Crayon Bag PDF Pattern

Our crayon bag PDF pattern is FINALLY up on our Etsy ($3.50).... check it out HERE!

PATTERN DETAILS:
You will receive the pattern in PDF format with tutorial-style directions, full color photographs, and to scale pattern pieces (just click print at "actual size" and sew!) Also, a PDF of the directions only, no pictures--in case you want the pics only for reference on your computer. This pattern is recommended for experienced beginners and up. If you need help anytime while using the pattern, just send me an e-mail!

Crayon Bag description:
This is a cute little crayon carrier. GREAT way to keep your little one busy while also keeping their crayons and paper all together and off the floor! It has 1 slot down the middle for a pencil holder, and slots for 11 crayons/mini colored pencils. It has an open pocket behind crayon holder for stickers, coloring pages, pictures, etc...also has a zipper pocket on the front for extra "storage"--like snacks and small toys. It is especially great for on the go! It holds a 8x5 notepad (which holds in place, and can be easily changed out.) It has stiffener between the layers so the bag will hold its shape and not fold up as you carry it. It closes with a hook and loop flap to keep everything together! It's small enough to fit into your purse/diaper bag, so you can keep it with you wherever you go. (For ideas or more examples, see "SOLD" listings to see our previous crayon bags we used to sell.)


Included with this pattern:

-glossary of terms/definitions
-photographs illustrate each step
-PDF lets you zoom in to see each step up close, and print and re-print the pattern pieces whenever you need them!

You will receive an e-mail with instructions on how to download your pattern after your payment has been confirmed. You can also access your pattern by clicking on Purchases under Your Account in Etsy. Please contact me if you have any questions!

System Requirements: Adobe Reader software (Free at www.adobe.com/products/reader)!

**** Please do not sell or distribute this pattern.

You may sell items made from this pattern. Just add the following credit line to each online listing and hang tag:

This item was handmade using a KnotSewShabby sewing pattern.

...and adding a link to my etsy shop and pattern listing would be greatly appreciated.

PDF Patterns......coming soon!!!

Knot Sew Shabby is so excited to introduce that we are in the process of doing PDF Patterns!!! and possibly photo and/or video tutorials to help with them! (hopefully in the really near future! We are still learning the in and outs of how to make the pattern , and are playing around with them right now.)

Keep checking back, as I hope to get the Crayon Bag PDF up within the next week or two! Also, we are going to do fabric quiet book patterns and will have free patterns as well!

Click here to see it in more detail!

Are you as excited as we are??

Let's see who won :)

Okay, so on Random.org it gave me #11 for the crayon bag....
Comment #11 is.................. Amy!!! Congratulations Amy on winning the crayon bag! I will contact you with the info/details!


Now for the PeaceLoveNPolkaDots Purse winner.................#10.......
Comment #10 is................Jen!!! Congratulations!!! I will contact you also with the details/info!


THANKS to you all that participated :) Remember you can still get 10% off tomorrow at the boutique for purses(just mention the give a way) and 30% off all the crayon bags!

This give-a-way didn't get as great of a turnout as hoped for, but maybe because it was less than a week and we haven't kept up on our blogging. In the future we will maybe do it for 2 weeks! Who knows?? We will hopefully have another give-a-way in the next few months!

Thanks again and hope you all have a Happy Easter!!

GIVE A WAY - 2 winners!!!

I am so excited for this give-a-way! We are giving away 1 purse and 1 crayon bag to 2 LUCKY winners! So you will have a better chance at winning! ALSO if you use coupon code EASTER2011 on KnotSewShabby.etsy.com you will receive 20% off all your crayon bag purchases through Etsy! (now thru April 20) OR if you come to the boutique this Saturday April 9th you will receive an EXTRA 10% off your crayon bags......and 10% off all purses on PeaceLoveNPolkadots.etsy.com.

