Friday, July 20, 2007

Well here it is!

Ok I had this totally cool idea in my head, I was going to design my own bag and make it with this new fabric I just fell in love with. Its Denyse Schmidt’s new fabric Katie Jump Rope. Its just way too cute, I love each and every one, so I decided to order some form ebay. I was so excited when it came it was like it was Christmas! LoL. So I found this really awesome blog called Sew Mama Sew, and they have a contest that you can put any of your bags that you make into their contest so when I got the new fabric I totally thought that making a new bag with my new fabric would be the perfect opportunity. I am totally inspired by Lisa’s bags from the Pink Lemonade Boutique they are just so awesome I love all the colors and patterns she uses… awww I just LOVE them! So I decided to make one similar in idea to hers with my new favorite fabrics. So I sketched out something that I thought would be a good shape and started to make a pattern to cut my fabrics out with… I do have some experience in design way long ago I was in interior design school long long before I had kids, but the drafting and design are still in me even if I did switch majors to Nursing. I was pretty happy with the way the pattern turned out. And I then decided to cut my precious fabrics. It took me 2 days to sew this one bag, but I wanted it to be perfect and I ran out of thread and only sewing when the baby naps is kind of hard, but with it all said and done, I am in love with it. My boyfriend did say that its too colorful but what do guys now? I mean really I love all the colors together, they are just way too fun… But lets let every one see the bag already huh? Well Here it is…..











What do you all think? It’s just so cool, I really am impressed with my self I have never made anything without a pattern that I bough so I am just so excited that it came together just the way I saw it in my head…

Well with all that excitement I think I will try to make my self another pretty and I’m off to the design board once again… Until next time….


Oh and totally go and check out the Contest, you have till monday to submit your entry...

Sunday, July 1, 2007

Pretties....

Here are some of my pretties...



This is one of my favorite ones so far... I just love the Amy Butler Fabric....

















I really have a thing for paisley lately... It has to be one of my favorite types of print. Its pretty odd because I really use to be into flowers but the paisley has awesome movement that I am totally drawn to it. There are some other great new fabrics out there too... that I am dying to get my hands on... I have to go check the fabric store that is a few cities away they usually carry all the new cool fabrics maybe in a few weeks I will get to go and check out them. I totally want to check out the Amy Butler lines, Heather Bailey, Anna Marie's new stuff, and Joel Dewberry just to name a few of my new favorites... I just get so excited about all the new fabrics, so much that I dream about what to make next with them...
Until then...
Karie