My Creative Space

This week we have been transforming boring colourless buttons into new and awesome ones by dying them. They look so pretty, just like lollies, mmm lollies....

We will have packets of dyed buttons available at the BiTM tomorrow night in King George Square, we hope to see you there:)

For more creative spaces head over to Kootoyoo.

- Ky

Valley Laneway Markets - Sunday 3rd October

This Sunday we will be attending the Valley Laneway Markets. We will have all of our sale fabric including remnants and ends of bolts. We will also have fat quarters of the rest of our fabrics, fabric panels, buttons and a few handmade items.

When: Sunday 9rd October 2010
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Where: Bakery Lane, Fortitude Valley. You can find us in Bakery Lane on the paved area behind the Dr Martin Shop (see map below).

- Ky and Cloud

Treasury Tuesday

We are in two new treasuries this week. Click on the image to go to the treasury page on Etsy or click on the curators name to check out their shop. Thank you to everyone who has included us in their treasuries.

First up our Original Design Spidery Web Orange Fabric has been included in a happy halloween treasury, we really wish Halloween was a bigger event in Australia is would be so cool.

Curated by fellow team bacon member kokosboutique , make sure you pop by her store to check out her one of a kind hair clips.

Next is a treasury that I would not expect Voodoo Rabbit to have been picked for but it is still very cool to be included. Our Laced Metal and Black Faux Leather Buttons have been included in a football treasury, I guess the lacing on the buttons does look a lot like a football.

Curated by MollysMuses, pop by her store to see her lovely collection of original and vintage photographic prints.

 

- Ky and Cloud

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My Creative Space

New Spoonflower fabric swatches to show off this week, I haven't come up with a final name for the range yet so I would love any suggestions. Some or all of these designs will be available for purchase from the Spoonflower marketplace in the next day or so.

This bunny design is based on a quick doodle that Cloud made when she was designing her felt bunny badges. He was so cute that I though he would be perfect to turn into a fabric design.

We made up this design especially so we could make self covered buttons.

For more Creative Spaces head over to Kootoyoo.

-Ky

My Creative Space

Preparations for the Kustom Kraft market on Sunday are in full swing and we have been very busy little rabbits. Cloud has been making use of some of my Spoonflower swatches to create these awesome buttons.

We got a rubber stamp made up so that we can stamp our paper bags with our details. Unfortunately we had to remove the rabbit from the logo as he probably wouldn't have shown up very well in just one colour. Still looks pretty awesome though!

I've been playing around with making some rabbit shaped price tags. I have a large computer controlled cutting machine that I have been playing with to create these.

And because you can never have too many projects on the go at once, here is a work in progress shot of the top I am making to wear on Sunday to the market. It features my Skull pinstripe fabric printed at Spoonflower. It still requires the arm holes and sides to be bound and then about a gazillion eyelets will be inserted along each side seam so that the sides can be laced up. Last but not least some buttons need to be sewn down the front.

Don't forget to check out Kirsty's blog for some more creative spaces.

Ky

Sneaky Peeky

Ky has ordered quality control samples of the new colours for her spiderweb fabric on Spoonflower - it should be available for sale early December! In the meantime, here's a sneaky peeky look at some of the other new fabrics coming into stock before Christmas for listing in our Etsy store.

There's new buttons on order too - including steampunk inspired compasses, more of our popular brass riveted buttons, mini-skulls and  anchors.

Kustom Krafts - 08.11.09

I know it's a little late, but here are some pictures from our first market, Kustom Krafts.

So much stuff for one little market stall! Good thing my car has a big boot - there's three tables in there plus all our stock.

We set up in an L shape - below is the back table which had all our fabric bolts and our cushion covers. The sign on the wall looks a little bit too temporary for me - I'd really like a professional banner done but I think that will require some saving up. It's more important to spend our money on new stock!

On the left side, in the corner we had a small table with our cutting mat. The last side of the L shape was a table with our precut fat quarters, vintage fabrics and our button board. I did take photos of the whole stall but they came out blurry - maybe I was shaking with excitement / anticipation?

