Love for Haiti, a Quilt Auction

Anita K. If you are out there, please e-mail me anna@craftygirlsworkshop.com You had the highest bid for the Haiti Quilt! Thanks!

The Crafty Girls were, of course, very touched by the tragedy in Haiti. We both reacted in our own ways. I, being the techy-girl that I am reached out to people through this blog and by commenting on other blogs and found out about Craft Hope for Haiti. Then, after talking to Regina we decided to donate a tote bag to the Craft Hope for Haiti shop and amazingly, it sold within one day! Regina, being the wonderful, sweet person that she is, decided to make a quilt so that we could try auctioning it off here on our blog, and send all the money to Doctors Without Borders. She made the sweetest, softest, cutest quilt and if I had a baby girl, I'd snatch it up before she could blink. Or at least make her make another one for me. As it turns out, she used a pattern we have in our shop and fabrics we have in our shop!! Here is a picture of the quilt:




Isn't this quilt just adorable? Regina used the Bundle Up Baby Girl quilt pattern from Cotton Way and she told me over and over how incredibly easy this pattern was! She said it was her first time doing the quilt-as-you-go method and it's very clever. The best part about this quilt, besides the soft, feminine colors of the Mill House Inn fabrics, is that it has raw edges which fray when washed so it comes out even softer and cuddly-er.

Here you can see the detail of the fraying, how cute!

This is the back, not only is the fabric very cute, but the quilting is great!

Regina and I would like to offer this 41" x 42" baby quilt up for auction, here on our blog. I've never hosted an auction on a blog before but I've seen it done around blogland. I think the way it will work is this: I'd like to start the bidding at $75 (USD). If you'd like to bid $75, please leave a comment. Each person who'd like to bid higher to bid on this quilt, please leave another comment. You should be able to see a progression of the bidding going up throughout the comments (or that's our hope at least). And if you REALLY can't live without this quilt, please feel free to bid again. Remember that the money will be donated to Doctors Without Borders toward the relief effort in Haiti. The bidding will remain open until Valentine's Day, February 14th at 12:00noon CST. At that point, I'll close bidding/comments and notify the highest bidder. We'll send you a Pay Pal invoice and then pass the money (minus shipping costs) on to DWB. If you are unable to bid, please just pass on the word about this auction and help us spread the Love for Haiti around the blogosphere and twitterland and facebookworld. I've even created a little badge you can add to your posts or even to your sidebar to help spread the word! Here it is, just copy and paste the code below the image into an HTML gadget on your sidebar and you should be able to share the Love for Haiti.

<a href=" http://blog.craftygirlsworkshop.com" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="Love for Haiti button" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/4331056649_35ca615ffd_m.jpg" /></a>

Thanks so much, and I'm sure that the Doctors without Borders and people in Haiti thank you as well!
Happy Bidding,

Anna and Regina
The Crafty Girls

OZ-some New Fabrics!

Yes, it's a cheesy pun, I know, but sometimes cheesy is fun too. We've just gotten 10, yes, count them, 10 new bolts of fabric from the newest line by Sanae, called OZ. I hope you can read the names above the pictures because I tried to include those so you'd know which ones you just HAVE to come by and order! And can you tell how incredibly CUTE this fabric would be made up into any number of our FABULOUS new patterns? How about this adorable group of children's tops?
The Beverly Bell Top

The Faith Double Layer Dress Top

Little Sassy Skirts by Cindy Taylor Oates

Or if your little one prefers something a little more "girly" check out our new fabric from Sandi Henderson, called Meadowsweet. We have 8 bolts of that available!

All of these new fabrics and patterns are available RIGHT NOW in the shop! Remember that patterns ALWAYS ship free with fabric purchase!

Also, don't forget about the GIVEAWAY I'm hosting if you visit Becky at Babes in Hairland and post a comment to her Coins for Comments post. To see the details, go back to my other post. You have to do a little fancy click work, go visit her, leave a comment, then come back here and comment to say you did! Then I'll enter you to WIN FREE FABRIC! The coins for comments will be donated to help a family who is adopting children from HAITI.

One more thing WELCOME to all the NEW followers we have gained from the Whimsy Couture Giveaway and from Friday Followers! We're happy to have you along for the ride! Don't forget that if you want to get special e-mails about updates to the shop and occasional promotional coupons, sign up for the newsletter in the sign up box on the right sidebar. Thanks for stopping by!!

