We have been busy little beans around here and had the best Thanksgiving week ever! Some of us went out of town, some of us stayed here, but ALL of us had a great time! We hope that all of you had a wonderful holiday and are looking forward to some fun projects in the near future, as I know we are!

Huck landed in some super soft yarn!!

Huck went yarn diving in our hot tub here in the shop!! Stay tuned for more on the hot tub front, as we have something really fun going on and as you can see it involves yarn in the hot tub!! A small note about the hot tub, when Laura and Doug sold their house in Truckee they had a lot of their household items (including the hot tub) stored in the warehouse and some creative ideas started to spring forth as we looked at the hot tub everyday. Of course all of us would like to have it filled with water (hot of course) and a little cheese and wine on the side...ha ha, but I digress! 

We also sent out our first EVER fabric related Newsletter and the response has been overwhelming!!! Thank you to all of you have let us know how enthusiastic you are for sewing, quilting and anything fabric related! As you may know we added some amazing fabric lines to our shop last year and wanted to get things in place before we really started to talk about it a lot and we are now comfortable with how it is going, so are pushing forward with some really fun stuff!

On the sewing front I just finished my first ever apron project and I am thrilled with the results. I learned so much about sewing and finishing a piece on this project. The pattern is a Freespirtt & Rowan free pattern and I know you would love the outcome!  I will be sharing my tips with some of the fantastic beans here at the shop next Wednesday evening, so stay tuned for more on that front. 

I used fabric from the Jenn Ski Mod Century line and chose a forest green thread as an accent. I had hoped to have it finished for Thanksgiving, but ran into some operator error, but cleared that up yesterday and I think it looks great; if I do say so myself.

For now I need to dash off and choose some fabric for my next one, as I am going to do this again along with the little beans next week! Now that I have flushed out my issues it should fly right off of the machine!! We'll be sure to post photos when we finish. :)

As always, happy sewing!!

Jeanne

The lips of the fish are the brim

We are all running around the shop like little beans with our heads cut off, as tomorrow is almost here! Wow I can't believe that another Thanksgiving day is coming up and I don't have my holiday gift creations done yet...what have I been doing since last season??

Shevawn is a great model, I can't wait to get the fins, tail and eyes on

Well let me tell you, I have been knitting, sewing, gardening and working on various other projects too, but do you think that any of those knitting, or sewing projects are gifts? Nope!!!


Oohhhh wait! I just remembered a Dead Fish hat I am knitting for a certain young bean  (Huck TURN AWAY FROM THE COMPUTER!!!) using some fun stash yarn that I have. I think he will have fun playing with his Dead Fish hat and I think I am going to use some fabric for the fins and the tail to complete the whole look, what do you think?

Top skirt, red bottom skirt and bib

On the sewing front I currently have a quilt to finish, as well as this charming apron to complete. The apron is a gift, but I can't say for who at this point, as I am pretty sure they read the blog, hee, hee.  I will also be teaching some of the beans how to work up their own apron at the beginning of December, so I will be well prepared to share all my apron tips by then.

My pocket...isn't it cute?

In other news I just met with the neatest gal, Cindy and we are discussing the possibility of her teaching The Chameleon Hand Bag class here in the shop.  Perky Brouillette and Pat Lui are the designers and Cindy has their permission to teach this fun class! I am super excited to make one of these cute bags and would love to hear your feed back on this project.


Cindy is quite the sewer and quilter and she is also considering putting together a beginner class for us that would cover the very basics of sewing and quilting. Tools, fabrics, threads and what not! I don't know about you, but it is always nice to have a good foundation for any new skill.


At any rate I hope you enjoyed reading some of my ramblings and I hope you have a great family day tomorrow!


As always, happy knitting, crocheting and sewing!

Jeanne