Rebecca Danger

Coming Soon and Happy Weekend

I had the best day in my studio yesterday. It was one of those days I live for, one of those days that keeps me creating. I sure love those type of days.

Sometimes I find what I do incredibly hard. It is so hard for me not to be able to share! I mean, isn't that a huge part of why we create, to share our creations with others? I don't share because I feel like I have to keep projects under wraps until they are finalized and ready to go. Sometimes start to finish things take say, years. All of my dinosaur patterns were written before Peanut was born and came out after his first birthday, for instance. But since you are most excited about creating in the moment, I thought I would share a little sneak peek of what I am working on right now. Hope it peaks your curiosity! I'll be done with it soon, definitely this year.....

I am looking forward to a weekend with the hubs and the munchkin, and spent in my studio to get some work done! Hope you all are going to get out and get your summer started early. Seems like there is all kinds of stuff happening this weekend!

 

This Week's Project

Doing some sewing this week. And yes, I bought the A Beautiful Mess app today, like every one else.

Look What I've Been Up To!

Who boy, this week started out with a bang and hasn't gotten much better. I still can't tell if I have a bad flu/cold bug, or bad, bad allergies. Either way I feel pretty crappy. And Peanut...after spiking his fever, and it going away tuesday, thursday he broke out in a terrible heat rash from head to toe. And, he is teething, his first upper tooth broke through about a week and a half ago and the second one I swear is the same length, but will not break through the skin. He is SO incredibly, crazy, cranky (which he NEVER is), pretty much all I have done this week is hold him and try and quiet his crying.

BUT! He is feeling better today and I managed to get some FINISHED ITEMS up into my etsy shop. That's right! I finally have some sewn critters for sale. I know, right? Finished robots and monsters. I am pretty excited! I have 4, oops sold one while writing this! I have 3 for sale, 2 robots and now 1 monster. I thought I would give it a try with just a couple and see how they go. If you want one but miss them, or want a different color or something, let me know if I should keep sewing them up. I think I mentioned earlier I forgot how much I like sewing while I was making monsters for Presley's Birthday party, so these were pretty fun for me to put together. Here's pictures!

See one you like? Hop over to etsy to check them out. Can't wait to hear what you think!

Be sure to get entered into this month's giveaway for Cast On Bind Off, too! 

 

Birthday Making

I've spent the last few days getting ready for a big Presley birthday party on Sunday. Today I sewed through a dozen Max monsters for party favors. Can't wait, it should be fun (it is monster themed, of course). I will be sure to post pictures next week!

And The Rest Of It

Hi there. Nope, no baby yet. (I just like to preemptively strike these days since that's all I hear.)

Ready for the rest of the nursery sewing projects? 

The crib bumpers and crib sheets I made. Plus a couple monsters I've made (recognize a Hugo from the book? The yellow guy we found on clearance last fall at Babies R Us. For those of you who have mentioned it too, I am aware of the SIDS/Bumpers risk. They are not really to be used while baby is sleeping (they come out quickly with velcro). I just couldn't pass up another place to bring in a punch of color in the room.

More Boppy covers.

A swaddler. Also from the Lotta Jansdotter book I have been mentioning. Retro cowboys outside, lovely flannel inside.

And a cute decal on the cabinet (complete with pug-butt).

I am sitting here realizing I have not gotten pictures of several other projects though, including my 2 baby wraps and a danged cute little hat. And if he doesn't get here in a timely fashion I may just give up and start on some more sewing projects, too. I wanted to wait on pants, a diaper cover, some shoes/clothing items until I can measure against him, but they may just start getting sewn anyway.

I have had such a good time sewing! I had forgotten how much I love it. And it is so QUICK compared to knitting. Hmm, now I am feeling a little inspired to get some more sewing in....

My helper (who I am told I have to come up with a better name for) is coming this afternoon. Maybe I will do some more sewing while I am up in my office when she is here......

More Sewing Projects

Hi all! Well, my due date of yesterday has come and gone and no baby. But, this morning I told Mr Danger that is probably a good thing since I seem to be getting more done right now than I have ever in my entire life. Trying to distract myself from the last (hopefully) few days of being pregnant means I am doing lots of knitting done. Especially since I am feeling really tired and about the only thing I am capable of right now is sitting on the couch and knitting. I am thinking that if Baby Danger is a full 2 weeks late I will be able to get the whole year's worth of patterns written....

I've got a couple more of my sewing projects to share! I have been sewing out of Lotta Jansdotter's Simple Sewing For Baby book and just loving every project. I did the quilted play mat thing in monster fabric:

And loved it so much I also did it in skulls:

Fun! And I think they will be really handy to throw down under Baby Danger all over the place.

Alrighty, I am off to go snuggle on the couch with the pugs and get as much knitting in as I can! Although after typing this I have now remembered I was going to make one of the tag blankies from the Lotta book too out of some leftover fabric. Maybe there will be a little more sewing today......

Baby Projects

So I am due on Friday and impatiently waiting for this little guy to make his appearance. I know I have been bad on the blogging, but I am not feeling like being on the computer the last couple days. But, I managed to get my camera downstairs and today I've got a couple pictures of some of my recent baby sewing projects. Pillows (plus Claude from the book, oh and packed bag ready for baby):

Monster wall decals (found on clearance at Babies R Us). I guess not technically a sewing project, but definitely a baby project:

And changing pad cover and basket liner made by me, plus more decals. I made a second changing pad cover in the green/blue stripe of the pillow in the chair as well.

Fun huh? I have more to share, but I am saving it for another day since like I said blogging seems to be challenging for me this week.

 

It's a New Shop!

I have been waiting for today for over a week. I pulled out my baby sewing books last Monday, sat on the computer for a couple hours, and put in a nice big order of fabric from Fabric.com. The only problem with this is that I have had to be patient with shipping. But finally, the box should be here today. (The funny thing about this? If I order something boring, like ink for my printer or vitamins, it gets here right on the nose between 9:30-10:30. If there is something exciting coming, like my desk or probably this box of fabric, it doesn't get here until after 5pm. How funny is that?)

In the longest week's wait for fabric ever, I have been pulling out my machine, digging through my fabric stash, and finding all kinds of things. The main thing I found was a big old basket of the "Sweater Bears" I used to make out of recycled sweaters. I sold them for several years at local craft shows around here and in my retail shop when I had that. Unfortunately a few of them never found a home and have moved with me a couple times. So, I figured to fund my own newfound baby sewing projects, and make a little more room for said new baby, I would open up a new shop and do a Sweater Bear and Sweater Bear Sewing Pattern sale. (Did you know I had one sewing pattern? It gets kinda lost in the Danger Crafts shop)

So, here it is: DCSewingShop.etsy.com. The bears are all one-of-a-kind (some are even Cashmere sweaters) so if you like one grab it before it disappears.

Alright, off to stare at the front door until the fabric gets here.