotia today so I am looking for ” your ” sunshine as well. If I were fortunate enough to win the threads I would attempt to make the “sweet treat ” bag and use it as a bag to hold something very special.
Thank-you for your generoisity of giving, not only material items, but your talents.
Linda
I will probably make the sweet bag pattern but might put it onto a slightly larger bag. The threads are lovely and the sparkles just add to the smile on my face!
Hi Mary! I would like to enter your drawing! I would probably use the threads for a different project; I really enjoy all the counted thread embroideries more than surface…at least for now! BTW, where do you live in Kansas? I am a Kansan too.
I have been loooking at he bag in Needle Arts and if I had the threads I will do it. However, without the threads I do not think I will.
What would I do with this give-a-way if I won it: Simple… make the bag, learn a bit of gold work using the materials on hand, and create other beautiful projects.
(taking a deep breath as it wasn’t so hard to answer after all)
Thanks for the new give-away, Mary. I belong to EGA, so have already read through all the instructions for this little Elizabethan Project. I’m not sure I would do exactly this design….although I might incorporate it into a sweetbag I’ve been wanting to make for some time. I love Susan O’Conner’s sweetbags in Inspirations.
So good luck finding your lost post and have a great day!
Hi Mary,
I would love to have the thread kit,I have now watched the RSN video 5 times and have the desire to try gold work in the worst way…. Besides that, I generally am in love with thread.( ok, I am having an affair with thread)
I was thinking that I could create and stitch a family crest. I tried to submit before , but it said that there was an error so if you get two it is me again… I can’t think of a better treat from the Easter Bunny…. Cathie Bridwell
I love thread and yarn and spangles. I would probably modify the design – I always do. I get tingly thinking of stitching like the lady of leisure in olden days.
I would love to win the silk threads. I probably would use them in a crazy quilt project. Unfortunately, the area I live in does not provide easy access to silk threads. Thank you for your wonderful, informative blog. Reading it brings pleasure to each day.
Grovenore
If I win the Sweet Bag Thread Kit, I would probably use the thread to make embroidered squares to make a quilt out of for my guest room. I have been wanting to make a quilt for the bed in there anyway.
Debbie Jennings
P.S. Love your site and emails.
We’ve just started a Sweet Bag project. And I have been searching the www to find any information I could find about Sweet Bags. And there is so much info to find. This Agecroft bag was the one we all fell in love with. As I am a member of the Embroiderers Guild of America I have the magazine and that magazine has been read a lot. So we will start with this one.
Mary, such nice colors of rainbow. You brought the sunshine in Washington state with your give away. Please, sign me up, I will be happy to participate in it. If I win this gorgeous set of silk I will do a Sweet Bag and use the left over for my miniatures projects. Thank you, Natalia
Oooh..aren’t those just gorgeous! I honestly don’t think I would make the bag. I would probably just hoard that gorgeous thread until just the right project came along.
Thank you so much for the chance to win some!
jansie(at)gmail(dot)com
Thank you Mary–for posting this give-away! What a delightful prize, but the answer to your question is sort of like a New Years Resolution that few can keep!! I would l-o-v-e to make the Agecroft Sweet Bag. Why else would I already own similar projects by Jane Zimmerman & Chris Berry? Both partly worked & in need of silk/spangle time. I don’t want to make promises I can’t keep–but–you’ve reawakened me & I’ve excavated the JZ & CB kits so even if I don’t win, I’ll have plenty to keep me occupied in the Tudor style. If I do win, I will turn the thread pack into a program for my EGA chapter; members would work a flower of choice. We did the Fantasy Flowers last year & this would kick it up a notch. Bam!
What a great give away! I would love to win the kit to make as a gift for a bag-collecting friend. The Agecroft kit looks like a fun, different direction for me. I tend to stitch more when I get inspiration for staring at what I’m using and stitching. Any left over threads would be used in my lacemaking and embroidery creations. I love to put together palettes of thread and see what I come up with!
I would love the opportunity to use the silk and gold thread. I would definitely make the Agecroft Sweet bag. Thank you for your generosity.
Belle Gallay
Thanks for another great giveaway!
If I won, I would probably use the threads for different projects. They are luscious. Thanks again.
Would love to win this thread. I like the bag, but I have a special “friendship” block that I want to do and these colors would be perfect for it so I would try to do both!
Good morning Mary,
Thank you for another generous giveaway. I would use these beautiful silks for a light, airy project combined with gold work.
Have a blessed Easter!
Best,
Joanna Maria
Yes I would complete the bag and this would be a great Birthday Surprise/win… my Birthday is on the 22nd!
Love all your give aways! Angie
Ouch, good luck with finding the blog post!
But oh my those colours!
And thank you for so many very generous giveaways!
I wouldn’t do the sweet bag; it looks a little higher grade for me at the moment
Thank you again
Tessa from Stellenbosch
Hi Mary,
I would like to add my name into the draw for the Easter Give Away silk and gold thread kit.
I would definetly stitch the Agecroft Sweet Bag. It would be a gift bag for my Granddaughter’s birthday gift, as well as being a stitching gift to her. She is young but loves to stitch already and the sweet bag would be quite special.
Hi Mary,
I wouldn’t make the sweet bag but something for spring. Thank you for your kind generosity.
