Mechanical Genius revealed!

I am so excited to finally get to share this! It has been a long time coming and now that it is here, I am just thrilled! I have a now 12 year old son. He likes to sew and I love to sew for him but the older he gets, the harder it is to find age apropriate prints that he likes and is excited about. I started thinking about the things he likes and the things we like to do together. Then I sat down with him and he sketched me some robots and we talked about colors and then I went to work.

This collection is all inspired by him. He has been on a Robotics team for a couple of years that I helped out with. He loves math and science so I included a stripe based on Fibonacci's number. We spend a good amount of time (a very good amount of time!) playing with legos around here so I did a print inspired by those. When it was all designed I asked him what it should be called and he suggested Mechanical Genius so that is how the name came about.

I consulted with him along the way and I think this is a great group of prints that will work well for lots of boys- toddlers, older boys and even Dads. I can't wait to make him a pair of pajamas out of the Fibonacci stripe and a fussy cut robot patch pocket.

I am designing a quilt pattern for these as well. My husband will likely get a laptop bag lined in the blue circuit boards. He works in tech- maybe I should make him a collared shirt out of that print too!

Working with Timeless Treasures has been a dream and they did such a great job with these. The colors are so beautiful and they got all the tiny details I wanted.

I love that group above. Can't wait to fussy cut those robots!

Thanks for scrolling all the way down! I hope you love this collection as much as I do. There will be samples of this in the booth at Market this fall and the collection should be in stores by early 2012 though some stores may have it in December. As soon as I know where you can find it I will put a list up on the side bar. The people at Timeless Treasures will have a good idea who will have this in December by early December so feel free to contact them if you have a boy on your holiday list who needs a quilt made out of this.

It's almost the holidays!

A few (or four or five? Don't really remember when!) years ago I started making these little stockings for an advent calendar. I thought I would make 24 and we could hang one up each day and put little notes to each other or tiny candy canes in them. I got all the way up to 11 and then stopped. I figured that I should do one more and we could have the 12 days of Christmas but that never happened either! The thing is they are small and fun to make but I just haven't made the time. I am publicly declaring that these will be finished and used for the holiday season this year!!
Come back on Monday and I will have photos of my newest line! I am so excited to share them but I have to take some photos first. I will give you a hint though- I consulted with my 12 year old son on this one...

Monday!

I am finally feeling settled into our school time groove. This is the third week of school and I think the kids are finally into the groove as well and I think the dog has finally accepted it that he is stuck with me all day now. The first few days he wandered around the house looking for them.
I have been working on several different projects and hope to have something to show very soon! I got my strike offs for my next line and am thrilled with how they turned out. I don't have the go ahead to share yet but soon I hope! I have had this quilt up on the board for a looooong time now and I think I am actually going to sew it together in the next few days. I also have a Project Linus quilt to stitch up out of the same fabrics. The weather cooling just makes me want to curl up and stitch binding!
I was looking through old photos this morning and I found this cupcake photo from my daughter's 7th birthday. I love these cupcakes! So totally cute.
What are you working on?