Winner! Winner! Winner!!!!

Oh gosh you are all so precious! After reading all your comments I wanted to buy 45 copies of the book and just send you each your very own! Well reason took over and I used a random number generator and came up with the number 33. Cyndi Lewis! YOU are the winner!!! Shoot me your address via email and I will send it on to the appropriate person at Wiley! Woo hooo girl!!!!

 

Well I have to put in one more plug for Patty. Actually if you like her work as much as I do make sure you check back here, I have more fabric and more of her patterns to sew up!  So this outfit I made using her newest line Lush, campan knit stripe, knit jersey from Hobby Lobby and lots of Riley Blake trims that you can find at Granma's Treasures.

I cannot find any more of this Hilco campan stripe in this particular color but Corie at Banberry Place has a good Hilco pink and white campan stripes that goes well with Lush. And well she has a LOOOOT of pretty domestic knits that you really need to check out anyway. I mean REALLY you need to. She just got back from a big fabric shopping venture and she has a GIANT shipment coming to her by the end of the week or so and she already has a GIANT collection!!! Don't miss out!

OH and the patterns! The top is actually a skirt. I made Patty's Maddie skirt/dress recently(see earlier blog post, it's right before the giveaway post) and loved the concept so I took Patty's FREE skirt pattern from Sew Mama Sew blog and used the bodice/ skirt band and strap instructions from the Maddie pattern to come up with this fun top! She will wear it with a shrug or something if she wants to wear it out but I wanted you to see it fully. The pants are Portabellopixie ruffle pants. I went down two sizes on the width but not the length so they would not be too baggy. 


Don't forget visit these blogs for more chances to win!!!

Monday, April 30: Prudent Baby
Wed., May 2: Our Busy Little Bunch
Friday, May 4: Fat Quarterly
Monday, May 7: Making It Fun
Wed., May 9: MODKID blog

GIVEAWAY TODAY!!!!!

Woo hoo!!! It's my turn on the virtual book tour to give away a copy of  Patty Young's new book, sewing modkid style, Modern Threads for the Cool Girl. Don't you love that title!? So sassy and fun just like cutie Patty! Love that girl! This book features the cayootest 20 knit fabric projects that live up to their book title namesake. Something for the girly girl and the active girl and everything in between girl including tweens!  Patty draws her inspiration from her daughters who happen to have different style senses and isn't that wonderful for us!? She really  gets our girls and their different style interests and  creates the cutest modern patterns for us to enjoy! Have you sewn from her individual patterns? If you haven't you need to because they are so darling and easy to follow.  I started out learning to sew clothing off her patterns, but that's another post!

If you have been wanting to start sewing with knits but don't know where to start,  I highly encourage you to buy this book. I had wanted to sew with knits for quite some time and once Patty came out with her first line of knits I became a googling maniac trying to learn about different types of knits, how to sew the seam etc. Thankfully I had several friends to help me as well. How I wish this book had been around when I started because Patty covers so many of the basic questions I had in the beginning. Would have saved me so much time! Her book is a good springboard in to sewing with knits. The projects are so quick, simple and of course cute, you will be coming back to these patterns time and time again.

Here are the projects I sewed from her book over our Spring Break.

This is the Tie Strap Halter with the Bubble Skirt. I used a campan knit for the lining on the halter. This was my first try at sewing with ruffle fabric. You have to make sure you pin the ruffles facing downward otherwise when you sew up the seams you might accidentally sew the ruffle flipped up. The skirt has a elastic waist band. It has a swishiness my daughter found so fun. It's the ultimate girly knit skirt.

 I also made Leggings from the book using the ruffle fabric. My daughter HAD to pair the ruffled pieces together. Quite the ruffle fest if you ask me! I made the leggings to go under little skirts and such. The only modification I would make with ruffle fabric leggings is to make a separate waistband out of a thin knit or even a woven and attach it to the top of the leggings. You will achieve a much cleaner looking waistband. The pattern in the book is for typical knit/stretch type fabrics. I just had to be difficult and use ruffle fabric! =D

This is the Tie Strap Halter and the A-Line Gored Skirt. I think I could make a hundred different versions of these! The skirt is a great project for using up scraps of knits, many of those pieces are scraps that I had to dig out of every nook and cranny of her playroom. She caught me on the last scrap and I had to put it back, her baby was getting cold...

Finally here are the Yoga Pants. So soft and comfy. I would love to have my own pair! In that fabric! She has the cutest quilt in the book using this knit as well as it's coordinates. You need to go on the knit hunt, you are going to want to make that quilt!

So if you don't win the book, oh SOB!, don't dilly dally and make sure you BUY Patty's book. You can purchase it on Amazon.com for a great price. Don't forget to leave a review of her book on Amazon!

Make sure you keep following the blog hop and visit these wonderful websites for additional chances to win!
Monday, April 30: Prudent Baby
Wed., May 2: Our Busy Little Bunch
Friday, May 4: Fat Quarterly
Monday, May 7: Making It Fun
Wed., May 9: MODKID blog


To enter to win a copy of sewing modkid style from Wiley,  just leave a comment below by Sunday, April 29 at midnight eastern . This giveaway is open to residents of U.S. and Canada only.

Giveaway on Friday!!!

