With so much competition between fabric shops these days, it’s hard to stand out. Stitch Simple does it with a completely unique spin on the fabric shop concept: owner Jen Madsen offers prewashed, and (if you want) precut fabric and custom quilt kits (including the new Quilt Kit du Jour, which just launched yesterday). That’s [...]
Well it’s just turning out to be an Austin-themed day. I live ridiculously close to the Fat Quarter Shop‘s world HQ and have always been an fan of their well-designed online shop, though I’ve never met owner Kimberly Jolly face-to-face. And I probably won’t get to for a while, either, since she just gave birth [...]
Hoffman Fabrics recently introduced six new “flavors” of their popular pre-cut Bali Pops fabric packs. The packs include 40 different Bali Batiks cut in strips measuring 2.5″ wide by 44″ long. I’m not much of a batik person but I have worked with them before in quilts and appreciate their deep, saturated colors and organic, [...]
Block-Printed Hemp/Cotton Blends from Home Sweet, via Crafting a Green World Blempgorf shares her pick for the Best fabric ever — I don’t disagree! Hello, nice to meet you too, Daisy Janie’s Urbana collection! A La Mode is giving away MORE out of print Heather Ross fabrics — deadline to enter April 10. Enter to [...]
New Sales, Giveaways 30% off fabric, tape, and stamps at good-ness. Win 50 yards (!) of Art Gallery Fabrics — details on the Fabtalk blog. A Stitch in Dye is guest blogging and giving away bundles of her hand-dyed/patterned fabrics on Simply Robin. Whipstitch Fabrics is holding a giveaway on The Long Thread Fabric & [...]
Discounts/Giveaways Exclusive sale for True Up readers on Fabricworm and Fabricworm Etsy: 10% off orders over $25+ through March 31, 2009 with coupon codetu10. Convo first through Etsy or just use the coupon code on the .com. Win a free surprise package of two pounds of our fabrics ($35 value!) by signing up for the [...]
On the Bee Square Blog: Monday Giveaway – Japanese Charm Pack 2 On the Textile Blog: The 1970s and Textra Furnishing Fabrics On the Rickrack Rag: Feedsack Friday – Paisley Prints On the Revival Fabrics Blog: Vintage Feedsack History On the Sew, Mama, Sew! Blog: Stash Interview ~ Manda from Tree Fall On the Distintive [...]
More stash sharing: Jennifer Ladd’s interview on Sew Mama Sew, and Oh Fransson shares pictures of her amazing Fabric Closet. Bee Square Fabrics’ Monday Giveaway – Red White & Blue 70′s Daisies found by Niesz Vintage Fabric How to donate fabrics and craft supplies to help crafters effected by the Victorian bush fires, on Moopy [...]
Anna Maria Horner‘s sewing book, Seams to Me: 24 New Reasons to Love Sewing, is coming out Oct. 20, 2008. To celebrate, Wiley Publishing is holding a sweepstakes, which you can enter once daily until the deadline (Nov. 21). One grand prize winner will receive a Singer Confidence Quilter sewing machine, a signed copy of [...]
Karyn of the workroom, a a small sew-by-the-hour studio/sewing school/fabric shop in Toronto, Canada, just received her shipment of Heather Ross‘ Mendocino line and is holding a contest for a free fat quarter pack. Just click over and leave a comment naming your favorite mythical creature on this entry. Hooray for cryptozoology! The contest closes [...]
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