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Hi everyone!

Happy Thursday! We hope everyone is having a positive and great day. Today is National Strawberry Day!! Enjoy some delicious strawberries today and get inspired by our sweet strawberry-printed fabrics here and here :)

It’s also this week’s Thankful Thursday, and today we are taking the time to thank a wonderful company that we had the privilege to meet at this year’s CHA. Today we are going to bring you into the world of Fiskars!

Fiskars is the leading brand when it comes to tools and cutting products. Fiskars launched their first pair of plastic-handled scissors in 1967, and ever since have been one of the world’s best scissor brand! Fiskars is known for their innovative and high-quality, crafted products but also for their iconic orange handles. Though orange now plays an important role in their identity, it was actually by chance – using leftover resin from a juicer for the scissor’s handles! Great choice, Fiskar!! :)

We got the chance to learn more about and chat with some wonderful people at Fiskars, at this year’s CHA Show. Being a fabrics company, we can often be found in the sewing or cutting room working on new projects or cutting up fabric. Finding the best tools always makes a task that much easier, and overall better, and we were absolutely amazed by how wonderful our Fiskar scissors glided seamlessly to cut fabric pieces! There’s nothing more frustrating than working on a sewing project, and having dull scissors – not fun at all! We found that these scissors not only worked wonders with our fabric, but also with our Ad-Fab™ and felt (hard and soft, adhesive and regular), and perfectly with sticky surfaces.

The incredible people at Fiskars provided us with lots of amazing goodies for crafting! Fiskars provided us with a Rotary Cutter & Ruler Combo (perfect for measuring and cutting perfect edges, ie. a crafter’s dream tool!), an Ergo Control rotary cutter, a Two-Sided Rotary Mat, and two sizes of fabric scissors. It was exceptionally generous and sweet of them to do so, and we want to thank them for being so amazing…and for making our fabric cutting lives so much easier! :) Thank you so much to everyone at Fiskars for providing us incredible goodies. It was wonderful getting to chat with you at the CHA!

We hope you have enjoyed this week’s Thankful Thursday. Be sure to check out Fiskars for all their amazing products. Have a wonderful day everyone!

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone!

Happy Thursday! We hope everyone is having a lovely day so far. Have you seen our last Winsday? We are currently giving away a Betty Boop FQ Bundle this week! Click here to enter by telling us what outfit makes you feel the most confident :)

Today is Thursday, which means it’s time for another Thankful Thursday post on the blog. We experienced our first Craft & Hobby Show this year, and it was absolutely fantastic. We had such a wonderful time! You can check out our CHA 2014 Show blog post for more on what we had been up to. We met so many lovely bloggers and crafters who gave us such positive feedback on our newest products, such as our felt and Ad-Fab™! Some crafters even took some back to their stations to test them on silhouette and die-cutting machines, with great reviews back.

We wanted to thank everyone who took the time to test out our products at the show, as well as those who mentioned us on their blogs! It was so great getting to meet everyone, so thank you for the kind words. ♥

Craft Test Dummies noticed that “sticky” products seemed to be a continuous theme at the show, and loved our adhesive felt and Ad-Fab™.

Dinah, from DIY Inspired, enjoyed our Make & Take and Chalkboard Photobooth stations and looked super adorable with our felt glasses!

Our Make & Take section let visitors create their very own coffee cozies with our Ad-Fab™. With our Ad-Fab™, making a coffee cozie is such a quick and simple project that can jazz up any coffee cup instantly! Love the one you made, Tori!

Angie, from The Country Chic Cottage , was super impressed with our new felt line and mentioned on her blog that our felt “is definitely the prettiest felt I have ever seen…ever.  I love” – We definitely concur!! :) Look how pretty our felt is all stacked up together!

Crafty Deaf Dog Mama wrote up a blog post focusing on silhouette products at the CHA. She was one of the crafters who tested our products for us, and gave her feedback on the blog post. She mentions that our hard and soft felts work perfectly with her silhouette, and cut some pretty hearts from it. So happy she enjoyed our products! You can read the full blog post for more here.

As well, we wanted to thank Fave Crafts Blog for the sweet Chalkboard Booth mention in their CHA recap post, and No Idle Hands Here for listing us in her “up and comers to the crafting industry” – So happy you stopped by and enjoyed our products!

