FINISHED! Minecraft Halloween Costumes

Here are the kiddos, all decked out and ready to go Trick-Or-Treating!

They were so thrilled with their costumes. The fabric I designed matched the purchased heads really well, and I'm happy to have comfortable costumes they can wear again and again; my kiddos love playing dress-up!

Minecraft Halloween Costumes

Trying on their Minecraft Halloween costumes. 
I made the fabric at Spoonflower, had it printed, cut out and sewed the patterns today, and bought the heads through jinx at Amazon! Pretty happy with how they're turning out and the kids are ecstatic!
 

Spoonflower Fabric Top 100 Hot Sellers List!

Today one of my fabrics made the Spoonflower Top 100 Hot Sellers List! I'm so excited. It's my Yellow Brick Road design (one of my personal favorites).

Their website says, "Hot Sellers is comprised of Marketplace purchases. These are designs that are flying off our printers as you view them! It's a great way to see what Marketplace shoppers are purchasing."

A screenshot:

In other news, if you haven't yet had a chance, please take a minute to vote for my Minecraft Creeper Costume in the 1-yard contest. Voting ends tomorrow. Thanks so much!

Click here to vote on your favorite costume fabrics (picture shown is my entry!)

Halloween Costume Fabric Contest on Spoonflower!

We've entered another fabric contest and would love your vote!

Click here to vote on your favorite costume fabrics (picture shown is my entry!)

This contest is to design a costume pattern that fits on 1 yard of fabric. My boys are obsessed with the game "Minecraft" and begged to be "Minecraft Steve" and a "Creeper" for Halloween. The cardboard heads are easy enough, but I haven't been able to find actual pixel fabric anywhere. Hooray for being able to design my own fabric!

I measured my boys and decided to make jumpsuits for each of them. Then I designed the fabric to match their respective characters. And since their little sister loves to be like them, I thought she'd enjoy a complete Creeper costume of her own. I love how it turned out! I squeezed every last bit of design I could onto a yard of Spoonflower's new Performance Knit fabric and I can't wait to get it and sew it up.

The above picture is the fabric/pattern design for her. It includes a: green pixel creeper jumpsuit front, back, neck binding, and sleeves, creeper mask/hat, black pixel shoe covers, TNT trick-or-treat bag with a black pixel strap, sew-in labels, instructions and a picture diagram (to show how to sew it all together), and a little creeper plushie with his own mini TNT trick-or-treat bag!!!

The following picture (not in the contest) is for my son's Halloween costumes. It includes the front of the jumpsuits, neck binding, and sleeve fronts for "Minecraft Steve" and a green "Creeper", brown pixel toolbelt for Steve, black pixel shoe covers for both costumes, sew-in labels, and mini plushies of "Minecraft Steve", a "Creeper", pickaxe, and TNT. All of those fit on a yard of the knit fabric as well. For the jumpsuit backs I plan to use a solid-colored knit.

I've ordered my fabrics and am trying to wait patiently till they arrive. :) I'll post pics and a photo tutorial as soon as they come!

Note: my fabric designs are not official Minecraft fabrics. I am not affiliated with Minecraft or Mojang. I just made a few designs for my kiddos for fun. :) If you'd like to know more about Minecraft, here's the link to their site: https://minecraft.net/

Minecraft Inspired Collage/Ready-Made Quilt Fabric

I'm having such a fun time designing these 8-bit pixel fabrics! Tonight I finished up a cut-and-sew (aka "cheater") quilt, with input from my local Minecraft experts (my boys). I think it will make for an awesome Christmas present!

Clik here for to my Spoonflower shop :) 

Note: my fabric designs are not official Minecraft fabrics. I am not affiliated with Minecraft or Mojang. I just made a few designs for our family fun. :) If you'd like to know more about Minecraft, here's the link to their site: https://minecraft.net/

And We're Back!

What we've been up to since my last post:

 - September: pregnant with our 4th child (yay!); quite sick with all-day "morning" sickness (boo)

 - December: finally feeling better. Christmas vacation with the whole family to California!

 - Jan-May: preparing for our baby's birth

 - Springtime: enjoying our new baby; last days of school

 - Summertime: vacation to Maine! And a ton of work (and fun) singing with my sisters, creating music videos, and getting our singing group "GaleSong" going again.

Check out our pics and happenings here: 

http://galesong.blogspot.com/

Etsy Banner Package for "Melissa Kittle's Knits for Littles"

I've loved working with Melissa of "Melissa Kittle's Knits for Littles". (Also love the awesome name of her shop!) Melissa emailed me a scan of her business card and her logo and asked for a banner of similar design.

I think these fit the bill perfectly. :)

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JoyfulRose Cupcakes and Swirls Pattern Collection

I'm so excited to introduce our newest fabric!

Presenting: "JoyfulRose Cupcakes and Swirls Fabric Collection".

Now available at our: JoyfulRose Shop on Spoonflower

All of the designs are color-coordinated for perfect mixing and matching. You may purchase them individually or as a special 1-yard grouped fabric that is arranged perfectly to fit our "First Birthday Pinafore and Pants Pattern" (coming soon).

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Etsy Design for Beat's Boutique, Part II

Kristin loved the designs and wanted her favorite elements combined into one. I love how this is turning out! Click image to view larger:

Etsy Design for Beat's Boutique

Very excited to be working with Kristin! She was looking for something with cartoon-ish butterflies and ladybugs, vines/leaves, and her shop name in a fun, fancy, playful font.

Here are a couple different samples! Click images to view larger:

Hyena Cart Design for "K&A Designs", Part III

Here's a screenshot of Stormy's finished design!

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Hyena Cart Design for "K&A Designs", Part II

Stormy chose the second background (with the circles) and wanted a more "cute" font for her header. Here are a few different ideas. The first is the original for comparison.

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Hyena Cart Design for "K&A Designs"

I'm so excited to be working with Stormy of K&A Designs!

She was looking for a jungle-animal-themed shop with "safari animals- monkeys, elephants, giraffes, birds, cutesy cartoon-ey animals. neutral colors- yellow, green, orange, brown".

We found a darling graphics set and I've designed her shop around the monkey and the color palette from the animals.

Here are a couple of slightly different mock-ups. Colors, animals, placement, etc., can all be changed until they're perfect! Click image to view larger:

Blog Customization for "Project Nightlock"

A huge thank you to my sweet sister for babysitting my kiddos!

She's having an awesome Hunger Games-themed party so I customized a blog where she can post rules, announcements, info, and etc. for her friends. :)

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Sneak Peak at our new Fabric Design and Pinafore Pattern!

I've been hard at work designing the perfect fabric (printed through Spoonflower, of course!) and pattern for baby girl's 1st Birthday outfit. Here's a sneak peak!

Fabric is available at Spoonflower. I'll be asking for pattern testers soon!

Free Summertime Logo for "Steep the Senses"

Mel sent me some images for her animated banner and I loved this one of the iced tea! I thought it would be a really sweet summertime logo.

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Animated Banner for "Steep the Senses" - Summertime!

Here's Mel's new animated banner to welcome summer!

Animated Banner for "Healing Gems"

Here's Darice's new banner!

Animated Banner for "Fair Trade Family"

Beautiful new banner for Tiffany's shop:

"Auricular Adornments" is now at Creative Mamas!

We're excited to welcome "Auricular Adornments" to the Creative Mamas Congo!