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Hi everyone!

Happy Thursday! We hope you are having a great day…the weekend is almost upon us! The weather has started to get a little warmer here (ie. above freezing!), and we are hoping that Spring is closer around the corner. We have been conjuring up lots of exciting and crafty Spring ideas to come, so stay tuned! And speaking of getting creative, have you entered our Chalkboard Fabric giveaway yet? You can win one yard of our Chalkboard Fabric by telling us what you would create with it here! :)

It’s time for this week’s Thankful Thursday on the blog! This year, we had the amazing opportunity to experience our very first Craft & Hobby Association Show in Anaheim, CA! It was honestly such an enlightening and wonderful time, getting to meet so many creative people and learning so much about the crafting world. We were able to showcase our newest crafting products, such as our felt lines and Ad-Fab™, and got lots of enthusiastic feedback about them. A couple of Thankful Thursdays ago, we wrote a post thanking all the wonderful people who took the time to mention us or our products at the CHA. You can check out the post here!

There is one very special person who we have to thank, who made our first CHA experience an absolutely incredible time. Paula Jones is the Canadian coordinator for the CHA, and was the one who helped us connect/get organized with the event. As well, Paula helped us get settled in LA and during the event, making the trip all the more stress-free and enjoyable! Furthermore, Paula introduced us to the international meet-and-greet at the CHA, an event that hosted around 20 sellers outside of the United States, to introduce our products. Participating in the meet-and-greet allowed us to meet many incredible people and, because of the small group, gave us a greater visibility overall.

Paula touched base with us throughout our stay, which was very sweet of her! She was the perfect hostess and made our overall first CHA experience a success! Paula even stopped by our booth and participated in our chalkboard fabric photobooth!

We are so fortunate to have met such a wonderful lady – Thank you very much Paula, for everything!! :)

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone!

Happy Thursday! We hope you are all having a lovely day so far. It’s almost been a week into the 2014 Winter Olympics and watching all the intense & exhilarating events has been super exciting!! As a Canadian-based company, we are very proud of our Canadian teams with Canada currently in 2nd place – Go Canada!! ♥

Today is also Thankful Thursday on the blog, and because tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, we thought it would be great to correlate today with the day of love. Valentine’s Day is a celebrated time to show the ones around you how much you love them, whether it be your significant other, friends, family, teachers, co-workers. This week’s Thankful Thursday, we take the time to thank all of our loved ones!

In the wise words of Aibeleen Clark, from the movie The Help, “You is kind, you is smart, you is important”. Showing how much you care through small acts of kindness or appreciation are always the best ways to share love. Whether those small acts are an unexpected gesture or comforting words, there are infinite ways to how the people in your life how much they mean to you.

Our loved ones are the people who help us to grow, inspire us, and support us in all our endeavors. If we think about all that we have accomplished, there has always been someone there lending a helping or supporting hand – we wouldn’t have been able to do it without them, or as well. All the people that we meet touch our lives in some meaningful way, and the person that we become is an accumulation of all those special experiences.

Thank you to our loved ones for loving us unconditionally and for always being our #1 support system. Thank you for all the smiles, for all the laughs, for all the warm hugs and kisses, for all the heartfelt talks, and for always simply being there…we love you!! ♥

Valentine’s Day is a time to commemorate love, but appreciating loved ones should be something we do everyday!! Happy Valentine’s 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! :)