Fabric Giveaway Update!

Thank you so much for all the wonderful comments on the giveaway! I think it was my biggest giveaway so far!

Random.org chose #590…

Congratulations to Jordan L!

Thanks again to all the readers! And welcome to all the new ones! And a huge thank you to West Seattle Fabric Company.

Birthday Girl Shirt Tutorial by Design, Dining + Diapers

I’m so excited to Taryn from Design, Dining + Diapers over today! I found her blog last fall through our Seattle Blogging FB group and fell in love. All her projects are so light and airy and that totally stands out to me in this somewhat dreary place that we call home! I’m so honored to have her visit today. Be sure to check out her blog after you read about her fun project!!

Hi All! I’m Taryn from Design, Dining + Diapers and I’m so happy to be here today at Feelin’ Crafty!

This past weekend was a whirlwind for our family, we celebrated both my husband’s and my daughter’s birthdays with two separate parties. Whew! My daughter turned 2 (I’m still in denial) and I threw her a very girly train party. It was a blast. For her party I made her a custom “Birthday Girl” shirt that screamed ‘Girly’ to the fullest. She loves her pink and sparkles. Today, I’m going to show you how you can easily make your own custom shirt, with your own custom design. I’m serious, it is SO simple. You will be addicted

Supplies Needed:

- Basic white tee (I picked mine up at Fred Meyer on sale for $2.99!)

- Piece of white paper (Coloring book pages, printer paper, anything will work)

- Hot pink Ink Effects by DecoArt

- Paint brush

- Iron

- Jewels

Start by printing out your design onto a piece of basic printer paper. Or you can also paint directly onto the paper if you have a steady hand. Just remember that the image will need to be the mirror image of what you want to appear on the shirt. Then paint the design using the Ink Effects.

The color that appears on the paper is not necessarily the final color. The Hot Pink that I used looked more fuchsia on the paper and when I ironed it on it was a true hot pink.

Now if you thought it was easy up until this point, it gets even easier. Simply cut out the shape of the design and lay it flat onto the shirt.

Iron over the image, putting pressure onto the design and making sure that all corners have been covered. I spent about 60 seconds going over the design.

Peel off your paper and your design will be transferred! SO easy. What I like about using the Ink Effects is that it doesn’t leave the plastic feeling that transfer paper has. It is really soft and blends right into the fabric. The only issue I had was that I saw a few iron marks on my design, but they weren’t as noticeable once the I put the jewels on.

I topped the design off by added some fun jewels along the edges and a few pink bows. Every birthday girl needs some bling!

The party turned out great and my daughter loved her sparkly shirt. If your kids have a birthday coming up, give this technique a try! Its so easy and can be done in an afternoon.

Thanks so much for Louise for having me over today. If you want to view more of my projects you can take a look at my project gallery here.

 

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A Thank You to February Sponsors!

Ok, so this whole 28 days in a month totally snuck up on me! Yes, you’d think I’d be used to it by now…. I have witnessed a few February’s in my time…

But it’s March, and I didn’t thank my wonderful February sponsors!

Jenny Mullins, Mary Kay Director

I recently got the TimeWise Repair™ Volu-Firm™ Set and was totally intimated by the fancy box and all the goodies inside. Finally I opened it and saw the directions really weren’t too complicated… Love it! It’s awesome!

and

Dear My Kids

I have this Unisex Cowl Neck Pull Over Jacket pattern, too that I haven’t made yet. Hopefully this month I can give it a try! we’d love to see the pieces that the pattern winners made!!

Thank you!!

A Amazing Pattern Sale- Sneak Peak!

Coming next week!

From February 4th- February 11th…

the first ever

I’m so excited to be a part of this sale!! It’s awesome!

For one week only, ten pattern designers will be joining together to combine 18 of their best PDF sewing patterns (valued together at over $139.00) and selling them to you for the incredible price of $24.95! That’s over 80% off of the combined retail value!

That wasn’t a typo! For less than $25.00 you will have the chance to purchase a library of resources to get you started on several great projects that you can sew over and over again. The designers that are joining this sale are experts at their craft. They have been sewing for a very long time and are well known in blog land as well as in children’s and women’s sewing pattern design circles. Each designer has contributed one or two of their favorite sewing patterns to create a bundle that is sure to please! Whether you are sewing for your own family or making gifts for others, these are patterns that you will love to use.

Figgy’s Patterns,

Go To Patterns,

peek-a-boo pattern shop,

Seamingly Smitten,

One Girl Circus,

Sew Much Ado,

luvinthemommyhood,

Gingercake,

Sew Fearless,

Me Sew Crazy…

this is the lineup! But you have to wait until Monday to find out exactly which sewing patterns are included in the pattern bundle. I can tell you that you won’t be disappointed!

We are offering an affiliate program for this amazing sale too! If you think your blog readers, Facebook friends, or Twitter pals would be interested in buying this bundle of sewing patterns, why not sign up as an affiliate? As a Sew Fab Sale affiliate you can sell the pattern bundle on your blog and earn 40% of all of your sales! Contact Jenny at thesoutherninstitute@gmail.com for more details.

Oh! And there will be a giveaway! The Sew Fab Giveaway is amazing! One lucky winner will win a bunch of amazing prizes from some of your favorite companies and online shops! I can’t wait to reveal the giveaway package next week!

Don’t miss the Sew Fab e-Pattern Bundle Sale

starting Monday, February 4th!

Sponsored by

The Southern Institute and Fat Quarter Shop

We’ll see you there!

The Sew Fab e-Pattern Bundle is only available from 8 am EST February 4th through 8 am EST February 11th. Due to the nature of the sale there will be no late sales or refunds.

