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Hi everyone!

Happy Friday! I hope you all had a fantastic week – so excited and ready for the weekend!! :)

Time to end a great week with our Fan Friday! Today we are featuring a fun Coraline Laptop Bag by Valerie Higgins of Eldra Ann Designs. Eldra Ann Designs is a small Etsy shop that Valerie started last year, as a way to share her fun project creations. Sewing is something she learnt from her mom and grandmothers, and now is an enjoyable hobby that helps relieve the daily stress (oh, we can so relate!). She said that she can get lost into a project, way into the night, but loves every minute of it. She opened up Eldra Ann Designs to share with others, specifically creating custom orders for people.

One of the custom orders Valerie received was for a laptop bag. She used an altered version of Swoon Patterns‘ (one of our faves!) Dakota Bag and used our Coraline by Camelot Design Studio collection as the main fabric, including a fun interior and strap detailing. We love the use of the coral pattern, while keeping the rest of the bag neutral with a gray fabric. The bag is finished with two hidden snaps, and makes for the perfect, stylish bag for carrying your laptop – either to work or school! 

Thank you for the fabric love, Valerie! We’re so glad you love our Coraline Collection and chose it for this bag. We adore it! You can find more from Valerie on her Instagram and Etsy. Have an incredible weekend!!!

Happy Sewing!

It’s time for this week’s What We Love ♥ Here’s to #50!! This week, we have been getting a little nostalgic with some childhood favorites. Anyone else read Frog & Toad, as a child or parent? The illustrations are just beautiful. As well as Moomins on the Riviera. Furthermore, food is on the brain – our famous Montreal bagels are an everyday favorite, finished off with a good beer. See what else has been inspiring us this week… ♥

Ciana: Pretty Pastel Print
Shannen: Wooden Beer Tote
Sara: Moomins on the Riviera
Juan: Juan Pablo Montoya
Vanessa: Frog & Toad
Marion: Montreal Bagels
Valeria: “Pretty Stuff” Makeup Clutch

You can find lots more “pretty stuff” on our Pinterest. Hope we’ve inspired you!! We’d love to know what you have been loving most this week.

Hi everyone,

Happy Wednesday! I hope you all are doing well today. It has been SO hot this week – waking up to 24°C/75°F (plus humidity!) has not been super fun, but at least it’s nice & sunny!

It’s Winsday, so that means it’s time to announce the winner of this week’s giveaway. This week, we hosted a Gypsy Lane FQ Bundle Giveaway on our Facebook Page, and in line with our latest collections launch, we asked you what your favorite Spring 2015 collection was. From Star Wars: Immortals to Green with Envy, we saw them all – and it was so fun to read which were favorites! (And, stay tuned for a tally of the results too).

Thank you to everyone who took the time to enter our giveaway!! We had a blast, and hope you did  too. But, there could only be one winner… and the winner of our Gypsy Lane FQ bundle is:

Congratulations, Samantha Paull! You are the winner of our Gypsy Lane FQB!! We are so excited for you, and hope you have fun creating. We’d love to see what you make. Please send us your mailing address to info@camelotfabrics.com by June 3rd, 2015. And to everyone else who entered, stay tuned for lots more giveaways to come! Until next Winsday…

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone,

Happy Monday!! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. And to our fellow American friends, wishing you all a lovely Memorial Day!

It’s time to start off the week with our Moody Monday! Today we are featuring another of our new Spring 2015 collections, Eye Candy by Jackie McFee. Eye Candy is bright, exuberant, and fun! It is our spunky neon collection of coral, yellow, and blue in bold geo prints, such as dots, ogees, and florals. To make the neon colors pop even more, Eye Candy is printed on our unbleached, 100% natural cotton. How’s that for a showstopping collection? We love our neons, especially for the summertime, so we can imagine a fun clutch or headband. – or really summer-ify (yup, we’re making that a word! lol) your house with some cool neon pillows.

We love everything that J.Crew puts out for their latest collections, but we had to bring back and feature these incredible pants from their Spring 2013 collection. We would definitely still rock them this year! They are reminiscent of the coral floral in our Eye Candy collection – so in love! The coral pants make such a statement, that can be worn for work (pair with a neutral top!), and then taken into the night (imagine being in a dance club in these?? who needs a disco ball? haha). Fashion should be fun and free, so rock your neon pieces all year round, we say! ;)

I hope we have inspired you with this week’s Moody Monday! We definitely love a little neon in our wardrobe for the Spring and Summer. Have an awesome day!

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone,

Happy Thursday!! I hope you all are having a wonderful day. This week, we are giving away our Gypsy Lane FQ Bundle on our Facebook Page – so be sure to enter if you haven’t yet! :)

Time for our Thankful Thursday! Getting back from Quilt Market, we have so many incredible projects featuring our fabric back in our studio – sewn by some really talented people. One of the projects we had sewn up was a super sweet Girls Ruffle Dress by The Cottage Mama, done by Lisa of Lisa Lisa Designs. This Girls Ruffle Dress is absolutely adorable, and the perfect choice for showcasing our Scented and Mixology collections.

Our delicious strawberry print worked perfectly with our midnight woven, and the bow and ruffles were the perfect touch of sweetness. Lisa also added some mini red buttons at the shoulders, which we love. She did such an incredible job with this dress, we were squealing at its cuteness when we received it in the box!

It was an absolute pleasure working with Lisa, and want to thank her for sewing the dress for us for QM. Lisa is also a pattern designer, with wonderful PDF patterns available at her shop – Lisa Lisa Designs. We definitely recommend checking out her site! You can also find the pattern for the Girls Ruffle Dress at The Cottage Mama. Such a sweet dress!! Have a lovely day, everyone!

Happy Sewing!