Stuffed Animal Sewing Patterns: Squishy-Cute Designs

Valentine Giveaway 2015 – With Prairie Point Junction

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We are excited to announce that we are once again partnering up with Prairie Point Junction (home of Wool Felt Central) for a joint Valentine giveaway! They are such a great place to get felt, and we get most of our felt from them! We highly recommend their lovely online shop!! Check them out if you haven’t already!

And now about the giveaway…

A total of 10 winners will be drawn!!

The giveaway starts now (Friday, Jan. 16th), and ends on Friday, Jan. 23rd.

Details below!

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How To Enter

Each person can enter this contest two times! One entry is made simply by leaving a comment here on this blog post (tell us your favorite holiday cat or dog!). And a second entry to win can be made by leaving a comment over at Prairie Point Junction’s blog too! On their blog, let them know what your favorite felt bundle is, or your favorite colors to work with.

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Winners

We will draw from the comments at random on Saturday, January 24th, and announce the winners here on our blog, on Facebook, and over at Prairie Point Junction. The winners will be notified by email, so be sure to double check your email address when entering, as this is how we will get a hold of you. Your email will not be used for any other reason. If we don’t hear back from a winner, we will re-draw after 7 days.

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The Prizes

Grand Prize (2):

Two grand prizes will be drawn. Each grand prize winner will receive both the Valentine Cat and Valentine Dog PDF patterns, and Prairie Point Junction’s “Puppy Love” bundle of felt as shown above (as well as a few other small pieces of felt colors needed for the patterns). The felt bundle may have a few color substitutions from what we originally used in our patterns, but in general, this lovely bundle is perfect for you to make one each of the cat and dog!

(Disclaimer: Since the grand prizes include the shipping of felt, they can only be awarded to US residents)

Second Place (3):

There will be 3 second place prizes handed out! The second place prize winners will receive both the Valentine Cat and Dog PDF patterns! These will be sent by email.

Third Place (5):

5 third place prizes will be handed out! Third place winners will win their choice of the Valentine Cat OR the Valentine Dog PDF pattern! These will be sent by email.

Important note: All patterns will be emailed to you as a PDF pattern. No patterns will be physically mailed to you.

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Other Important Notes

• If you are a winner, but you already own our Valentine Cat or Dog pattern(s), we will happily switch out your prize for a different holiday cat or dog pattern (or any other $5 pattern, if you already own all our holiday cat and dog patterns). The Puppy Love felt bundle cannot be switched out however.

• If you don’t end up winning, but would still like to make the Valentine Cat and Dog, you can find Prairie Point Junction’s “Puppy Love” felt bundle in their online shop! And you can find the Valentine Cat & Dog patterns for sale in our Etsy shop.

• As mentioned above, some of the colors in the Puppy Love felt bundle are not exact matches for the colors we mentioned in our patterns. However, they are very close and will still work well!

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Good Luck, and Happy Early Valentine’s Day to you all!!

FamilyFun Magazine Feature: Heart Suncatchers

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We Were Featured in FamilyFun Magazine!!

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        Our glue heart suncatcher idea was featured in the February 2015 issue of FamilyFun magazine! They remade the hearts with their own style, and turned it into a whole page in their magazine. We were credited in fine print along the side of the article, so nothing splashy, but it’s still fun to have our idea featured in this way! This is our second magazine feature! Hope you’ll enjoy seeing their twist on our project!

Click here to view the full magazine page.

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To view our original project that this magazine feature was based on, click here: Glue Heart Suncatchers.

Backyard Birds: Norman the Nuthatch

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Norman the Nuthatch

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Norman is the 4th pattern in our backyard bird series! We know nuthatches are not as well known, but we get them at our feeder often and really love the little guys! They have such pretty markings and we tried to capture that in our pattern’s design. We are going to continue the Backyard Bird series with a bluebird as our next pattern, which will hopefully be completed and released soon!

We are offering a $1 off discount code for Norman for the first week. The offer ends Friday, Jan. 16th. The code is to be used at Etsy (see link above) and it is: NORMAN2015
So go check it out now to get this discount!

Until next time,
Happy sewing!

kelli-greta2

Valentine Crafts For Kids: Glue Heart Suncatchers

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        With Valentine’s Day coming up, we’ve just posted a new free craft idea that kids would love! These easy “stained glue” suncatchers look like stained glass, but are much easier and cheaper to make. We’ve provided a variety of heart templates so you can easily make the heart shapes shown above. This would be a really fun project to do with your kids, or even at school in art class!

        And we’re excited to announce that this idea is being featured in the February 2015 issue of Family Fun magazine!

To learn how these are made and download the free templates, click here: Valentine Heart Suncatchers.

Cyber Monday Sale – 2014

Cyber Monday Sale – 40% Off All Patterns!!

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We hope that everyone enjoyed a nice relaxing Thanksgiving with family and friends! And now that the Christmas season is officially here, we wanted to start things off with a big sale on all of our patterns as a “Thank You” to all of our amazing customers!

Use our patterns to make wonderful handmade gifts for your loved ones this year! Or maybe even give the pattern as the gift itself, if you know someone who loves to sew!

So if you’ve been thinking about getting a few of our patterns, now is a great time! Use the code in the image above (HOLIDAY2014SALE) when you are about to check-out. Be sure to enter it in the “coupon code” field so that the discount gets applied. Do NOT enter the code in the “message to seller” as this will NOT give you the discount. Offer good on Monday Dec. 1st only.

So come on over to our shop to check out all of our patterns!!

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Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season!
Happy sewing!

kelli-greta2

Rudy the Reindeer Sewing Pattern

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Rudy the Reindeer

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        Christmas has arrived very early this year here at Squishy Cute Designs because we’ve just released our new pattern: Rudy the Reindeer!! We wanted to get this pattern out early enough so that everyone would have time to make him before Christmas! Rudy would be a fun gift for any little one to receive on Christmas morning!

And this pattern is also the first in a new collection: Pudgie Plushie Pals. This will be another machine sewing collection, using mostly fabric and just a little felt.

And as a special Christmas gift to all of our fans, we are offering Rudy for 50% off from now through Nov. 12th!! The code is to be used at Etsy (see link above) and it is: 2014RUDY50

So be sure to click the link above to get in on this great holiday discount!

Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season!
Happy sewing!

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