Ivy & Co.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

And the winner is...

And the winner of the Autumn Bunting is...

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Lauren and I met in Austria 8 years ago! We were both missionaries with Calvary Chapel. Now we're both married with kids, keeping in touch via social networking... haha. It's so cool that she won the giveaway, so I have a great excuse to send an old friend something festive and fun. Thanks to everyone who entered! I hope to have more in the future. It's just so fun to give!!

Aloha,

Rebecca

Monday, September 10, 2012

Featured on Embracing Change

Just a note to say that Ivy's Super Hero Cape Tutorial was featured by Stacey on Embracing Change!

Mahalo Stacey!

Our First Giveaway - Autumn Bunting - Happening NOW!

Welcome to Jed & Ivy's first giveaway! One of you will be the owner of this one-of-a-kind Peaceful Autumn bunting! No gimmicks. No red tape. Just answer the question, "What's your favorite Autumn activity?"

I just finished up this bunting last week and contemplated listing it in my Etsy Shop, or giving it away to one lucky reader. It's double sided, 30" long (not including ribbons on ends), triangles are 6" tall and contains burnt orange, a dull red, olive, taupe, white and cream. There's even a little pink and light blue in the striped fabric.

Well, you're in luck. I want to give it away! Follow the instructions below. Contest ends Thursday, 9/13 at midnight, EST, so don't delay. If you're chosen as the winner, I will contact you via email so I can get your address and mail it to you. Wouldn't you love to get a package in the mail? For free?!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Love Stitched giveaway prize came in!

A few weeks back I won a giveaway at Tatertots and Jello.

I have really good luck in giveaways on blogs. It's really weird.

This is the 4th giveaway I've won in 8 months.

This giveaway was for $50 toward Love Stitched's Etsy Shop.

I just received the items I selected, and they're awesome!

Look at the cute packaging!

I got all this for $50! It's adorable!

Details:

-RUTH blue and mustard yellow lace ruffle rose headband

-peach and lime cabochon due bobby pin set

-olive green Cabochon mum flower earrings

-The Poppy large Powder Blue cabochon flower ring

I looked over and saw Ivy wearing the headband... hahaha.

Thank you Brittany of Love Stitched!

Thank you Jen of Tatertots and Jello!

Aloha, Rebecca

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Super Hero Cape Tutorial

Yesterday we made a cape.

You heard me.

I guess I should back up. It's not every day you make your kid a cape.

Well, we were at a baby shower on Labor Day (pun intended) and Ivy and a little friend were stealing the tissue paper and ribbon from the opened gifts and making capes. All week, Ivy's been begging to wear the tissue paper cape, but it's pretty much ripped to shreds. So I got tired of the disappointment in her eyes every time I told her we weren't going to wear the ripped cape, and asked her, "Should we make a better cape?" Of course she said, "Yes!" So we went to my fabric and she picked out this magenta fabric with chartreuse root/coral/dead tree print on it. Girl's got style.

First I cut it out like so:

Ivy is almost 3 years old, and tall for her age.

The bottom is about 24 inches across.

It's 22 inches from the bottom to the base of the neck, then I eyeballed the part that goes around the neck. It goes up to about 28.5 inches from the bottom.

It's 18 inches across the top (part that sits on the back of the shoulders)

I used a white piece to line the cape.

Then I created the letter "I" in white fabric, and sewed it over a black circle. I didn't like it alone like that, so I added a white square around it. Plus, I hate sewing circles, so it was much easier to sew a square to the cape. You can see in the photo below, I just sewed straight lines up and down the circle to fasten it, rather than actually sew a circle. It will fray, but what good super hero's cape doesn't show some wear and tear from the crime they're fighting in the world? ;)

Before you sew it all together, sew on some velcro to the neck pieces. Think about which sides you're going to sew...

Then I placed the two pieces of fabric together, so I could sew them. I did add a little "super power" to this magenta/chartreuse cape... Black leather fringe along the bottom. I picked it up at a garage sale in San Diego earlier this summer. This cape demanded for it. Look closely at the photo below on the right-- you can see I pinned it inside, so it would be included in the stitch.