Day 6 of the Twelve Treasures of Christmas Giveaway!

We have a winner for Day 5 - Addy Van Anne! Please email your mailing info to: melissa@treasurebayfabrics.com

Our Day 6 giveaway consists of a canvas tote from The Quilts of Valor program, a disc of all the fabrics from Andover for Fall 2010, a keychain from AccuQuilt , four cuts of cotton fabric and a handy dandy hot pink measuring tape - a must have for anyone!



Please comment here on this post to win. Winner chosen via random drawing no later than 12/24/10 - late in the evening. Make sure you stop back to see if you have won and to enter for the next day. Good luck!

- Melissa

Day 5 of the Twelve Treasures of Christmas Giveaway!

We have a winner for Day 4 - Comment number 9: Shenandoah Customs! Please email me your mailing info to melissa@treasurebayfabrics.com

Our Day 5 giveaway consists of a guide to jazzing up your quilt blocks from Bernina, an issue of Quick Quilts magazine, a tote bag from Quilters World, an assortment of buttons, a charm pack of Daisies & Dots by Piece o'Cake Designs and of course, a handy dandy hot pink retractable tape measure!


Comment on this post to WIN! One comment per person, winner chosen by random drawing on Friday, 12/17/10 around 9pm central time. Make sure you check back to see if you have won and enter for the next day. Good luck!

- Melissa

Day 4 of the Twelve Treasures of Christmas

We have a winner for day 3 - Comment number 3: 4kids! Please email me your mailing info to melissa@treasurebayfabrics.com

Our day 4 giveaway is an adorable Little Quilt Company appliqué Pattern "Baby Bibs 2" (these designs would look cute on tshirts too!), four pieces of fabric and a handy dandy retractable tape measure. Comment on this post to win! Make sure you check back every day to see if you have won and to enter for the next day. One comment per person, winner chosen by random drawing on Thursday, 12/16/10 at 9pm central time. Good luck!


- Melissa

Day 3 of the Twelve Treasures of Christmas

But first - the winner from Day 2 is Adele! Adele, please send me your mailing info via email to melissa@treasurebayfabrics.com.

Here is the Day 3 Giveaway: a quilt pattern and brochure from Amy Butler, notecards from Tina Givens, a quarter yard of Opal Owl from Tina Givens and a handy little tape measure (of course!).


Please comment here on the blog to WIN! Winner chosen via random drawing on Wednesday, 12/15/2010 around 9pm central time. Good luck!

- Melissa

Day Two of The Twelve Treasures of Christmas

Enter here on the blog page to win! Day two is a lovely tote made from the "Dimples" line of fabric from Andover, a fat quarter cut from Cosmo Cricket by Andover and a handy little hot pink tape measure. Winner selected via random drawing on Tuesday, 12/14/10 at 9pm Central time.



- Melissa

The Twelve Treasures Of Christmas

I have some fun things to giveaway.  Make sure you stop by the Facebook page and comment to win some fun items!

New in the shop - Gift Certificates!

I have $25.00 and $50.00 listed but can create Gift Certificates in any denomination.  Just send me a message to have that listed for you.

In other news, I have also started moving listings over to ArtFire.  The fees on etsy are mind boggling.  I am still plugging away at the dedicated website, too.  I am a huge fan of etsy, but if you sell more than a 100 things a month, the fees will eat you alive.  Everything I sell on etsy can be purchased on ArtFire and I believe that you do not need a profile in ArtFire.  Just shop and pay. 

A Roundup of My Favorite Tutorials

I am loving all the tutorials lately.  I read them more than I create.  I need to stop looking!  Here are some of my favorites!

Pockets have always made me a little nervous, but ikatbag has posted a series on pockets that has me cheering!  Look at this lovely pocket:

It seriously makes my heart sing!   I can't wait to try out other pockets on bags and skirts for my little girl.

From The PolkaDot Chair, look at this gorgeousness for the Holidays!

Here is the tutorial link.

This is also from the Polka Dot Chair and I am making this tomorrow morning (don't tell my daughter!):

And the link is here for the Dolly Skirt How-To.  There is even another tutorial for the matching Girls Skirt!  So fabulous!

Need a quick gift?  How about something made out of scraps, interfacing and a zipper!

Step by Step instructions are here at cut out and keep - a site chock full of tutorials and sharing, you might get lost over there for a few hours, be careful!

Sew On!

Late Night Blogging

And that title is not a euphemism for anything naughty!

I just wanted to post a little update on shop happenings, I have been so quiet lately and I am absolutely certain you have been thinking about what I have been up to, right? That's what I thought! I have been diligently plugging away at the new online shop and since I am not a graphic designer, it's going a lot slower than I hoped. Still aiming for a January 1 roll out though! I have ordered a clone to help with the workload but she is on back order.

In the meantime, I have some exciting news to share. I will be having a year end clearance in the etsy storefront to reduce the amount of items I will need to transfer over and to assist in that, etsy now has the ability to accept COUPON CODES! Yes, I know I am yelling, it's just that fabulous!

To kick off this fabulously good news, we are having a Black Friday weekend sale. I will add a new blog post with the Code and instructions on how to redeem it with the etsy checkout system. I will also announce it in Facebook and Twitter and yell at random strangers about it. Since this post is missing some pretty pictures to jazz it up, I will leave you with this lovely cut paper art made by my little girl while I was cutting and packing orders last week:


I sense a future in textile design for her.... I love the little bee on the right!

- Melissa

Quilt Story Quilt Along Part 2

Oh my!  Gorgeousness!

Follow along here:  QuiltStory Blog

Quilt Along with Quilt Story

Have you checked out Quilt Story?  If not, you need to - fabulous tutorials, giveaways and my favorite, Fabric Tuesdays!  Heather and Megan are the lovely ladies behind this blog and today they are featuring fabric from my shop - the gorgeous Modern Meadow prints from Joel Dewberry. 

Today's post is a tutorial for a quilt that anyone can do - even if you have never quilted.  Give it a try!


HST Quilt Tutorial Part 1 - Here

Let me know if you decide to quilt along.  Looks like fun!