I’m very excited to announce my partnership with Sizzix+Free Spirit Fabrics to bring you the Sew Sweetness Maker’s Challenge!
The Bag of the Month Club has ended for yet another year. We decided to bring back the competition this year with some fantastic prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for each month. We also came up with 6 grand prize packages awarded randomly to club members who completed all 6 bags.
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I’m back with another YouTube video – this time, it’s a full step video to make an Easy Leather Hobo Bag! This bag can be made in any material that can be left raw (so think cork fabric, vinyl, or leather), and it’s aimed at beginners or those who have yet to make a bag out of leather.
Over 200 people made bags to enter in my Sew Sweetness 2017 Bag Contest last month, and let me tell you, it was incredibly hard choosing winners! So many bags looked so wonderful, and to everyone that entered – you are all winners in my eyes, not only for making the deadline but for putting your own original spin on one of my patterns by choosing fabric that meant something to you and pairing it with a bag pattern that would be useful to you in your everyday life! I hope you will visit the linky and browse all of the entries!
I made a couple of bags from the new barkcloth fabrics from Hoffman Fabrics. I have been really into the Me+You batiks, and their creator, Aaron Hoffman, is an accomplished surfer. When I received these fabrics in the mail to make the samples, I searched on some online surf and skateboarding shops to get some inspiration for what project I would make with them.
I’m offering 20% off on all patterns from my shop using coupon code contest. Additionally, all orders totalling over $100 (before shipping) will be sent a FREE 18″ x 54″ piece of glitter vinyl (please leave note at check-out with your color preference for the glitter vinyl, otherwise I will choose a color for you). This code and offer will be good through April 30, 2017.
I’m super-stoked to show you these Chroma bags samples that I made back in January, using Alison Glass‘s upcoming fabric line ‘Chroma’. These fabrics are modern batiks. I am a major rainbow girl, and these fabrics definitely hit the spot. You can see more photos of the ‘Chroma’ fabric line on Alison’s catalogs page (make sure you flip through the catalog)! If you like these fabrics, make sure to let your favorite fabric shop know that you’d love to see them in the shop – they arrive in June 2017.
Today is pattern release day, and February is the month for my pattern! I’m so happy to introduce you to the Sublime Bag sewing pattern!
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Happy Saturday! One of my goals for 2017 was to use a planner for the first time ever – I purchased The Quilter’s Planner and I’m attempting to lay out my work goals/projects in it, as well as using Google Calendar to have a digital documentation as well. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to keep up with the handwritten calendar, but we’ll see. One of the main things I’m writing in my calendar is blog posts – way back when, all of this started with my blog, but in the last year or so, I feel like the blog has fallen to last priority, especially when I get busy. There’s so many things that I made last year that I never got around to blogging about, and it’s a shame really.
Now in stock in the Sew Sweetness shop are 22 vibrant colors of glitter vinyl fabric! The glitter vinyl is backed with canvas fabric, and it’s very thin (0.6mm) and easy to sew on your home sewing machine. If you’ve not sewn with leather or vinyl before, I suggest using a denim needle and either a walking foot or a Teflon foot (I use a Teflon foot personally). Whenever sewing with vinyl, I always like to test on a scrap first, just so I can get warmed up.
I am the October designer for Bag of the Month Club, and I’d like to introduce my contribution to the club, the Coalition Bag!
My newest pattern, the Annex Double-Zip Box Pouch, is now available! This is a twist on the classic box pouch – Annex has two separate zippered compartments, perfect for keeping your essentials separated! The pouch is also available in 3 different sizes – small, medium, and large. The pattern is available as both pdf and paper patterns, and new to my patterns, I’ve also included metric as well as imperial measurements in the instructions.
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