The deep blue sea

Have you entered a Spoonflower fabric contest yet? The next theme is "nautical" .

This is my entry. I wanted to use this idea of layering paper, inspired by a folded paper boat.
To see it repeated have a look here. It works best in half brick :)
Next, after the nautical theme, comes a cheater quilt contest!! Doesn't that sound fun?

Embrace your mistakes?

The reason why I don't sew as much anymore as I have been in the past is because I am a woman with multiple hats on (like so many of us!). As some of you know I am actually an illustrator by profession who stumbled over and fell in love with sewing. These days I am trying to be a good mother, housekeeper, business owner, illustrator (which means I am trying to build a new portfolio and teach myself new tricks), gardener and seamstress to my children. All of which takes much too much time and one or the other constantly seems to suffer. Yesterday however I did sit down and sew. Ella is in desperate need for clothes and it just seems dumb to go out and buy things when I can produce clothing myself. I made this Abacadabra dress and used Westfalen fabric. See? The classic print works lovely on her right?!

OK, now comes the part were one has to either learn to embrace mistakes, or simply loose ones head and yell a little and throw a temper tantrum.... Control freak that I am, I am often reminded that mistakes in handmade items make them "charming". Or so I was told.

Can you spot what's wrong here?

To my mind, I am truly annoyed by the reversal of the direction in the pattern of the fabric.

This happens only when I sew. When I paint I am the biggest control freak ever. I noodle things to death. So sewing is good... Sewing teaches me to let go. It is very therapeutic.

Just because I feel like sharing my other side ... I painted this for a relative of mine with much more control :0)

Nevertheless the lesson is the same over and over again...Breath, let go, embrace your mistakes and have fun creating! All whilst doing the jobs of many people in one single day.

Cheerio!

Yvonne

Far Far Away II is now in the shop!!

I am only uploading one collage in one colorway (Heather Ross created this one) from the new Far Far Away II collection because there will be a not so small revolt in the house (these kids will only be patient so long) if I don't get off the computer!

I am SO excited though!! The fabric is fabulous :) Really!
I know many were sad that the second Far Far Away collection was not printed on double gauze again but now you have the option to use these prints for other projects that the double gauze would have not been good for. Such as bags, wallets and maybe even light weight upholstery (a nursery chair would be so cool!). And you can still sew clothes as well. This light weight canvas is awesome for pants and a-line skirts or light weight jackets.
So variety in types of fabrics is great :) And I still have plenty of double gauze available.

Also some said, that non of the prints in this line would work for boys. I politely disagree. Maybe not for older boys but look at the Moon and Stars print in Linen or the Owl and Pussycat prints. Can't you see the cute summer clothes for boys?

So have a look around, the full collection is now available to you :)

And the Winner of the LOVEchirp fabric is?

Stephanie! She said:

I'm Swiss and I only find in your shop so cute and good quality campan! Thank's a lot for having a little Europe here in America! Stefanie

I wanted to thank all of you for your wonderful comments!!!
When you run a shop all on your lonesome it is sometimes hard to gauge if you are doing it right or not. To have your positive feedback meant a whole lotta, lot to me. So THANK you again!!!

Of course.. Please never hesitate to also let me know about the bad. It is often as important just so that I can keep up and continue to have things work properly :)

To all who didn't win this time around, you know I will have another giveaway in the future.

Stephanie, please e-mail me at info@buntefabrics.com with your address and if you would like to comment here again, please do :)