Happy New Year!

Can you believe it’s 2013???? Man! I can’t! Where does the time go??? AHHH!

I wasn’t going to post a ‘Best Of’ post, but I’ve been working on my blog a little bit and looking back over the past year and thought, ‘I’m looking at every single post, so why not??’ It’s been great looking back at how much I made this year and how fun so many of the projects were! Here are some of my favorites. These are purely my favorites, not posts that got the most views or anything like that! Just my favorites!

January

I’m still in love with my Row Row Row Your Boat quilt!

February

A cute little Valentine’s Day card

March

Another quilt for the Project Quilting Series. I loved making the postage stamp quilt based on where I live!

April

A Bear and his best friend Pear. Totally made up by my son! I love being able to bring his stories to life!

May

What an amazing trip to Gee’s Bend!

June

This was my first sewing machine cover. I’ve made a couple more since then, but love making them and love hearing that others are making them too!

July

My favorite shirt that I’ve made for my son!

August

Another doll. Drawn by a kiddo made by me!

September

This memory game was something I’d been wanting to make for years! So glad I finally did!

October

I think this sweatshirt I remade for my son is a super close second behind the 4th of July shirt!

November

The teeny tiny magnets were totally addicting!

December

Glitter glitter glitter! it just makes me smile!

2012 was a FANTASTIC year for me! Creatively, family and for my blog, too!  I hope it was for you too. My one hope for my blog is that it inspires someone to make something.

And here’s to another creative year!

Cheers!

Welcome 2013!

Merry Christmas

I hope everyone is having a wonderful day today with family and friends!

I’m taking the rest off the year from blogging and will be back after the first of the year! Have a Happy New Year!

A Day of Remembrance

All weekend I have thought about this and gone over and over in my head and heart about it. My feelings on gun control. My feelings for all the ones lost. And the ones who will be traumatised for years to come. My feelings as a parent. It makes me sick to think about all the heartache in this community right now. I look at my son and can’t imagine life without him. I look in his precious eyes, feeling lucky that I can, and see the innocence and can’t imagine a life of fear and innocence shattered for him. So as all these same feelings are being thought about and felt by the world around, I wish the families of Newtown a moment of peace and I share in this Day of Remembrance.

Sew Ready to Play Backgammon with The Long Thread

I have some good and bad news… We’ll start with the bad… I’m sad to say, but today is the last day of the series… ahhhh… Enough about that! The good news… We have a great guest, Ellen from The Long Thread!! Ellen has a fantastic blog, fantastic fabrics and a great book, 1, 2, 3 Sew! I was lucky enough  to win a copy of this really cool book and I have to say it does have some great projects in it! I’ve been a fan of Ellen’s work for some time now and throughly enjoy reading her blog. You can only imagine how stoked I was to find my Magnetic Bookmark listed among her Top 100 Tutorials of 2011. Wow! Yes, I was blushing! If you haven’t checked out her blog before now, you must! Well, after you read this…

And Welcome, Ellen!!!

Thanks to Louise for inviting me to be part of her clever Sew Ready to Play series! Today I’ve made a skirt inspired by the playful geometry of a backgammon board, which makes me want to actually get the game and teach my kids to play. I remember playing as a kid and think I loved the board as much as the game. This simple elastic waist skirt fits sizes 4-6, but could easily be adjusted to other sizes, even for adults! Use the triangle template to make patchwork for a quilt, a tote bag or placemats. If you want to be more faithful to the backgammon design, you could use two solid shades of fabric for the triangles and even make two bands of triangles facing one another.

 

This skirt was made with my new fabric collection for the Japanese company, Kokka, which will be available in stores in early 2013. Here I used this linen/cotton blend with a lightweight gray chambray cotton. This graphic skirt is perfect for fall paired with tights and boots, but light enough to wear year-round. Happy sewing!

Click here for the directions!

And you can check out another version of the skirt at Moda Bake Shop!

BIO:

Ellen Luckett Baker is author of The Long Thread, where she writes about her adventures with sewing, crafting, and kids. Her book 1, 2, 3 Sew was recently published by Chronicle Books and her follow-up book, 1, 2, 3 Quilt, will be released Fall 2013. She has designed two fabric collections; the first for Moda, which is in stores now and the second for Kokka, which will be available in early 2013. Ellen lives in Atlanta with her husband, two daughters, and a growing number of pets.

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Happy Mother’s Day!

to all the mothers out there!

(Including my wonderful mother!)

I saw this and just laughed. It’s sooooo me and my son! I love him soooooooooooo much!

image from the very cool etsy shop, Gus and Lula!

Weekend Whims- Boy’s T-shirts

I’ve been thinking a LOT about boy’s t-shirts! I’ve saved some old pj’s to re-do a shirt… But I’m getting closer to actually making the t-shirts!!

In the meantime, here are some that I’ve been thinking about that are already made by someone else…

1. I’m sure most everyone has seen this one, it’s ALL OVER the internet. because it’s adorable… The 90 minute shirt by Dana Made It.

2. Another popular one is the Ringer Shirt by Crafterhours.

3. Love the Baseball Style Tee (and the applique) by Make It and Love It.

4. I’m seriously thinking of purchasing the Flashback Tee Pattern from Made by Rae, and I don’t buy many patterns….

5. I was lucky enough to win a copy of Sewing For Boys on the blog tour! And in that book are some really awesome patterns. There’s a pair of pants I’ve also been meaning to make, but since we’re talking shirts here…. There’s a raglan tee pattern in the book that sounds like it’s really easy! This cool one is made by Noodlehead.

ok, I have to get on this project!!