CONTEST IS CLOSED!!!! Thank you for all of your entries! Winner is announced HERE as well as information on the ebay auction that is now live! Please come and support this cause 🙂
*ETA I have uploaded a photo of the charms that will be auctioned off! I am planning on thursday evening for the auction launch. I will announce the winner of this contest and give you all the details for the auction then. I will also post the info to flickr. Thanks for all the support and help with this. In my latest blog post I talk a bit more about it. Please let me know if you have any questions!
**Elizabeth of Oh Fransson was kind enough to donate some more freckles coins! I have included a picture of them underneath the other coins. Thanks Elizabeth!
Well, I finally did it. I managed to gather all the Flea Market Fancy prints. It was fun and frustrating and everything in between. I am so glad to be done with that part and to move onto making the quilt. There were so many people who were so kind to me and sent me fabrics, showed me where to buy them, bought them for me, looked at every shop in London…the list goes on. It meant so much to me and touched my heart. It made this quilt so much more meaningful than it had been before.
I want to pay it forward. There are a couple of things I want to do. First, I want to do a giveaway here on my blog. Second, I want to do a charm pack on ebay as a charity listing for Somaly Mam. If you don’t know about this cause already, please click the link and find out more. I feel like I have to do something as a human being to this cause. I am looking into how to run a charity auction and will keep everyone updated on the details. It will not be for another week or so.
This giveaway is pretty great I think. It is a coin from every single piece in the whole Flea Market Fancy line, including two freckles prints in red and aqua. It is over 40 coins, I am too tired to count them all out right now. They measure 2.5″x5″ each. This is the perfect way to get every print in the line 🙂
To enter is simple. Leave me a comment. Then I want you to do something on your honor. I want you to go and do something nice for someone else. It doesn’t have to be big, it can be a compliment to someone who seems down, smiling at someone….you get the picture. Make sure in your comment that you leave a way for me to get a hold of you (i.e. blog, email, etc)
The contest will end on Wed. Sept. 9th. That should give everyone ample time to enter if they want to.
Thanks for all of your kindness. It has changed me and given me new perspective. I love when that happens. Thank you.
p.s. Some of the coins have been pre-washed. Just FYI 🙂
Sew She Sews's 
ooo what a fantastic giveaway! thank you so much for sharing these lovelies. It is so wonderful when a community comes together to help someone out. I’m looking forward to seeing pics of the quilt’s progress. cheers~
Thanks for the great giveaway!
What a wonderful wonderful giveaway I am so inspired with all of the goodness thats come from our Flea Market obessions
So very generous and SUCH a great effort obtaining EVERY print in the line – well done! I would love the chance to win and if I go my pay it forward will be to half the FMF coin pack and give it to someone else!
Oh WOW – what a great prize – just the pic of all the coins is so beautiful…. Thanks for the giveaway….hope I win….
I am so glad you got them all together Jaime! This would make a beautiful coin quilt!
As for a pattern for your quilt, I have seen a quilt in moda bakeshop I liked but I cannot find it back… when I do I will send it to you as a possibility.
love the owl quilt. your daughter is a very lucky big girl!
Extremely generous giveaway … like they say one good deed deserves another … this snowball effect puts a smile on my face 😀
How very generous of you. I agree that meeting such a group of kind people certainly changes the way you think. I love your idea of a pay it forward giveaway.
This is such a fabulous giveaway and a great away for everyone to remember to pay it forward! The winner is going to be one lucky duck! 🙂
Theses are lovely!
How lovely will it be if they reprint FMF?
I don’t think anything compares to the bright cheerfulness of this line.
What a wondergul gesture for an amazing cause. It’s heartbreaking to think about what the world has come to. I have three daughters and I shudder at the thought of anyone being forced to live that type of life, which is no life at all.
Somaly is an amazing courageous woman with a huge heart.
I think perhaps I will also have an auction for the cause. Thank you.
big hugs
It was so worth the effort for you collecting all these prints, they look so pretty together. Of course I would love to win a set of the coins, how could I not!!!
What a generous giveaway. I would make a coin quilt out of it and give the quilt away. Just working with FMF is yummy!
I’m so sorry for your loss. It’s so amazing of you to host this giveaway, and to do a charity auction.
Thank you!
Oh wow! You lucky girl! I would love to make a FMF quilt! It’s very sweet and generous of you to be doing the giveaway and the ebay auction.
