FIND FLOOZIE CONTEST

FLOOZIE IS MISSING!  She got very upset because we
were out of her favorite pink shrimp ice cream, her favorite pink bikini was in
the wash, and she ran out of her purple nail polish – she has run away from
home.  When we got up this morning we found a note on the counter in the
kitchen.  We need everyone’s help to find her before she gets into serious
trouble somewhere. Here’s how you can help:

1. Send us news of your
Floozie sitings in an email.  Tell us in 150 words or less where she was sighted
and what she was doing.

2. Entries must be received via email by August
15, 2011.  Submissions should be sent to: barbara@flamingoislanddesigns.com
Be sure to include your full name and email.  In the subject line use the words
“Floozie is Missing”.

3. Two winning entries will be chosen in a random
drawing on August 16, 2011.  The winners will each receive a $20.00 gift
certificate to Flamingo Island Designs Online Store.   The gift certificate must
be redeemed for merchandise by September 1, 2011 and is
no-transferable.

4. All enties become the property of Flamingo Island
Designs LLC and may be used in promotions or other publications without further
compensation.

Lunch Time, Flamingo Island Designs Patterns newest pattern will be available for sale on July 15, 2011. Preorder patterns and kits now!

Caribbean Dream Landscape

Think of yourself reclining on the golden Caribbean sand, blue-green water lapping at you toes, the tropical breeze in your hair as you sip a cool pina-colada. There’s still time signup for our “Quilting and Cruising With Floozie” trip to the Western Caribbean in January 2012. Make your reservation by June 1 and pay the rest later. When January rolls around, you’ll be cruisin’ with Floozie and making your own caribbean Dream landscape Quilt while all your friends are stuck in the snow. Join Us!
See the details at Flamingo Island Designs

Floozie would love to have you join her on our first ever Quilting Cruise, January 26-30, 2012 aboard Royal Caribbean Liberty of the Seas.  Your trip includes  two landscape quilting sessions with Fiber Artist, Barbara Miro Soumar,   exciting souvenir projects, and delightful flamingo games, as well as personal appearances by Floozie flamingo, herself!  Click on the links below to download flyers and make your reservations today!

 Soumar Quilting Cruise

quiltn’ & cruisin with floozie

Flamingo Island Designs Patterns has released the fourth pattern in the series, “My Tropical Garden”.  The most recent design is “Plumeria”, a simple yet elegant design featuring our favorite flower, the Frangipani, or Plumeria.  These flowers are very fragrant, come in a variety of colors, and are used commercially in Hawaii for making leis.  Our lovely blossoms can decorate your wall and will never fade.

Previously released blocks include “Bananas“, and “Heliconia“.  All are available as patterns or kits.  Block Four, “Hibiscus”, is coming soon!  There will be a total of six blocks in the series. Visit Flamingo Island Designs to see our lovely Batiks and tropical prints.

The Toolbirds Mini-Quilt

Need home repairs?  Call the Toolbirds.  They’ll fly right in with their tool boxes and have your house fixed up in a jiffy.  And all for free, too!

Patterns and Kits available now!

Golf-mingo Mini-quilt

Love golf?  So do flamingos!  These flamingo-guys are out for day on the links.

Patterns and kits available now.

Coming soon:

“Flamingos Are People, Too!” Block-of-theMonth Quilt.  Watch for it!

Use the link below to access the FREE BASIC PILLOWCASE PATTERN compliments of All people Quilt:

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Floozie joins the One Million Pillowcase Challenge!

Flamingo Island Designs, and Floozie Flamingo have joined All People Quilt , and many major sponsors to participate in the One Million Pillowcase Challenge.  The pupose of this challlenge, which is dirceted at quilters, sewers, and people everywhere is to join forces and sew one million pillowcases for charity in 2010. 

Here is what APQ has to say regarding this challenge:

“Calling all quilters, sewers and crafters! American Patchwork & Quilting is challenging you to join our efforts to Make a Pillowcase, Make a Difference. Every pillowcase can make a difference in your community. A pillowcase can provide comfort for a cancer patient, hope for a foster child, encouragement for a battered woman, or beauty for a nursing home resident.”

The official counter on the page lists 17,643 pillowcase donations as of today! 

You, too,  can become a part of this worthy cause!  Flamingo Island Designs is offering an assortment of precut Pillowcase Kits for your convenience.  If you want to provide your own fabric,  try one of these FREE PATTERNS .   Donate your finished pillowcases locally or mail them to Floozie.   Floozie will be donating all pillowcases she receives  to ConKerr Cancer, for distribution to children suffering from cancer.  If you  mail your pillowcases to Floozie for distribution, she will send you a COUPON for $3.00 OFF your next order from Flamingo Island Designs.  Our goal is 100 pillowcases, so please help us by participating in this worthy cause.

Visit Flamingo Island Designs Patterns and see this rare and elusive flamingo, Flamingus Abstractus, available as a paper pieced pattern and/or kit.  F. Abstractus dwells deep in the rain forests of South America and has never been seen by humans. 

Our newest pattern, FLINGO FANS has arrived! It is an updated version of the traditional Dresden fan block with a flamingo twist. The pattern is printed on freezer paper and uses our “Fusible Applique the Flamingo Way” technique of raw edge applique.  The kit includes beautiful batik fabrics for the birds, background, borders, and binding. Order yours today.

Flingo Fan