Happy Fourth of July to all our American peeps! This week's giveaway is being brought to you from the beautiful Smoky Mountains in Tennesse where Stephen and I are visiting family this week. Despite record-breaking hot temperatures (and no air-conditioning!) we've been keeping cool in an ic...

Gingher 7-1/2-Inch Pinking Shears, 8-Inch Knife Edge Dressmaker's Shears & 4-Inch Featherweight Thread Clippers We're big fans of quality sewing tools around here. There's nothing more ruinous to the happy experience of creating something you're excited about than working with shoddy tools --...

Denyse Schmidt provided one of my earliest introductions to the modern quilting movement. I love that she derives inspiration from vintage quilts and designs since these are dear to me already, but she cleans them up for the current quilter so that things look both familiar and fresh. I've gi...

This is the last in a series of posts describing the projects that are part of our 2012 Spoonflower Staff Challenge. Voting begins tomorrow! Tim and I (Darci) dove into this project like crazy people. We definitely bit off more than we could chew, so it's fitting that for our Spoonflower Sta...

This is the first in a series of blog posts describing the projects in the 2012 Spoonflower Staff Challenge, an annual event in which we put our own creative talents to the test and ask you to vote on our work for a change. This year we divided Spoonflower (30 folks at present) into teams of two...

In the same upping-your-online-game spirit as last week's "Craft Blog Tune-up" course giveaway from Sister Diane of Craftypod, this week we're giving away two books on how to turn your crafting passion into a business. The two titles are Kari Chapin's Handmade Marketplace and Meg Mateo Ilas...

I'm really excited about this week's giveaway, courtesy of the lovely Diane Gilleland. For those of you who don't know, Diane is the author of the Craftypod blog and the creator of the Craftypod podcast. She is also author of the print book, Kanzashi in Bloom, as well as some full-length e-bo...

As Kim hinted yesterday, we have some exciting news today plus a special giveaway! We're so pleased to announce the newest in Spoonflower's lineup of fabric choices: Kona® Cotton, a premium quilting-weight cotton by Robert Kaufman Fabrics. Our new quilting-weight cotton fabric balances a soft ...

Does anyone else besides me enjoy taking the holiday decorations down almost as much as putting them up? It's probably pretty grinchy of me to admit, but I've always enjoyed a good de-cluttering session, and the post-holiday one is the grandaddy of them all. After hauling the tree to the curb...

We made it! Today brings us to the twelfth and final installment of our 12 Days of Giveaways. Whew. Our last prize will consist of two $100 Spoondollar credits, to be awarded tomorrow morning to two fine folks. The winners will be able to use the credit to create their own fabric or to shop...

It's Day Eight in our twelve days of holiday giveaways, and today we're gifting a copy of the brand new Fabric-by-Fabric One-Yard Wonders sewing project book. Filled with 101 projects you can make with just one yard of fabric, you'll find patterns for all of the fabrics in your stash: quilt...