Have you ever wondered what to do with those super wonderful little fabric scraps that you just CANNOT throw away? Basicgrey has come up with a really neat idea for tuning them into art! I've seen several of these in web-land lately and I have two to give away to a lucky blog reader. Along with these yummy sampler frames I also have 4 packs of Basicgrey buttons to go with them.
Check out the cute way the ladies at Twin Fibers used these samplers:
twinfibers.blogspot.com/2011/09/something-new-canvas-samplers-by.html
Here's a fun video showing what you can do with these:
To enter, just leave a comment telling us what your dream Halloween costume is and I will pick a winner on Monday.
Dread costume is Don King with updo wig. Prefect!
Posted by: Tracy May | 10/21/2011 at 07:16 AM
Betty Boop would be a fun costume.
Posted by: mcm | 10/21/2011 at 07:33 AM
What would make me look slimmer?
Telephone pole
beanstalk
carrot
but wouldn't a Wookie be fun.
Posted by: Jane | 10/21/2011 at 07:45 AM
Oh, here in Germany we do not celebrate Halloween.
Posted by: Monika | 10/21/2011 at 08:07 AM
These canvases are a great idea! I'd love to display bits of my hand dyed fabrics in them. As for Halloween, we don't really do much since we live in a very rural area. But if I did, I would have to dress as one of the Angry Birds this year. I think I'd want to be the black bird. It's not original but I'm hooked on Angry Birds!
Posted by: Vicki W | 10/21/2011 at 08:33 AM
Hmmm...dream costume...well, I had surgery not too long ago and I'm non-weight bearing, so I have to get around on a rolling walker. So perhaps something that incorporates my current mode of mobility. Like a train engineer or fire fighter driver or something like that. Now if I *wasn't* fooling around with the walker, that's a whole 'nother story! :)
Posted by: Denise :) | 10/21/2011 at 08:39 AM
I have always thought it would be a hoot to dress up in one of those very ornate outfits Queen Elizabeth I wore. I bet they weigh a ton, but the artistry in the construction was amazing. As for the canvases by Basic Grey, I am intriqued to try one. Thank you for the giveaway.
Posted by: Miki | 10/21/2011 at 08:56 AM
I love these frames! My dream costume would by something sleek, form fitting and sexy - the dream being that I would ever fit into something like that again.
Posted by: DebrafromMD | 10/21/2011 at 08:58 AM
Heidi because that was my favorite book as a little girl.
Posted by: Teri | 10/21/2011 at 09:00 AM
We don't really do halloween but a costume I always thought would be fun would be a Victorian Lady. Their dresses were so pretty with needlework, fine fabrics, lace... sigh.. such a work of art.
Posted by: SarDee | 10/21/2011 at 09:07 AM
My dream costume? Hmm...an elf of Lothlorien. I'd have to grow several inches and lose a few pounds first though. Because I don't remember seeing any chubby elves in the Lord of the Rings movies...LOL.
Posted by: Monica | 10/21/2011 at 09:30 AM
I haven't 'dressed up' in many years. Think I'd like to be a fairy godmother who gives out charm packs instead of candy.
Posted by: Marie | 10/21/2011 at 09:33 AM
Oh, this is such an easy one to answer for me! I would love, love, love to have an Elizabethan dress that royalty would wear!
I dress as a peasant class in my costume for when we perform at renfaires. I would love to be a royal lady with a gown to match!
Your servant,
Lady Ellen
:)
Posted by: Sherri D | 10/21/2011 at 09:33 AM
Oh I would love a 1920's flapper girl dress with the feather head-dress. If I only had the figure for it.
Posted by: Linda | 10/21/2011 at 09:49 AM
Nice products thanks for sharing. I think it would be fun to dress for halloween as Raggedy Ann.
Posted by: Cookie | 10/21/2011 at 10:39 AM
I stopped dressing up for Halloween years ago, but I always wanted to do an authentic period costume with bell skirt and parasol (ala Gone with the Wind). Now I occasionally dress my dog up in funny costumes, but that's as far as I go. She was Batman one year and an angel another. I don't think she had as much fun as I did though.
Posted by: Dee | 10/21/2011 at 10:49 AM
The sampler frames are awesome! I remember back in high school dressing up in 50's costumes for sock hops. So fun! Great memories...great costumes.
Posted by: Annette | 10/21/2011 at 11:10 AM
I think it would be fun to be a southern belle in a huge hoop skirt! (I love dressing up, wish I had the opportunity to do it more often)
Posted by: Pamela | 10/21/2011 at 11:27 AM
Basic Grey's canvas innovation is interesting! Like what the twins did with them.
For Halloween I would love to dress in Queen Elisabeth's II Coronation Gown and Crown. Oooooh that would be so loverly!
Ivory Spring's blog this week featured that gown and I have been in love with it since!
However....being just a Memaw in small town Kansas, I will dress all in black, put my Bat Headband on and my little fuzzy pup and I will hand out chocolate bars. My big
kids are embarrassed when I do this but the little kids love it. So there!
have fun out there on All Hallow's Eve.
Posted by: donna j | 10/21/2011 at 11:36 AM
We don't really dress up for halloween here in the UK - although the children sometimes do!
I love the basic grey samplers and I'd love to win one!
Posted by: Gill | 10/21/2011 at 12:10 PM
Queen, princess, Catherine the Great, any amazing fabric creation. Want it for the fabric, beading and embrodery, not the holiday! Neat sampler idea, thanks!
Posted by: Kate | 10/21/2011 at 01:35 PM
We don't do Halloween, but a costume I'd always thought would be beautiful to dress up in is a Victorian dress with lace gloves,etc.
I love this canvas idea they came up with! What fun!
Posted by: Sharon | 10/21/2011 at 02:55 PM
My dream custome is to dress up as Morticia from the Addams Family. If I do do I get to keep the body. The frames look quite interesting. I have some very ornate flower buttons I've collected over the years that would look great on those frames.
Posted by: Mary | 10/21/2011 at 03:04 PM
Dream halloween costume includes making me model thin!! LOL. I'll take that.
Posted by: marcia k | 10/21/2011 at 03:19 PM
I'm really not one for dressing up, but I always wanted to do the following for Halloween: Tie a bone in my hair and go as a "bonehead". Funny, huh?
Posted by: Lori Ginsberg | 10/21/2011 at 03:30 PM