A Full Cup Design has been full speed ahead in real life and on Etsy/Facebook/Instagram, but somehow my WordPress site had a hiccup and lost several year’s worth of posts!
I’m going to forge ahead and also drop some throwbacks here and there.
Sewing, nuno felting, crafting, reading
Last year I made napkin gift sets for Christmas and birthdays for friends and family. They were very popular! This year, I made some for A Full Cup Design for craft shows and the Etsy store.
Cloth napkins can be used anytime – for a special dinner or informal pizza night. They also make great gifts.
I sell them in sets of four – 18″ square dinner napkins or 16″ square cocktail napkins. The cocktail napkins are sold out right now!
The napkins are one layer, so they have a front side and back side. They have mitered corners and a double row of stitching around the sides and corners.
These two are my winter/holiday sets that are left in my Etsy store.
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- Berries and Partridges
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- Snowmen
For the wine lover – perfect for a hostess gift.
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- Wine Labels
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- Wine Glasses
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- Wine Corks
And for the Paris lover:
Paris – Eiffel Tower
My friend wanted a total re-do for her son’s room. She picked out tan/grey/taupe map fabric for Roman shades, a chair cushion, and pillows.
Getting Started
When finished, there were four Roman shades to replace the plastic Venetian blinds, four pillows, and a small chair cushion.
Pillows, Cushion, One Shade
Two Pillows
Small Chair Cushion
Roman shades, pillows, and chair cushion all in their home. I think the room looks fantastic!
Finished Room
Installed Shade and Cushions
I even made some throw pillows with the old dinosaur curtains.
Dinosaur Pillows
My wristlet/clutch won Honorable Mention Crafts at the Weston Arts and Crafts spring awards show in May. This category includes all crafts from fabric creations to turned wood bowls to pottery to fused glass and even jewelry. So, I was very happy to receive a ribbon!
The judge said, “A wristlet clutch that is made with attention to detail. The wrist band is particularly thoughtful in its comfortable and colorful construction.”
Honorable Mention Wristlet
It is already April, and I have been very busy in this “new” year. I’ve been working on items for my store, but also for friends, and for my kids.
Five wristlets or clutches for shop and upcoming show.
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- Five wristlets
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- Purple forest
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- Blue paisley
Hipster purses and messenger bags for the shop and upcoming show.
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- Red and black hipster
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- Impressionist hipster
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- City hipster
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- Purple butterfly hipster
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- Fashion plate messenger bag
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- Nature Paris messenger bag
More wallets which I have trouble keeping in stock. These are all mostly sold, and I need to make more.
Zip Card Carrier Wallets
New scarf design which sold quickly.
Shades of purple scarf
Therapy bags I made for my mom. The eye pillow is filled with flax seed, and the neck/shoulder pillow is filled with seed corn. They can be warmed or cooled.
Therapy bags
I made a series of sewing machine mats with attached pockets for my mom, her friend, and myself. The mat is a microfiber dish drying mat, and I sewed on a five pocket flannel panel. Don’t you love my vintage singer?
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- Eiffel Tower Grey
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- Black mat, plaid pockets
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- Tan mat
Lastly, just finished robes for a king, queen, and magician for my son’s school play. Maybe Wills and Kate will want ones in the future (and Harry can be the magician!).
King, Queen, Magician Robes
My scarves, messenger bags, purses, snack bag sets, wallets, and felted flowers will be at the Weston Arts and Crafts Association’s 2015 Holiday Show and Sale. The show starts on Thursday night and runs through Sunday. Hours are Thursday 7pm – 9pm. Friday and Saturday 10am – 6pm. Sunday noon – 5pm. Hope to see you there!
Holiday Show
Due to all the snow days, school just ended a week and a half ago. I like to make teacher gifts at the end of the school year. This year, I decided to use a new pattern to make something I hadn’t made before. I picked up the book “Zakka Style” last summer, but hadn’t yet made anything from it.
Zakka Style Book
My oldest son just completed fifth grade and is moving up to middle school next year. As part of the fifth grade celebration, all of the fifth graders and their teachers received water bottles. I decided to make water bottle holders from the book.
Zakka Style Water Bottle Holder
The boys helped me pick out the fabric: natural linen, natural cotton, chili pepper and blue paisley accent cotton.
Fabric Cut and Pressed
Zakka style involves a bit of hand embroidery. I used a running stitch around the body of the holder and around the cotton accent rectangles.
Hand embroidered running stitch
I used a fancy machine stitch to accent the straps in the interest of time. The water bottle holders have two straps: long linen and short cotton accent. The straps can be combined to make one long strap, or just the short strap can be used.
Combined long straps
Short straps
The blue accented holder has nice shell buttons which are used to attach the straps.
Blue accented holder with short strap
Blue accented holder with long strap
For the red chili pepper accented holder, I used a metal button.
Red accented holder with short strap
Red accented holder with long strap
I thought both holders turned out very nice, and more importantly, the teachers loved them!
We had a hard winter here in Massachusetts. Over 100 inches of snow that never seemed to melt plus bitter cold days. The kids racked up more than a week of snow days! Between the snow days, ice dams, shoveling, and shivering, I didn’t get much sewing done. I did manage to make some scarves and hipster cross-body bags.
Now, Spring is here, and I have lots of projects in the works. I have seven messenger bags cut out and ready for sewing!
Nuno Felted Scarves
Cross-body hipsters
Once again, I am excited to be a part of the Weston Arts and Crafts Association’s Holiday Show. That’s one of my scarves featured on the postcard! I am busily making more items to add to my show inventory.
The show is in downtown Weston at the Historic Josiah Smith Tavern Barn.
Preview Party: Thursday, December 11, 7pm – 9pm
Show Hours:
Friday, December 12, 10am – 6pm
Saturday, December 13, 10am – 6pm
Sunday, December 14, 12pm – 5pm
Excited to be part of a local show in November. The holiday craft show will feature eight artists with handmade crafts including ceramics, mosaics, jewelry, wood items, greeting cards, fabric bags, woven scarves, soaps, and Guatemalan fair-trade items. The show will be November 22 from 11 am – 4 pm at 111 Riverview Ave., Waltham, MA. The show is hosted by Amy Marks Mosaics.
Holiday Craft Show
See my Facebook event page to get more details or join the event.
See the hosting artist’s site (Amy Marks Mosaics) for more information about the participants.