BTW, LOVE all the baby outfits! 🙂
What a fantastic giveaway. I’m really looking forward to seeing the final quilt.
Your situation has touched me so much! I know it must have been difficult to share so thank you. A great giveaway with an awesome purpose! I’d be so honoured to win…crossing some fingers:)
What a fantastic giveaway. I love the concept of paying it forward. I’m going to spend today thinking about what I can do to brighten someone’s day unexpectedly. Thanks for the inspiration.
What a great giveaway and pay it forward theme!
I am inspired more than normal to be a nice person, thanks for the little nudge and the possiblity of winning such lovelies.
The quilting blog community is so generous, it is truely amazing and heartwarming.
great giveaway! and your quilt would be truly lovely 🙂
sasikirana at yahoo
What a great giveaway! You’re so nice to offer it. Can’t wait to see the quilt you’re making. 🙂
What a wonderful giveaway and for such a worthy cause!Keep us posted on any auctions and thanks
What a generous, fantastic prize with an even greater theme of passing on kindness…I’m putting together my “Iraqi Bundle of Love” today and will try to do something else “kind” each day this week!
(epban@bellsouth.net)
What a great giveaway! I know how hard you must have worked on building your collection — it’s very cool that you’re giving some of it back to the community! I sure hope my number’s the lucky one.
Great giveaway Jaime!! I love those patterns and would be a great quilt for my sister who is expecting! Tonight I am taking dinner to a friend who miscarried yesterday morning…that’s my act of kindness for the day, but you’ve inspired me to do something each day this week!! Thanks! 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway. Yesterday we had a wildfire just up the mountain from us, over thirty houses were completely destroyed. Today I will be gathering up some clothes, and food to take to the shelter for the people who are now homeless. Thanks for the push I needed to “pay it forward”.
Sweetness and light I tell you. That is what your pay if forward pledge brings. And that Flea Market Fancy . . . well . . .it is 100% sweetness and light!!
Very generous, and you are right, the blogosphere make sthe world so much smaller and there are great, generous, and helpful people here…
What I am Paying Forward…a coworker of mine, single mom of two, recently moved into her Habitat for Humanity house. I am moving, and need to sell ALOT of stuff, and I could use the extra funds, but I realized this morning, she could use the STUFF more, and your post finalized that thought for me.
So I just called her to tell her I am giving her anything she wants out of our “donate and sell” pile, no strings, no payment accepted. She will be able to furnish a great deal of her home from our giveaways. She was literally in tears at the end of the phone call. Her gratitude was overflowing, I feel better, and I know she will continue the Pay It Forward love!
Doris in Des Moines (We’ve swapped before!)
auntiedart(at)yahoo(dot)com
What a great giveaway! I can’t wait to see what your quilt will look like. I’m sure it will be wonderful!
What an incredibly generous giveaway, thanks so much for the chance!
Such a great giveaway – and so nice of you too! That would make such a fun coin quilt!! And isn’t “bloglland” great – so full of generous and kind people?!
I would love to win these and try a coin quilt. I will definitely do a couple of nice things today in your name. It always makes me feel better about my life when I do something nice for someone else. Thanks!
Congratulations on getting all those fabrics, and then cutting into them all so quickly! It will be fun to pay it forward with a little joy.
oh, how beautiful! i just love seeing them all together like that. i’m so glad you were able to find all the prints you were looking for – it’s really such a special line (and my absolute favorite!)
thanks for the great giveaway, and the reminder to do a little something nice for someone else!
what a great giveaway!! thanks for the chance!! 🙂
sewdeerlyloved at hotmail dot com
You are just precious. I am so glad you’ve reached your goal of finding all these prints for your special quilt. Thanks for inspiring us in so many ways.
How pretty do all those fabrics look together! You are amazing getting every single one of them! And what a great giveaway! (Wow – lots of exclamation points.)
I love coins! I haven’t used them yet but that’s probably because I’ve never cut any ;).
I think you’re doing a great thing- if people just said one extra compliment or did one extra good deed a week what a difference that would make and so simple!
this is a seriously great giveaway! I promise to be nice to more than one person if you’ll enter me, I’ll be nice to TWO people 🙂
very nice of you to share your coins…i would be overjoyed to win these!
krousegirl2 at aol dot com
awesome giveaway, thanks so much for the chance 🙂
regina
thank you for reminding us that it’s not always about the “fabric”.
This is a great idea! I do so love FMF. I’m so glad to see it here all together and the picture on the FMF Freaks site. (she sent me here!) Thank You!
