From the monthly archives: February 2011
We’re continuing with our boy bag theme! If you missed yesterday’s posts you can see Marigold’s Crayon Monster Art Tote here and Steffanie’s Scavenger Bags here. Today our first guest is Toni of Make it Perfect who is sharing a couple very cool ways to keep kids toys organised with her Peek-A-Boo Toy Sacks tutorial and Lego Sack tutorial.
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| Lego Sack |
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Here’s another fantastic bag for boys that I know you’ll love! Steffanie from sew grown is here today with a great scavenger bag tutorial for all those little boys who love to collect trinkets and treasures. I love the piping detail on this bag and know my little guy could come up with all sorts of treasures to put in it!
Here’s Steffanie:
Hi everyone, I’m Steffanie from sew grown. I’m so glad to be here sharing this super fun
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Have you heard of Colette Patterns yet? Recently Colette has burst onto the sewing scene with lovely, retro-inspired sewing patterns for women. Their pattern collection features dresses, blouses, a coat, and even lingerie. They recently released a new pattern that really piqued my interest: their Negroni shirt for MEN! I had to have it. I ordered it right away and it went straight onto “the list” of projects for Celebrate the Boy *crossing fingers that I’ll get Mr Rae’s finished in time to show you.*
Here’s a peek at the Negroni pattern (all images courtesy of Colette Patterns):
I knew I had to…
I know it’s just starting for all of you, but Celebrate the Boy has been on the brain over here for a long time. For the last month I’ve dedicated a good portion of my sewing time to just making clothing for Elliot. I love how sewing for a child makes you spend time thinking about them. For one thing it’s made me realize how very little baby is left of him.
I always have more ambitious ideas of what I want to do than what actually gets executed, but still, it’s been fun for me to plan a whole new
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How exciting is this? Today the amazingly talented Liesl Gibson (sewing pattern and fabric designer, blogger, and creator of Oliver+S) has agreed to talk to us about sewing for boys and how details can really make boys’ clothing special! Liesl will also be giving away a set of three boys patterns from the the Oliver + S collection!
I had the pleasure of meeting Liesl last summer at the Weekend Sewing Workshop in Vermont and it was so much fun watching her work and learning from her! Turns out we went to the same college and her parents knew my aunt and uncle in grad school once upon a time. Small world! I hope you all…
Since many of you are new here this month I realized you might not know who my little boy is! So here’s a few pics to introduce you to my little guy, Elliot, who will be four in March. This month you’ll get to see all the stuff I’ve been making for him! [and most of you know this already, but I'm a little sensitive about this so I'll repeat it: Please do not copy/repost any pictures of Elliot. Thanks!]
He’s a little comedian
and a complete ham for the camera
I thought I’d kick off our month of boy with a tutorial for these extracute dragon slippers. Elliot is really into monsters and dragons lately. When he asks me to tell him a story at night, the usual request is for the kind I make up about “Prince Elliot and his friend Drew the Dragon.” Nothing special, just a boy and a dragon and their silly adventures, but he loves it. For awhile I’d even catch him occasionally talking to an imaginary Drew. *cute* So I thought these little dragon (monster? lizard? dinosaur?) slippers would be perfect to keep those little toes warm on
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Just a little reminder…we’re going to start Celebrating the BOY next Tuesday, February 15! Yaaaay *does Kermit arms* We’ve got an amazing lineup of fantastic contributors who will be talking about sewing for boys and providing great ideas and inspiration for sewing for that boy in your life. It’ll knock your socks off! We KNOW boys get the shaft when it comes to sewing and we plan to rectify that with a solid month of boy posts, tutorials, roundups, and giveaways, so make sure you come over often to see what’s going on.
We’d also love it if you’d celebrate along with us! Please take a button (either the one above or the ones below; right click
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For you to sew!
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