Camille Agnes
Dear Mary, When I first saw the Agecroft Sweetbag I went straight to Inspirations magazine (Country Bumpkin, South Australia) to look at Susan O’Connors’ Elizabethan Sweet Bag. There is one in Issue 36 but Issue 51 p32 has ‘Flowers for Elizabeth’ in all its golden glory. This is my project. I am lucky because the shop is close by with Susan O’Connor & others able to help me with this dream. Especially as my initial is “S” for strawberries monogram on the back. The gold from Agecroft would enhance the project along with the necessary Elizabethan gold spangles. If not Issue 52 has even more delights from page 54. Thank you for showing the world another wonderful silk and gold resource. With best wishes to all for this opportunity.
Susan Sampson (Sth Aust)
Well, I didn’t know what the Agecroft Sweet Bag was at first and was drooling with other ideas but now that I followed that link and saw the bag…it’s very tempting. I actually wanted to do some other stitching, possibly even tatting with it, but gosh…it will probably depend on my mood at any particular time. Ha! How’s that for vagueness?
Beautiful! I’ve been wanting to try out some new types of thread and this would be a new one for me. I think I would make the sweet bag, since it would be my first time working with silk and gold threads. Plus, my husband and I are both historians so that aspect intrigues me (I had never heard of a “sweet bag” until now).
What a delicious package of threads and sparkles! If I win them, I will use them to embellish several projects, always thinking about your generosity as I do so.
These threads look SO beautiful. However, I don’t really like the bag they are for. I’m getting ready to make a notions kit for all my ‘good’ stuff I use. Since I live in South Texas, I have ready access to some wonderful hand made baskets. Using this thread to do the top of a basket would be wonderful. Now for the design….
I have just tried needle punch and wonder would these threads work for that? I love silk and the colors are yummy.
after being sick for the last two months, I am excited about getting into new projects.and these threadse just darling.
Hi Mary- thanks for another great giveaway. Although I like the sweetbag, those colors just scream out to be used as a landscape. I’m thinking somewhere between an impressionistic and an abstract “painting” with the blues as the sky, and those lovely greens and golds as a field, the dark reds as a focal point (flowers, barn, person?)…
I would not make the Agecroft Sweet Bag but I would love to add these lovely threads to my collection for some future project.
Hi Mary,
You are being very bountiful this month! These threads just look so beautiful…
I think I would like to stitch something for my friend to hang in her brand new kitchen. She has been so supportive and kind over the years and I would love to show her my appreciation. She really loves bright, cheery colours, so I am sure I could find something fitting to stitch with these threads.
I am feeling lucky this week, crossing my fingers that the number generator chooses me!
Fiona – Bakers Hill, Western Australia
I would love to win the set of wonderful threads and embellishments, but not to do the Sweet Bag. I try to do Easter themed ornaments every year in needlepoint, and these lovely colors just cry to be worked into eggs and bunnies and flowers!
Thanks for the opportunity.
Nancy
There’s nothing lovelier than silk and gold. Those threads look very pretty. Thanks for the chance to win the kit!
I doubt I’d follow the project because I rarely do when I buy kits. Actually, I’d probably embroider som brooches or pendants. Partially because I haven’t do any other type of embroidery than bead embroidery since I was a kid so I sounds wise to start with small projects, learning all the basic stitches again.
Yes I would make the agecroft sweet bag. It’s so pretty. I love your site. I have learned alot from your how to videos. I teach children how to hand sew. I will teach them a easy embroidery Pattern. Thank you for your free patterns.
Linda Reilly
What beautiful threads, I’ve always fancied trying to sew with silks. I’d make something else as I don’t have that pattern and I like very modern embroidery.
Hi Mary -
I would use the threads to embellish a wonderful piece of fabric I have using different decorative stitches. I would then
have the piece framed. I would probably give it for a gift.
Jan B. in Florida
If I win I would do the Sweet Bag project — it would be my second time working with silk, and I’m not all that confident yet. Thanks for all the generous give-aways.
I would use this beautiful set to embroider the Resurrection Icon. I am collecting beautiful silks right now for this and another icon I am getting ready to embroider. Thanks for the Give away.
Lynn
Beautiful colors and I’ve never used silk thread before – I would most likely experiment with my own design instead of making the Agecroft Sweet Bag. Thanks for the offer!
What a lovely giveaway! Silk threads!! After a long time love of Crazy Quilting I have started to activly stitch crazy quilts. I have been told that silk threads are the most wonderful things to stitch with. The ease of use and the wonderful sheen they add to a project. If I were lucky enough to win these threads, I would certainly use them in my crazy quilting. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Deb
I hadn’t really noticed that bag before, but after looking at, it would be really tempting. It is beautiful and so are the threads.
Oh, oh, oh – I SO would LOVE to win this thread kit! I would like to stitch the sweet bag – I’ve always wanted to do one but just haven’t made that a priority, but if I could win this kit, I would have NO EXCUSE!
Thanks for the fun contests! Happy Easter!
I would use the silk to finish a chinese dragon i’m working on. That red looks awesome.
And i’m always up for trying new threads!
What gorgeous Spring colours as we enter into Winter – what a surprise that would bring – I would love to embroider a Spring wreath with golden bow
Oh Mary Mary!,
What a beautiful set of colors. I would surely use this set on a different project because I don’t have the one it was designed for. Thank you for thing of us again.
Donna PCBeach
Hi Mary:
I would use the threads for something else down the road, and thanks for the opportunity to win.