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Hi everyone!

Happy Thursday! We hope everyone is having a terrific day so far. Have you seen our latest Winsday? We are giving away our Roonie the Raccoon Kit, with all the necessary supplies to make your very own plush friend!! If you haven’t, be sure to check it out here.

It’s time for this week’s Thankful Thursday, and today we are taking the time to thank Marvy Uchida! Since their establishment in 1973, Uchida of America Corporation has been one of the leading brands in a wide range of quality office, craft, and art-related products. Their product range includes paper punches, pens and markers (including paint markers, fabric markers, gel pens, chalk markers, & more!),  crafting supplies, rubber stamps, and everything else you need to get crafty! They have a wide range in color palette and materials, making all their products perfect for any skill-level crafter.

We are huge fans of Marvy Uchida products, especially their pens and markers. As a fabrics company, with the recent launch of our felt and chalkboard fabric, we are always looking for fun and creative ways to use our fabrications. Different types of pens and markers that work with our fabrications….now that is a brilliant idea!

We had the privilege of meeting and chatting with some wonderful people from Marvy Uchida at this year’s CHA Show. Their product line includes chalk markers, fabric markers, and gel pens so we were exceptionally thrilled and excited to test them out with our fabrications! With our chalkboard fabric, we tested their markers onto its surface and we were very impressed! The colors were all very vibrant and opaque on the chalkboard fabric surface.. Another bonus: it was also super easy to clean, with just a damp cloth. We also tested them out on our window, another recommended use for them. We had so much fun doodling on our chalkboard fabric and windows with their markers!!

We wanted to thank the lovely people at Marvy Uchida for providing us with a wonderful array of chalkboard markers! It was very kind of them to do so, providing us with their Bistro Chalk Markers and Bistro Chalk Markers (Fine Point) to try out on our chalkboard fabric. All of the markers are super opaque, with a stunning neon hue, and very easy to use! Thank you so much, Marvy Uchida, for being super sweet – it was so great getting to meet you at the CHA Show!

We hope you have enjoyed this week’s Thankful Thursday! If you haven’t entered our Winsday yet, you can check it out here. Have a great day everyone!

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone!

Happy Friday! We hope everyone is having a great day. It’s the last day of February, and we are wondering where the time has gone. February seriously flew by! We’re very excited for the start of March, and for all the amazing things to come…and also for Spring! We are in need of some warmer weather.

Today is also Fan Friday on the blog, and we are featuring a wonderful Etsy Shop today with the absolute cutest name! A Tiny Forest is a lovely business, started by Kim Payne, creating stunning and high-quality handcrafted products that are also very practical for everyday use. What started as a passion to sew, quickly sparked into a very successful little business! ” I love to make items that are useful and practical, but also lovely and unique.  My little shop, A Tiny Forest, was born of that desire.  It’s just me and a sewing machine, and I do everything from the design phase all the way to shipping.  I also have the responsibility of caring for my family, so it’s a delicate balance.”

According to Kim, mason jars are all the rage…and we definitely agree! Mason jar ideas are always being pinned on Pinterest, and for good reason – there are so many different things you can do with them. And Pinterest makes us want to do them all! One awesome idea from Kim is to use them to pack leftovers for lunch. That’s what she was doing for her husband, packing his work lunch in mason jars, but because they are glass it wasn’t the easiest to transport. That’s when Kim’s mason jar bags were born!

The mason jar bags feature pocket sleeves inside to segment and hold the jars, and even fold out if you want to carry something else! The bags come in several sizes to carry quart-sized, pint-sized, & half pint-sized jars and sturdy handles to carry all your goods. As well, Kim has an eye for pretty designs and chooses a great selection of fabric collections for her products that are playful and fresh. We especially adore that Kim chooses a matching, equally fun, print for the interior! Kim chose our Iconic collection and we think this bag is absolutely beautiful!! We definitely would love to take this bag to work or to the local market with us – so pretty and stylish!!

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Hi everyone!

Happy Tuesday! We hope everyone is having a great day so far. Today is the last day to enter our Chalkboard Fabric Giveaway on the blog. Let us know what you would make with our chalkboard fabric for a chance to win. Enter here!