Thank you so much to the wonderful ladies for mentioning us, our felt and Ad-Fab™ products, our Make & Take and Chalkboard Booth, and for the great feedback – We truly appreciate it! As well, if you have mentioned us on your blog, we’d love to hear from you! Have a fantastic rest of the day everyone :)

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone!

Happy Thursday! We hope everyone is having an exceptionally brilliant day. It’s a lovely winter day here today with the sun shining, the temperature being pretty mild, and the glistening of the fresh snow is pretty.

We have got another Thankful Thursday to share! Today we are taking the time to thank Wilma, one of our amazing quilters. Wilma created a four beautiful quilts for us that we’ve used for the past two Quilt Markets. We have received such outstanding and positive comments at Quilt Market on our quilts, and we have Wilma to thank for that.

We wanted to thank Wilma for all the hard work and dedication for sewing all the quilts for us, we truly appreciate it! Wilma did use a couple of outside quilt patterns. As well, we wanted to thank Michelle from Hypernoodle, as she was the one who connected us with Wilma. The collections used for the quilts are Hand Picked by Jackie McFee, Imaginarium by The Camelot Design Studio, The Design Studio Collection by The Camelot Design Studio, and Gray Matters by Jackie McFee. We also have all these collections in Fat Quarter Bundles! Be sure to check out the stunning quilts below:

Gray Matters by Jackie McFee quilt

Quilt with our Handpicked by Jackie McFee Collection

Please click to see more pretty pictures!

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Hi everyone!

Happy Thursday!! We hope everyone is having a wonderful day. We’ve been excitedly reading all of your hopelessly romantic blog comments from our Iconic Fabric Giveaway. Seriously, every single comment has been super sweet and made us all go “awww!”. If you haven’t entered our giveaway yet, be sure to here! It’s definitely one of our favourite Winsdays yet.

With Thursdays, comes another Thankful Thursday. Today we are sharing with you a very special lady, Robin Hill, from Pattern Revolution. Pattern Revolution is a blog dedicated to all things pattern related, from pattern designer features to pattern reviews to tutorials and more! If you ever have any wonders or questions on anything to do with patterns, Pattern Revolution is your one-stop place for all your inquiries – it is the essential hub for all PDF patterns!

We had the privilege of collaborating with Pattern Revolution for some spectacular projects for Fall Quilt Market. Robin found some beautiful patterns for us to showcase our fabric designs, and had some lovely ladies create them for us. We would like to thank Suzanne Winter, Kara Orr, and Carrie Burnett for sewing the wonderful projects that we displayed at Quilt Market – they all looked fantastic so thank you very much! We’ve got a special treat for you, because we’re sharing the projects with you all. Check out the lovely projects with our pretty fabric designs below! You can also click on each image that will link to its PDF pattern. Thank you to all the pattern designers as well for their incredible patterns!

Greta Doll by retromama, sewn by Kara Orr. Greta is wearing our Birds of a Feather by Allison Cole Collection!

Scirocco Dress by Figgy’s, sewn by Carrie Burnett. This dress was sewn with our Vintage Vogue Collection!

Click more to see the rest of the amazing projects! :)

Hi everyone!

Happy Thursday! We hope everyone is having a terrific day so far. The weekend is almost here! We’ve also got our Winsday Pinterest Giveaway happening right now, so be sure to pop on over to our Pinterest page to enter! We are giving away a Bumper-2-Bumper Fat Quarter bundle.

We’ve also got our Thankful Thursday! Today we are taking the time to thank Maureen, from the blog Maureen Cracknell Handmade. Maureen started her blog as a creative outlet in 2010, a place where she shares all things in lieu with her passions of sewing, fabric, knitting, felt, and everything else craft-related.

On her blog, she shares different project ideas and tutorials, quilting and fabric loves, daily life, her own quilts, and fabric giveaways! Maureen has also expanded in creating her own Etsy shop where she shares her quilts, pillows, crowns, and other crafty products. How adorable is that fox pillow below?!

Maureen has teamed up with some amazing fabric shops (Hypernoodle & The Intrepid Thread) for fabric giveaways, with our fabric being the prize. The giveaways have included our Mint to Be, Imaginarium, and fabric collections…and all the kinds words have been so lovely. We have absolutely adored reading all the positive feedback from her readers and have gained wonderful, new fans from her mentions!

Thank you so much, Maureen for the wonderful mentions! Be sure to check out Maureen’s blog for all your crafty needs, and so much more. You can also follow Maureen on her Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest accounts. Thank you so much for reading today’s post! :)

Happy Sewing!