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FaveQuilts Giveaway: Fiber & Fabric Mania! A Travel Guide

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If you’re the type of quilter that spends her vacations hunting down the best local quilt shops, the Fiber & Fabric Mania! Travel Guide is for you! This book serves as a directory for every needlework shop in the United States, so you can explore the wonderful world of fabric wherever you are!

Fiber & Fabric Mania! A Travel Guide lists the stores that sell materials and supplies for knitting, quilting, needlepoint, crochet, weaving, spinning, cross-stich, and embroidery all across the United States. The guide focuses on local shops, so big box craft stores are not included. This book celebrates the uniqueness of local shops and their singular sensitivity to regional tastes and trends. The focused approach allows you as a crafty traveler to experience the flavor of local crafters wherever you go and also gives you the opportunity to make crafty friends all over the nation.

FaveQuilts.com is giving away one copy of Fiber & Fabric Mania! A Travel Guide to one lucky winner. It could be you!

Learn more and enter to win here.

Contest ends March 20, 2012. You can enter once daily, so return often to improve your chances of winning!

The National Needlework Association Trade Show

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I’m at the TNNA trade show. Basically, it’s the place where your favorite yarn shops and needlework shops come to see what’s new and get yarn, canvasses and more. And it’s amazing! SO much to see and do. The Fashion Show on Friday night was amazing, and Saturday I got to walk the show floor and see some of those fabulous fashions up close. I’m constantly in awe of the skills and design ability of the industry designers — women (and men) that create the designs and projects that we are able to share with you on FaveCrafts, AllFreeCrochet, AllFreeKnitting, AllFreeSewing, and more. I plan to make more contacts at this show with some of your favorite yarn companies so we can feature even more great projects with you in 2011!

So let me know what your favorite yarns are to work with. Do you have yarns you’d love to work with but haven’t tried yet, due to price or availability? Let us know what you are interested in by leaving a comment below and we’ll see what we can do about working with some of your favorite companies to provide projects, yarn giveaways, and much more in 2011.

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