What a wonderful giveaway! Thank you kindly.
Beautiful collection of fabric. I’d love to win. Have enjoyed checking out your blog.
I will enjoy doing something nice for someone – have something in mind already.
How fun! 🙂
I can’t wait for your set to go up on Ebay… what a worthy cause.
Here’s to paying it forward. Feels great!
I would soooo love these!
Thanks for the chance –
Thank you for doing this and your ebay auction…makes me want to do something too!
Awesome giveaway! It is so generous of you. Great idea, great inspiration… Thank you!
Ahhhh! beautiful pile of coins. Don’t they look so happy all back together again. I would love to have them come play with me.
You are very generous to offer us a chance for that to happen. Thank you. I try everyday to be kind to all who cross my path. You have cemented the fact that it is worthwhile.
Good luck to all who have entered the give away.
What a lovely give-away AND charity auction! Thank you, thank you! I’ll be keeping an eye out for the auction – beautiful fabric for a great cause is definitely worth my money.
Wow! What a great giveaway! I also like the fact that you are inspiring others to pay it forward. People like you are what make the world go round. Thanks!
p.s. It happens that I am also having a FMF giveaway on my blog too…come check it out!
wow! Awesome giveaway! I can’t quite believe you had the tenacity to track down all those rare bits of fabric – well done you, the quilt will look awesome!
What a wonderful giveaway.
Count me in!!
I’m off to share the love!!
Andi x
What a nice giveaway! Thanks so much for sharing!
How wonderful you have a piece of each fabric in the collection. You’re very generous to part with any of it!
Oh don’t they look beautiful all lined up like that!! Thanks for a wonderful giveaway. I would pay it forward by making these into a quilt for somebody else…just because!! xo
Oh wow, I am drooling – I have absolutely no FMF left, so winning these would be sooooooooo good! Thanks for a great giveaway!
Wow, this is fantastic and you are so generous! I have been sourcing seedlings from everywhere and so far I have managed to find every colour except the putty, which is the color I wanted the most. So would love this coin set.
I think you have set everyone a great task, something so easy and simple and yet we are often too busy or too caught up in our own worlds to do something so little but that could really make difference to someone else’s day. Good for you!
Megan.
What an AWESOME giveaway! I’d love to enter! 🙂
how generous of you! thanks for the giveaway.
What a wonderful giveaway!! I love that you are paying it forward.
I love these fabrics! I was to late to get in on the FMF the first go around, keeping my fingers crossed that they will bring this line back. Thanks for the great giveaway.
What a great giveaway! Thanks for sharing the FMF love.
This is such a sweet giveaway! I love that you are doing a charity auction as well. Thank you so much for sharing!
J, so glad you were able to find all of the prints. What an accomplishment, not an easy one either as so many of us know. Every morning I tell myself to give up on those darn seedlings LOL. Anyhow, thanks for the generous giveaway.
Love luv lv this line–so fun! Thank you 😉 Great idea!!
Wendy
What an awesome giveaway! Crossing my fingers!!
so lovely all together, thanks for sharing!! I have never seen the little freckle prints! 🙂
wow, how cool of you to do that!!
i would love to win the coins, and i think the size of my stash is a little out of control now, so…. i think either selling some heather ross bikes and donating the money, or making a few easy quilts for the nicu here in town
thanks for the great ideas!
raven@ravensrags.com
so fabulous and inspiring. thanks for doing a great giveaway. 🙂
I don’t know if I’ve seen all of the FMF line in one picture before. A sight to behold! Thank you for the giveaway and for being so kind!
I’ve been thinking about making a stacked coins quilt, and this would be the perfect fabric for it!
thanks for being so generous! random acts of kindness – they do make a difference don’t they? i promise to do my best to pay it forward, thanks for inspiring us!
great give-away!! i think it´s too late today, but tomorrow i will make someone smile, i promise 🙂
take care,
claudia
I love this line and it breaks my heart that I was late to the game and can’t buy yards and yards (and yards) of it.
How unique and charming…very lovely giveaway. This would be my first and only acquisition of FMF and would be lovely to have entire collection…big or small.
Blrohloff at aol dot com
What a wonderful giveaway. I am hosting one at my blog too ~ giving away fabric!! What could be better? Nothing. I will go and to something very nice for someone tomorrow, when they least expect it.
