Maybe you could make these? I found these sweet Liberty print hair slides over in the Selvedge shop. A bit of interfacing, some Liberty fabric, stiffening spray? Made by Tout Silo, who also has a lovely blog and shop. I’m a sucker for anything with Liberty of London prints. And look how sweet they are in a child’s hair:
Check out my post over at Alpha Mom for super easy instructions on how to make this Mardi Gras necklace with your kids.
Getting ready for a FABRIC giveaway tomorrow, but thought I’d give you an update about some fun giveaways and contests around the web:
Fat Quarter February at Sew, Mama, Sew: Featuring a new fat quarter project daily all this month. And leave a comment this week to win a stack of six fat quarters! Now that’s phat. (Sorry. I couldn’t resist.)
Threadbanger and CraftyChica: Enter to win a special Crafty Chica-inspired sewing machine, Crafty Chica’s new book, and 30 jars of glitter. Please don’t let my kids near that glitter!
Toronto Craft Alert: The Crafty Slackers Get Er Done Giveaway — Finish that project you’ve been procrastinating and enter to win over $700 in handmade goodies.
Melissa Averinos, creator of the Sugar Snap fabric line for Free Spirit, is giving up some of her new fabric (and others) in celebration of her two-year blog anniversary. Open until Friday, February 20.
More Japanese fabric. I’ve had this Echino fabric for months now and although it was originally intended for another project, I made my daughter a new placemat for school. I made some of these for her last year and posted the tutorial, but this time she insisted on having adult-sized mats since that’s what all the other kids have. Yes, we’ve entered that territory.
Oh, and I wanted to mention that Bee Square Fabrics is having a promotion this month for 25% off the Echino fabrics with coupon code FebSale_Echino25 to be entered during checkout.
I have a bit of an obsession with Japanese things. Like everyone, we’ve been trying to save money around here but I couldn’t resist this fabric from Superbuzzy. It’s for sundresses that I think the girls will wear all summer, so I wanted similar but not matching fabrics that I could stand to look at often. These are from one of my all-time favorite fabric collections, Lecien’s My Folklore. More and more shops are carrying Japanese fabrics, including the popular Kokka and Echino by Etsuko Furuya.
Here are some shops that specialize in Japanese fabric and craft supplies:
Fabricworm: lots of Japanese fabric, plus other designer fabrics.
From Japan with Love: Etsy shop with a huge selection of stickers, stamps, fabric and notions. They also have a yahoo shop here with even more stuff.
good-ness: Etsy shop featuring books, fabric, stamps, gocco supplies, etc.
Karaku: Etsy shop with fabric, stamps and paper goods.
Kitty-Craft: books, fabric, supplies.
Matatabi: Etsy shop with fabric and twill tape.
nuno plus: fabric, bags, craft supplies.
Pomadour’s Craft Cafe: fabric, books, other Japanese stuff.
Superbuzzy: fabric, notions, supplies, etc.
Plus Reprodepot Fabrics, J. Caroline Creative, Purl and Bee Square Fabrics have a large selection of Japanese fabric, among others.
