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Hi everyone!

Happy Thursday! We hope you all are having a great day so far. We’re hosting another Winsday this week, our No-Sew Pillow Cover Kit including May Arts Ribbon and our Wildflowers Collection. You can enter on our Facebook Page here.

Time for this week’s Thankful Thursday! Today we are featuring one of our fantastic pattern designers, Joanne Hillestad of The Fat Quarter Gypsy. We have previously featured Joanne in a Thankful Thursday, but we wanted to share some new, fabulous projects that Joanne had been working on. And, we’re also introducing an honorary member to The Fat Quarter Gypsy – her son! Joanne’s son designed a pattern for our Free Projects Program, and we think that he is the coolest ever. On top of that, his quilt is just as amazing!

Inspired by Star Wars, his “The Force” Quilt includes a lightsaber-esque pattern to create a super neat look. Our “The Forces” Quilt definitely looks fantastic in our Star Wars Collection, but we think it will look great in a modern collection too (ie. Gypsy Lane). You can create your very own “The Forces” Quilt – find the free PDF printout here. A big thank you to Joanne’s son! 

Another fun project is one of Joanne’s latest quilt designs – Sweet Ups and Downs. This beautiful quilt is a chevron pattern, with a chevron-ed edge that we are in love with. Such a stunning look! The pattern also includes two different sizes, twin and baby-sized, so lots of options to create. Joanne made a Sweet Ups and Downs in our Design Studio Collection, and it’s really just so pretty. We love the contrast between the black and blue in the chevron design!

Thank you so much for sharing it with us, Joanne, and for choosing our collection!And thank you to Joanne’s son for the fantastic design. We’re predicting even more design amazing-ness for you! You can find the “The Forces” Quilt printout PDF here. As well, you can also find out more from The Fat Quarter Gypsy on her website, blog, and Facebook. Have a lovely day, everyone!

Happy Sewing!

It’s time for this week’s What We Love ♥ Spring is just around the corner, and we cannot wait. We’ve had such a long and cold winter, we’re looking forward to the pretty blooms and fresh grass. The spark of new beginnings has inspired us this week, as we have been pinning lots of bright and colorful things on our Pinterest recently. From beautiful art work to fabulous people, see what has been inspiring us most this week… ♥

Shannen: Jennifer Lawrence; “Be Dior” Spring/Summer 2015
Juan: Tall Ships in Boston by Susan Cole Kelly
Vanessa: Glass Slipper; Jimmy Choo
Valeria: Patterned Liquids
Marion: Benjamin-Constant at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

We hope we have inspired you today! We’d love to know what you have been inspired by most this week. And as always, you can check out more loves from us on our Pinterest ♥

It’s time for this week’s What We Love ♥ It’s definitely not a secret that the Camelot Design Studio loves Pinterest. So much inspiration to be found, from new trends to delicious recipes…and of course, Pinterest’s infamous memes. Love us a good meme! This week, we’ve been enjoying all the runway shows from NYFW; luxurious colors, fun textures and prints…what’s not to love? From homemade ginger beer and pretty florals, see what else we’ve been inspired by… ♥

Shannen: Homemade Ginger Beer
Juan: Colombian artist Fernando Botero, The Circus
Vanessa: NYFW; Lela Rose Fall 2015 RTW
Marion: Pretty Florals
Valeria: Montréal

We hope we have inspired you with our What We Love! We would love to know what you have been inspired by this week too ♥

Hi everyone,

Happy Thursday! We hope you all are having a fantastic day. It’s Chinese New Year (or Lunar New Year), and it’s the year of the sheep. We wish you all a wonderful year full of happiness, prosperity, and memories.

Today’s Thankful Thursday is featuring a lovely pattern shop that we have had the pleasure of working with. We have worked with Alicia of Swoon Sewing Patterns for our Quilt Market shows, and her bags are always a hit. Swoon Sewing Patterns offers pretty, modern patterns for bags and other accessories, and are one of our favorite pattern shops online. From travel bags to her oversized clutch, there’s a pattern for just about every occasion.

Each pattern is easy-to-follow and clear, and the end result is a gem, made by you, that will not look “homemade”. Alicia is a graphic designer by trade, who fell in love with sewing. She found that the commercial patterns she used were not always user-friendly, and decided to try her hand at pattern-making. From there, Swoon Sewing Patterns has only grown – from Etsy to quilt shops – to become many sewers’ preferred, “go-to” pattern shop. And we couldn’t agree more!

Alicia chose our Design Studio Collection to be on the cover of her Dorothy Day Tripper Bag Pattern. We got super excited!! She had made this bag for one of our past QM shows, and everyone LOVED it…so we are so happy that she chose to feature it as the cover. It is stunning, and would be the perfect, stylish weekend or diaper bag!

Thank you so much, Alicia, for featuring our Design Studio Collection on your cover. We have had so much fun working with you, and hope we get to again soon!! You can find more from Swoon Sewing Patterns on her website, Facebook Page, Instagram, and Pinterest. Have an amazing rest of the day, everyone!

Happy Sewing!

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!