Sneak Peek

40 new pair of quilty pants are coming soon to a toy store near you - if you live in Whitehorse! Angellina's Toy Boutique is expanding into a beautiful new space with lots of windows on Main St. Exciting times!

More Ed Emberley

I really like Eb Emberley's drawing books (not just for kids!) and the fabric to match makes for a fun gift. Imagine having a dress AND the book that tells you how to draw the animals to match. Here's one of many books. The dresses and matching headbands have been received by the birthday girls and the book will have to join them soon (it arrived a bit late!). I found the fabric at fabricworm but it's going fast.

Colour Sorting 3 bins of fabric scraps - hello January project.

I have a lot of fabric scraps. My sewing tends to use up big pieces of new fabric, not the bits. But I save those bits and now they are starting to stress me out! So here I am, sorting them by colour:
reds
pinks/purples
black
brown
yellow
green
blue
grey
white
orange and
Japanese prints!
My idea is to make bins (see below) for each colour, iron each scrap and fold neatly for easy access and use in my projects that use little bits. These projects are few but include t-shirt applique, ticker tape quilts, tea towels... I think that's it. So far I have 2 buckets made. I seem to have been distracted by market bags, birthday boy bags, snow biking face masks, polyester pants and a wedding dress!

Happy 2013!

Welcome back! Hope everyone had a great holiday, we did. Temperatures warmed up enough for some skiing, tobogganing and digging in the snow. I managed to finish all my homemade christmas gifts. This shirt for D was my favourite a) because it turned out ok, b) because it actually fit and c) men's shirts have lots of interesting construction features and tricks that make them fun to put together. I'll post a few more Christmas present projects below...

A dragon dress for R in Ed Emberley fabric. There are some great how to draw books out there by Ed and some great matching fabrics too.

Vests for my 2 year old nephews R and P. How lucky am I to have two 2 year olds to sew for?! This is a great pattern from the Leila and Ben blog.

Bubble Skirts for K and E. I hear from their mom that they can be worn reversible! These bubble skirts I made from a tutorial for a bubble dress on the blog Straight Grain. I think I just added an inch for the waistband and skipped the bodice pieces - although that dress is looking very cute too!

The Clutch

This turned out to be last minute, but was planned a long time ago. The zippers took waaay too long to arrive, a month actually, and when they did show up it was 2 days before Littlest! Luckily I'm in good shape and was able to throw these fun clutches together. I've been wanting to make clutches for a year or more. I've experimented in the past but am finally happy, more or less, with this size. Some are made with very old barkcloth curtains. Hopefully they will survive some gentle use!

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Lara's Hats with vintage buttons

Lara's Hats with vintage buttons, originally uploaded by Georgi Pearson.

I feel like I've knit a million of these hats for my good friend Lara (and I think I have 5 or so of my own in the mitten box). My mom has knit a great stack of them this year too - it's such a nice pattern and the button is always fun to choose. I'll have a few for sale at the Littlest this year, come take a look! Sat. Dec. 8th, 10 to 5pm, new location: 56 Carpiquet, Takhini North!

O Tannenbaum Ornaments

O Tannenbaum Ornaments, originally uploaded by Georgi Pearson.

I've made barely a dent in my scrap fabric pile with these little trees! Note the faux bois trunks?!

Fresh Batch of Tea Towels!

I've made some patchwork tea towels again. It's been a few years, I've had the tea towels for ever, just waiting to be made up. Somehow I never took the time. Nice and bright, multicolour, blues, oranges and greens. For the Littlest this Saturday, December 8th, 56 Carpiquet in Takhini North - there will be a ham too! ;o)

Hooray for the Littlest Onesies!

I was ironing on the appliques for these Littlest Onesies (for the Littlest, of course) and they looked like they were cheering hooray at me!

Quilty Pants for Christmas

I'm waaay behind making these Quilty Pants! They didn't even exist 2 days ago but I'm slowly getting through my pile of 27 pairs...! 20 down, 7 to go! Aren't these zigzags great? Click on the photo to take you to the rest of the pants on my Flickr site. Good thing it's minus 30 out there, makes it easier to stay close to the sewing machine!