Flower Dress for Baby of the Bride and Groom

Our family celebrated a wedding this past weekend and I was really excited to make, not only 2 cute flower dresses for my 2 cute nieces, but vests for my cute nephew, the best man and the groom aannnd... THE WEDDING DRESS! Yup! In fact I think I shrieked and hugged my sister-in-law to bits when she handed me a 60s vintage pattern that she had in mind to use! While we ended up diverging a bit from the original pattern, we stuck with a 60s minidress and she really pulled off that sweet, hipster, vintage look! It was a beautiful day to get married, everyone had a wonderful time - and looked good too!

Spotlight!

I have been the subject of an interview over on The Collective Good page. Go and take a look - Jen does such nice work over there, and at the real life shop too! 

A New Shop!

I'm so excited for my good friend Jen Williams as she enters the world of Whitehorse retail for the second time in the form of a lovely *little* shop called The Collective Good. Located in the Horwoods Mall at 1st and Main, this shop promises to bring unique and modern apparel, accessories and housewares to, in Jen's words, the good people of Whitehorse. I am also excited to play a small roll in stocking her shelves with a sampling of my women's clothing and accessories, as well as a few new tote styles with vintage fabric and Juniper wood buttons! The Collective Good will open this Thursday, June 6th and will be open Thursday to Saturday. I think you will thoroughly enjoy visiting this lovely space, I sure do!

Simple Striped Scarves are back!

I've made another batch of simple striped scarves. A soft and styish rayon knit in 2 colours and 2 orientations. An easy way to spruce up your look. Ha! That's me trying to be a fashion writer! They'll be at the trunk show too!

Room Shoes 2013

This year's batch of room shoes (sorry about the photo, the light has been terrible around here!). In fact, I saw the blue sky yesterday briefly around 3:30pm and I was blown away - felt like ages since I'd seen such a clear, beautiful, bright blue colour. Making room shoes is such a revelation. When I hold a finished shoe in my hand I'm just amazed that I made it! This is a very rewarding item to make, a bit finicky and the sizes are "approximate" as I'm not what you'd call a precision sewer like some quilters I know. It's best to just try on a pair and go from there! Looking forward to Sunday - hope you can stop in. We'll also have lots of good things to eat while you browse our wares.

Office Picnic Car Picnic...

For the Trunk Show, I've made some picnic sets - placemat, utensils and chopsticks all in a neat package. The backing fabric is the blue dot canvas that is shown as well as a pale blue chevron canvas. I've always thought they would be good for the office, so you will always have the basics for those meals you eat at your desk. My good friends L&DH keep their sets in their car so they are always ready to sample good food at the market or at potluck picnics on the go. The design is from one of my favourite sewing books that would make a great gift for a new sewer. It's Lotta Jansdotter's and it's been around for a while but it is VERY good! Among other things, Lotta designs fabric that I really like and used last summer in some simple shifts.

The Trunk Show Skirts

Here they are (although most of them still need hand sewn clasps at the back) ready for the Trunk Show next weekend. I couldn't resist one bicycle print this year but most of them are a houses and cities theme with some Kaffe Fassett flowers for good measure. I have a few skirts from last year available too - including a Richard Scary busytown streets skirt. We have some new talent at this year's show - I sure hope you can stop by if you are in Whitehorse on the 5th of May, just in time for Mother's Day - hint hint!

New Zippies

More little sewn goods for The Trunk Show. The Zippy, slightly larger than what I used to make, is a one pocket wallet. Now I really need to get back to those skirts so that you can have one to match your Zippy (all fabrics will be in skirts as well - except the tricycle print unfortunately).

Pinch Coin Purses

I have had the pinch purse hardware to make these little purses for too long. I bought them from my favourite fabric and sewing shop of inspiration in Toronto the workroom. If you are in Toronto you really should stop in there! Finally (in a fit of procrastination from finishing more skirts!) I made 4 of them this morning. The best part is I get to use some old favourite scraps of fabric. The green interior of the open pinch purse was used to make my dear friend K a skirt, the orange and yellow sunflowers was used for many things but my favourite would be quilty pants for M who is now 7! Her mom loved them so much I got to see them at many play groups! The brown city fabric I made into this dress for my first Cranberry Fair arts and crafts show in 2011 and the bright houses is a new skirt for this year. Come see these cuties at the Trunk Show, Sunday May 5th at the Chocolate Claim!

A-line Skirts 2013

It's that time of year again - skirt season! Although, looking across the country today you wouldn't know it - snow blizzards abound! Luckily these sturdy A-line skirts look great with boots! This year's batch is about houses and city scapes - and some pink bikes too. Click on the picture to see the others on my flickr site. More coming in dark blues, check back next week! This batch of skirts will be for sale at The Trunk Show on May 5th, see you there? By the way, A-line skirts are shaped like the letter 'A', that's where they get their name.