New Kokka Echino Prints on the way!

I wanted to do a quick post to feature a few new Kokka Echino fabrics.  These fabrics have been some of my most popular choices for wet bags, hanging laundry bags and cloth diapering items.  So without further adieu, here they are....

This one is called Cars and it has a natural cute little car on a navy background.  It is a cotton canvas, so it will make a nice heavy duty wet bag or hanging laundry bag.  Look for it soon in my shop

This one is my favorite because it is elephants!  Lime and purple elephants romping around on a natural background.
lightweight cotton oxford canvas, will also make great bags.

Songbirds are a favorite recurring theme in Etsuko Furuya's designs.  The teal and purple/pink flowers and brown and lime birds are so beautiful.  This is a great linen cotton blend fabric.  This one is also already in my shop with a brown background and orange flowers.

I have also ordered the premier prints zigzag in some other colors.  This bag has been very popular in my shop, so I have decided to add a few more colors.  This fabric is available in several color patterns, so please feel free to convo me through my etsy shop or comment below if you are looking for any other colors.

The colors I have ordered are

RED and WHITE

and LIME and WHITE

These zig zag pattern chevron prints are really beautiful and add such a nice touch to any nursery room

Project 52 Red February Pictures

Here are my project 52 pictures for February.  I decided I didn't have time to post a picture a week, so I am doing project 12 :) and posting one a month, the February assignment is of course RED.  Not too much red to be found in the middle of winter, I went looking for a nice plump pretty cardinal, but alas I could not find one. Here is what I came up with...Enjoy.

DIY Fabric Leaves

I recently had to make 50 or 60 of these for a wedding we designed.  I thought it would be fun to post some photos and how to's of the project, as these leaves can be a really neat accent decoration around the house, for a party or, as we used them, for a wedding.

I used three to four layers of coordinating fabric per leaf.  The first thing I did is cut them all out!  I drew a simple leaf shape pattern and cut multiple layers of the same fabric, that way they weren't all perfect.

After cutting the leaves out, I used brown thread and my free style quilting foot on my machine.  I think you could get the same effect if you disabled your feed dog and used a regular sewing foot, but I haven't tried this.

I just free style sewed leaf veins up and around each leaf.

I chain sewed them to save time, but when I finished them all I thought that would also make a fun garland, all the leaves strung together.

Sewn leaves draped as a garland before cutting.

 

close up of the sewn leaves

After sewing the leaf veins in all the leaves I cut them apart!

After cutting them apart, I took some small gauge floral wire and cut it into about 8" long pieces.  I inserted wire in the bottom end of each leaf and folded it over and twisted it together.  After twisting the wire loosely together I wrapped each wire in brown floral tape.  You could obviously use green depending on where you were using the leaves and what color scheme you had in mind.

That is pretty much it.  We wrapped the wire stems around tree branches
to give the feel of a few fall leaves remaining on the trees.  I also used them for all the boutineer and corsage bases.  With the red flowers they were very striking.

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