One of these down. Maybe 5 or 7(?!) more to go…
And I finished one of the felt ornaments. Phoebe decided this one is hers. Now I’m working on the ice skate.
I know what I’m doing tomorrow!
Felt holiday ornament kits from alicia arrived today! I’m feeling a pleasant pre-holiday buzz these days. Not to be all type A on you but I did just get back from driving all over tarnation to Gymboree shops gathering up this year’s matching pajamas and I might already have ordered the Christmas outfits and bought the advent calendars (they were right at the check out counter!). That’s it for the crazy. Although I do actually need to get started on my handmade list. I really tanked on handmade last year. I’m determined to do better this year.
color therapy
planning a new quilt
new patterns in print
Fresh from the printer this week are printed booklet versions of previously PDF-only Kit, Chloe and Louise and Mr & Mrs Gnome. We made them up for shops to sell (wholesale shop here) and are happy to have them in our shop for everyone else as well. PDF versions are also still available.
I love getting boxes of patterns from the printer (for these booklets we use PsPrint). They’re so pretty, the stacks and stacks of them in their bright happy colors. Of course it’s a little panic inducing too, as in oh man that’s a lot of patterns to sell but overall it makes me very happy. Designing works to be printed is a fun challenge and Tim does such an amazing job with the layout and design. Can’t beat the lickity splitness of PDF but having an excuse to design endpapers is pretty awesome too!
kitty
I made this girl from the Kitty, Bunny, Bear pattern as a gift for a little girl having a kitty theme birthday party. I was digging around in the craft room thinking, oh I must have something kitty-themed around here and then remembered how fast these dolls go together.
really, I had no other choice
I was remembering the other day when I was having my fabric shortage troubles, that the reason I started making toys was because of the nature of my fabric collection. I’d been thrifting fabric for years for my vintage clothing shop and had amassed a collection of cute but unruly fabric…scraps, pieces cut out from clothes, aprons and scarfs, sheets and pillowcases, just a lot of bits and pieces. So when I sat down to make things for baby Oscar all those years ago I kept running into walls. I didn’t really have the fabric for baby clothes or for quilts but it was perfect for toys! Thrifted sweaters to felt for bodies, scraps of vintage prints for outfits or the linings of ears. And the best part is it was easy on my stash so I rarely used anything all up which is hard for stingy old me.
The Kims at True Up are as hooked on vintage as I am. They’re the next stop on the blog tour and there is a giveaway of some of my vintage fabric over there if you’d like to go sign up.