We will have a booth set up at:

Ann's Craft Corner

Saturday, April 9th

9 a.m. - 3 p.m.

1458 N. Higley Road, Suit 101

Gilbert, AZ

On the West side of Higley Rd and South of Baseline
between Subway and Grease Monkey Auto.

NOW back to the GIVE-A-WAY...... we are going to give a way 1 crayon bag of your choice from KnotSewShabby.etsy.com to one winner....

and 1 purse of your choice from PeaceLoveNPolkadots.etsy.com to another winner.

Here’s How To Enter:

1. Leave a single comment here telling us which crayon bag is your favorite AND which purse!

2. For an extra entry, become a fan of PeaceLoveNPolkadots on Facebook. Leave a separate comments for this.

3. For another entry, FACEBOOK about this give-a-way and leave the link to this blog AND/OR blog about it, leaving a link. Leave seperate comments for each. (We will check for this, so make sure we have access to your blog.)

4. Contest ends Friday, April 8th at noon AZ time. Winners will be chosen from Random.org and be notified by email. Winners will have 48 hours to respond or another winner will be chosen.

GIVE A WAY--our biggest one yet!!!

Who wants to win our most popular item in our shop right now? We have sold many Quiet Books and I know you ALL would just LOVE to win THIS:

(read the rules here first!)

Over at HELEN'S other blog,

A Toddlers Guide to Scripture Study, she is having a give-a-way! We Knot Sew Shabby girls are honored to help her out with the prize. If you go to our ETSY store here you can see how popular that prize is, what activities are on each page, more photos, and the awesome feedback we have received about it. Also, this is a huge give-a-way. It is the most expensive thing in our shop right now, and ever, actually!

RULES to win this Quiet Book (perfect for long flights and long sacrament meetings) - see here for more photos than what's on Etsy- all I need you to do is go over to the blog A Toddlers Guide to Scripture Study and leave any comment on her "Ideas?" post.

If you would like an extra chance at winning, add yourself as a follower to that blog (and let her know you did in your comment on that blog). AND if you could post about it, linking to the rules of how to enter(rules on the KnotSewShabby blog OR the Helen blog, not the Toddler's Guide Blog--as the rules are not posted on there).

WINNER: Helen will put all the names in a hat and pick one at random. Winner will be announced on the Toddler's guide blog. Competition closes Saturday 21st March at midnight Australian Eastern Daylight Savings Time - you smarties can work out for yourselves what time that will be where you live. Quiet book may have different flavoured fabric to the one pictured. Remember, once you have the basic book, you can buy extra pages (that are only $16) and add them to your Quiet Book.

Ok... now go forth and spread the word.... I really think you all will WANT to follow A Toddlers Guide to Scripture Study. It has VERY good ideas and I know you will find it helpful to help your toddler's learning and knowledge of the scriptures!

Have a GREAT weekend!!!

give a way and new shop coming soon!

(See bottom of this post for give-a-way to win our "ADVANCED" Quiet Book!--$60)
First off thank you Lori for the cute name idea. (check out her etsy HERE. cute aprons!) and Thanks Amy for the luck and good wishes......check out her etsy HERE.
Well, we were racking our brains one night...ALLLL NIGHT.... and asked a few people, and nothing. BUT like 3 days after we finally came up with something we loved...it sounds a little "hippie" but it isn't really intended that way. We just though it sounded cute....besides who doesn't like peace and love?!? Anyways, so sorry Lori, but by the time we got your suggestion, we already "registered" the name we have. BUT thank you so much for the cute idea, we really did have a hard time finding a cute catchy name, and I think Shabby Sacks is sooo cute, and very appropriate!

Well, so our new name is......................................................


peace.love.n.polkadots

The URL is peacelovenpolkadots.etsy.com and we are just working on getting inventory up for the shop! Stay tuned and we will let you know how it goes and when it opens!!!!!

