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Cheetah Suede Cloth

Posted in Sewing: Finished Bags & Pouches

Back!  Life has a way of piling one thing after another around here!  New pets, family,  home repairs – the unplanned kind, wholesale orders, customer orders…ah  the usual!  : )   Now back to blogging!  I’ll be mixing it up with art, paintings, sewing, and my photography.

I wanted to share this awesome fabric I found this summer:cheetah suedeclothIt is a soft suede cloth cheetah print. It has a richness of browns and caramel tans as well as being soft. Suede cloth is a synthetic fabric that has a velvet-like nap finish and an easy care fabric.  I enjoy sewing with it and love the way it looks in a  finished item.

To make it more fun, animal prints are big in this season’s fashion and accessories.   I’ve been using this fabric in local sewing, as well as in my Etsy shop.  It’s been a big hit sewn as smartphone wristlets locally at Nich.  I have used it for some items in my shop with more to come.

Etsy Gift Cards

Posted in Other Artist Work

I saw this morning that Etsy is offering gift cards now. The gift cards can be used at any Etsy shop. How cool is that?!

From Etsy:

” Starting this fall, any member will be able to purchase a gift card with a US credit card. You can email the gift card directly to a friend or print one out to give in person. The gift card credit will be in the form of a code, which buyers will use towards purchases at any shop accepting direct checkout.”

So if you are looking a great holiday gift, this might be the perfect thing.  A gift card to any of the over 250,000 Etsy shops!

Local news: Cellphone wristlets at Nich

Posted in Sewing: Finished Bags & Pouches

I’ve been working on a local order. It’s been great fun to work with the shop owner and customize the design to fit her customers needs.

Aren’t they fun ?!   I love all the colors and fabric of these cell phone wristlets and coin purse wristlets. The colorful zippers and surprise inside fabric colors add to the fun of these wristlets.  Each has a transparent vinyl exterior pocket for a college id  or license. I delivered the first order last week with more to come.

You can find these at Nich in downtown West Chester, PA. Owner Kristy is so nice and her shop is a funky urban edge women’s clothing boutique.  She has an active fan club of followers on Nich facebook  page as well as on Pinterest. If you are in the area, it’s worth the trip to stop in and check out her wonderful boutique.

Scotch Tape Sculpture

Posted in Other Artist Work

Who knew you could make sculptures from scotch tape?  These are amazing:

This is really made from scotch tape!

Love these merry go round horses

 

3M Scotch Tape runs a scotch tape sculpture contest each year. This is 2012’s winner

Source: mymodernmet.com via Edwige on Pinterest

I will never look at scotch tape the same again!

Sewing with Vinyl

Posted in Sewing: Finished Bags & Pouches

I am up to my eyeballs with a large local sewing order. It’s great fun meeting someone new  and working together to tweak some of my sewing designs to meet their needs.  I find design tweaking absorbing and time consuming.  I always learn something new.

One of the tweaks is adding a vinyl pocket on to a cell phone clutch. I’ve never used vinyl before and it is kind cool to work with.  A trip to JoAnne’s  to check out vinyl, I found that the lower the gauge the thinner the vinyl is. I have opted to work with an 18 gauge vinyl for sturdiness.

Vinyl wants to stick to your machine when sewing.  I found  that there are a lot  sewing blogs that  suggest  adding scotch tape to the bottom of your sewing foot.  I tried it and it works great! Adding a small strip on either side of the needle plate, under the foot helped too.  It glides right through when sewing.  Futuregirl.com has great photos  and instructions

Source: futuregirl.com via Cindy on Pinterest

Another tip from byannie.com   is to keep the tissue paper that comes with a roll of vinyl with the piece of vinyl you are working on. Seems obvious ….. now.  Those edges of the vinyl are really hard to see and the tissue paper helps a lot.

I’ll definitely be experimenting with vinyl in the future.  but for today, vinyl playtime is over and it’s time to work on the order and also finish up a painting that is almost done.  Enjoy your day !