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It’s time for our What We Love #18 ♥ We cannot believe that it is already October! We are so excited for all that is to come for Fall – getting to wear cozy knits, picking apples at the orchard, and playing in all the colorful leaves. There’s nothing better than that crisp feeling and smell of fall air, walking in the splendors of all that is to be cherished by this amazing season. This week, we have been inspired by the wondrous colors of Autumn – the brooding blues of these pretty thread spools, the mustard tones of this adorable bear packaging, and the majestic colors of the “River of Five Colors”  in Colombia. See more of the things that we love most this week… ♥

Marion: Blue Thread Spools
Vanessa: Couple Ziplining (1923)
Valeria: Beehive Bear Packaging
Shannen: Alice Ferrow
Juan: River of Five Colors in Colombia

We hope you have enjoyed, and have been inspired by, our What We Love this week. Be sure to check out our Pinterest Boards for lots more inspiration and prettiness. Happy October, everyone! ♥

Hi everyone,

Happy Wednesday! Hope everyone is having a great day. The sun is shining, the weather is pristine, we are immersed in pretty fabrics…it’s an awesome one for us! Speaking of pretty fabrics, we featured our Insulated Lunch Hamper on our blog yesterday with our What a Gem by Allison Cole for Camelot Fabrics collection. You can check out the full tutorial HERE.

We hosted a Paisley Please & coordinating Aurifil Threads Giveaway on our Facebook Page and it was definitely one of our favorites! We asked you what your favorite Fall treat is, and really loved reading all of your comments. So many delicious Fall treats to choose from, and so many new treats we had never heard about (but will definitely be on the hunt for now, so thank you!). We want to thank Aurifil for the wonderful contribution and for sharing our giveaway on their social media handles! It really means SO much to us!! Aurifil…you guys ROCK! :)

But we could only choose one winner…despite the many yummy options! The winner of our Paisley Please & Aurifil Giveaway is…

Congratulations, Jennifer Sanchez! We really hope you enjoy the Paisley Please fabric bundle and coordinating threads. Please email us your mailing address to info@camelotfabrics.com by next Winsday, October 1st! A big thank you to everyone for participating in this week’s giveaway. We really appreciate all the fabric love and support. Stay tuned for next week’s Winsday…but until then, have a wonderful rest of the day! :)

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone!

Happy Wednesday! Hope everyone is having a great day. We have been talking about all things autumn in the office today, of all the exciting fall-themed activities (and baking!!) to come. We can’t wait! :)

In the heart of the upcoming fall season, we wanted to collaborate this week’s Winsday with that same theme. Our prize this week is a delicious aubergine, rustic orange, and tan collection of beautiful floral and paisley designs…our Paisley Please by Jackie McFee collection. As well, we will also be giving away two coordinating threads from Aurifil. Such a yummy prize pack, and perfect for the upcoming cooler months…we can think of lots of project ideas we’d create with this collection, and are sure you can too!

Want the chance to win this awesome giveaway? We are hosting this giveaway on our Facebook Page, so be sure to head on over there to enter. In keeping with the theme, and of all things yummy, we would like to know what your favourite Fall treat/dessert is. We thought this would be the perfect segway into fall-time! “LIKE” the Giveaway Image, comment below letting us know your favorite Fall treat, and share the giveaway with all your fellow sewing enthusiasts! :) Below is a recap of our giveaway rules…

Recap of our Paisley Please FQB & Coordinating Aurifil Threads Giveaway Rules:
1. LIKE us on FACEBOOK!
2. LIKE the Paisley Please FQB + Aurifil Threads Image on our Facebook Page!
3. Comment on the Giveaway Image what your favorite Fall treat is!
4. This week’s Winsday prize is our Paisley Please by Jackie McFee FQB + 2 Coordinating Aurifil Threads!
5. The giveaway starts today (9/17) and ends on September 24th, 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!

Good Luck to everyone entering! We cannot wait to read all of your yummy entries. We’re definitely going to be inspired by your answers for our own Fall baking adventures haha. Have a great day! :)

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone!