Other than that, we have been busy-busy sewing our fingers off and working out the kinks for the new shop! It is so much fun to work on something a little different and -new! It is just like taking a break, but not!

Well, there will be a GIVE A WAY for our Quiet Book and it is going to be hosted on a newer really neat looking blog. BASICALLY all you have to do is "follow" her blog...if you need directions how to follow, ask her and she would be happy to help! It is a cute little blog with good ideas for teaching your kids! and you just have to click the button to follow the blog. CAN IT GET ANY SIMPLER THAN THAT! NOPE, I think not! So I encourage everyone to get over there.................................... I will post the link to the blog when she officially starts the give a way and we have more details, so please check back!

Thanks to you all for your support and suggestions! Have a wonderful night! Stay tuned....

Opening shop

Good Morning EVERYONE!!! Us Knot Sew Shabby girls are thinking about opening another etsy shop....(since Knot Sew Shabby pretty much turned into a baby/kids type shop.) AND because it will not be just sewing stuff, like Knot Sew Sabby! If anyone has any SUGGESTIONS for a NAME, let us know. We are pretty stumped.(oh and we may like your name, but not choose it if someone else on etsy has it.)

Here is a sneak peek of what we think we will be selling and making:

Since we have had a lot of people ask if we could do "Crayon Bags" but for adults, here is what we are thinking...........

a list taker holder type thing/daily planner

and we miss doing purses and LOVE doing appliques, so here are a few of those. (these are Becky's designs.) I didn't get any pics of mine or Leann's because we don't have them finished/close to finished.

Happy Monday! Hope your week starts off AWESOME!

Update

We have done 2 boutiques in the past and today our first swap meet. In all honesty, we didn't do soo well at any of them. BUT it gets us to build up our inventory and our etsy takes off and does awesome each time.

So from now on, for quite some time, we are not going to do any more boutiques or swap meets and just keep up with etsy. We have been doing pretty good with etsy, especially with getting SLAMMED around Christmas.

We all are still sewing and enjoying it so much. We keep trying to come up with new stuff, because we will get sick of crayon bags, and so we will rotate to the busy book. Get tired of that, and rotate to Tag-Along-Tales.

So yeah, we are still keeping busy and will try to keep you updated. We will be having another give-a-way sometime in the near future, hopefully with better luck than our "Christmas" one.

We also will be having offers and savings on here!

Hope everyone has a WONDERFUL weekend!

give a way WINNERS!!

Okay, we didn't have that great of a turn out...lol. But oh well! The Holidays, I am sure, kept everyone busy, including us! So we didn't even advertise that much about it.

Well, thanks to those who did enter! And those who posted about it or have a link of it!

Now time to announce the winners................

the winner of the bracelet is................

Gabrielle

Congratulations! Let me know which you would like!


the winner of the hair bows and bands is...........................

BragBook

Yay!!! Also, let us know which one you would like! Congrats!!!!

and last but not least....

the crayon bag winner is...............................

Tooele Brezoff Family

Congratulations! Let us know which you want and some in our "sold section" are available if you want to browse those.

We hope EVERYONE had a MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Happy Holidays to you all and Happy NEW YEAR!

I am so excited for the New Year! Thanks again everyone!!

GIVE A WAY

How would you like to win............


One of these.........................



One of these..................




One of these..................................



Or ALL 3???!???

Time for our Christmas give-a-way, although this will go on for 2 weeks, so it actually lasts a few days after Christmas!! There is a chance for multiple winners or you may be really lucky and could win ALL 3!! (see bottom for multiple ways to enter!)

Just leave a comment saying which crayon bag and/or Baby Bracelet(any of the $12 ones) from KnotSewShabby.etsy.com you want to win and/OR hair bows/bands(any under $15) you want to win from FlowerGoodies.etsy.com or ALL 3) and make sure to tell me the name of your favorite ones, because that is the one YOU COULD WIN!

We will choose from each category separately for the winners for each individual category.

