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Bowie Sew Along - the final round-up

It's all over*, wham bam thank you mam....or maam, I've never really been sure of that.

Above are all the lovely creations from the Bowie Sew Alongers that came in by midnight Monday 8th April, the close of the Bowie Sew Along*

Rather than do just another post to round everything up, I've built a photo album/gallery, which you can find here or by clicking on this pic:

Or if you want the link to the gallery it's: http://fanbloomingtastic.typepad.com/photos/bowie_sew_along/

The gallery has a collage of each make, link to the sewist's original post on their blog, and because I think you should be following this creative bunch, links to their blogs and twitter or other social media accounts (if I could find them, if you want anything else adding, sew alongers, please let me know).

And as I noticed various furry friends 'helping' out (Loran's Ashton wins the prize for helping her paint, check out her post to see how), photobombing (Anne's dachshunds clearly know how to get into photos) or even playing with the Bowie paper dress-up doll (I'm looking at you Kitty), here's a tribute to the furry Bowie help alongers:

The Bowie Sew Along has been an absolute blast. I never imagined it would be this much fun or that we'd end up with such an incredible variety of garments.....and penguin ;)

Thank you so much to everybody involved, everybody who supported us or just you, yes you, who isn't that into sewing or Bowie but didn't unsubscribe me from your reader or Bloglovin when I wouldn't shut up about either ;)

And watch out on Fanbloomingtastic for things throughout the year in the lead up to the Doctor Who Sew Along in the Autumn/Fall (starts officially October 21st).

*there are at least 2 more outfits coming some time soonish, but I thought it only right we do the big round-up as promised now.....one of the rogue finishers is me, I didn't anticipate how much work I'd have blogging as opposed to sewing, so I haven't finished my final dress, a Life on Mars? shirtdress yet, it's coming soon. Meanwhile I've learnt more than I could tell you about running a sew along and the Doctor Who one in Autumn/Fall will be bigger and better because of my learning experiences. And the other outfit is coming from someone who's having a tough week at work, has family and I've absolutely promised not to pressure her any more than she's pressuring herself.....as I said from the beginning, the Bowie Sew Along was a bit of silliness for fun, and if it's not fun, don't do it. Them's my rules.

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A Daily Bit of Bowie 35 #bowiesewalong

Penultimate day of the Bowie Sew Along, penultimate Daily Bit of Bowie:

Only Bowie could get tied up on stage and say it was him ridding himself of Ziggy Stardust...

If you're lucky enough to live in the UK, you might have seen this and the whole of Cracked Actor on Thursday night on BBC One (probably still available on iplayer).

If not, here's the highly acclaimed Alan Yentob documentary for BBC Omnibus on youtube. It's an hour long, but a seriously good watch. Originally screened in 1974 on the BBC. There's some fab footage backstage of Bowie preparing for concerts and touring.

Sew on....I know I am....eeek!

For full details about the Bowie Sew Along and lots of other resources, click here.

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A Daily Bit of Bowie 34 #bowiesewalong

Back on A Daily Bit of Bowie 24 (Life on Mars the tv series), I promised you a little more of the delightful Gene Hunt didn't I?

Well here's the trailer to the 80s sequel Ashes to Ashes....where the main character Alex Drake is trying to solve why she's been transported to the past after being shot and is repeatedly visited by a vision similar to Bowie's Ashes to Ashes Pierrot:

If you ever want a fantastic few series to marathon, then you really should try Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. You can get them as boxsets or on iTunes. Top British drama. I know I'm going to very soon.

And as we're nearing the end of the Bowie Sew Along, here's a little bonus....a fan-made Gene Hunt Ashes to Ashes tribute to Chris Cornell's 'You Know My Name':

For full details about the Bowie Sew Along and lots of other resources, click here.

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Bowie Sew Along Gallery and links

Here is the Bowie Sew Along gallery of wonderful finished garments.

Click any of the pics to go to a post on the sewist's own blog for details about the make and more pics.

THANK YOU EVERYONE who's taken part or cheered us on.....you're all Heroes, for MORE than one day ;)

Leila’s Let's Dance t-shirt	Erin’s Ziggy Stardust outfit	Toni’s leotard for her daughter	Danielle’s Bowie t-shirt hack	Danielle’s Aladdin Sane vest for her son
Anne Who Sold The World dress	Tempest’s Queen Bitch dress and hat	Tempest’s 40s meets Rebel Rebel outfit	Laurie’s China Girl inspired top	Charity Shop Chic's Kansai Yamamoto inspired dress
Liz’s Bowie cardi and t-shirt	Kristonlion’s Dance Magic Dance scarf	Gjeometry’s glow in the dark skirt	Kitty at Gjeometry’s collar	Loran’s McQueen & Bowie Earthling coat
Lee’s rock star white half suit	Oona’s Let’s Dance dress	Suzie’s Ziggy played ..a Penguin	Miss Demeanour’s Halloween Jill outfit

You can also see more pics and find out more information at the new Bowie Sew Along gallery/photo album I've created here:

The Bowie Sew Along is now officially over, but....I've still got one big wrap-up post coming AND there's still at least one more outfit coming (more on that in the post later).

And if you didn't get to join in this time......the Doctor Who Sew Along starts Oct 21st to Nov 30th....get planning, this is a fixed point in time ;)

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A Daily Bit of Bowie 33 #bowiesewalong - what's the greatest Bowie song?

The NME ran a poll last year to find the greatest Bowie song.

The song that readers topped the poll with was this, a song he wrote not for himself but Mott the Hoople:

with the rest of the chart being:

2. Life On Mars?

3. Ashes to Ashes

4. Heroes

5. Station to Station

6. Ziggy Stardust

7. Space Oddity

8. Starman

9. Five Years

10. The Man Who Sold The World

11. Stay

12. Drive-in Saturday

13. Rock n' Roll With Me

14. Young Americans

15. John, I'm Only Dancing

16. Time

17. Changes

18. Wild is the Wind

19. Sound and Vision

20. Let's Dance

What's your favourite Bowie song?

Personally I'm surprised Rebel Rebel wasn't in the NME top 20....or Jean Genie.....Golden Years....Fashion.....

Let me know your favourite in the comments and if we get enough of a consensus (bearing in mind he's written so many), we'll have it as the final Daily Bit of Bowie next Monday.

For full details about the Bowie Sew Along and lots of other resources, click here.