Summer Sewing ~ Napkins

 It's summertime! Well officially anyway but in Oregon we are still kind of waiting for it to arrive. While I sit here drumming my fingers for that, I'm going to spruce up the patio table-scape with some fun new napkins. 

The regular everyday napkins I made here are ok and holding up great after over a year’s worth of use. But I need brighter cheerier ones for summer.  So I've been on a mission to make some floral inspired ones for outside.  For these I used the Riley Blake fabrics from Millie’s closet which is a fun patchwork cheater print so I could make it single sided. Then I added a super wide border out of RB’s Chevrons.  These roughly follow Penny’s napkin tute except that mine have borders cut at 4.5” to make them wider so you can see more of the fun chevrons.  I cut the inside part of the napkin to 4 patches of the fabric which worked out to 11.75” and adjusted all my other measurements accordingly. I think they turned out pretty fun,

I double top-stitched them on the front to ensure that the turned-under edge in the back was completely secured.  I don't like to hand-stitch if I can avoid it and for heavy-use items such as these, I think the machine bound seam is more secure.

I made another set out of another patchwork cheater print, from Holly Holderman.  Increasing the border to 4.5" makes this a great stash buster project.  ;)

 

What fun summer projects are you working on?

Happy Sewing!

Winners! Winners!

Thank-you ALL for your great response to the new pattern.

Here are the results of the giveaway.   With the help of random.org the winners are:

Winner 1 (Wristlet): Beth said... Adorable! I'd LOVE to win the pattern! July 13, 2012 7:12 PM

Winner 2 (Pattern): Jen said... Something like this is exactly what I've been wanting to make!!! July 11, 2012 12:57 PM

Winner 3 (Pattern): Corinne said... Really adorable! Thank you for taking the time to create the pattern. I know from experience how much work it is. Great job! July 11, 2012 3:51 PM

I will be emailing you shortly if I have your email. If you don't hear from me , please email me at cascadeskids at g mail dot com  so I can get your mailing/email address otherwise I will have to pick another winner.

Thanks and Happy Sewing!

Cell Phone Wristlet Pattern Launch and Giveaway!

I’m excited to announce the launch of my very first pattern ~ the Trillium Cell Phone wristlet is now available! 

As part of this pattern launch I am giving away this wristlet (made by me) to one lucky winner.
Two more lucky folks will receive the pattern for free. All you have to do is comment below.  Retweet or post the link on facebook and you'll get one additional entry per post/tweet.  Just comment below again to let me know that you tweeted/facebooked it. Winner will be chosen on July 16th. You have until midnight July 15th to get your entries in.  

My testers tell me that it was an easy bag to sew and their results were impressive.  You can check out their creations here. I loved all of their fun wristlets .

The wristlet is great for using up scraps because it uses lots of small pieces of fabric or you can buy 2 (or more) coordinating  fabrics, contrasting hardware, the creative possibilities are endless. It’s all up to you! 

The pattern is available for sale through the blog button up at the top right of the page or by clicking here , or on Craftsy and in my Etsy Shoppe as a pdf download.

Source: Cell Phone Wristlet via Trillium Design on Craftsy

I hope you enjoy it! Happy Sewing!