Upcycled Dresses

Oregon closeup
Originally uploaded by Archymomma

I've fallen in love! Fallen in love with making these cute dresses that is! Using shirts that I've collected and making them into dresses! I am using a pattern from Lil Blue Boo The Sienna Dress Pattern.  I started making these for my daughter and just couldn't stop! 

The first dress I made was "Drama" from a Drama Club t-shirt from Rolla High School.  It fits my daughter perfectly both in comment and in size! I love the generous sizing of these dresses and the flexibility of the pattern.  It is easy to adjust everything from the skirt to the sleeves!

I had so much fun I decided to buy a license to make the dress and sell them. I will be selling them through both Hyena Cart and Etsy. Keep an eye out! No one dress is the same!

Messenger Bag!

Messenger Bag
Originally uploaded by Archymomma

I made this messenger bag - with two reversible flaps for a trade! The wonderful lady I made it for picked out the big flower print and the Amy Butler medallion print...I decided that I didn't want to put them together on a reversible flap so I made two! I hope she likes them!!
The messenger bag itself is black with a black on black print interior. There are pockets on the inside and one each on the front and back exterior of the bag. The adjustable strap is made from cotton webbing.

The flaps are reversible and interchangable....so really she is getting 4 different bags! I love how it turned out and hope she does too!!

Owl Needle Roll Set

Owl Needle Roll Set
Originally uploaded by Archymomma

A custom needle roll set - trade for some yummy yarn! I will have to get pictures of the yarn up soon. This lucky lady actually ended up with 2 double-pointed needle rolls instead of one...yup I made a mistake when making the first roll. I was looking at the measurements in my notebook for the crochet hook roll instead of the dp needle roll. So I made a second roll that will really fit dp needles....and then decided to make a matching zip pouch for her too!

Lily Pad Landing

The congo I am with on Hyena Cart has joined together with the wonderful artisans from Lily Pad Landing!!

We are stocking for the first time tonight at 9pm est. Come check out all the wonderful offerings! Lily Pad Landing will be stocking every Thursday evening!

Lily Pad Landing - 9pm est

A sampling of a few of the wonderful listings:

HC Winter Blues

How fun - Hyena Cart is running their "Winter Blues" Giveaway again!! This is such a fun thing - anyone with a shop on Hyena Cart can offer a giveaway for the week of February 8th. Place a question in the middle of an exsisting thread or start a new thread - let everyone know what they will win and if the winner has to pay shipping or not. Then let the games begin!!

I've made 6 zip pouches for the give away week. Gave away the first one this morning. I plan on giving one away each day this week. If you have not joined the forums at HC now is a great time to do so! You just might win a prize!!

Refresh and Renew!

That is the theme for Thursday's stocking at Alchemy!

New designs and old ones available this month. If anyone has a new E-Reader and wants to keep it safe, I've designed a nice padded sleeve to slip it into.



Using Heather Ross'es Mermaid fabric this sleeve will fit a Kindle, Nook, or other E-Reader that is less than 9.25" long and 7" wide. Slips right in with or with out a cover.
Wonderful modern ovals in bright pinks, oranges, greens and yellow make this sleeve pop! Fully padded with snap closure. There is padding between the snap base and the interior of the sleeve so there is nothing to scratch you E-Reader.


The "Molly" Purse has been redesigned for the new year! This is a wonderful envelope style purse that will fit all the essentials. Strap is removable so you can easily slip this purse in a briefcase, diaper bag, or knitting bag.

Alchemy goes Gold!

So I'm going to give Congo life a shot. I was asked to join Alchemy a Congo on Hyena Cart. My first stocking will be over the Thanksgiving Day weekend. I will be stocking items from Thursday through Monday the 30th. Alchemy's theme for the stocking event is "Gold".


I'm offering this great purse as a FFS drawing. It is a new design that I've been working on for a while.

It is not perfect....a couple little sewing errors - but it is definately usable!

It measures about 8.5" x 8.5" and has a zip closure with a flap over that. There is small pocket with a zipper closure on the interior of the purse. The strap is detachable and adjustable.





A few other offerings through the weekend include a knitting project bag, a purse and a couple of clutches.

knitting, knitting, knitting

I just spent part of the weekend taking photos of my yarn stash and uploading to Ravelry.
Ravelry Stash
I think I only got halfway through....yup I still have more in the closet to get photographed and details loaded!

The big push is that I have 6 custom hats to knit in the next few months! I needed to find out what I have and which colors/weights I can use for the Hudson Hats(tm).

This is a custom Hudson Hat(tm) that I just finished!


Here is a shorter version that looks more pixieish:

New Purse

This was fun. I decided to design a new purse for the Spring. I wanted something small and "cute" - so I came up with this little envelope type purse. The strap is slightly padded and hangs down approximately 15" from your shoulder. The bag itself, is 10" wide and 6" tall. It is 2" deep at the bottom but with it snapped it is probably closer to 1" deep at the top. One snap closure and a interior pocket across the back of the purse are the other details.

It makes a nice little purse to throw your wallet in and carry around for a day of shopping! In different fabrics or colors it would make a nice little evening purse. I think this one could be pretty versatile!!

Joining a Congo!

I am joining a congo! It is a new one that will have its Grand Opening on January 1, 2009!

Naturally Charmed will have a selection of family friendly items stocking the 1st of each month. Right now we have Annette from Woolcreations, Michi from diggin' crochet and Clarissa from Peanut Butter Monkey! We will hopefully be adding new members at the beginning of next year. Please come check it out!

In other news.... Do you want to see what a 2 pairs of size 4 Toddler knitted pants look like?

Yup that is a 17" inseams on these bad boys! Made for a friends twin girls for Christmas.

Yarn is Western Sky Knits - Choco Rainbow custom with a dark pink instead of red.

I used the basic Belladonna longie pattern but did a variation for the cuff at the bottom.

They seemed to take forever even using magic loop to do both legs at the same time. I did the cuffs separately though. The magic loop is great for making sure that the legs are the same length....but I got a little tired of pulling the cord through all the time. I love how the yarn knit up and the pattern it made. I really like that even though there are the same number of stitches and the same sized needles used both pairs knit up with slight variation in the yarn pattern.

So I shot these off to Canada a couple

weeks before Christmas. Ended up

sending them Global Express to make sure they got there....they did!!!

Here is a photo my friend sent me of the girls wearing the pants!! They are gorgeous!! The pants also!

HATS!!

I knit these 3 Hudson Hats for a friends 3 little girls. I used various scaps of hand-dyed yarn. All wool yarns of various weights. The pattern is from Ky Baby Knits. I have a lifetime liscense to sell hats from this pattern.

The hats seemed to come in 3's! I then made three hats for a shower gift. One for the new baby, one for her older sister and one for her sister's doll. This pattern is from Leigh Spencer called "Sprout".

Halloween 2008

Happy Halloween

2008

The kids had a great time - Molly as a pink fairy (no other color would do) and Josh as a lion. He wore his skeleton sweats for most of the day though.

Josh is 2!

My little boy turned 2!

It is hard to realize that he is already 2 years old!

Customs!

I am getting through some of my custom orders! I still have many to do and start on - but the list is getting shorter! Mom is coming this week and it is my son's birthday so I really want to take next weekend off of sewing - but I also need to make some headway on a few more of these custom orders.





The knitting needle roll for Nicole! I LOVE how this one turned out! I can't say how much the colors just strike me - so pretty and bold.

I also finished a Reversible Flap Messenger Bag for Kendel. Came out truly lovely. She did a great job picking the fabric combinations.



The "Fiesta" from Robert Kaufman and then a green celtic fabric for the second side.