Well my husband did some magic with the comment database and the winners of my blog giveaway are:

For the pincushion package — Tanya! She wrote that her favorite/dream colors are “true reds and brick/deep reds.” It’s harder to find these colors because true batiks are all hand-dyed and then laid out to dry in the sun. Really intense colors like red are harder to get without fading/bleeding. Tanya has a cute blog where she posts her sewing projects and she has some great cloth napkin sets on her etsy shop too! Of course, I’m a big fan of cloth replacing disposable/paper products myself.

For the cloth pad set, the winner is Tawny! Tawny wrote that she was interested in cloth pads because she hadn’t heard of them, though she’d heard of cloth diapers. She commented, “There are lots of cloth diaper campaigns, but I’ve never heard of a cloth panty liner campaign (not that men would be able to handle it anyway hehehe).  It’s a great way to go green!” I agree that it’s a good way to be greener. And of course, since I have been making and using cloth pads for years — and I guess it’s a small-ish community of people who do this — I feel like there are campaigns out there — but I suppose that they’re largely invisible to the world at large. I think part of the reason that people think that men might not be able to handle information about cloth pads is that a lot of people still somehow think that menstruation is shameful or disgusting. This is just one more way our society tells us that our bodies are something to hide away. Menstruation is pretty much the most natural thing in the world! It just might be the one thing the majority of women in the world have in common!

Anyway, this is a rant for another post! I hope you like the pads, Tawny. And if you have any other questions come up as you’re trying them out, let me know! Tawny has a family blog that she posts on and some really cute crafts and accessories up on her etsy shop as well.

Finally, the winner of the vintage notions package is Whimsical Road. She has lots of really awesome sewing stuff up on her blog too and an etsy shop full of goodness as well. She wrote, “my luckiest vintage find was a set of vintage Pyrex bowls and a McCalls sling bag pattern from the ’60s that I had been SEARCHING for all year.. both at one yard sale and all for under $4. I would go thrifting every day if I could.” If I could go thrifting every day I would too! My bank account won’t allow it!

Thanks to everyone who entered! I was totally blown away by all the comments and I’m slowly getting through them. My dad is in the hospital right now so I don’t know if I’ll be posting for the next few days, but I’ve got another great tutorial in the works and some new WIPs to share as soon as I have the time to sit down and write up blogs!