Another fabulous sponsor has signed on for the Prudent Mama Newsletter! And you have a few more hours to sign up to be in-the-know on exclusive discounts from crafty shops. Joining Minted, Fabricworm, and Bridget & Lucy in providing you with coupon codes in our first edition is, drumroll please…
Pretty & Preppy! They feature fun, functional, and useful items like water bottles, bibs, wallets, and more, all made with gorgeous fabrics that scream happy! 
So cute right? All these coupons, AND a new contest that could win you the entire new Anna Maria Horner Innocent Crush Collection in fat quarter form. Hurry up, the newsletter goes out tonight! Sign Up Now!
No-Sew Rolled Fabric Flower Baby Headband
Look at that so-cute-I-could-cry baby headband! I came across this picture at Post Road Vintage while surfing the web. She made the headband using an adorable no-sew Rolled Fabric Flower tutorial she found at My Sparkle. I asked the tute author, Danielle, to share the how-to with us so we could all make adorable baby headbands too!
Take it away Danielle from My Sparkle…
So I am jumping on the bandwagon and loving all the rolled fabric flowers I’ve seen here and there. We decided to make some with the girls in our church youth group, but I couldn’t find a great tutorial on how to make them so I played around and this is what I came up with. Enjoy!
Get the full Rolled Fabric Flower Tutorial after the jump…
And remember, leave a comment on this or any post this week and you could win that pretty Alexander Henry fat quarter.
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Book Tour Announcement!
Ladies, let the games begin! You’ve all been so wonderfully supportive of my book over the past year, I couldn’t have done it without your encouragement. So it is with great appreciation that I announce to you the scheduled Prudent Advice launch events and parties coming up over the next few months. Get the full scoop on where I’ll be visiting here: Prudent Advice Book Tour! I do so hope to finally meet some of you in person.
P.S. Do you like the invite? It was designed by my friend Kelly of Bash, Please fame. I’m the luckiest girl to have such awesomely talented and generous friends.
Would you like a book event in your city or at your shop? Let me know in the comments! Remember, any comment you leave this week could win you that awesome Alexander Henry fat quarter from Fabricworm up there on the left.
Prudent Project Round-Up
Top: The Chef’s Wife (lucky!) made a Snappy Toddler Top | Meggan made a DIY Booster Seat | Crafty Tammie made the Beginner’s Bias Tape Bag
Middle: Kinsey at A Little Wall made a DIY Sandbox | Stephanie at My Sweetry Pie made a Pillowcase Dress | Jana at A Stitch in Lime made a Beginner’s Baby Blanket #3 with Homemade Bias Tape
Bottom: Timpanda made a Mama’s Checkbook Cover | Rabbit and Piggie made a Cute Crib Sheet | and Shannon from Bubba and Pooks made a Changing Pad Cover.
Now, ladies, where are my pictures of the Snap Wrap Dress? And the 4 Season Crossover Top?? We want to see! Make and send!
Share your projects pics with us please. Your options: Join us on Flickr, hang with us on the Prudent Baby Facebook Page (we have so much fun over there), or send them to us via the Prudent Baby Contact Form. Your “As Seen On Prudent Baby” Button is down there on the left. Werd.
GIVEAWAY: The America’s Test Kitchen Healthy Family Cookbook
THIS GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED. THANKS FOR ENTERING!
You already know we are fans of America’s Test Kitchen from my tour post last month, so when they sent us a copy of The America’s Test Kitchen Healthy Family Cookbook and asked us if we would like to give one away to a lucky Prudent Baby Reader, you know we were like… um, yes please! But first we had to test out some recipes and also curl up with it in bed and read it from cover to cover. Does anyone else do that? I read cookbooks like novels. Weird. So Jaime did the cooking and I did the curling. 
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"FRIDAY"{SURPRISE} PRIZE
We are going to do this a day early because we have too much fun stuff planned for tomorrow!
Well, I guess I have a soft spot for fat-quarter poetry. Plus, how could we not give Sandi’s fabric to Sandy.
Could it be the hormones? This made me tear up a little. Our first Prudent Baby verse…
Sandi’s pretty fabric is calling my name
Make an apron from a fat quarter?
Sure, I’m game!
I’ll trim it up with some rick rack maybe
and end up with a beautiful gift
all thanks to Prudent Baby!
Sandy – Use the contact us form to send us your address and we’ll get this pretty little number in the mail. You have 5 days to claim your prize! And if you do make that apron, please send us a photo!
OK, so for this week. You know the drill. Leave a comment on any post from now til next Friday and you could win the charming Alexander Henry fat quarter pictured above, which you might recognize from the PJ Pants. I love this palette! It actually goes perfectly in my green living room. The winner could make me a pillow. No pressure. A pillow with dark brown pom-pom trim. I’m just saying.
"Curtains"… Kinda
I have this window in my house that has been sitting naked for over a year, as I refuse to accept that I am never going to sew a curtain for it. I’ve been planning and planning to create a DIY Roman Shade tutorial for you, but there really isn’t a super simple way to do it. So the window has sat bare. I even have the fabric! Anyway. Scarlet just started pre-school and every day she comes home with another awesome new piece of artwork. I needed a place to display them all, so this is what I came up with! It’s just nails, string, and tiny wooden clothespins
. After school everyday she picks a spot and we pile the artwork on. It’s working pretty well at hiding my disgusting robe-clad self from the poor unsuspecting neighbors while I’m making coffee in the morning, too.
What do you think? Ghetto? Or cute?
And remember leave a comment and you might win that purty Sandi Henderson fat quarter pictured over on the top left!
A Different Kind of Link Love
As we mentioned, we are launching our first Prudent Mama Newsletter on October 5th. We’ve lined up some exclusive deals from AWESOME CRAFTY SHOPS! Like seriously good deals for feeding your crafting and sewing addictions with actual coupon codes only for subscribers. What kind of deals you ask? Well, that’s a secret, but I’ll give you a hint: You’ll be saving on those drooly-worthy fabrics pictured above from Anna Maria Horner’s new collection Innocent Crush – OR YOU COULD WIN THEM!
Oh, but I’ve said too much, you’ll just have to subscribe for the full scoop.
Now, on to some link love for this issue’s sponsors…
MINTED
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BRIDGET & LUCY
You’ll be saving on fabulous patterns & kits from these awesome designers who specialize in little girl wear. The Ruffle Joy pattern? What little girl wouldn’t get her mind blown by mommy making a skirt like that?
FABRICWORM
You know you love it, you know you want it: exclusive discount code to stock up on designer fabrics from our absolute fave shop.
But wait, there’s more…
Subscribers will also be the first to hear about our new monthly contests and they’ll get an extra week to enter! All the details of the first contest will be revealed in the newsletter, but I can tell you this… the winner receives this entire bundle of 22 fat quarters – that’s the whole collection – of ANNA MARIA HORNER INNOCENT CRUSH, courtesy of FABRICWORM!
STOP IT! YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT!
So SUBSCRIBE NOW! Click here for the Prudent Mama Newsletter Subscription Form. Ok, now go tell your friends. And remember, leave a comment on this or any post this week and you could win that Sandi Henderson fat quarter up there on the left! Because we’re givers.