What a sweet great idea! “Ordinary Mary and her Extraordinary Day” is one of our favorite books and this is like a blogland version! The prints all look so great together- it is neat to see them laid out that way.
What a great giveway! I can’t wait to see your FMF quilt once finished!
This is such a neat giveaway. My niece is going to college and in need of many things. I think I’ll pay it forward with her.
Wow… congratulations on finishing up the long hunt. And thanks for offering up such a generous giveaway!
I love what you said about all you have learned from the kindness that is out there, I feel it too!A new perspective is always welcome in life. And your giveaway is fantastic, anyone would be lucky to win it! Thanks for the chance.
Truly wonderful! So VERY generous of you! I have met the most amazing people on blogs! I am inspired by what you are doing! Thanks so much for the chance to win the coins!
What a wonderful and generous giveaway, and such a lovely idea behind it. Thank you so much.
Wow! What a great giveaway! I will definitely contribute to the random acts of kindness! Thanks for the chance to win!
What a great idea! This is a fantastic giveaway that keeps on giving! Thanks so much. I would be honored to win and pass on the kindness.
What a wonderful generous giveaway! Thanks so much! I’m already trying to think of ways to do nice unexpected things for others.
My blog is http://bea-blacksheep.blogspot.com
Oh how I would love to turn this into a coin quilt. You are too generous. I am hosting a family/kid friendly dinner for my sister-in-law at my house tonight and I’ll be sharing some b’day mudcake with my lonely elderly neighbour next door today. I can be contacted via my blog http://www.allthingsmum.blogspot.com
this is a great idea… i’d be happy to be a part of paying it forward and winning would be the cherry on top! thanks!
Wow, lovely to see all of the prints together. It’s wonderful that with the help of other generosity you’ve been able to collect the lot. The PIF idea is fabulous!
oh what a great giveaway, so very kind of you x
FMF is such a fun line of fabrics. I would love to win this little stash of it for my “collections of fabrics!”
— michele
What an awesome giveaway! I will make sure to pay it forward!! Thanks a million. =)
What a cool giveaway! I don’t just love the prize but I love the terms as well. Nothing like spreading a little joy in your everyday life:) If I won I think I would dedicate those beauties to there very own quilt.
What a great giveaway! It’s so nice of you to share like this.
Wow! What a fun giveaway and a great idea to pay it forward. 🙂
you are amazing. what a generous giveaway!
This is so awesome of you to share your fmf goodness! Thank you for the chance to own a wee bit of every amazing print!
Such a thoughtful giveaway! I love the idea of paying things forward and I will definitely do my part. Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful fabric! Can’t wait to see the quilt! 🙂
What a nice give away. Thank you.
I Sure love the line.
Ching
Great giveaway!!!
Wow great giveaway thanks!
Wow, what a great giveaway! Thanks so much for the chance!
thanks for the opportunity – it would be such a treat!
I will – and I’m going to encourage others who notice my little “extras” to do the same. Thanks for the encouragement!
This is such a marvelous idea!! I love FMF — and love the idea of paying it forward too…
Oh, so gorgeous! Hope your ebay auction goes well… may have to check it out!
What an awesome giveaway! I only have one lonely print of the FMF line but I’ve grown to love them all. They definitely need to reprint!!!
Jaime,
What a nice thoughtful gesture. I haven’t had a chance to peek at what you made yet, but I am going there next! I have to be honest, I wasn’t sure what all the hype was about, but the more I see of it, the more intrigued I’ve become. My favorite print is the gold & white floral. I am a firm believer in the ‘pay it forward’ philosophy. It makes you feel good, and you often have made someone elses day! I would love to win your drawing and would make a sampler wall quilt for my office.
What an awesome giveaway! Love the idea of paying it forward!
Thank so much!
Love those fabrics…and love the idea of the ebay auction! Will watch for an update on when that is listed! Thanks!
Well done! And thank you for sharing.
What a nice and generous give-away!
🙂
What a great giveaway! I can already imagine a cute little wall hanging made out of these!
Thanks for sharing your charitable heart with us. The auction is such a great idea too! Best wishes!
jessicaburggraaf (at) yahoo (dot) com
Ooh please enter me if you are posting internationally. I will be doing a toy society drop within the next three weeks as my pay it forward. You are so generous to part with flea market fancy if it were me I would struggle.
