The big move!

Well as my husband is going to be medically retired from the Air Force soon we will be moving back to Montana. The madness of trying to sell our house, pack, move etc... has begun and my sewing has hit a dead stop. Quite frankly I am not sure when I will be back sewing. Our life is headed into uncharted waters and its all of scary and more. If you have a moment be thinking of us.

Stash Game Cleanup and Preparation

I have decided to participate in the sewing mamas stash game again this round.  I learned a lot from the last game and hope to do much better this time.  Today I took the time to clean my sewing area, it had been taken over by papers, patterns, toys (its in my kids play area) and fabric.  Whew, it is so much nicer I feel like I can actually get something done.  So I am working right now on tracing patterns.  Something I learned that eats up valuable sewing time during the game, I WILL be prepared this time.  Todays tracing was the Jalie Pullover Top 2911 in both mine and Hannah's sizes. I might get time for more but as I type the kids are off the bus and bound to need things.  I have several more Jalies I want to get traced and then its on to making a list of what I want to make.  I am very hopeful that a move will be in the near future and if so I need to destash quite a bit!  The game is on on Feb 1st!

 

I love Fabric Design

I am so very excited to say that I have officially designed my first fabric.  Not the copy and paste and call it fabric, actually manipulating adobe cs4 illustrator and designing and with coordinating fabric and different colors.  I love love love how it turned out.  I used it for a project for my graphic design class and also entered it in the spoonflower toile de jouy contest.  It will be for sale as soon as I get the proof from spoonflower to make sure that it has printed the way I think it will.  I have to say that I really love designing fabric....I think it may be my true calling, lol.  I guess it is fitting for a fabric addict though.  I hope to have more to come soon, but I guess I can't be glued to the computer 24/7.  I still have many sewing projects I want to work on as well.  My darling husband bought me several sewing books for Christmas and I am dying to try out all the fun projects. I am very happy at this new chapter in my life, now I just need to write the book;-) Have a great 2010 everyone!

 

 

 

 

 

Tester 3 results for the mixer pattern are in, yay!

 My last pattern tester finished he cover up today, and did a fabulous job might I add.  I had one more tester but she is pregnant with twins and not up to the task I don't think.  So I will be making some minor revisions and putting it on the market. I have been insanely busy, with sick kids and the stash game on sewing mamas.  I have also started a dressmaking and design course and a graphic design course. The dressmaking is awesome and the graphic design is hard.  I am glad I decided to take them though, its good for me.