Sewjobs!

Earrings everywhere

I've got nuts making earrings this week! I've got way too many pairs hanging around the workshop, so go buy some and help me out!

Simple Flower Bag

A little bigger than the typical handbag but twice as cute and flirty.

Simple Blossom Bag

It's almost springtime! That means it's almost time for you to get a new simple bag to toss over your shoulder for that walk to the park. Go get em!

Once more, with feeling...

I'm dusting off ye olde Sewjobs.com and starting to get back into selling stuff, but for reals this time. No more extravagant custom work, no more wholesaling, no more people who said they didn't get their order but dude, I have a tracking number and yes you did stop lying. Ahem. Anyway.

A big thanks to the awesome Joshua Blankenship for the kick in the ass that is my new header, and to Willo who linked to this site and made me panic in embarrassment when people started coming here. So we're full steam ahead into the new world. Thanks for coming along.

Closeup of Custom Tree Bag

The funny story behind this bag is that I came up with the idea in a dream, which sounds embarrassingly cliche. My dear friend Willo O'Brien had been asking me for a new bag for A YEAR ever since the one I made her back in 2004 had started to tear a bit at the handle. It tore and tore and she kept using it and I kept promising to make her a new one but it just never happened.

I woke up in the middle of the night a couple weeks ago and had this little image in my head of a tree with birds and a few leaves, but I couldn't figure out how to make the brown felt stand out from the brown corduroy. So I embossed it, and it looks surprisingly like actual bark, and I had the bag stitched and finished in half and hour.

Thanks for being so patient, Willo! (And for the photo, too.)

Custom Tree Bag

Brown corduroy with machine stitched hand embossed felt.

For my dear friend Willo O'Brien. (She took the photo, too.)

Redwork Quilt Back

Four panel solid back with calico edging.

Redwork Quilt #2

Antique redword and replica calico patch quilt.   

Redwork Quilt #1

Vintage fabric and replica calico patch quilt.

Hand embossed felt

Wool felt embossed with a hot branding iron and machine stitched on denim.