Good Luck to you all and just remember, to blog/post about this give-a-way and to leave a link on the post or atleast web address for our blog, let us know in your comment, and I will enter your name in twice to whichever category(ies) you are entering!!


WINNERS WILL BE CHOSEN ON Christmas Weekend, either the 27th or 28th!

Come see Santa...........

FREE ADMISSION! FREE PARKING! FREE HOT CHOCOLATE!! **Santa Claus will be there visiting the children from 12-2PM each Saturday. Santa will be reading to the children and passing out goodies. There will also be photograph opportunities with Santa Claus. **Burgie Crandall's Live Band!! will be present to play their fun, holiday music for the shoppers. **35-40 Local artisans and exhibitors will be present to do your one-stop, holiday gift shopping for friends and family! **We also have Kids Craft Corner where children will be able to make fun keepsakes!

922 N. Gilbert Road....Mesa, AZ 85203

4 Saturdays only!! 10AM - 4PM Saturday, December 6th is when our booth will be there! Come support us and other local artisans.

TOTAL SHOCK

Wow, I am just so amazed and shocked. We have sold almost 70 crayon bags total! I can not believe it. When we first started figuring out the pattern and making it up as we went, and then put them on etsy, we didn't think they would be anything huge. They took almost a month to start "taking off." Then out of nowhere they just would sell by two's. Etsy so is so much fun and so addicting!

We at first were doing stuff everybody else was making and selling, and didn't do very good at all. Now that we have our own unique design that no one else has, it is just crazy!

We have our next show coming up soon, and then I think after that show we are going to do a fun Christmas give-a-way! So stay tuned for that!

Have a wonderful week everyone! I am so excited for Thanksgiving. All our family will be here! They are all going to come into town and we are going to have so much fun catching up and seeing how fast the nieces and nephews have grown!

In case I don't update by then, HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Come check us out!

We were asked to come and be a part of a local Holiday Show right here in Mesa. Best thing is it is FREE to everyone. FREE ADMISSION! FREE PARKING! FREE HOT CHOCOLATE!! **Santa Claus will be there visiting the children from 12-2PM each Saturday. Santa will be reading to the children and passing out goodies. There will also be photograph opportunities with Santa Claus. **Burgie Crandall's Live Band!! will be present to play their fun, holiday music for the shoppers. **35-40 Local artisans and exhibitors will be present to do your one-stop, holiday gift shopping for friends and family! **We also have Kids Craft Corner where children will be able to make fun keepsakes!

922 N. Gilbert Road....Mesa, AZ 85203

4 Saturdays only!! 10AM - 4PM November 8th and December 6th is when our booth will be there! Come support us and other local artisans. Mention you saw this ad on blogger and you will receive 10% off at our booth(family and friends stop by and you will get an even better disount, just because we love ya!) PLUS stop by to see us and tell your friends to stop by and see us and for our next give-a-way (Christmas Give-A-Way), you will get your name entered into the contest 3 times. Copy and paste this on your blog(if you are local or have Arizonan's looking at your blog) and you will have your name entered once more!(leave a comment to make sure we can write your name down!) Christmas is the Best Holiday ever and great for giving, so we will make sure we make the prize a very good one! (don't worry non-locals, you will have a chance when the give a way is posted to enter!! So look for it sometime in the middle/end of November!)

We will be accepting donations at our events for the Crisis Nursery in Phoenix. Please bring your brand new baby/children items and any clothing donations.

All Inquiring Vendors Welcome!! Just Email Emily at emily@mycraftcottage.com and request further details!

HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL THERE.......................................................

And the winner is..............

Yay...we are all so excited to announce the winner of our HALLOWEEN GIVE A WAY!

First though, I would like to thank all who participated, left links, and told us some of their fun Halloween memories! Halloween is so much fun to dress up...and don't forget the free candy part ;) lol! Also, stay tuned for future give a ways!!

