Tiny Little Bitsys!

I had fun tonight, look what I made! I made little outfits out of fabric, backed with cardstock then decoupaged old sewing patterns to the paper and vinylized them with iron on vinyl! I have no idea what they are but I love them! Any ideas? Please leave me a comment.

Little Bitsys Makes the Etsy Front Page!

OK, so I'm a wee bit excited over my 2 hour fame period yesterday when I was on the front page of Etsy with my little brown and turquoise kimono! Thanks to one of the Admins, I have over 600 views on that item and accumulated a TON of hearts, YAY. Wow is that exciting, I had no idea. Anyway, here's a pic of the page:



There are some other great artists on the page.

Then this morning, I was going to try for a treasury and missed the window, darn. So I used my items to make a poster using Etsy's Poster Tool:

Remember the fabric samples I got from the closing of Miss Talulahs? Well I was inspired to rePURSEd (a very bad pun on repurpose) them! I used the large samples to make the purse, lining and straps, then used the smaller swatches for pockets (check out the minky, mmmm) and the jersey swatches to make the animals. I came up with the button on a strap idea somehow and I really like that little uniqueness it gives to the whole thing. Here they are:

les lapins sont arrivee!

Oooh, I'm so excited I finally have a few of my new designs listed! Unfortunately, the photos don't do them justice, darn. I think I'm going to have to start doing more in-person selling, *SIGH* as that's the way they look best.

Anyway... here they are, and in my Etsy shop:

New Ideas

I recently needed to make a few gifts for family and friends and in a creative frenzy, I invented le lapin bleu! Bleu, as he's known by for short, is a little one-dimensional but very cute. So far I have him "in love" and "flying a kite"

These photos are gifts for others but I hope to have similar items in my Etsy shop soon. NOTE: I hand dyed the shirts and hand dyed the fabrics used in the applique, all but the kite which is a Japanese fabric that I received from my good-ness order (see Sept 20 blog entry below for good-ness shop link).

Camisole with le lapin bleu in love


Detail:


And yet more detail. I had to brush up on my embroidery skills for this one


Did I mention it was close to midnight when I finally made myself stop last night? Thus the "romantic" lighting. Here is le lapin bleu flying a kite.

Fashion Denver's Zen Market

I have committed to have a booth at the Fashion Denver Zen Market on October 6 in downtown Denver! Here is the ad, very slick





Lot of work to do between now and "zen" hahaha

New Fabrics from Japan

My fabric order from good-ness , a shop on Etsy which is located in Japan, arrived yesterday and it is YUMMY. I ordered three different cotton/linen fabrics, two with french sayings, the other polka dots, and a pattern book "Basics for Girls - Japanese Sewing Book" which is just beautiful, exactly what I wanted except, now I need the same for babies and boys!



The photos in this book are exquisite, it's like an art photography book, except there are also instructions (in Japanese) and patterns! I may need a teeny bit of translation help here and there but basically, the instructions are pictorial, it just bugs me not being able to read EVERYTHING. I can't wait to try something. Anyone reading this who wants to try, Moving Hands blog has a section on how to use Japanese patterns.

Also, the shop owner of good-ness sent me several fun little gifts including the floral fabric on top in my photo, some little paper bags and Japanese candies, all bundled in a beautiful piece of paper with a sticker.



I also thought I'd include a photo of my sewing table. I recently was able to use an old pegboard that I had used in craft shows, propping it up on the table with some hooks to hang things. I need more hooks and should probably hang this on the wall though it is pretty heavy. Anyway, long way to go before I have a "studio" that I feel is well-organized.


In addition to sewing, I have a separate area and table where I do prints and painting. Then I have all the cupboards and closets and shelves where I store fabrics, notions, paints, dyes, etc., etc. My laundry room shelves have a few devoted to the dyes, auxiliaries and fabric inks. The spare bedroom in the basement is my photography studio (and it houses fabrics as well!). I wish everything were in one area devoted to my arts and crafts and that all supplies had a nice neat little place to be stored! Ah well, what would I wish for it I had this already?