We made a board to display our buttons and badges on by covering MDF with foam and then stapling some velvet panne (leftovers from Ky's sewing) over the top. We put a little hinged stand on the back so it wouldn't fall over.

The button board was in front of the open window - it would have been better on the other table because it was hard to see the buttons (especially in the afternoon) because they were in shadow. It's little things that can make a big difference I think.

Ky & I spent a fair amount of time sewing our little buttons onto their cards but I think they look really cute packaged up that way - a lot nicer than just grabbing them out of the tube and putting them into a plastic bag!

We also designed and made aprons for the stall - we worked out how big change bags were for the pocket divisions, had a pocket for our rotary cutter & i-phones, and a super secret pocket behind the front one for putting our notes into. Here's Ky in hers...

The fabric for the front pocket is 'Fifties Kitchen' and it was one of our most popular fabrics that day. We used our red cotton heading tape for the strings.

And of course, we can't forget the cars! I love the red & white one best...

We didn't make a lot of money or sales on the day - the market venue was changed from the last time so maybe people couldn't find it? We did get a great practice run for our stall setup, we met some really lovely people and we were given lots of feedback about what we should stock more of.

The next Kustom Krafts market is tentatively scheduled to happen in January, 2010 and we'll be there again.

Let us know if you have any suggestions about how we can improve our stall by leaving a comment :D

Gosu Rori Jacket - Finished

I finally managed to finish my gosu rori jacket. This is possibly one of the most complex sewing projects that I have undertaken and I must say that I am quite pleased with the results. I think that the finished item looks awesome and the fit is pretty good as well. I actually finished the jacket and then decided that it was too big around the bust so I took it in another 2cm on each side. Luckily the lining is not attached at the bottom and I had fairly easy access to the side and sleeve seams.

On the front there are 7 x 15mm Skull and Bone buttons with another 3 on each sleeve.

The back is by far more interesting than the front of the jacket. It has been laced with velvet ribbon and I have used 2 x Skull and Bones 22mm metal buttons on the back waistband.

What I have learnt is:

if you think it is too big when you are constructing the garment there is a good chance that you are right and perhaps this is a better time to re size it than when you have finished.

• make sure that the sleeves are the right way around before you sew them in, unpicking black cotton from black fabric is quite difficult.
• always use pinking shears on lining fabric to stop the fraying.
• read the instructions as you go so that you don't have to unpick the back seam, waistband seams and top stitching to add the loops for the lacing.

It's almost summer here in Brisbane (31 degrees Celsius today) so I won't get to wear this jacket until February next year when I head to Japan with Cloud. It will be the end of winter in Japan then so this jacket will be perfect!

We've been featured in a Treasury!

Some more Etsy Treasury love for Voodoo Rabbit.

Thank you Vicki at Redeem Designs (a fellow DUST member) for featuring our buttons!

We have stock up on Etsy!

The first lot of buttons and fabric has arrived! We have uploaded a heap of stock to our Etsy store including some Alexander Henry, Wilmington Prints and Michael Miller fabric.

Also on Etsy is some vintage fabric that Ky and I hunted and gathered from around Brisbane. I love this one:



I think it's from around 1950's and I really like the green flowers / fruit. Some of them look like pomegranites. The brand "Creesrist" is printed on the selvedge and the only reference to it we can find on the web is an old advertisement from The Canberra Times, 20 May, 1949.

The Logo has Landed

Ky has finished the logo! Now the fun design stuff really begins.

Work has begun on a new fabric - designed especially for Ky's favourite sleek geek polymonkey. Can't wait to see it!

Next Wednesday Ky & I will be seeing a man about some fabric - lots of cherry designs, skull patterns, black, red & retro.We may have also found a button supplier (I'm super excited over this news - I LOVE buttons).

It is amazing the stock options being made that the main stores just don't run with. I may finally be able to make the black coat with the cherry patterned lining I've always wanted...