Customer Project: Invader shirt

Daniel sent us these images of his awesome new Invader shirt, click on the images to go to Daniel's flickr page.

The black accents on the placket, shoulder loops and sleeves add a nice level of interest to the shirt design don't you think. I also love the little section of musical tape under the front placket. The very neat pattern matching of the pockets and shirt front is also to be applauded.

This shirt was made using our Gingham Invaded White on Black print. Available via our online store.

If you need a large amount or would prefer a different basecloth you can purchase it direct from Spoonflower.

Have you made something awesome from one of our fabrics, we'd love to see  it.

- Ky

Customer Project: Geeky Business Shirt

Sorry that we seem to have disappear from the face of the Earth since our return from Japan. In hindsight booking 3 rather large markets in the week and a half after our return wasn't the best of ideas. We have been very tired little bunnies.

Things seem to be a bit more under control now so hopefully you will see us around here a bit more. Today we would like to share another awesome customer project with you all.

Rosemary was kind enough to send us a picture of the business shirt that she made.

She has used our very own Invaded Pinstripe fabric design, the great thing about this fabric is that it looks like a standard stripe until you get in close enough to see that there are actually little space invaders on the fabric. Sneaky Geeky :)

Do you have a project that you used Voodoo Rabbit products for? You can share them with us via email (sales@voodoorabbit.com.au) or our Flickr group.

 - Ky

More Gingham Invaded Geeky Goodness

If you are in need of a geeky fix then look no further than this Space Invader mini messenger bag by Alipink. It features our Gingham Invaded White on Black fabric and has a vinyl coating to make it more durable.


- Ky

Cushion Making Extravaganza

We are both tired little bunnies today, on Friday night we were lucky enough to have our White on Black Gingham Invaded Cushion Cover was featured on two blogs:
Wonderland
Boing Boing

Our weekend became a cushion making extravaganza as we tried to keep up with demand. As a result we are now sold out of White on Black Gingham Invaded and will not be able to get any more for at least 4 weeks.

Never fear we still have the following colour ways still in stock:
Black on White
Red on Black
Red on White
Baby Blue on White
Baby Pink on White

Now back to sewing more cushion covers:)

- Ky

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas

Voodoo Rabbit would also like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us over the last year, you're all awesome:)


Our online stores will remain open over the Christmas/New Year period but shipping will be subject to Australia Posts opening times.

Our Coorparoo Markets Store will be open as follows:

Thursday 30th December, 7.00am - 6.00pm

Friday 31st December, 7.00am - 6.00pm

Saturday 1st January, CLOSED

Sunday 2nd January, CLOSED

Standard trading hours will resume on Thursday 6th January 2011

Thursday, 7.00am - 3.00pm

Friday, 7.00am - 3.00pm

Saturday, 7.00am - 6.00pm

Sunday, 7.00am - 3.00pm

We hope everyone has a great Christmas and New Year.

- Ky and Cloud

Spotlight: Robyn Lee Handmade

I've been meaning to blog about Robyn for the longest time now but have been extremely slack.

Robyn designs and hand makes appliqued cushion covers and has been kind enough to purchase and use some of our original Voodoo Rabbit fabric. Here are some of my favourite designs from her shop (yes I am being biased towards my own fabrics:).

Blue Bot

Pink Bot

Sky Dancing

Mandala Voodoo

She even has really nice swing tags, don't these look just like bought ones.

Christmas Cards, cute but stylish, I think this reindeer looks a little surprised to be featured on a card.

- Ky

My Creative Space

We ordered some more Funky Friends Factory patterns since they are just so cute.  Here is the latest sample and our favourite so far. Introducing Geeky Chook, once he was stuffed we decided that he looked so geeky that he needed a pair of glasses.

Cloud did all of the sewing on this one and made the little glasses, I just sewed up the stuffing hole, and did the hand sewing on his wings and attached the eyes and glasses.

The pattern is called Cheeky Chook by Funky Friends Factory. The fabric used was our very own Gingham Invaded for the body. Red homespun cotton for the comb, giblets and feet. Early Bird Yellow Crosshatch by Cosmo Cricket for the beak.

