Free Pincushion PatternsOctober 18th, 2010I was searching for some projects to make with some fabric scraps and came across some free pincushion patterns over at Tipnut.
So here you go… a list of 60+ Free Pincushion Patterns from Tipnut! P.S. The winner of the monthly gift certificate and sewing pattern giveaway (September 2010) is Shannon S from British Columbia. Congrats Shannon! Happy Thanksgiving & a Coupon CodeOctober 8th, 2010If you live in Canada, this coming weekend is a long weekend. It’s Thanksgiving! We hope you have a relaxing and food filled 3 days with family and friends We have a few friends visiting from California this weekend and are excited to hang out with them again! At any rate, here’s a coupon code just for Thanksgiving if you decide to fit in some sewing this weekend. Get an extra 10% off orders $39+ with the code THANKS10 at checkout. This code applies to everything in store (including sale items)! THANKS10 will expire on Monday October 11, 2010. Coupon code not be applied to previous orders. Happy Thanksgiving, friends! Tutorial: Fabric NecklaceOctober 1st, 2010The holidays are just a few weeks away (I still can’t believe it’s already Fall!) and I’m getting into crafting mode here. With scrapbooks to put together, soap to make, figuring out what cookies to bake for a cookie exchange and now, I just added some fabric necklaces on to the “To Make” list. Thank you to Kristie over at OCD: Obsessive Crafting Disorder who put together a step by step tutorial for making these fabric necklaces – my job is now much much easier as I don’t have to go hunting for instructions come November (I hope that’s enough time to make about 10 of them – I think it might be!).
Kristie also has a few other tutorials that look like they will end up on my “To Make” list (when the holidays are over – because I like to keep the stress to a minimum around holiday time If you haven’t visited the OCD blog yet, do take some time out this week to drop by. *HINT: There’s a coupon code, a Pink Panda Fabrics and a pouch giveaway over there! Just sayin’. Have a great weekend, friends! Tutorial: Fabric HeadboardSeptember 27th, 2010Wooo! Found a tutorial for a fabric headboard a few weeks ago (just in time too because I was thinking about getting one for a guest room but didn’t have a very big budget for one). Brooke of All Things Thrifty has a tutorial up on her blog about how to make a fabric headboard.  Fabric Headboard Tutorial by All Things Thrifty Looks somewhat simple enough for one person to do (although I may need a bit of help from someone – hint to the husband!) to mount the pieces oh the backer board. Have you ever done this sort of thing? Made a non traditional (for example, non metal / non wood headboard)? NEW! Alexander Henry’s Farmdale CollectionSeptember 17th, 2010New in store this week: Alexander Henry’s Farmdale Collection
We’ve waited patiently to get this collection into Canada and it’s finally here. Perfect timing too because Fall is just around the corner (some days it feels like it’s already here!). Bring on the apple picking festivities! Ok, and some sewing too Fab Find: Craft CaravanSeptember 15th, 2010We haven’t posted a fab find for a while so here’s one that we came across during the Summer. Read between the lines – when us moms were exhausted from running around with the kids and couldn’t think of any other activities to keep them busy and happy Not sure about your kids, but ours LOVE arts and crafts. Maybe because they see their moms scrapbooking, card making, taking photos, sewing and constantly in the “craft room” of our homes when we have a bit of down time? Or maybe it’s just the crafty gene we’ve passed onto them?
At any rate, we came across Craft Caravan and thought it was an awesome concept. Monthly delivery of craft kits for kids? Just brilliant! For a monthly fee, they do the shopping, put together the instructions for parents to supervise or provide some extra guidance and then mail it out to your kids at the end of the month. Makes us moms (and dads) less stressed out gathering supplies, coming up with an original craft activity and trying to keep the kids away from using our craft supplies (not that stickers, ribbon and fabric can’t be used for their craft projects – just not the really GOOD stuff These kits will definitely come in handy on rainy days, days when they don’t have school or any snow days they have in the upcoming colder months (there’s bound to be some in Canada!). More fab finds to come. If you have any projects, websites or tutorials you’ve come across that would be useful for fabric lovers (or crafty types in general), please feel free to share them with us! Summer Gift Certificate Winners & Update for Fall Monthly DrawsSeptember 13th, 2010Announcing the winners for the monthly gift certificate giveaway for the months of July & August. July 2010: Sophia from Pefferlaw, Ontario – enjoy the gift certificate Sophia! August 2010: Diana from Stratford, PEI – happy shopping Diana! No interviews for these two months or any future ones (kinda time consuming with the back and forth emails). We will be posting links to your blogs or photos of what you’ve made if you send them over to us though! And we’re making it a bit better for the September, October, November and December 2010 monthly contests! Along with the usual $20 Gift Certificate, the winners will also get to choose a sewing pattern as part of their prize. Free fabric and a sewing pattern? Yes, please! Whoopsies & an Organic Fabrics SaleSeptember 10th, 2010It was a crazy Summer over here at PPF HQ (with trips to the library, zoo and just general busy-ness that accompanies being parents to toddlers) – we forgot to choose July and August monthly gift certificate winners! Our sincerest apologies. Winners have been notified and we will announce them next week. Stay tuned. In the mean time, we have all organic fabrics on sale to celebrate the beginning of Fall. Ok, it’s not the beginning of Autumn just yet… but we’re excited for the soon to be cooler temperatures and seeing apple cider at our local farmer’s market! Monthly Gift Certificate Winner: June 2010July 13th, 2010Tong was our monthly gift certificate winner for June 2010. Here’s Tong’s answers to our questions: 1. What do you love about living in Ontario? 2. Who’s your favourite fabric designer (don’t feel pressured to name one in store!)?
3. Do you have a secret stash of fabrics that no one else but you knows about? If so, what are you planning to do with it? Congrats Tong! Pink Panda Fabrics, Clippopotamus, Grace Announcements Winner!June 26th, 2010Thanks to everyone who entered the $25 Gift Certificate giveaway for Pink Panda Fabrics, Clippopotamus and Grace Announcements. It was fun reading about what your plans are for the Summer. Like many of you, we will be spending most of our time in and around the city. Our daughter is 2 and is infatuated with hippos and requests to go visit the zoo every weekend. Without further ado, the winner of this giveaway via Random.org is …. #10 Melissa! Congratulations! We hope you have a fun this Summer in Nova Scotia (we’ve never been but hope to visit that part of the country one day) and Ottawa! Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaway. We have another fun one with some other mom run businesses coming up after the long weekend next week! So stay tuned. Thank you also to Alexandria of Clippopotamus and Lindsay of Grace Announcements too. |
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