As well, one of our biggest projects as of late has been our Free Projects section on our website and blog! Since the launch of our Camelot Fabrics blog back in September 2013, we have been posting a new free project every week! From adorable baby shoes to DIY chalkboard banners to plush stegosauruses…we’ve crafted a multitude of amazing projects for you all, with free instructions, diagrams, and patterns. One of the greatest things has been the positive feedback and the pictures sent to us of our projects, from you all! So thank you, keep sending them to us! :)

Along with our free projects, we have been partnering with some very talented quilt designers to create one-of-a-kind quilt patterns for our website. Our fabric collections have a fresh and modern twist to them, and all the quilt designs reflect our style perfectly. All the free quilt designs include the instructions, diagrams, and necessary skus in PDF format which you can check out here. We wanted to thank all our wonderful quilt designers for creating some incredible quilt designs for us! You guys rock!! :)

Today we are featuring one of our quilt designs for this week’s How To’s Day. Larene Smith, from The Quilted Button, designed this sweet baby quilt called Diamond Sparkle. You can use any fabric of your choice, but we think this quilt looks especially darling with our Dream a Little Dream Collection by Heather Rosas. Today we thought we’d provide a step-by-step on how to create your very own Diamond Sparkle Quilt – the perfect blanket for all the little ones you know!

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Hi everyone!

Happy Monday! We hope everyone had a fantastic and restful weekend. It is officially the last week of February…wow, this month honestly flew by! We are very excited for March to arrive, as Spring comes along at the end…and we’re hoping for reflective weather. Here’s to a great end to February!

It’s time to kick-start this awesome week with some Moody Monday inspiration. With Spring on our minds, today we are inspiring you with our Beyond the Backyard by Jane Farnham collection. Beyond the Backyard is a vibrant and cheerful collection of brilliant purple, pink, orange, and green hues. The designs on this collection are very Spring inspired, infused with leaf and floral prints. The colours are warm and comforting, with the patterns having a retro-vibe. Such a wonderful collection for a cute, Spring dress or nature-inspired bedroom set!

Keeping with the color scheme of Beyond the Backyard, we are sharing an eclectic Fall 2013 RTW collection by Rag & Bone. A little bit more fall inspired, but bursting with great mixes in color palette, Rag & Bone‘s collection is very structured and streamlined with a masculine twist. The rugged feel from the tougher textures from the leather, tweed, and herringbone are juxtaposed with fun colors (purple, olive green, and orange)! The unique mixes of colors in each outfit remind us of our Beyond the Backyard collection. You can check out the full collection here!

We hope you have been inspired with today’s Moody Monday! Have you entered our Chalkboard Fabric Giveaway? Let us know what you would create with our chalkboard fabric for a chance to win here :)

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone!

Happy Friday!! It’s just about the weekend, and we are super excited! The weather has been rainy and gloomy here today, but we are hoping for at least a bit of sunshine this weekend. For now, we will put on our galoshes and raincoat, and happily jump through a puddle or two…we are still kids at heart! Have you entered our Chalkboard Fabric giveaway? You can enter here! :)

To end our week, we’ve got our Fan Friday for you all! Today we are sharing an amazing company with a shared love affair for Comic Con and everything vintage…Cake Shop Couture! Song Ja, shop owner and seamstress, opened her business in 2008 with inspiration from Asian street fashion and American Comic Con to create beautiful clothing and accessories by hand. Everything is a labour of love at Cake Shop Couture, as Song Ja is a one-woman entrepreneur, and designs all her products herself from start to finish.

Song Ja, a proud geek and fashionista, began attending Comic Con in 2004 and even met the love her life there…who was dressed in Storm Trooper Armor (Oh, how cute right?). From there, she has combined her passions into one incredible, unique, and successful business. All of Song’s dresses are absolutely beautiful and sparked with a vintage twist. From halter dresses to bustier-styled, Cake Shop Couture a wide variety of dress styles to suit every Star Wars or comic book enthusiast! Song adores our Star Wars and Marvel Comics fabric collections, and we just had to share some of our favorite dresses with you all!

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