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Hi everyone,

Happy Thursday!! We hope you are all having a wonderful day. We have been sharing our Winter 2015 Collections with you all this week. You can check them out here! As well, we’re hosting a Winsday this week – enter to win a Red Panda Pattern & Felt Prize on our Facebook Page.

Time for our Thankful Thursday! Because it’s Valentine’s Day this Saturday, we wanted to dedicated this week’s post to “love”. Whether you’ll be spending the day with your significant other, family, friends, or catching up on some sewing projects…the term “love” can mean so many different things. Yes, Valentine’s Day has been commercialized as a day to celebrate your love with your significant other – flowers, chocolate, dinner – but the root of the day, to us, is about the love you have and the love you give. We’ve heard the term “S.A.D.” (aka single’s awareness day) coined for those who don’t have a partner to celebrate with. But, NO! You don’t need to be in a relationship to feel love ♥

We feel love when we’re doing something we enjoy (sewing, shopping, baking…), are hanging out with our significant others & friends, and come into work everyday in our fabric wonderland haha. We also feel the love when we get comments from all of YOU, on our projects, blog posts, and new fabric collections. Hearing all of your positive and sweet comments makes our DAY!! So, thank YOU for making us feel loved. We hope we do the same when you stop by the blog everyday ♥

Remember that Valentine’s Day isn’t a day just for couples, and it shouldn’t be the only day to commemorate love either. Hug, kiss, compliment, and laugh with the people who make you feel loved today, and everyday!! ♥ And remember, never forget the person in the mirror = YOU!! Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone! We hope you have a love-filled weekend!!

Happy Sewing!

It’s our Winter 2015 Launch Week!! We are so excited to share with you our 6 new collections, and we hope you love them!

Today we are sharing the first of our Winter 2015 collections, Zoey by the Camelot Design Studio. Our Zoey Collection is soft and feminine, featuring muted shades of blue, green, and blush pink in lattice, paisley, and floral designs. Zoey is the epitome of eloquence and grace; we can imagine a pretty Zoey dress paired with an afternoon tea brunch with your best girlfriends!

Decorate a cozy, darling cottage with a couple of Zoey pillows and quilts, such as our Baby Blocks Quilt, for that added touch of femininity. We love our Yoga Bag Carrier with our Zoey print too!

We hope you have enjoyed the first collection in our Winter 2015 Collections Launch!! We’d love to know what you think of our Zoey Collection. You can check out the full collection here. And, see you tomorrow for the next collection…

Hi everyone,

Happy Friday! Woot woot for it being the end of the week! We’ve made it through our first week of February…it can only get better (weather wise!) from here. Cold fingers and toes crossed!

Time to end our week with our Fan Friday! Today we are featuring some awesome Beyond the Backyard projects made by Reece Montgomery. We were tagged on Instagram by Reece, and when we saw her pictures, we had a “oh-my-good-so-cute” moment lol. We absolutely adore the projects that Reece decided to create with our floral and leaf, Spring-inspired collection. She also featured these projects on her blog, Happy Okapi, which you can check out here. In addition to sharing her projects on her blog, she is Canadian-based (like us!!) and shares upcoming fabric collections & sales!

She used Swoon Sewing Patterns’ Dorothy Day Tripper pattern to create a stunning Beyond the Backyard bag – the pattern that actually features our Design Studio Collection as its front image! She also made some other cool accessories with Beyond the Backyard – a coffee cozie, a couple of key fobs, and an eyeglasses pouch. We love how versatile our collection is, and that it looks so great in each project!!

Thanks so much, Reece, for the tag! You can find more from Reece on her blog and Instagram. And with that, we are ready to rock this weekend! Have a great one, everyone!! :)

Happy Sewing!

Time for this week’s What We Love ♥ The beginning of February brings some new-found hope that warmer weather is just around the corner. We’re in the final stretches of the frigid weather, on our way towards Spring! As always, Pinterest is our place of comfort, to find prettiness and happiness for the eyes. From adorable bear pillows to whimsical braids, find out what we have been loving most this week…

Marion: Girl & Cactus Illustration; Benjamin Flouw
Vanessa: Pretty Braids
Valeria: Bear Pillows
Shannen: Herschel Supply Co. Novel Weekender Bag
Juan: Carl Sagan

We hope you’ve been inspired! Be sure to check out our Pinterest for more. We’d love to know what you have been loving most this week. We always love reading your comments. And as always, we ♥ YOU!

Hi everyone,

Happy Thursday! We hope you all are having a wonderful day so far. Did you know…that today is World Nutella Day? Yup, it’s an official day dedicated to the incredibly delicious (and highly addictive!) chocolate, hazelnut spread that is amazing with pretty much anything (or on it’s own. Spoonfuls? We’re not judging haha!).

Time for our Thankful Thursday! Today we are featuring one of our favorite magazines, Craft Ideas. Their latest Winter 2014 edition was also the big reveal of their new look. Everything got revamped and updated, and it looks fantastic!!  Complete with a new logo, the updated magazine now features a “New Products” section (a breakdown of the latest craft tools and materials), Book Reviews, a “Green Ideas” section (listings for eco-friendly products and companies), and highlights up-and-coming designers. As well, Craft Ideas will now be releasing a new printed issue every second month! We were always a fan of Craft Ideas, and were so excited that they were taking on this new venture.

Flipping through the Winter 2014 issue, you might recognize some familiar projects. Craft Ideas featured two of our free projects in their magazine. The first is our Cascading Chevrons Pillow, one of our favorites! You can find the free pattern on our website too. As well, they featured our Border Blast Quilt by one of our wonderful pattern designers, Larene Smith of The Quilted Button.

We love working with Craft Ideas Magazine and are so happy they love our projects. And, it’s also so fun seeing our projects featured in print! You can find out more from Craft Ideas on their website, Facebook Page, Twitter, Pinterest, and YouTube. And with that, we’re going to find us some Nutella…haha. Have a great day!

Happy Sewing!