Welcome!

Hi everyone!

Happy Wednesday! We hope you are all having a whale of a day…haha. Our {somewhat} cheesy pun is brought you today by our latest How To’s Day! If you hadn’t seen yesterday’s post, we shared a tutorial for our Wallace the Whale plush. He is the absolute sweetest whale, and is looking pretty dashing in our Design Studio Collection. You can find the full, free tutorial HERE.

It’s also time for another Winsday! YAY! This week, we are giving away our Petite Plume FQ Bundle on our Facebook Page. This beautiful collection of feathers, birds, and floral designs takes us to that wonderful Summer to Fall transitional period with its richer, more earth-toned colors. We thought it would be the perfect collection to giveaway this week, as we are heading into our last days of August… Last month, we launched our Summer 2014 Collections and were so happy to see all the positive responses from all of you. For this giveaway, we would love to know which collection is your favorite:

– Paddington Bear
– It’s a Bird’s Life
– London Fog
– Pastel Me More
– Opposites Attract.

Look for our Giveaway Image, “LIKE” the image, and comment below telling us which of our Summer 2014 Collections you like best! You’ll be entered to win our Petite Plume by Andrea Turk for Cinnamon Joe Studio Collection. See below for the full rules! :)

Recap of our Petite Plume FQ Bundle Giveaway Rules:
1. LIKE us on FACEBOOK!
2. LIKE the Petite Plume Giveaway Image on our Facebook Page!
3. Comment on the Giveaway Image telling us which of our Summer 2014 Collections if your favorite!
4. This week’s Winsday prize is 1 FQ Bundle of our Petite Plume Collection!
5. The giveaway starts today (8/20) and ends on August 27th, 2014 – We will be announcing the winner on next week’s Winsday Post as well as all our social media handles.
6. You can follow our Blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest to stay connected!

We are so excited to read all of your responses! We love all of our collections, so it will be fun to see which ones are your favorites. Good Luck, everyone!! :)

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone!

Happy Monday! We hope you all had a restful and fun weekend, working on some crafty projects or just taking it easy. If you’re looking for a new project, be sure to check out all of our latest How To’s Day! We’ve got some pretty fantastic in-house and outsourced projects, such as our Teeny Tiny Play Set and Felt Citrus Party Tags.

To help start off this week, we’ve got our Moody Monday! Today we are inspiring you with our Opposites Attract by Jackie McFee, from Summer 2014. This may be a collection of basic colors, but our Opposites Attract Collection is anything but simple. The lively and cheerful designs make these two neutral colors pop and dance on the fabric! This collection includes intricate chevron, floral, dot, scroll, and geometric patterns – who says black and white has to be boring? ;) We love the idea of a black, white, or black & white outfit with a pop of color in the accessories, or vice versa. We think our foldover wedding clutch is the perfect chic accessory for any upcoming party, and a black & white quilt is SO modern. We absolutely adore the look of our Elevation pillow in black & white prints too!

Black and white are SO chic! There is something so elegant about a simple black and white ensemble. Because the color palette is limited, you’re left to play with different patterns and textures to add interest to your outfit. One designer that particular reminds us of Opposites Attract is Ralph Lauren‘s Spring 2014 Collection. Lauren’s collection is a mix of colors, but the ensembles that we particularly loved are the black & white ones…of course haha. We LOVED the floral and chevron patterns, and the cool mix of prints in one outfit. Lauren knows how to have fun with fashion, and this collection definitely showed that. When a designer can create a fabulous outfit with limited colors, they are brilliant…and Lauren definitely is! You can check out the full collection HERE.

We hope we have inspired you with this week’s Moody Monday! You can check out the full collection for Opposites Attract here. Let us know your favorite way to wear black, white, or black and white! Have a great day!! :)

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone!

Happy Friday! We hope you are having a lovely end of the week. We are excited for the weekend – hoping for some better so that we can enjoy the last weekends of Summer! If you haven’t seen our latest How To’s Day, be sure to check it out. We shared our Teeny Tiny Play Set (Part 2) by Tie Dye Diva Patterns this week, and are obsessed with its adorableness!!

