Knits!!!!

So I tried my hand with knit fabric for the first time...for some reason it is a very intimidating fabric, but Patty Young came out with a line of designer knits for Michael Miller and I just couldn't resist. My friend's daughter had a birthday this month, so it was the perfect excuse to get my hands on some of this super cute fabric and jump in with both feet. I followed a tutorial for a yoga skirt that she authored on the Sew Mama Sew blog and then used an existing toddler t-shirt for a pattern (and cut it in a little for a fun shape) to make the shirt to match. I also tried a lettuce edge for the first time and LOVE it! My daughter has one of these in her future....

Bake me a cake as fast as you can....

Happy Monday...I was browsing through some of the blogs I follow the other day and "Making It Fun", the Michael Miller Fabrics blog, had a new post.  They posted a tutorial on making a child's apron and chef's hat!  It was perfect timing as I had been considering making my daughter a set;  she loves to bake and cook and got an EasyBake Oven for Christmas.  The blog post inspired me and so I spent yesterday afternoon in the sewing cave (aka the basement) making her an apron, chef's hat  and her own (pretend) oven mitt.  I had some of

Robert Kaufman's Sweet Tooth fabric on hand from a custom order half apron I had done...I absolutely love this print, it is cupcakes on pink.  Michael Miller  also makes a cupcake fabric;  you can see it here in their tutorial.  This week's plan is to get an oven mitt/pot holder set made to match the baker-style apron I currently 

have listed in my shop.  Other than that, 

I REALLY need to go through my fabric scraps and remnants and at the very least get them organized, if not turned into something useful.

 

 

This 'n That

This post is a little of this and a little of that.  

I made a gift set featuring pink and brown.  

I used Pink Paisley-Embossed Minky and backed it with a brown and pink paisley satin charmeuse and then bound it with pink satin.  I then made a matching bib and two burpers from the left over fabric.

For the boys, I made a super cute blanket using Michael Miller's Bobby Plays Pretend fabric which I backed with a denim-blue flannel and bound with red satin binding.  I appliqued a cut-out of Bobby pretending to be a baseball player.

Yesterday, I made another bag using Joel Dewberry's Ginseng fabric.  This one features the Orchid and Wildflower prints in Raspberry and Mulberry (which is really a very Cranberry color).

And...my EMCA prize arrived!!!  Yay!!! I won the first EtsyMom Curator Award for curating the most Etsy treasuries featuring EtsyMoms.  For those of you who don't know, a treasury is something you put together on the Etsy site.  It is a grouping or "exhibit" that you "curate".  You can feature sellers that you like or chose a theme or feature colors;  the possibilities are limitless.  It is a fun way to highlight fellow artists and it is also a great way to find new shops.  Anyway, as the recipient of the award I was to chose a prize from one of three sponsors and I chose this super cute frame made by Gifts From the Heart by CraftGirlAlli.

And in the prize winning vein, I also won one of the SuperGiveaways.  I won a beautiful print from FoodChic who takes spectacular artistic photographs featuring food.  Here is the link to the print that I won, it is a 7x5 vertical print of a guava.