Happy Stitches to You,

Anna

Pattern for Sale

I'd like to try something. Would you like to purchase a pattern I've written that I can e-mail you in PDF format? No shipping fees, no processing fees. Just click the buy now button and I'll e-mail you the PDF of my pattern. It's for a quilt I've created called Fit to be Tied because it's easy and you just tie the corners! Here's a picture:

The pattern is $5.50, thanks for reminding me to put the price!

Thanks for your support!

Happy Stitches,
Anna

Giveaway Inspiration

The winner is April! April, if you see this please e-mail me anna@craftygirlsworkshop.com with your mailing address. I'll attempt to contact you through blogger as well.

EDITED: Becky, (Lori is the one who is adopting the kids) over at Babes in Hairland really inspired me today. I don't have the ability to donate in a monetary way to children in Haiti or Doctors without Borders, but I do have an abundant stash of fabrics (part of the reason Crafty Girls Workshop was born). I dug into my stash and found something that I think could help Haiti, in a minor way. My philosophy is that if many people do one small thing, it will become one HUGE thing. Does that make sense? I think Craft Hope for Haiti is a perfect example. OK so here's the deal. I've decided that I want to offer a way to potentially reward you for commenting on Becky's blog and helping to spread the word about it. I want to give you some of my stash. It's 34 squares, precut to 5"x5", I know 34 is a strange number. It's a charm pack that I had, called Look and Learn by American Jane, I opened it and layed out the charms with the hopes of making an apron, but then put them away and changed my mind. I know I started with 40 charms, but I only have 34 left, I believe I may have made them into pin cushions for a giveaway awhile back. But still, 34 should be plenty to make an apron or a tote bag. I also want to include 1 yard of coordinating fabric from the same line. This fabric is NOT readily available to fabric stores right now. If there is any around, it is probably difficult to find. Here are a couple of pictures, I tried my best to include all the squares in the scan, sorry if a few of them are crooked.

The 34 Charms

1 yard coordinating fabric

I'll keep this opportunity open until February 2nd which is when Becky said she will donate the money based on the number of comments. She said you can comment once per day, so consider going back tomorrow to comment too. Here's how to enter the giveaway for this fabric and charm pack:

• Stop by Becky's blog (1x per day) and leave her a comment
• Come back here and tell me you did that
• Tweet about the Coins for Comments (and tell me you did)
• Post about it on Facebook (tell me you did)
• Blog about it on your blog (tell me you did)

You'll get one entry for each comment you leave here about each of those items. I'd be so thrilled to get lots and lots of comments so I know that somehow I'm helping in a little way too! I hope you have a wonderful rest of your weekend.

Happy Crafting,

Anna

Coins for Comments, please help out

This is a quick post. PLEASE visit Becky over at Babes in Hairland, she's offering to donate 10 cents for each comment she receives on her post to a sweet family that is searching for their adopted children in Haiti. This family lives here, in the US and has been working to adopt these children for two years! She needs LOTS of comment love! So go visit her, right now! And then tell all your friends.

Thanks,
Anna

Another Sweet Moda Bakeshop Tutorial and CGW KIT

It looks like Kim Walus from Bitty Bits and Pieces (a very cute blog, by the way) has written an AWESOME tutorial to make up some adorable Valentines holders just in time for V-day! Of course this is a tute that's over on Moda Bake Shop and I was looking at the materials and it turns out Crafty Girls Workshop has EVERYTHING you need to create this cute Valentine holder for your kids (or yourself). A month or two ago, we ordered an entire bolt of Peltex and Fusible Fleece, just to get an idea of what this Peltex stuff was. It's a very stiff stabilizer that is rather tricky to work with, mostly if you're using it for lining a bag, but I think it would be perfect for the Valentine holder in the tutorial. So click here for the KIT for this cute tutorial. I hope you'll take a look. We've also listed some GREAT ric rac that we've had for awhile and it would make a great embellishment for this exact project.

Happy Crafting!
Anna

New Fabric! Sandi Henderson Meadowsweet

Some new fabrics have arrived and I wanted you all to know, they are posted and waiting for you to stop by and grab some. The fabrics are from Meadowsweet by Sandi Henderson! Perfect to chase away the winter blues!

Meadowsweet by Sandi Henderson

Sweet, isn't it!? Stop by and get it while it lasts! We have 5 yards listed oneach so you can choose a quantity up to that much at checkout, but if you want more than 5 yards, we are happy to accomodate you. Just drop us a line and we'll set up the listing for you! I think these fabrics would be so cute made into skirts or tote bags or quilts. There are so many ideas! That's the update for now.

Happy Stitches to You,

Anna