Happy Thursday! We hope everyone is having a fantastic day so far. This week, we are giving away our Neon & On FQ Bundle on our Facebook Page. We want to know what back to school inspired project you would create with this bundle. Let us know for a chance to win HERE! :)

For this week’s Thankful Thursday, we are featuring a blog that we are sure all our fellow sewers and bloggers visit as their go-to crafting manual – Sew Mama Sew! It has been a couple of months, but we are ever so thankful that we wanted to properly thank everyone involved for the incredible feature. Sew Mama Sew is the motherboard of all things craft and sewing-related, from easy-to-follow and creative tutorials, fun and engaging sew-alongs, and the best of giveaways! Their tutorials include stunning dress patterns to quilted projects to tips & tricks for beginners, and everything in between. If you’re looking for it (at least craft-wise), Sew Mama Sew has got it!!

One amazing thing about Sew Mama Sew is the consistent contributors on the blog, featuring fellow bloggers and crafting enthusiasts alike. Sew Mama Sew partnered up with Warp & Weft and Thread Riding Hood to showcase an amazing project (and a giveaway!) with two of our fabric collections. We were so thrilled and over-the-moon to the see our fabric collections used, and featured on some very cool blogs. Made us feel pretty cool ourselves, haha. The fantastic project was sponsored by Warp & Weft, a fabric retailer and fellow Canadian (yay, represent!), so thank you SOSO much for the fabric love.

Sherri of Thread Riding Hood (um, how adorable is her blog name?!) is the creative behind the project. She created a beautiful Fabric Tray, perfect for holding all your project items (thread, thimble, scissors, etc), or for keeping all your essentials in one place before you leave. The pretty patchwork design gives this Fabric Tray a modern and fun feel, which goes fabulously with the bright colors of our Petite Plume by Andrea Turk for Cinnamon Joe Studio and Beyond the Backyard by Jane Farnham collections.

Love it!!! This Fabric Tray tutorial is perfect for any extra fabric scraps (we all know we hoard a bunch of those!) laying around. Your scraps will find a new home and will be made into something really pretty and functional. You can find the full tutorial for this Fabric Tray on Sew Mama Sew’s blog, as well as at Thread Riding Hood.

We know we are a little late, but we want to say an official HUGE THANK YOU to Sew Mama Sew, Warp & Weft, and Thread Riding Hood for choosing our collections to showcase a wonderful project. We were so ecstatic to see our pretty collections, and are so happy you love them too. You can check out our Beyond the Backyard and Petite Plume collections on our website. Please be sure to check out their blogs for lots more creative and beautiful goodness!! Have a great one! :)

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone!

Happy Thursday!! We hope everyone is having a colorful day! It’s bright and sunny here, and we are feeling great! :) It’s the perfect day to wear a flowy, maxi dress such as Burda Style’s Smocked Maxi Dress. We created our own variations of the dress, and shared them on the blog this week. Be sure to check it out HERE! :)

It’s also time for this week’s Thankful Thursday! This week, we are taking the time to thank one incredible company, Aurifil! Founded in 1983, Aurifil is an Italian-based company that specializes in creating the utmost quality of high-quality cotton threads. Aurifil’s threads are the leading choice for sewing and quilting enthusiasts for their wide variety in color choices, variety in thread weights, and of course, their fantastic quality. They have a great selection of wool, cotton, and invisible threads – threads for all your project needs! As well, Aurifil is modern and fresh, always coming out with new ideas and innovative products and working with the best in the industry. They also work with fabric companies and designers to create thread collections, and are very active on social media & the sewing and quilting blogging community.

We had the absolute pleasure of chatting and meeting Alex Veronelli from Aurifil at this past Spring Quilt Market. It was wonderful getting to meet him in person and, as we had already knew, was such a great person to chat with. We were super excited that they were interested in working with us, and we decided to start things off with a couple of collaborative giveaways. Our first giveaway was our Penelope Collection, along with a coordinating box of Aurifil threads that we handpicked. Our last giveaway was with our Itty Bitty by Andrea Turk Collection, and Aurifil also generously allowed us to give away some more thread goodies!! We also received a box of Aurifil threads for our projects, which we will be using in future How To’s Day posts. We are so thankful for the incredible generosity from Aurifil, we cannot thank Alex and Kim enough. And…we are also very excited for what is to come! ;)

We are so sure that all our fellow sewing enthusiasts are familiar with Aurifil threads, but if not, be sure to check out their website, as well as their Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. You’ll be happily mesmerized by all the stunning & delicious threads!! Thank you, oh so much, Aurifil and we cannot wait for what is to come. Have a fantastic day!! :)

Happy Sewing!