With the arrival of spring and Mother's Day just around the corner, we want to help you celebrate with a big crafty giveaway. Enter the Spring Into May Giveaway for your chance to win one of six HUGE prize packs. The total of all prizes is valued at more than $2,200!

Janome Magnolia 7325 Sewing Machine • Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores

Fat Quarter Shop • Sew Sweetness • Aurifil • Pellon

Coats + Clark • SewCanShe.com • Andover Fabrics

Go To Patterns • FreeSpirit Fabric • Aurifil • Imagine Gnats

Sew South (Sewing Swag) • Kindle Fire (Blogger-sponsored prize)

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  To enter the giveaway, simply "Like" all of the Facebook pages below, and fill out the Google form letting us know you did. We know you will love them just as much as we do! Make sure you only enter ONCE, because this form is shared on all of the participating sites. Duplicate entries will be deleted, and giveaway ends Friday, May 10th. Good luck! No purchase necessary. For alternate entry, e-mail lindsay(at)craftbuds(dot)com with your full name and the subject line "May Giveaway Contest." The sponsors will ship all prizes within 7 days of the end of the giveaway. Giveaway ends Friday, May 10th at midnight EST. Once the giveaway ends, winners will be chosen using Random.org and contacted within 24 hours by e-mail. This main contest post at CraftBuds.com will be updated with winners’ names once we’ve heard back from them. Winners will need to respond within 48 hours to claim their prize or another winner will be chosen. International entries are welcome; Some giveaways open worldwide.

Quilters, It's Almost Time to Celebrate World Wide Quilting Day, March 16!

Get ready! Saturday is Worldwide Quilting Day, #WWQuiltDay, a day for people around the globe to celebrate the art of quilt making. Coinciding with National Quilting Day in the United States, an event that has been commemorated on the third Saturday in March since 1991, Worldwide Quilting Day (Twitter #WWQuiltDay) is being celebrated by you and the quilt industry with a variety of celebrations, special classes, charity drives, demonstrations, and a special quilting marathon: The Seven Summits Strip Quilt Challenge.

The Seven Summits Strip Quilt Challenge is asking you and your quilt shop to make as many strip quilts as possible in a single day, March 16! Simply piece together strips of fabric to make strip-quilt tops. Count every inch of fabric sewn together by you and your quilt shop, with the overall global goal of piecing together enough fabric to reach the peak of one of the Seven Summits.

For more information about how you too can celebrate Worldwide Quilting Day 2013, visit the website at www.worldwidequiltingday.com.

St Patrick's Day Rag Wreath Tutorial!

St Patrick's Day is right around the corner and you need to spice your home up with a little decor! So check out this quick and easy wreath tutorial that is fun to put together and it will also bring you a little luck! Enjoy and thanks to Melissa for sharing!!

Click on the Photo for Tutorial

More Austin Fun -- Remnant fiber [culture]



Here is a MUST go to shop when you are in Austin -- Remnants: fiber [culture]. Urban and youthful, there is a lot of fabric lovin' going on here and Jessica will make certain you fall in love with quilting, sewing and her too! If you are in Austin for QuiltCon stop by and tell her we sent you. She has special events going on throughout the event at her store and also in her booth.

Here is here schedule and address! Stop by and say Hey -- that's what they say down here in Texas!

Thursday, 2/21 from 2 pm - 5 pm

FreeSpirit's Valori Wells shares her art & soul with RFC.

Friday, 2/22 from 1 pm - 4 pm

Alison Glass from Andover Fabrics

Saturday, 2/23 from 2 pm - 5 pmMelody Miller of Kokka Fabrics

In the RFC booth at QuiltCon:

Saturday, 2/23 from 11 am - 1 pm

Meet Alicia Diane Durand, author of Quilts, Tacos and Tattoos!

Yes we are talking about our competitor's here but it is all in the name of fabric and quilting -- plenty of love to go around.

Here is the address to her shop:

10435 Burnet Road, Suite 106, 888-TO-QUILT

QuiltCon is nearly here! Will you be there!

The State Capitol in Austin, TX



The State Seal, Looks like a Quilting Star!



They say everything is bigger in Texas and we are certain the organizers behind QuiltCon are agreeing with only two days to go before the doors are open to the Modern Quilt Guild's first show.  The show will be filled with tons of quilty education and also quilts, fabric, sewing machines . . . you name it, all as big as Texas.

Yesterday we took a field trip to visit our friend Leslie Bonnell at Stitch Lab. They were busy folding, prepping and getting ready to have everything you'd ever want in terms of FreeSpirit and Rowan fabrics on the show floor.  In addition to the Stitch Lab Make It Take It area of the booth, FreeSpirit and Rowan artists will be stopping by to meet and greet.  If you are going to be there, stop at booth 300 and sign up for the Stitch Lab's awesome daily giveaway gift bags including a Denyse Schmidt extravaganza, Anna Maria Horner crafty bag, FreeSpirit goodies like Valorie Wells fabric and projects plus items from Parson Gray, Tula Pink, Verna Mosquera and more; and a Rowan bag filled with Kaffe and Amy Butler goodies.

Stop by booth 300 to meet our designers:

Friday, February 22
Valori Wells, FreeSpirit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Saturday, February 23
Anna Maria Horner, FreeSpirit . . . . . . . . . . 9:00 am - 10:00 am
Denyse Schmidt, FreeSpirit . . . . . . . . . . . . 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Amy Butler, Rowan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Parson Gray (aka David Butler), FreeSpirit . 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Even more exciting, FreeSpirit designer Denyse Schmidt is the Keynote speaker the evening of Saturday, February 23.