Roses everywhere!

Roses just make me smile.   I get to walk out my front door every day right now and smell them.  The arbor is covered and both sides of the driveway are surrounded in a variety of pinks!

I  also just looked around and realized how many fabrics I have collected have roses on them!  This dress that I just listed is in citrus colors, but the Kaffe Fassett fabric of the apron is brilliant orange and rasberry pinks.

A different mood entirely for me from these roses

 This peachy color is soothing and sweet for me.  I found this beautiful shabby chic roses fabric at an awesome fabric yard sale!!!!  

 

 This is the front of the apron dress I created with it.  The apron is Cicely Mary Barker's vintage flower fairy fabric that I had remnants of in my stash!  Love the pink velvet rick rack too!!!

 

  I found out this week that I have to have shoulder surgery, on my right arm!!  It is happening in August, so I am putting out my fall items now on my etsy store.  JUST CLICK ON MY LINK TO IT ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BLOG PAGE.  PreOrders are great if you want fall items since I won't be able to sew for about a month after surgery...I can make them now though!

HAPPY PINK SATURDAY!

Pink and Gray

HAPPY PINK SATURDAY!  In the 60's, I was in elementary school, the 5th grade, when pink and gray became very popular!  I loved that combination and drooled over my friend's pink and grey wool plaid skirt with the pink sweater!! So I love that that combo is back again!...and I find I like the mustard yellow with grey as well.  This is one side of my new reversible pinafore set.  I love this old hand knitted lace and 60's trim.  The gray cotton sateen is upcycled men's shirting fabric!

Here is the other side.  I can't decide if I think it is rosebuds or  cherries.  It is from a piece of vintage 80's fabric I found. It was so fun sewing the lace onto the fabric and creating the little ruffle pants!  I had just enough of the little pink lace to go around the legs, too! 

I make this hat based on an internet free pattern I found.  Love the way the petals curl up.  I think this would be adorable with this outfit!

Not sure what to do with these beautiful embroideries YET.  They are a wee bit fragile;  I am wondering about pillows?

...and finally, do kids wear polyester any more?  I was given this cool, very 60s poly fabric.  So what do you think?

 

Strawberries and a Recipe!

HAPPY 2ND ANNIVERSARY TO BEVERLY'S PINK SATURDAY BLOGGERS!!!!  I am pretty much a newcomer to this, but have enjoyed meeting some of you over the past couple months.  I am blogging today about strawberries!  Always a favorite growing up, I remember going picking with my mom up in Washington, crouching down to find those juicy treasures under the leaves.  She made--and still makes THE BEST strawberry jam!  I am sharing the little pink and red strawberry bubble rompers that I have recently made, along with my mom's strawberry cookbook, From the Strawberry Patch and a recipe by her grandma, my babushka who I blogged about in my last post.

6 - 12 month size in front of my strawberry plants!

 

3 vintage pearl buttons down the back

This is the Newborn to 5 months size

My mom published this in the early 80's and it is no longer in print, but sometimes you can find it on ebay...by Sharon Kay Alexander...she put a favorite recipe of each person in our family, but my  favorite now, that I thought some of you would like is my great grandma's  strawberry shortcake recipe!!!  It's written the way she cooked...a handful of this, a pinch of that, so my mom "translated" it

Aren't her pages adorable?!!  You should be able to click on these and then save to your computer if you would like.  And here is a picture of yours truly with my great grandparents in front of their farm house!

notice her pink geraniums in the screen porch window...I  always remember those!

Thank you so much for coming by!

Here is Beverly's link so you can visit more people, too!

           http://howsweetthesound.typepad.com/

Cupcakes, Polka Dots and Rik Rak

 

I am having my patience grown.  After 3 weeks of the flu, I loved being in my studio again to create this little outfit for a new baby!!!!.  Since it is close to valentines' day, I did one side in a pink heart fabric; the other is spring polka dot colors, and then the embroidered cupcake!   The little orange and cream buttons were so sweet.  I've been saving them for quite some time for the right outfit!   These little white bloomers in vintage dotted swiss or eyelet fabrics are really fun to make.  I am going to offer them in my etsy shop in sizes up to 4T;  also have some hot pink linen ruffle pants in the sewing machine now, and an AWESOME,  reImagined big pink roses Vera scarf becoming ruffle pants.  I forgot to photograph just the ruffle bloomers for the shop, though, cause the outfit was going out the door to my friend!  So the next pair is going in the shop!    I also got my Portobellopixie pattern in the mail finally, so I can start putting those fabrics together into little girl apron dresses, peasant tops, and even some mommy sized aprons!  Sandy Henderson is an awesome designer;  I'm really excited to be working her patterns with vintage fabrics!

Now, it is off to finish MY almost 17 year old's birthday present!  (No, it's not an apron dress!)

Piles of Pinks

I have finally sorted through my fabrics and kinda gotten organized for 2010!  I am so excited to start on my new line of toddler and preschool clothes!  It is time.  I have been collecting awesome fabric remnants, vintage embroideries and trims, etc  for a few years now, and it seems that my most popular items are for the little ones these days.  Soooo....along with the 1960's VERA cottons that I have been soaking and some wonderful vintage white cotton eyelet fabrics, I am beginning this new adventure!

I think these will be adorable peasant apron dresses and tops with the ruffle pants!

I absolutely LOVE vintage trims!!!  Got to go get started!!  Oh!  and I have boy stuff too...just not in pinks!  later on that!  Feedback welcome!  Requests and suggestions...Thanks
Kathi

New Baby Friends, New Ideas, New Decade!!!!

We got a beautiful surprise visit a few days ago from our dear friend, Joanna, my now- teenagers' favorite childhood babysitter, and her newest child, named Chloe after my Chloe! 4 year old Benjie loves to make music, and is very entertaining!


I truly enjoy little ones, and I think that is why, even though my 2 are 18 and nearly 17 years, I still really like to make clothes and hats and blankies for the wee ones! I especially want to create from the remnants, to lighten our human footprint on our planet that we will leave to these wee ones! I am finding I have oodles of great vintage remnants that could make adorable toddler clothing.
These are the little flannel pants I custom made for a friend's new niece. I sooo enjoyed this and am thinking about doing more baby and toddler pants for my etsy shop to go with the baby hats. I am also thinking of smock tops that double as aprons, all reimagined from remnant fabrics and vintage bits and trims, of course! Any thoughts about this?