I have the honor of being on Patty Young's Sewing MODKID Style blog hop.Gasp! How did that happen? I love it! Happy to share my excitement over her book, her patterns and just who she is! She is just the cutest. I love her and if you have followed my blog for a good while you know I have sewn from a LOT of her patterns and dabbled in her knit and her woven fabrics. Patty has a modern style that speaks to me and my daughter.

I have had her book for a while now. I have sewn from it and have been a simmering pot on the verge of bubbling over with my excitement over this book. So mark your calendar, I will be hosting a giveaway of her book this Friday and sharing what I created from the patterns. Woo hoo!

The skirt my daughter is wearing above is not from the book but IS Patty's pattern. It's her Maddie pattern. 

Isn't it a cute design? There are actually several silhouettes to choose from. And look at this, when you take your daughter to Spaghetti Warehouse and she spills her spaghetti down the front of her shirt...

...whip out the suspenders you packed in your purse for just a moment like this (Patty teaches you how to make them at the back of the pattern), flip up the folded over yoga waist band, attach the suspenders and voila! You have a clean girl in a clean dress! My daughter likes the dress version. She had to add the pom pom trim necklace. I have a feeling we are going to have some 'whoops I spilled on my shirt Mommy' accidents over this one. Hahaha!

She could not wait to wear it to school and really wanted to wear the dress version so we paired it with a sweater and a jacket. She wears her little shrug sweaters all the time. She has several of them and loves them. 

 

 

Forgive the mismatching shoes. Here silver sparkly Tom's are completely ruined so she's been wearing her mary jane's to school instead. 

The woven fabrics are Dolly Dresses and Pam Kitty Morning from Marie Madeline Studio. The knit is the much coveted Hilco campan that you can find at Dot's n' Stripes in the UK. The elastic came from Fabric Hound.

If you live in the Texas Hill Country you can go to Quilt Haus and pick up the pattern. I made a sample of this skirt for the shop in Patty Young's Lush. How I wish I had a model picture for the skirt. But as you can see from the fit, it is super cute on. 

I LOVE Patty's new fabric line Lush! Bright happy colors, if you like brights like me you will love it. The gals there can hook you up. 

I have another outfit almost finished featuring Lush, I cannot wait to share it with you. Stay tuned more sewing reveals and the giveaway is this Friday!

Craftsy has Lucy!

The pattern is available here at Craftsy! Grab the pattern and sew one up for the weekend trip to the beach! Make sure you post your pictures in SisBoom Sightings in flickr.

Lucy Loo!

The new Sis Boom Lucy pattern  is coming soon! It can be a top or a maxi dress, you pick the length. Made for having brunch by your neighbor's pool(my neighbor makes the BEST salmon spread!) while the kids are at school or toss it over your swimsuit after a refreshing swim(or if you are me boogie board adventure) in the ocean. Wear it alone or with a tank, cute cap sleeve tee, shrug, or sweater. This is a versatile pattern that can be made and worn for so many different occasions.


As for fit YOU control the top. It doesn't control you. You pick your dress size AND top size and coverage right down to the letter(s) on your bra. No kidding. You cannot get any more tailored made for you in a pattern than this one. Wardrobe malfunction days are GONE for this style girls! Don't ever buy one off the rack again, buy the pattern and make this one instead. It will be a much better fit with better coverage that doesn't leave you the conversation piece of the brunch. If they were handing out fit awards for patterns, Carla would be the recipient for this one. Great fit work Carla!

 

 

Need the little girl's version? Girl's World by Jennifer Paganelli. Find it in Hobby Lobby or on Amazon.com.

 

 Oh but even better, buy a copy of Girl's World from Martha Pullen online and Jennifer will send you a yard of Girl's World Vibe. How's that for a deal??? Girl's World Vibe is seen above in my modified version of the Girl's World dress. The dress is not that low cut, the tie was too loose as she had just pulled it on over her head without untying it first.


So don't get caught dilly dallying smelling the roses and morning glories!

Go get your Girl's World book and stalk Jennifer Paganelli and Carla Hegeman Crim till the Lucy pattern is released! Oh and let your girlfriend with the pool know that you are having brunch at her place very very soon. Perhaps you could bring the napkins and table cloth from Jennifer's latest book Happy Home.

Tell her Jenny sent you. =D After all Jennifer Paganelli always said I was trouble. Hahaha! Love you Jen!

100 Billion reasons...

to check out 100 Billion Stars new website! Melissa P. has made the big transition from blog to website and she is having a big giveaway shindig to kick it all off! So hop over! She is already on the second giveaway offer but it's NOT too late to enter for both giveaways and there will be MORE! So go, go, go! Check out her new nicely organized website enter her giveaway and check out her freebies. She has a LOT of great free projects! Even if you don't win, you WIN if you find a project you like in the freebies section. Woo hoo! What are you waiting for???

Beloved!

Oh I am loving this Beloved dress by Melissa Stramel!  It is the ultimate princess dress I have had the joy of making to date. The mother and daughter approved neckline(she just wants something interesting going on with the neckline and I like that it's different and still very sweet and girly) and the sweet pea ruffles on the sleeves hem and underskirt, oh it is  all so sweet! She should have called it Sweet! =D

I used Riley Blake teeny pom poms and crochet trim to detail the ruffles on the underskirt. You can find the Riley Blake trim at Granma's Treasures.

The dress pattern is in it's final stages of publishing but it is coming very soon so keep checking with Melissa Stramel here, you are going to want one! Meanwhile go check it out in the wedding version of it. Swoon!