Were did Feliz go? Plus Manhatten the dress

I imagine most of you know by now about the BOOK! The book that Nancy and Sabine wrote called
Sewing Clothes Kids Love. In the book you will find 10 patterns. One of them is FELIZ a pattern that you were able to buy but now has retired into the book. All in all I really like the book because it gives people new to the Farbenmix and Studio Tantrum world a wonderful introduction. The style of the pictures is colorful and maybe a bit over the top for some. But they are there to spark your imagination. Kids really DO love it colorful and a bit on the wild side and I for one love a creative challenge!
Talking about a challenge... One of the new patterns in the book is Manhatten, a special occassion dress. It has Nancy written all over it because only she could think of this pattern. And again it boggled me mind :) My Daughters of course cravitated directly to it when they flipped through the pages and wanted the "shiny" one. I mailed Nancy and asked, so what is the fabric that was used on page 89? She mailed back it is "Perlon-Taft". Aaalllright... Here I am a fabric store owner and importer of cool European fabrics and I cannot find Perlon-Taft any were!

A friend of mine found some shiny fabric (not Perlon-Taft) in her stash and gave it to me. So shiny, so pretty so slippery and a ..... to sew with!! But there was no turning back the Kid had fallen in love with it and I was stuck with a million curved pieces that would eventually become a fully lined special occaisson dress. Oh you should have heard me curse!

In the end it came together. I pulled it over her head and YAY! It fell off of her tiny shoulders..
So for the million time I pulled out my trusty seam ripper and made the changes to the straps.
Yes! No! I couldn't pull it over her head anymore. OK deeeep breath apart it comes again and more changes. The result??
One happy Daughter! The other one is crying because I told her no way am I ever, ever going to make a shiny Manhatten again. It is going to be hard enough with good, old plain cotton. Maybe after you make 10 of the Manhatten's you'll can sew them in your sleep but I need a vacation.



Stick with Insa (my all time favorite skirt for years now and now in the book!), Imke so easy and great or make a gazillion Brooklyn shrugs (in the picture with Romy) they are easy enough! Most of all just get yourself one of these books. It is really a wonderful inspiration and come on, you know you'll need to sew Feliz right?

Art Nouveau for Spoonflower

The next Spoonflower fabric contest is about Art Nouveau. This period in our art history has always been one of my favorites. Naturally I really wanted to make sure I enter this time around.

My children had the day off of school today and would you believe it they actually had a great time watching me design on paper and then paint on the computer! No one whined or was
unhappy. I actually think Romy especially, was really inspired to possibly step into my foot steps.

I have said it before, but it is a *wonderful* feeling to be creative and with it inspire your children to be so as well!!

All three gave me the thumbs up when I was done and I personally love this design very much as well.
I am so curious to see all of the other entries when the time comes to vote!

If you want to see my Art Nouveau mermaids tile as it would on fabric (I like half drop best) have a look here.

Nice SALE on Domestic Designers

Mezzanine, Deer Valley (50% off!), Lantern Bloom and Frolic are on on sale. Sale ends 03/16/10

What are you doing this weekend? I mean other than shopping ;) ?

Mine is full of plans! Some (actually a lot) of sewing and I also want to enter the next Spoonflower fabric contest with an Art Nouveau design. Also I need to finish our taxes.. Yeah, that one is last on my list.

And the winner is?????

I bet no one is interested who the winner of the "Birds on a wire" fabric is right?
*
*
*
*
But just in case you do want to know if you are the winner...
*
*
*
The winner is entry number 11, JESSICA! Congratulations :o)

Jessica please email me at eurofabricsusa@yahoo.com with your address.

For everyone else who played, "Thank you!" You still have a chance at another time to win gorgeous fabrics or patterns or whatever else I can come up with. I love giveaways so check back in every so often!

Finally! Another giveaway :)

It's about time I make good on my promise and give away a yard of my very own "Birds on a wire" first place, winning fabric from Spoonflower. This yard is a quilting weight fabric and 100% cotton.
To win please leave a comment :) If you would like to get an extra entry and an extra chance to win, twitter, facebook or blog about this giveaway. Come back here with a link to your post and I will add another ticket in your name!
The giveaway will end on 03/08/10 and I will announce the winner here on 03/09/10 here!

Good Luck!!