olive mae dress giveaway :: CLOSED

The Olive Mae Dress is simply breathtaking.  I found the lightweight cream and seal blue fabric in a clearance bin and immediately knew it was perfect for this project.  The dress features a ruffled collar, gathered sleeves and a luxurious hemline.  The dress bustles at the front = A piece of elastic hooks onto a button and then you pull the remaining fabric over and tie.  It's different than anything else I've seen or sewn! 

The 'good stuff' that you can't see are serged and french seems.  I hand-stitched the neck binding and hem. The neck binding isn't perfect...there is a small edge of fabric that I somehow didn't catch when I was sewing (somewhat of a bummer but it's not very noticeable) and when I was taking if off of B I noticed a few places that I should have sewn closer together.  Oh, well!

I purchased the dress pattern from 3Three.   I LOVE THIS PATTERN !  It's challenging and yields a unique result. You can check out some pre-made dresses and other lovely items at this shop as well!

To Enter the giveaway, simply link back to this post on your blog, twitter or facebook and leave me a comment letting me know you did (include your url link in the comment form so I can come visit you)!

Winner will be chosen at the end of February and contacted via e-mail!

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Update on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 by art nest

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Comments

[Katy Weaver]

IN LOVE! Twittering, blogging, and pinning!

[artfulife]

Adorable! Hope I win so my little Aris can wear it :) It turned out lovely Zana. I tweeted about this :)

[Rebecca Sayadian]

Love it, girl! You are so talented. Wanna be my personal seamstress? I will do anything I can to help you succeed. Love you!

[heather]

I LOVE this dress. I posted to my facebook. My profile is set to private so you may have to friend request me if you go to see the link. http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=31110539
Thanks for the inspiration,
Heather Broadbent
Chicago, IL

[mary catherine (little red fox)]

that is just the CUTEST little-girl dress i think i have ever seen! seriously! i have no children and don't know any that it would fit but how incredibly sweet!!! and i think all those little "imperfections" make it that much more special :) xo

[Jennie]

Thanks for posting about my pattern! I love the fabric you chose and it looks just darling on your little girl. Beautiful pictures as well!

This is, indeed, a unique pattern - I had such fun developing it! It's so comfortable (or so my daughter tells me) and gorgeous at the same time.

Please feel free to stop by my etsy shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/3three if you're interested in the pattern, as well as my blog: http://shapeofaspoon.blogspot.com for lots of project/sewing inspiration!

I'll be doing a post on my blog linking back to this giveaway next week.

[art nest]

[ Yes! Yes! Please go see Jennie's blog! It's sweet and has tons of fun things to read and dream about~ AND...Go Buy A Pattern (wink!) ]

[Thouraya Battye]

I facebooked:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/thourayabattye

Beautiful!

[hayley l.]

Such a darling dress-- and the fabric you found is so great!

[Nancy]

I have a Facebook profile specifically for my blog, and then a fashion blog on Facebook, so I posted about this giveaway on both!
The Facebook profile is under the name 'Ayla Kahlan', and this is the Facebook fashion blog:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=153142104724324&ref=ts

Thanks for the great giveaway, I love this dress! It makes me wish I had any sewing skills at all... :)

Nancy
nafairbank@gmail.com

[Ron]

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000139671639 facebooked it. Thanks, how I win.

[elisa]

The first pic is so lovely Susanna.
that terrarium! that dress! Both beautiful.
I write a post, I hope you don't mind.
Good luck to all the readers!

[elissa]

I did a post and link back dear! OOH MY such a sweet dress!

http://birchswinging.blogspot.com/2011/02/art-nest-giveaway.html

[liz]

I twit here http://twitter.com/#!/dokidokico/status/35651881942384640

Much Thankies for the chance dear
Good luck for me and everyone :)

liz_crowny(at)yahoo(dot)com

[Grace Wong]

Wow, thanks for the giveaway, the neckline is amazing!
Love the print too!

tweeted:
http://twitter.com/gracewong1/status/35859657708802048

shou.milk@gmail.com

[Jalynn]

Thanks! :) Shared on my Facebook wall... http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=592694012

jalynnstevulak@yahoo.com

[Tabathia B]

shared on fb
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=189302111102512&id=100000585237064
tbarrettno1 at gmail dot com

[Anna]

I tweeted about this giveaway!
http://twitter.com/perfectbluemoon/status/38260522503643136

Anna
perfectbluemoon@gmail[dot]com

[Rebecca Moore]

I just posted this on my facebook. This would be the perfect dress for my niece or my son's best friend Opal. Thanks so much!
Rebecca

[nicole]

http://twitter.com/#!/BTHM1/status/40323113522704384

tweeted

gorgeous dress!

[Hannah S.]

Hey SO CUTE! digin it!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hannah-Handmade/200408909971427

[Niamh]

Pick me...pick me! I Looooove this dress and my 3 year old would lokk fabulous in it!