If you’ve been on Instagram recently, you’ve probably seen these adorable Alexander Henry fabrics that everyone has been going crazy over. The prints are perfect for fussy cutting and I decided to make some Christmas ornaments for a recent swap.

These could have been done with mini embroidery hoops, but I had about 1,000 small mason jar lids lying around and decided to use these instead.

I just traced around the part of the print I wanted with the outside part of the ring (making it a bit larger all around), layered it with two pieces of batting, put a line of hot glue around the back, and glued the lid in to secure it all.

I added a piece of felt behind the lid and sandwiched a piece of baker’s twine between the felt and the lid to use for the hanger.

I could make a TON of these from one 1/2 yard of fabric and a box of lids because there are so many cute little details!

Head on over to the Pink Door shop if you are interested in picking up some of this adorable fabric! Happy crafting!

Happy Holidays!

Thanksgiving is almost here, Christmas is just around the corner (cue late hours of sewing non-stop) and the snow has been drifting by. As I sit here typing, it’s snowing at my house and I’m bundled up in my quilt with a fresh cup of coffee. It’s pretty amazing!

This year, we are trying something new in the shop. We’ve created a Wishlist for you to download here. Pick the top ten items you love from our shop, and post your wishlist all filled out on Instagram with hashtag #PinkDoorXmasWish. We’ll choose one person who posted their wishlist to win $75 in shop credit to purchase the items on their wishlist. Pretty awesome, right?!

Above is an example of how to fill it out and post it – pretty easy and simple. Plus, who doesn’t want their wishlist granted!? That’s one of our biggest giveaways yet! You have until December 1, 2014 to post your wishlist to Instagram with #PinkDoorXmasWish to be entered! DON’T HESITATE! You don’t want to miss out on this!

Over the next few weeks, Pink Door Fabrics will be giving you some quick and easy holiday gift ideas that are perfect for your friends and family. We’ve got a collection of projects in mind that come together quickly and will help you check everyone off your list. Check back tomorrow for our first project, a quick infinity scarf!

We’re proud to announce that we’re sponsoring the Schnitzel and Boo Mini Quilt Swap. There are over 900 people participating, and it will be so fun to see what everyone creates! We will also be announcing a “Fan Favorite” contest where you can enter the package you create to be entered to win a $75 gift certificate to our shop. In the meantime, please enjoy 10% off all orders with coupon code MINIQUILTSWAP through January 15th, 2015.

Welcome back! Are you ready for a picture overload? 😉

Day 2 at Quilt Market was a busy day full of visual stimulation and oohing and awe-ing! We got to see all the new fabric collections in all their glory and can’t wait to show you! We got into the convention center at 9:30, and headed immediately for Starbucks to fuel us for the day, and then headed in. In case you’re curious, this place is HUGE. Like 28 rows of booths, and each row has 10-14 booths or so. I’d say the center was about as big as 4 football fields. I could be off on that, but it felt that big!

We started off with Free Spirit. We got to check out the new line Flora, from Joel Dewberry, and then some lovely Feather Flock from Tina Givens. We also spied some Heather Bailey! We also checked out Tim Holtz‘s booth filled with all sorts of Eclectic Elements goodies and amazing eye candy! Ps-he’s really nice to talk to!

We then checked out Amy Butler and Parson Gray’s booth! Amazing stuff I tell ya. Beautiful presentation and Amy Butler is SO NICE! She totally asked to take a picture with Nicole, since she was wearing a dress made with Amy’s older print. Chelsea and Charlie chatted with Heather Bailey about her new fabrics and products and we spied this ADORABLE little owl (pattern coming soon!).

We of course couldn’t leave Free Spirit / Westminster without a group photo!

We saw so much yummy Organic cotton options at Market – Monaluna, Birch, etc. Here’s Charley Harper Nurture – the penguins!!! (which will be arriving soon in our shop) as well as Monaluna Westwood which has the most amazing mustard and teal colors!

There was also plenty of bags and funky patterns to be found at Quilt Market too! We loved pretty much everything we saw. Here’s the Beatle Bag (on the left) by Abbey Lane Patterns, and the Itty Bitty Beatle Bag, too! So cute and amazing for storage of sewing notions or used as a first aid kit, or EPP storage, etc. The possibilities are endless.

I made a stop at the Kokka Booth and found all sorts of adorable animals and cute accessories and notions! They never fail to amaze me! We will be carrying Kokka in our shop soon!

Finally, we hit up the coveted and amazing Cotton + Steel booth to check out displays, and this AMAZING moto jacket made with their new Sparkle Canvas! Stunning!! Bespoke, is a new double gauze collection coming in January. We will also have this and it’s on presale now. The Octopi Lawn is stunning in person and I imagine a whole wardrobe of Octopi in my closet.

And that’s all for tonight. Stay tuned for Part 3 of Quilt Market, where we’ll show you even more photos and don’t forget, we’ll have a massive giveaway when we’re done!