Another of our adorable project partnerships has been with Sweetbriar Sisters! They created the sweetest mother-baby elephant duo, and we have gotten such a positive response on these. We LOVE our Endearing Elephants, and are so happy to have them available as a free pattern. We definitely concur though, because they are just TOO cute!! :) We were tagged on Instagram by Jenny who made her own versions of our elephants, and we got soo excited!! How cute are they?! We just had to share them on our blog today for this week’s Fan Friday. Jenny is a teacher, and is busy getting ready for the upcoming school year. She is making these elephants for her students this year, and we think that is the sweetest idea ever! :)

She is on a roll! Jenny has been enjoying making our elephants, and said that they are so fun to make! We absolutely adore the color and fabric combinations she chose; they are all unique but equally adorable. She also made one with flannel, which she adores. Such a great idea!! Jenny is also giving away a mother-baby elephant duo on her blog this week! If you want to enter, be sure to click HERE for your chance to win.

Thank you so much, Jenny, for sharing your elephants with us. We hope your students love them as much as we do! Have a fantastic school year!! Be sure to check out Jenny on her blog, Facebook, and Instagram…and enter her giveaway to win your very own elephant duo! You can also find the full, free pattern for our Endearing Elephants on our website. Have a wonderful weekend!! :)

Happy Sewing!

It’s time for this week’s What We Love! We (The Camelot Design Studio AKA The CDS) have been posting the things that we love most on our Pinterest Board, so be sure to see all of our current loves there. This week, we have been intrigued by unique artwork and places that inspire us to be creative in our everyday lives.

We are so mesmerized by fantastical minds who are able to create something so beautiful or innovative from a simple idea. They motivate us to think outside of the box too. Whether it be pretty embroidery, chocolate LEGO pieces, or incredible street art, this week we are inspired by these creative minds to do something out of the ordinary…because it may lead to the extraordinary too, we just need to try. Onto what we loved most this week…  ♥

Shannen: Pretty Embroidery
Valeria: Chocolate LEGO Pieces
Vanessa: Claude Cormier’s Pink Balls
Marion: Summer Fence
Juan: Spider-Man Street Art

We hope we have inspired a little this Thursday afternoon! Be sure to check out our Pinterest Board for an abundance of beautiful & yummy things – those things pretty much fill our boards haha. This week, we inspire you to do something “outside of the box” and embrace your unique self! ♥

Hi everyone,

Happy Thursday! We hope you are having a wonderful day so far. We are excited because today means that it’s one day closer to the weekend – YAY!! :) If you haven’t seen our latest How To’s Day, we shared our adorable, new Teeny Tiny Play Set project by Tie Dye Diva Patterns. You can find the full tutorial, with patterns, HERE and HERE!

It’s time for this week’s Thankful Thursday! Today we are taking the time to thank one of our wonderful project designers. This week, we are featuring Veronica Koh Eischeid of VeronicaMade. VeronicaMade is the blog created by Veronica to share her passion for all things creative, fabric-, and sewing-related. Veronica graduated with a degree in journalism and a double minor is Spanish & design, and was an editor for the Better Homes & Gardens Creative Collection for 3 years! Along the way, she has continued to pursue her love for crafting – sewing, quilting, making jewelry, paper crafting, hand lettering, knitting, crocheting, cooking, and more. As well, she started an Etsy Shop to share her little handmade trinkets. On her blog, VeronicaMade, Veronica shares her latest creations, unique tutorials, and as well as some more personal ventures.

We had the pleasure of partnering with Veronica on a quilted project for our Free Projects Program! Veronica created a wonderful quilted pillow design called the Modern Cross Pillow with our Birds of a Feather Collection and we absolutely adore the modern and simplistic look of this pillow. The main pattern is a floral cross made up of equilateral triangles to give a fun, pinwheel effect to the design. We love how this pillow looks with our floral-infused Birds of a Feather Collection, but can imagine this pillow with our Fresh Solids or any of our other collections. Add this stunning accent pillow to your sofa or bed to add some freshness to your decor!

Thank you SO much, Veronica, for working with us and for creating a wonderful quilted pillow for us! You can find the full, free pattern for the Modern Cross Pillow HERE. As well, be sure to check out Veronica’s blog, Etsy Shop, and Flickr for lots more!! Have a terrific rest of the day, everyone! :)

Happy Sewing!