Sew little time...

I love to create. I have so many little projects going on in my life but I never think to blog about them. So I will start sharing my creativity. If only there were more hours in the day, I can only imagine the things I could make!

I work part-time doing product development for a fabric company here in Greenville...so I get lots of great fabric scraps from work as well as tons of creative inspiration. Many of my personal project ideas are modifications of ideas I've come up with on the clock.

A current work project I'm doing involves baby accessories such as bibs, burpies & wipey holders. I took the pattern I developed for work & modified it to create a cute-funky-girly bib set for a friend of mine who is expecting in May.

Another mini-project I did a few months ago was a mobile-like item for Jackson's crib. I am not into novelty decor & all the mobiles I found online were very theme-driven. So I made my own. I took 1"-diameter cotton cording & sewed a sleeve around it, sewing colorful ribbon loops into the seam as I went. I inserted a wooden dowel into the sleeve for stiffness & then added long ties on each end of the contraption. The result is a mobile that I can tie across the top of J's crib & hang dangly toys from. I simply untie it when not in use & use it anywhere where I can attach the two ends. It doesn't rotate or play music like the plastic, mass-produced mobiles but he has yet to complain :)





I also made Jackson's crib bedding & window treatments (you can see the bedding in the pics above.) However, the walls needed something to help tie the room together and what better then fabric-covered canvases? Like I said, I'm totally not into novelty themes, but the fabrics I chose for his nursery lent themselves to jungle animals. So I covered 3 12" x 12" canvases with leftover fabrics from his bedding, printed out enlarged animal silhouettes, traced them onto Heat-n-Bond, ironed on contrasting fabric, cut out the shapes and VIOLA! Instant wall art!