Silk screened dolls pillow dolls in red and pink
sit and spin
Finally made it out to some garage sales this weekend. First time all summer! Crazy. Just think of all the treasures we’ve missed out on.
new book
Dear ISBN978-4-529-04700-5,
I love you and hate you. Why did you come now? I ordered you like 2 months ago and you decide to show up on my doorstep right when I haven't a free minute to sew.
Don't you know how vulnerable I am right now to gorgeous book design? Are you trying to make me cry?
And why don't you have at least one sucky pattern. There's not one single 'pass' in your whole book.
And man, you look difficult! Why are you in Japanese?
fq’s and a boy!
When Kristin at Sew Mama Sew asked me to do a fat quarter pack for them I was so so excited. I’ve realized that this just might be my favorite thing to do – putting together piles of fabric! Of course this is a virtual pile but it was just as fun. I so love making project piles… picking colors, matching up prints, imagining how it’ll all go together. I think I may need to revise my career goals with this in mind. Thanks so much Kristin for the opportunity!
They posted my picks yesterday and you can see them here. I fell in love with those tiny elephants and went from there. You can leave a comment over at SMS to enter the giveaway to get a pack for free.
And an update on the baby quilt plan… we now know it’s a boy! We’re expecting a nephew in November. I can’t wait to get my pack so I can start on a cutie boy baby quilt for him. I’m reading the comments over on the giveaway post looking for good pattern ideas and there are a bunch. Maybe some fellow fq packers will want to do a quilt along with me? I’ve never done one and think it’d be so fun.
wanna take one for the team?
It’s that time… time for me to start begging for help. I’m looking for some testers for the patterns from the book. Do you have some free time? Fabric in your stash dying to be made into a toy? Want to help out your fellow sewers by being the first to discover that whopping mistake that is inevitably there in every pattern?
This isn’t like our normal pattern testing so it may not sound as appealing to some. First thing, time. I’m looking for people who can start right away and finish in a timely fashion. Unlike my own self-publishing that tends to drag its feet, this is on someone else’s timetable. And second, it has to be top secret, hush hush, on the down low. The projects can’t be blogged or flickr’d or fb’d. I know that’ll be a bummer to those of you who like to blog the craftiness, sorry!
But when you’re done you’ll have a new friend to play with and I’ve also got some cute thank you treats in mind. If anyone’s interested leave me a comment and also maybe what sort of project you might be up for… simple, more complicated, for a girl, for a boy, baby, embroidery, hand-sewing, etc.
Thank you!
Oh geez! Thanks everyone! I feel bad I didn’t close comments sooner, I went out to run errands. I’ll go through the list and hope to get back to everyone soon. If you volunteered thank you so much for offering to help!!
dolls in the shop
Aww, look at them all in a row. I can almost hear them singing it’s a hard knock life. These gals and their teddies are looking for new homes. You know, when they’re all together like that a few seem more cheerful than others. If you’d like one I’ve put them on up etsy. Maybe you’ll get an almost smiling one 🙂
screen printed folkster dolls
I’ve been wanting to make silk screened printed dolls for the longest time now. I bought all the supplies and picked out the spot in the basement to set it up. I watched dvds and read online tutorials. And never did anything about it, for years. Now I’ve finally figured out how to do it. I found myself a willing high school art student to do it for me! Thanks Tess 🙂
We’ve been thinking about printed dolls for a while now. We were thinking Spoonflower and I’ve been playing around with designs, but I just couldn’t get too excited about it. The digital printing wasn’t doing it for me and I thought we’d print our own through the printer and had lackluster results. I’m so happy with the screen printing. I knew I’d love it. I love the imperfections and how no one is the same. They each have their own little personalities, just like their 3D versions. This gal turned out a little grumpy which I think is so cute. And her expression totally matches her body language, in fact, I think some little might be looking at me exactly like that right now. Better go!
