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Hi everyone,

Happy Thursday! I hope you are all having an amazing day so far. We’re hosting a Flannel FQB Giveaway this week, so be sure to head on over to our Facebook Page to enter.

Sharing this week’s Thankful Thursday! Today we are featuring one of our awesome quilt shops, Nana’s Quilt Cottage in Colorado Springs. Nana’s Quilt Cottage is a local, family owned quilt shop filled with lots of modern & pretty fabrics, project patterns, and notions. As well, they offer wonderful sewing classes, with a range in skill levels to be taught. Among the many fantastic teachers at Nana’s Quilt Cottage, is Nikki Rainey who joined nana in business in 2014. One of the bag patterns in their shop features our Paradise collection, which creates an absolutely stunning bag – featuring a fun bow detail! We love the Paradise prints that were chosen to create this stylish tote.

You can find the bag pattern, as well as the fabric to go with it, at Nana’s Quilt Cottage and on their Instagram! We adore this bag so much, we may even need to make one for ourselves… Thanks, Nikki & everyone else at Nana’s Quilt Cottage! Have a fantastic day!

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone,

Happy Thursday! I hope you all are having a wonderful day!! Today is National Lemonade Day, and what a perfect day for it to be… a cool, refreshing glass of lemonade is just what we need on this hot day!

It’s time for our Thankful Thursday! One of the coolest “retail shop” ideas we’ve seen… we bring to you Trailer Stash Fabrics! Just as the name suggests, this fabric shop is housed in a restored, Vintage 1963 Shasta 1900 Deluxe Travel Trailer. It doesn’t get any more awesome than that! Owner, Gina Allen, also has an Etsy Shop that she sells fabric and quilt kits. But a couple of times a month, Gina will stock up her trailer with her favorite fabrics, and head to different pop-up sales & sewing workshops.

She will also create quilt samples to showcase the fabrics on her trailer… and most recently, she had one created with one of our fabrics… and with one of our free quilt patterns! She chose our Crossroads by Jessie Kurtz quilt pattern, with our bright and fun Paradise Collection by Alisse Courter. It looks absolutely stunning, even before it has been quilted!

She also had one created with our Darling Collection, using our Plus Sized Free Quilt Pattern.

The quilt pattern is available on our website here, and you can also find complete quilt kits at her Etsy Shop. Thank you so much, Gina, for the fabric and quilt pattern love!! Be sure to check out Trailer Stash Fabrics, to see where she may be headed next. Have an awesome day!

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone,

Happy Tuesday! I hope you all are having a brilliant day! It’s the last day to enter our #GypsyLane Giveaway, so be sure to head on over to our Facebook Page to enter!!

Time for our How To’s Day! Today we are featuring a beautiful pillow pattern for our Free Projects Program, made by the lovely Veronica Koh Eischeid of VeronicaMade. Modern Cross is a fun take on a flower/star cross design, which is the focal point of the pillow. Mixing and matching different patterns is what makes this pillow awesome; we love keeping the background neutral so that the middle pops! We chose to feature our Paradise by Alisse Courter Collection with Modern Cross, choosing our bright orange, fuchsia, and purple prints for the middle, and a pretty floral, neutral background. We love how it turned out, and think it would be beautiful in any feminine space.  

Want to make your own Modern Cross Pillow? Click MORE for the full tutorial.

Hi everyone,

Happy Monday! We hope you all had a fantastic weekend. It snowed here this weekend, so that was sort of a bittersweet moment. Spring is this Friday, but we’re still crossing our fingers! We’re also hosting our Scented FQ Bundle Giveaway this week, so be sure to enter here.

Time for our Moody Monday! This week, we are featuring our Paradise by Alisse Courter for Camelot Fabrics Collection. Paradise is our festive collection of gorgeous florals, delicate leaves, and medallions in a fun orange, bright pink, and purple color combination. Rich, playful, and vivacious in mood, our Paradise Collection would look beautiful in a colorful, girl’s bedroom or playful skirt. Twirling around in all these wondrous colors has us longing for those hot, sunny “paradise” days.

Louis Vuitton’s 2013 Fall/Winter RTW Collection was broody and mysterious, with its warm earth tones in luxurious fabrics, such as velvet, sateen, lace, and animal skin. Vuitton’s collection reminds us of an old black-and-white film, with the cropped black hair and dark red lips, in hollywood-esque silhouettes. We loved the fun, added textures of ostrich feathers, fur, and tweed – a mix of a lot, but looks fantastic together. We especially adored the ditsy, floral prints which were reminiscent of our Paradise Collection. You can check out the full collection from the show here.

We hope we have inspired you with this week’s Moody Monday! We’d love to know what prints and colors you’re excited by for Spring. Have an awesome day, everyone! :)

Happy Sewing!

We’ve been launching our Winter 2015 Collections all of this week, and we’re continuing with another today! If you haven’t seen our previous collections yet…we’ve shared with you our Zoey, Gypsy Lane, and Heirloom Collections.

Today we are featuring our Paradise Collection by Alisse Courter for Camelot Fabrics. Paradise is a stunning collection of floral designs and leaves in a vivacious color palette of purples, pinks, and orange. The rich color palette is luxurious, strong, and gorgeous…just like us gals! The pretty floral prints give Paradise a dainty feel, but with a punch of brightness.

We can imagine a lovely shift dress, such as our Boxy Dress, in a print from Paradise. Complete the outfit with a floral clutch, some fancy pumps, and a floral crown (of course!). As well, add a luxe feel to any room with some aubergine, floral pillows…and a matching quilt!

We hope you love our Paradise by Alisse Courter Collection!! So many pretty florals and prints. We’d love to know what you think! Be sure to check out the rest of our Winter 2015 collections. We’ve got more to share tomorrow…