This is a fairly easy patterns to sew together, probably on a similar level to Stu the Sea Turtle.

We now stock 10 Funky Friends Factory patterns in our Coorparoo Market store, new patterns are Mitch the Monkey, Patty the Cow, Cheeky Chook and Silly scrap snake. Samples of the rest to come;)

In other creative pursuits I have also managed to cut out two dresses for myself, hopefully I will be able to sew them together before the start of the new year.

- Ky

My Creative Space

Last week I made up a couple of cushion covers for a custom order.

The fabrics chosen were Green Echino Glasses by Kokka (pictured above) and Domestic Diva Utensil Damask Red (which I forgot to photograph).

The Echino cotton/linen fabric was such a joy to sew with that I decided that we needed to make more cushions to sell at the Marky Markets last Sunday.

Pink Glasses

Black Glasses

Purple Camera

Blue Camera

Unfortunately none of them sold at the market but they will all be available from our Coorparoo store from tomorrow.

We also made up a heap of 25mm fabric covered badges. We have used a variety of commercial and Voodoo Rabbit original fabrics and have covered the fabric with Matte Heat n Bond Iron-on Vinyl to help stop the fabric warping when it goes through the badge press.

For more creative spaces head over to Kristy's.

- Ky

Halloween Chocolate Making Adventures

Here are the chocolates I made for a Halloween party last weekend.

White chocolate vampire fangs

Milk chocolate skull and crossbones

Milk chocolate space invaders

For anyone interested in making their own chocolate shapes here are some quick instructions.

You will need:
- A double boiler or two bowls (one has to fit inside the other)
- Chocolate (used a white nestles cooking chocolate and Ikea milk chocolate)
- Chocolate colouring for funky colours
- Moulds (either speciality chocolate moulds or silicon ice cube trays)

1. Melt the chocolate using the double boiler. (Hot water in the bottom level and the chocolate in the top. Do not get water in the chocolate or it will go gluggy and gross).

2. If you are using white chocolate, once it is melted you can mix in the colouring.

3. Pour the melted chocolate into the mould.

4. Remove any air bubbles by gently tapping the mould (This is easier with a speciality chocolate mould as they are clear and you can see when there are no more bubbles).

5. Place in the fridge to set.

6. Once set carefully remove the chocolate from the moulds.

7. Eat

Tips:
If you are doing multiple colours (like the vampire fangs) it is a good idea to let each colour set before you add in the next one or they can mix together.

You can find numerous interesting silicon moulds these days. I found the space invaders at a home wares store, the fangs at Borders and the skulls at Mombasa.

-Ky

My Creative Space

We didn't have a market this weekend so I got my creative on! It has been a while. Too long in fact. I bought a the third of the 'Softies' books recently - Simple Softies - which is chock full of patterns for toys that can be made without a sewing machine.

I got the book mainly so I could make the Sampler Kitty. Here's mine:

He has the sweetest little face! This was done with Satin Stitch and Chain Stitch.

To embellish him, I used a scrap of our Gingham Invaded Black on White & handstitched a sampler of different stitches. From the top:

Whipped Whipped Stitch (I think that is what it is called)
Single Feather Stitch
Cross Stitch (to hold down the Gingham Invaded fabric)
Raised Stem Stitch
Arrowhead Stitch
Running Stitch

He was assembled with Whip Stitch.

Kitty sits on my window sill at work and makes me smile during the day. He's so squishable & cute!

Head over to Kirsty's blog to see what other people have been doing this week :)

- Cloud

The Great Shoe Experiment

I have been fascinated by the concept of designing my own pair of shoes on zazzle for a while now. This week the American store had a Labor Day Sale with 30% off shoes so I decided to give it a whirl. Even with shipping costs it was cheaper to buy from America than purchasing from the Australia site (also if you have a separate order for each pair of shoes, shipping is cheaper than combined shipping for multiple pairs).

The first pair are Keds High Top Sneaker based on my Gingham Invaded fabric and they will be for Polymonkey.

I then decided that I needed a pair, so I designed two pairs of Keds Low Top Sneaker, also based on my fabric designs.

