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Hi everyone,

Happy Thursday! We hope everyone is having a wonderful day so far. Did you see yesterday’s Winsday post? We are hosting TWO Holiday Giveaways on our Facebook Page and Instagram, so be sure to check them out and enter to win some pretty fabrics!

And now, it’s time for this week’s Thankful Thursday! Today we are featuring the awesome site AllFreeSewing.com – one of the best online resources for sewing enthusiasts, of all skill levels! They offer free sewing patterns to their readers, as well as lots of fun giveaways, tutorials, product reviews, and different tips & tricks. They provide a wide, skill level range of patterns from clothing, baby & kids, home decor, bags, and holiday! They also offer a free newsletter called Sew It Up to share even more tips, articles, updates, video tutorials, and patterns. All of their patterns are easy-to-follow because they know how frustrating a confusing pattern can be. Making things handmade should be a fun and enjoyable hobby, and AllFreeSewing.com provides you the best resources to do so!

AllFreeSewing.com also shares tutorials from around the web, and ours have been included! They featured our Half Circle Skirt Tutorial on their website, and we are super excited that they really love it as much as we do. We adore our Half Circle Skirt because it is relatively simple to make, and you create a beautiful and stylish skirt that you can twirl around in! It’s pretty much a win-win. You can find the featured tutorial on the AllFreeSewing.com website here.

They are also hosting their 12 Days of Christmas Giveaways on their Seams & Scissors Blog, and we are one of the sponsors. You can enter to win the grand prize, which includes our Spectrum FQ Bundle, but check out their blog on December 16th, 2014 where you can enter the chance to win another Spectrum FQB as well. YAY for fantastic holiday giveaways!

Be sure to check out more from AllFreeSewing.com on their blog, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Pinterest. And be sure to check out the giveaways!! Have a great day, everyone!

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone,

Happy Thursday! We hope everyone is having a brilliant day. It’s National Cookie Day – and all we can say to that is…where are the cookies?! Haha! Bring on the oatmeal, chocolate chip and macadamia nuts cookies pleaseee. YUM!

It’s time for this week’s Thankful Thursday! This week we are featuring one of our fantastic project designers…Stephanie Palmer of Late Night Quilter! Together Stephanie and Michelle, both fabric and quilting enthusiasts & mums, own and operate Late Night Quilter – a professional longarm quilting and pattern design company, and accompanying blog! The Late Night Quilter blog is a wonderful quilting haven that is dedicated to quilting projects and tutorials, all things modern & pretty, and longarm quilting services. They are focused on sharing their quilting tips and tricks, their latest quilting creations, and inspiring others with their love for fabric.

We had the lovely opportunity of working with Stephanie on a couple of quilt patterns for our Free Projects Program. Stephanie created three modern, whimsical quilt designs for us and we adore them all! They all embrace the esthetic that is Camelot Fabrics and showcases our fun fabric collections wonderfully. The first is a beautiful quilted pillow pattern called High Tide – a pillow design of diagonal pieces that create interesting triangle and trapezoid shapes. It’s a great pillow for showing a multitude of patterns, such as our London Fog Collection, in a cool way.

The second pattern is a stunning quilt design called Summer on the Sound, a pattern of pretty starbursts. We adore how it looks with our It’s a Bird’s Life by Heather Rosas Collection, focusing on the beautiful pinks and greens while keeping the rest neutral. Saybrook Island is another quilt pillow that creates a gorgeous, symmetrical  “leaf like” pattern – we think it looks perfect with our Mint Condition by Jackie McFee Collection! [CLICK TO SEE MORE]

It’s time for this week’s What We Love! This week, as it’s the first week of December, we have been getting super excited for the holidays. Decorating the office, sugar cookie decorating, friendly snowball fights, and yummy holiday drinks are some of things we’ve been indulging in…lots more Christmas spirit to come! Sugar and spice, and everything nice, is the theme of this week’s What We Love… ♥

Vanessa: Christmas Sugar Cookies
Marion: Pretty Watches & Earrings
Juan: Distressed Rustic Christmas Nativity
Valeria: Pig Donut
Shannen: Pretty DIY Wrapping Paper

We hope we have inspired you with our What We Love! You can find lots more inspiration on our Pinterest. We love sharing our favorite things with you, but aren’t able to show them all in one post, so head on over there for more prettiness! ♥

It’s time for this week’s What We Love! Today is American Thanksgiving and we are a couple days away from December…so it’s officially okay to celebrate all things holiday! Pinterest is definitely a main source of inspiration for DIY project ideas, impeccable Christmas decor, and just all things pretty. We’ve also been starting to search for gift ideas for our loved ones – always the best part of the holidays for us (aside from the yummy food!). Inspired by geometric shapes, the holidays, and more…this is what we have loved most this week:

Marion: Hand-Printed Triangular Pattern Card
Vanessa: DIY Advent Calendar
Shannen: Maple Walnut – Vermont Peanut Butter
Juan: 17th Century Superman
Valeria: Niemeyer Center, Avilés, Asturias, Spain

We hope we have inspired you with our What We Love! We’d love to know what you have been loving most this week… Oh, and another thing we’ve been loving? Our Spectrum Giveaway ;)

Hi everyone,

Happy Thursday!! And, Happy Thanksgiving to all of our American friends! We wish you all a wonderful day filled with lots of love, family time, and delicious food. Because today is our weekly Thankful Thursday, we thought it would be the perfect time to share what we are most thankful for…

We are so thankful for our wonderful and supportive families – thank you for loving us unconditionally and for always being there for us, especially when we need it most. We are so thankful for our incredible friends and significant others – we will forever cherish all the fun, crazy, special, and laughing-till-our-bellies-hurt times; you are our chosen family. We are so thankful for the place in which we proudly call our home, with all the necessities to live comfortably, happily, and safely. We are so thankful that we get to do what we love everyday, in a place where we are encouraged to be creative and inspired (and of course, play with lots of pretty colors and fabric ;)).

We are so thankful for our talented artists – Vita, Allison, Jackie, Heather, Andrea, Jane, and Alisse – so much inspiration, creativity, and awesome-ness. We are so thankful for all the fantastic people that we have gotten to partner with, including the magazine features, blog collaborations, and project pattern designers for our free projects program. And of course, we are so thankful for all of YOU – thank you for letting us be a part of your lives, for sharing your Camelot Fabrics projects & tutorials with us, for your sweet and positive words & comments, and for inspiring us each and every day. We are also thankful for chocolate, tea, online shopping, pretty pens, adorable kitties, post-it notes, and glitter hehe.

There are so many things that we are thankful for, that our post would be a novel (haha). But, we hope that all of our American friends have a relaxing and lovely day – eat lots of yummy turkey and apple pie for us!! Have a great day, everyone! :)

Happy Sewing!