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!

The Farmdale Collection by Alexander Henry Fabrics features fun prints in an earthy yet bright colour palette. With birds, blossoms, plates and apples, this collection is perfect for cooler temperatures ahead!

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

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!

Wahoo! It has been so much fun running this little store for the past 2 years and getting to know you all (on email, Facebook and Twitter)

Pink Panda Fabrics is run by me (Cheryl) and a few helpful friends and family members (they help cut and ship packages on weekends) and we’re honoured to be nominated for such a fabulous award.

Vote for Pink Panda Fabrics!

So if you have a free moment, we’d appreciate your support and would love you to vote for us to win this year’s award.

No pressure though. You don’t have to if you don’t want to

And if you have already voted for us, thank you thank you thank you! We hope to offer even more fresh and modern  designer fabrics to sewing enthusiasts in Canada in the coming years.

To celebrate this nomination, we’re going to run a few contests (giveaways) with a few other mom entrepreneurs we’ve met along the way. Can’t wait to introduce you to them – they are a hoot (and the best cheerleaders one could ask for).

First giveaway starts Friday June 11, 2010. You don’t want to miss it!

If you aren’t a mom, make sure you call your mom and tell her how much she means to you.

Hope you all have a relaxing day

In honour of Mother’s Day, we are giving away a free fat quarter for every $45 spent.

Enter the code “MOM” at checkout to get it. Code good until the very end of May. Yup, May 31!

The new Echino Nico line from Etsuko Furuya’s Spring 2010 collection is now in stock.

View the 21 prints here

This collection is too much fun to look at!

Wanna see a sneak peek?

Here’s a collage of the 33 beautiful prints that make up this collection.

There will be 3 colourways – Joy, Passion and Bliss. We will be bringing in all the prints (in yardage) this Fall. We’ll also be bringing in some precut bundles as well. Keep your eyes open!

Denyse Schmidt Hope Valley Charm Pack

We didn’t get everything we ordered and there are still some prints that we are anxiously waiting for. We’ve been told the estimated delivery date for the rest of the goodies are in June or July So sorry for those that have been waiting on some specific Nicey Jane, Hope Valley and Dolce prints.

We have posted everything we received from these three collections – including fat quarter bundles and charm packs. If there is a specific print or cut you’re looking for, write to us and we’ll let you know when it’s coming in.

Hope you had a great weekend and got some vitamin D!

You’ve all been amazing. Many of you have cheered us on from the very beginning in 2008 when I was just starting out – cutting fabric and trying to master late night feedings with a newborn.

You’ve reached out to me with emails of support and some of you have even heard my voice over the phone! I love the emails and letters I’ve received since opening up shop and never imagined that saying goodbye would be so difficult.

But we knew it had to come to an end eventually as things are constantly changing in our lives, and sadly, April will be the last month of Pink Panda Fabrics.

My husband has gotten an offer on the West Coast and we’ve decided to move over to one of my favourite places in the world – California!

This new move means there’s ton of things to do and so we’ll be shutting our doors at the end of the month. Me (Cheryl) and my team (the lovely local ladies who help me pack and cut) have loved every minute of bringing the freshest fabrics to Canadians and are really sad that it will end soon.

Hopefully I’ll be able to re-establish some sort of fabric store in my new home and find more local ladies to help me out.

XOXO

Cheryl & The Pink Panda Fabrics Team

At first it was going to be March but now it looks like sometime in early April. If only fabrics could learn how to tele transport!

We have lots coming in – fat quarter bundles, charm packs and yardage. Thanks for being so patient everyone! We’re just as excited as you all are to get these onto our shelves. Not to mention the other great stuff we have coming in too – organics and more Echino later this season.

What we can tell you is that everything on it’s way to us are in colours perfect for Spring and Summer. The weather is gorgeous where we are this week and we hope it’s just as sunny and bright where you are too! Happy Tuesday!