Spidery Web Green and

Skull Pinstripe pink. After much redesigning and indecision I ended up purchasing the green spider webs (after Polymonkey said "buy those ones").

Now the only concern is that I got the sizing correct, after a bit of research involving checking shoe labels and measuring feet I came to the conclusion that shoe sizing and conversion are all made up by each manufacturer and there is no international standard (sigh). If you see a couple of pairs of shoes turn up for sale on our etsy page in a few weeks, you'll know why.

-Ky

My Creative Space

We are still busy preparing for the Marky Markets which we will be attending this Sunday 15th August at the Hi-Fi bar in West End.

I  made a fabric rossette for the Skull Pinstripe tote bag from last week, I'm happy to say that it jazzes up the bag just enough.

A sneaky peek at the two Lolita half aprons that I made. They use the same pattern as the Bunny Goth Apron. I have made one using my Pink Pinstripe Skull fabric and the other using Circus At Night by Cosmo Textiles. Both of these aprons will be for sale on Sunday as will the pattern,  unfortunately we haven't received the Bunny Goth Apron Fabric yet. It has shipped and we should have it by the end of next week just in time for the Valley Laneway Markets :)

What have you been  up to in your Creative Space this week? For more spaces head over to Kirsty's.

Ky

My Creative Space

This week I have been working hard on finishing off a design for an upcoming Spoonflower Fabric of the Week submission.

It is a pattern for a sewn apron that fits onto a single yard of fabric and must include instructions. I have the apron design complete, now I just have to finish off the instructions.

Finished items this week include more bunnies from Cloud...

...and a manbag, hopefully this one will be metsy approved.

For more creative spaces head over to Kootoyoo.

Ky

Voodoo Rabbit fabric on Boing Boing

Our Gingham Invaded fabric has been featured in a Spoonflower writeup on Boing Boing, I think this means that we have made it in the geek world:)
Read the article here.

Voodoo Rabbit Stitches

We have started stocking our new Etsy shop, Voodoo Rabbit Stitches. This store will only feature goods handmade by me and Cloud.

Crazy toys by Cloud (yep this is the only one so far but I will crack the whip on the weekend and get her to make some more)

Tote Bags featuring Voodoo Rabbit Original Fabric designs

Homewares - featuring both commercial fabrics from our fabric store as well as Original Voodoo Rabbit fabrics.

We will continue to add new items as they are created and eventually any handmade items currently listed at Voodoo Rabbit will be moved over to Voodoo Rabbit Stitches.

Ky

My Creative Space

Here's a peek at my Creative Space (I've been following this blogger meme for a while now over at kootooyo and thought it was about time that I joined in).

Now that I am a full time Voodoo Rabbit, I've been concentrating on making more handmade items to sell in our Etsy store and at the upcoming Kustom Kraft markets.

I have been busy cutting out panels and sewing zippers to make new cushion cover designs. The first batch are made with my Gingham Invaded fabric collection that I have had digitally printed at Spoonflower. You can see some swatches of some other fabrics I am working on in the background.

While I am upstairs doing this, I am also baking up a batch of beads that Cloud & I made at a polymer clay workshop we attended last Wednesday night. Here they are fresh out of the oven:

Ky

Gingham Invaded & The Tech Lover's Gift Guide on Etsy

Last Friday we were lucky enough to have our Gingham Invaded Space Invader Cushion Covers included in Etsy's Tech Lover's Holiday Gift Guide!

The spot was short lived (less than 24 hours) because we had somebody buy all three of the listed cushions in one transaction. We relisted, I tweeted the listing and then Etsy tweeted a link to our relisted cushions!

To top it off... Etsy then put them up on their Facebook Fan Page!

We've had over 1,000 views and 21 hearts on the relisting since Etsy tweeted and put it Facebook.

All I can say (other than "Thanks, Etsy!") is WOW!

Don't forget that you can win one of our Black & White Space Invader Cushion Covers over at the Little Waltz blog - entries close 14th December!

Our first giveaway!

The lovely Celeste at Little Waltz has featured Ky & I as part of her "Waltzing through with Talent" series. To celebrate, we've offered up one of our Pixelated Patchwork Cushion Covers for a giveaway!

To read the interview and to enter the competition, click here.