Los Angeles RAW official bikini photo

The professional photos from the Los Angeles RAW Interactive fashion show are finally posted.  I think the bikini looks fabulous, but I have to admit I think that I prefer a less serious modeling style.  Maybe its because bikinis are something you wear when relaxing or having fun on a beach.  You can see the rest of the photos from the show by clicking here or here.

Bikini Photos

Here are a couple of photos from the photo shoot today!  Fabulous!  I am just in love with how my fabric looks on a bikini, but then I am not biased at all;)

LA RAW INTERACTIVE fashion show Backstage Photos

Here are some photos taken at the L.A. RAW fashion show of my fabric design on Cat Thordarson's Bikini design. Including backstage photos. According to Cat the show went fabulously. More photos are available at Milk Baby Bikini's Facebook Page.  I am hoping that we will have access to some professional photos as well.

Cat Thordarson the Bikini Designer for Milk Baby Bikini is in the black dress.

Sneak Peek Bikini for Los Angeles RAW

This fabulous bikini by Cat of MilkBaby Bikini, using my Floral Sizzler fabric design, goes live tomorrow at the Los Angeles RAW show!  I can't tell everyone how exciting this is for me.  I am really nervous,thrilled, scared and well I don't really know what all the other emotions are! I don't know how Cat handles everything so well.  More to come after the show! 

My fabric goes to the LA RAW runway

If you have been following my blog you know that I entered a bikini fabric contest through Fabric on Demand.  I was selected as one of the top finalists and voting went to the public.  This is the nerve wracking point for me.  I wanted so badly to win but didn't want to force my design down peoples throats.  So I shared what I could and left it to fate.  When I opened my email this morning, i was cautious, there it was the email with the winners.  I opened it, and was thrilled to find that I am one of the runner's up.  I won $100 and my fabric will be modeled on on a MilkBaby Bikini during the LA RAW fashion show on June 9th.  I can't even begin to describe how excited I am.  Maybe partly because I am a little in disbelief.  Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote and who supported me in this journey.  I can't wait to see how the fabric looks on a bikini! 
http://www.fabricondemand.com/bikini/custom.html for the full article.

Bikini Fabric Design Contest

Finally a blog post about fabric and sewing, right?  Life has been exhilarating, exhausting and perfect.  But this leaves little time for sewing and fabric design.  Recently I received an email from Fabric On Demand asking for submissions for fabric designs for a bikini contest.  I was intrigued by this and thought I would give it a shot.  I came up with several designs and submissions.  I have entered Spoonflower's fabric contests before but with no winning designs.  Although its been great fun to have the challenge of coming up with the designs.  If you don't put yourself out there you will never know your true potential.  This morning when I checked my email I had an email from Fabric On Demand, letting me know that I was one of the top 20 finalists chosen by them and MilkBaby Bikinis owner Catherine Thordarson.  Come to find out Cat is a Missoula, MT native!  Cool right?  So the winner gets $500 and their fabric design featured on one of her bikinis for a fashion show June 9th.  The winner is chosen June 6th.  There is also an added bonus of the bikini line featured on The Ultimate Bikini for summer 2011.  I am still in awe that my design made the top 20.  I wanted to jump for joy this morning,well, I may have done a little happy dance anyhow;)  So I would love it if everyone would check out the designs and hopefully vote for my fabric. "Floral Sizzler".  Just click on the fabric swatch below to vote.  Its very easy I promise!  No scrolling through pages etc...  I am going to have to stop being a Hermity Farmer-Women long enough to do some more fabric designs so I can keep this up!

Mice are invading!

Well our house is coming together finally and we have started moving stuff in and getting organized.  But last night we ended up with a mouse in the house. Arghhh.  So I am not moving any more fabric in until the problem is gone.  Mice just love fabric and making a mess of it!  I so do not love mice right now.  I am very anxious to get sewing.  I have lots of new curtain projects for the house as well as lots of other projects that I just want to do.  I think once we get the mouse problem taken care of I will be in a lot better shape.  Anyone have good suggestions for dealing with mice.  We live in a mobile home (well actually 2 that are joined together)?  We have sealed every place we could possible think of.  I am headed to town for more mouse traps this morning, time I could be spending getting ready to move the sewing area in.  Damn mice anyhow!  We even have 2 cats who are good mousers, but they aren't used to hunting in the house. Our cat Velcro saw the mouse that we saw but lost it when it ran around the corner out of the bathroom. He stalked around the house for quite a while with no luck.  Clorox is also going to be my best friend.  We really don't need hauntavirus. Ok well I really will come back to sewing and blogging, I promise!
~Christine~

Velcro