Quilt Giveaway

Want a chance to win a beautiful twin-sized quilt? Head over to marie-madeline studio's blog and enter for your chance! If you win, you get to choose from two lovely quilts. How fantastic is that?

Click here to enter!

Free downloadable patterns

If you haven't checked out the free downloadable patterns at fabric.com yet, do it!

Right now they have several offerings from Hot Patterns including a couple of bags and a cowl-necked top. These won't be available forever, so grab them while you can!

Another thing to check out are the videos that Hot Patterns posts on YouTube. It's pretty cool to be able to see a face behind the company, and get tips and help with your projects. Just search "hot patterns" and you'll find a bunch of videos!

Free holiday embroidery patterns

Urban Threads is offering some super cute gingerbread man embroidery patterns and clip art for free through the end of December. There are patterns for both machine and hand embroidery. Don't miss these! Be sure to check out the other stuff they offer - these aren't your mom's embroidery patterns!

Burdastyle

BurdaStyle is a wonderful open source sewing site. There are tons of free patterns to download as well as a blog, forum, how to's, and user creations. Burda is a well known pattern company, so when they came out with this site a while back, it was very exciting! The site has evolved to involve a lot more of its users' content and that is just cool. Check it out!

Free political embroidery designs!

Apex Embroidery has both Obama and McCain embroidery designs available for free download. There are two designs for each candidate, in a variety of download formats. I'm planning to use an Obama one on a red t-shirt today; I will post my results later on!

Click here for free downloads