My blog is http://thetwowindmills.wordpress.com
Thanks for being such a generous blogger. I am hoping to be picked, of course, but I also just wanted to say that it is so nice to find people who are so kind to others and want to encourage that behavior in other people! 🙂
Cheers! 🙂
I found your site when looking for burp cloths and was luck enough to see this giveaway!
Amazing that you managed to find all prints! There are some amongst them that I didn’t even know existed.
It’s very kind of you to do this giveaway, I am sure it will make someone very happy. (plus of course all the people who are made happy by the people who left a comment. That’s a lot of good karma!)
oh boy! Would love to be the lucky one in your FMF giveaway.
You might like to check out ‘The Toy Society’, I think it’s a wonderful idea. There is a Flickr group.
Wow! Thank-you for this opportunity. I know exactly what you mean about the kindness of others being life-changing. After meeting Stephen Lewis and hearing about his inspirational actions in Africa, a few colleagues and I started Be The Change, a website where teachers can find lesson plans K-12 all designed to educate around global citizenship and social justice. Hopefully helping to create a generation that appreicates what they are fortunate to have and that embodies “pay it forward”.
Cheers,
Lisa Michelle
toadsandsnails@gmail.com
What a generous giveaway- I would be thrilled to have a tiny piece of each of the fmf fabrics- they would truly be cherished!
What a generious giveaway. Cross my heart and hope to win. I think the fabrics you have choosen are amazing.
I have never entered a contest such as this but I have for so long desired the FMF fabrics I cannot pass up this opportunity. Thank you for sharing a part of your hard work and fortune in tracking this fabric down. Pay it forward is a perfect platform too.
I have long been a collector of 30’s prints, but these fabrics could make me start a new collection. I love the bright colors and patterns. The giveaway could help start my new collection!
What a wonderful idea! Thank you for sharing and for encouraging others to pay it forward.
I have only managed to get one of the flea market fancy prints. What a great giveaway!
wow! i would love to win this giveaway!
-off to check out the somaly mam link.
thanks!
Wow, what a generous prize! Thanks for offering it:)
Oh Pick me pick me please. This would be lovley for my little girl. I did something nice for a fellow swapping buddy. I try to do a good deed every wekk it gives your sould a good feeling. Thanks for such a wondrful gift.
Did I already enter this? At home with sick kids, my brain is fried!! Fantastic giveaway, your very generous.
What a wonderful thing. I love to pay it forward. There is no way you can have a bad day when you focus on doing something good, no matter how large or small it may be. Nice Job!!
Count me in!
Love this range…and love doing random acts of kindness. 🙂
I found your website when I visited Flea Market Fancy Freaks! and signed the petition in hopes to get some more fabric printed. I joined the quilting world too late and missed out on this beautiful line (and can’t afford to pay the price most are selling it for now). I would love to enter your giveaway. I hope I’m not too late 🙂
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Paying it forward!
Mel
such a cool giveaway! thanks for doing this, and for encouraging all of us to pay it forward. Will do.
have a good day!
What a great giveaway and I love the pay it forward part!!
Thanks for the opportunity. The charity auction is a fantastic idea as well.
This really is a gorgeous and generous giveaway, especially after working so hard to build up you collection! I look forward to seeing what you make with the fabric you have.
Thanks so much for the chance to enter, I can think of so many patterns I could make with these coins! Fingers crossed…
It is heartwarming to see such a generous offer and it makes it so much easier to pay it forward and spread some happiness around. I would love to be the lucky winner.
Thank you so much for this giveaway!
Zlatka
Such a lovely giveaway especially because it means so much to you. I’d love to win but if I did I would pass it on to the next person. Cheers. Found you via FMF freaks!!
This PIF thing is such a good idea! Count me in 🙂 I think the world in general would be a much better place if we all operated on the PIF philosophy more of the time, but that’s just my two cents. Thanks so much for the opportunity to win this fabulous giveaway, and for the reminder that we should all add a little more kindness to the world.
I am determined to make a blanket sometime soon, and this would be great. BTW, I am SO sad that I missed you!!
What a beautiful way to PIF! This fabric line makes you sing. It is so cheery. I would love to see it come back.
Thank you so much for being so generous! I really love the purpose of your giveaway and I think it’s a great way to extend kindness to others you don’t even know 🙂
I’m glad I checked out the Flea Market Fancy Freaks post again…. What a great giveaway. I might just put this fabric behind glass to stare at. It makes me drool…
elizabethlehman@hotmail.com
Wow – what a great giveaway and challenge to PIF. Thank you!
Sharon in FL