Now......what you ALL have been waiting for...........................the winner is..................

Christy Little

Congratulations!! I will notify you (just in case) and let you know and just let us know which one you would like! Thanks everyone who participated!!!

Well, we are not up to too much.....the etsy is doing pretty well, although I think we all are just having fun making new things and learning different techniques to use. I LOVE SEWING!

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend and keep tuned in for our next give a way!!! Christmas give a way.....yay!(IF NOT ONE BEFORE THAT)

Have a great week everyone!

Halloween Give-A-Way

Good Evening!

It is time for the Halloween Give-A-Way....

How does this prize look? Even if you don't have children you can give this away as a gift. Little kids love them and they are great for church!

It is one of our new popular items. It is the On-The-Go Activity Crayon Bag.....

See the front covers and more pictures at OUR ETSY HERE! Choose your favorite one out of ANY from our shop. We will be adding in new ones before the give-a-way ends! It will come with 80 stickers, 1 multi-color pen, 1 pencil, box of 24 crayons, flashlight keychain, and a pad of paper.

Here are the rules....

First off you get your name entered in twice if you have boughten anything from our etsy from the very first day our etsy shop opened until the day of drawing....

Next, you get your name entered in if you leave a post on your blog mentioning our blog and the give-a-way(make sure you let us know) .....

You get once more entered for each family member, blog stalker, and friend that lets us know they entered the give-a-way because they saw it on your blog first!

Then you get your name once more entered if you comment and let us know your FAVORITE Halloween costume that you, your husband, or any of your children have ever worn, or just write down your most fun Halloween memory. (Or just leave a comment) Don't forget to leave a link or email address, soI can notify you when you win!)

Hurry up, don't wait too long! Give-a-way ends on Sunday October 5th, and we will choose the winner at random on Monday, October 6th out of a hat(or any round thing lying around that will hold them, lol.)

Good luck to all!!! Don't forget to check out our etsy!!! We have been constantly adding in new things, especially the crayon bags! They are way too fun to make, same with the busy baby book!!

♥ ♥ ♥

"Baby First Busy Book" Pictures

Welcome to our blog! This is just a BUNCH of pictures that kind of demonstrates the "Baby First Busy Book" on our etsy(Click on "More Pictures" label and there are a few more in one other post.) Posted for those who want to see more than the 5 pictures on etsy! Enjoy! (Each slightly varies because they are handmade and fabrics may be made unavailable--fabric may vary slightly!)

Tepee Page: Feel the suede texture.... (improvements--the background now is more colorful and has blue sky with clounds and vibrant green grass!)

This first picture is where you unzip the tepee and.......... Who do you see sitting inside?

Phone Page:

Pick up the phone or turn the dial to "call" someone and to see your animal friends.

Ring....Ring............................Ring......

Lion Page: Feel the soft fleece...

By far one of our favorite pages. This cute lion loves to play peek-a-boo.....

Your little one slides their hands into the paws and...
Plays peek-a-boo with the lion!
Boot page: See the Bright yellow boot....

Traditional "tie the shoelace page" with a little extra..... There is a frog and mouse in your boot that are finger puppets. 2 activities on one page!

Fish Page: See all these cute fishy friends!

Go fishing and try to catch the fish with the magnetic fishing rod! (improvements--the big orange fish is now very colorful and polka-dotted! Also, the water is a pocket so the fish comes 'out of the sea.')

Flower Page:

Learn how to take off buttons and put them in the pocket..... (improvement on this page--are the petals are attached to the stems so there are NO loose pieces at all, so less pick up time and no losing any pieces!!)
Also, learn to button them on!
Dog Page:

Feed and play with your puppy by putting the magnetic ball and bone in his mouth!

Spider Page:

Help the spider build a web......... and let him sit on the magnetic grass!Cute Cover!! Fabric may slightly vary!

Green Polka dot cover unavailable! But tell us if you want "boy, girl, or gender neutral"