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Introducing My New Children’s Sewing Pattern Line!

4 Comments / Fabric, Sewing, Sewing Patterns / carina

Yes! It’s finally here! Everyday this week I will be unveiling one of my new sewing patterns!

I can hardly contain my excitement about this new line! I started thinking about this project over a year ago and to finally see it come into fruition…well, it’s a bit overwelming.

What’s my philosophy about children’s clothing? Well, I believe it needs to be

If my girls won’t wear it, there’s a good chance yours won’t either. So the clothing needs to feel special while being comfy. Siri and Flissa have tested out all the clothing (Man, it’s a tough life!) and have given the outfits two thumbs up! I hope your little ones like them as well.

The pattern featured today is my Love Nest™ Ruffle Dress. It’s so swweeet! I originally made the pattern for Siri. The bottom ruffle peek-a-boos along the entire bottom of the dress and the scrunchy ruffle flower is the perfect embellishment for the dress or headband.

This sewing patterns comes in sizes extra small to extra large and covers children sizes 2T, 3T, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

All sewing patterns come with a metric conversation chart, glossary of terms, illustrated instructions, easy-to-understand child sizing charts, and yardage.

Our first shipment of products will be on April 1, 2011 (I’m positively jumpy with excitement!). We are taking pre-orders now.

Want to make sure that your local retailer knows about these sewing patterns? Add them to our mailing list and they will get our latest discounts and offers. And feel free to email them or give them a call if you want them to carry our lines!

Retailers and Distributors: We do have a brand new site just for you! Please email us at wholesale@carinagardner.com so we can send you your password to login to the site. In the meantime, check out our wholesale site.

Can’t wait to see the other patterns? You can take a sneak peek at the sewing pattern section of our website. I’ll be back tomorrow with more pictures and info!

Finally, our March-April quarterly newsletter will be coming out sometime next week. I’ll talk about my process for creating the patterns and my upcoming (HUGE) digi sale at JessicaSprague.com. If you haven’t signed up for the newsletter in the past or haven’t read previous issues, please check them out here.

Thanks for letting me share all the good news!

XOXO-Carina

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Patience, patience

1 Comment / Digital Scrapbooking, Sewing, Sewing Patterns, Stuff I Love / carina

The “patience, patience” is more to myself than anyone else. Josh always has said I’m impatient.

I guess I am.

I’ve been dying to spill all the work that has been going on in my studio for the last month and a half. We have been busy, busy, busy putting together a line of children’s sewing patterns due out in the next month. Fingers crossed I will be able to officially let you in on all the good news, but for now, all I have are little peeks into the process.

Today we took photos for one of the patterns and the photo to the left is the little clutch that goes with the one of the dresses. Both of my girls have been playing with their versions today (Thankfully even the “sample” versions are still great play things for my girls.)

Somehow the photo shoot today has made me more excited than usual to “spill the beans” on this new venture.

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Here’s a few things I’ve learned so far about the wonder of putting together sewing patterns:

* It takes a lot more time than I had any idea…by the time I have proofed it, Jamie’s proofed it, the printer’s proofed it, and then I have proofed it again…wow.
* I spend an awful lot of time looking for props for the photo shoots.
* Much longer than the actual photo shoot.
* I learned that it’s much better just to ask on facebook and the “ask and ye shall receive” effect happens.
* I combed antique shops for the eclectic tea set I put together for today’s photo shoot.
* You can barely see it in the final photo.
* I don’t care because I adore the silly set so much now.
* Antique shops make me think of more patterns I wish I had time to make, but don’t at the moment. Sigh.
* A flower shop has passed through my house.
* I have completely enjoyed having that many fresh flowers in my home.
* I have learned to easily tear apart my living room in 10 minutes or less and put it back together in the same amount of time.
* Siri likes it when I do this because it means she can use her roller blades in the only open space in the house.
* I can sew together samples faster than I had any idea I could at ridiculous hours into the night.
* I’m having so much fun that I’ve having a hard time pulling myself away from my sewing machine.
* Which means my house is a perpetual mess.
* And my studio is much worse.

Excited to show you more very soon!

XOXO, Carina

P.S. All the fans on my facebook page will be getting a new mini digi kit (yet to be revealed) once we hit 120o fans. Have you joined the page yet?

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And Here I am

8 Comments / Fabric, Family, Sewing Patterns / carina

And here I am on a Friday night, aimlessly clicking on blogs—blogs of people I heart, designers, artists, and so on…caught in that maddening cycle (that somehow always involves several visits to Facebook and Twitter) of being too tired to leave my computer but not tired enough to stop the endless, nonsensical journey through the world of blogs. Please tell me you get caught in this cycle too?

So here I am on the final stop of my longer-than-it-should-have-been blogfest—my own blog. Just a stop in to say hello in the midst of the madness (which is probably why I have been sitting numbly in front of the computer for the last hour).

Or maybe it’s because of the two trips to the Children’s Museum today (absolutely wore me out!) Flissa had a fieldtrip there this morning, and we made a second trip in the afternoon so Siri could go too. Despite it’s energy-sucking effects, I love that place. Seriously, inspiration AND entertainment. I came up with the names of my next two sewing patterns while watching Flissa fill up a grocery cart of plastic food and transport it to another (wrong) portion of the play area.

Nice.

(Photo above is of me trying very hard to take a photo of the flower I wore today (using the Felicity Flower Pattern) while balancing the camera with one hand and taking the photo in front of the mirror. Tricky. Very tricky.)

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Busy Busy

1 Comment / CRAFTS, Fabric, Sewing Patterns / carina

Well, it’s been a much busier week than I intended it to be. I’ve been making the final tweaks to my first sewing pattern, which goes to press on Monday. And then there was a couple of late nights of sewing, and a happy little photo shoot. Busy, busy.

Okay, we are off to our favorite breakfast spot for a little Saturday morning yummy.

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