I recently discovered a new use for taskets =

holding baby accessories!

Until now I’d never thought of how a soft, portable basket could come in handy in a nursery.  But they sure do. I’ve been keeping this one right in the co-sleeper.  It stands on its own, but it’s soft, so no worries if baby bumps it.

I think I’ll be making a line of baby tasket sets in the future.

I’ve already gathered these sweet fabrics from Superbuzzy:

Bright and colorful elephants, owls and deer.

Cute airplanes, balloons and forest friends.

LOVE the colors of this one!

This one is subtle, with sweet forest animals.

Now I’m off to find some dotty cottons and rick-rack to match!

Jenn : )

A shop update:

New tasket sets!

Pom Pom Fawn

(I only made one with this small pom pom trim.)

Our House.

Pretty Forest.

Dotty Birds.

Happy Thursday.

The weekend is almost here!

Jenn : )

In my last post I was wondering if I should make a few more fabric “baskets” to offer in my Etsy shop. Thanks for the great, encouraging comments!

I’ve been looking through my fabric stash and these are the color combinations I’ve chosen (I was busy sewing and glanced over at my window and saw some sunshine and ran for my camera. Glad I did – the light disappeared about 10 minutes later!) :

Most of these patterned fabrics I have only a half or quarter yard of – so I’ll only be able to make a few baskets out of them – which makes this a great project because the sewing time is fairly quick and it is a great use of these smaller pieces of fabric. Some of these I’ve had for awhile and I just love them. I’ve used them in other projects and watched as the original piece of fabric has gotten smaller and smaller. I’ll be sad to see them go – but happy that I’ve turned them into something so useful!

I’ve changed the original design to include pockets on the outside of the basket. I’d like to make some shorter, wider ones, too. I’ll post them as I get them done.

In the meantime I am also working on a special order for a great Etsy customer – so between these two projects (and LOST on Wed. night) that ought to keep me out of trouble for a little while! : )

Jenn

So… Say you bought a canvas curtain from Ikea to hang infront of your washer and dryer so that when company comes over they aren’t looking at your laundry space. And say that canvas was about two feet too long. You would cut down the curtain and hem it…. and save the canvas. But what to do with it?

Well – last night I had an “a-ha” moment and came up with a quick project to put to use that perfectly good material.

I was in my studio and happened to glance over at my Cotton Time calendar (I know, anyone who has read more than a couple posts on this blog is like “shut up about the Cotton Time already!”) But I can’t help it. I practically did a happy dance when I was reading the latest issue and discovered that it came with a 2007 calendar and each month has instructions for a different craft project – yippee!!!!!

So anyway – inspired by February’s project I hunted around for that canvas and made up this little… what to call it… ah, “little basket” ( ? ). It’s about 4 1/2 inches tall.

Now, if you look closely you might notice that there are some problems with it. I posted before that mistakes happen and I am not too proud to admit to making them. A couple goofs were from never having made one of these before… and a couple others happened because I was watching Futurama while I was sewing this.

I’m going to use it anyway in my studio to hold little doo-dads. I have quite a bit of the canvas left still – I was thinking of maybe making a couple more with different dimensions and colors, maybe adding some pockets on the outside and posting them in my Etsy shop. Do you think anyone would want one?

Have a great weekend -

Jenn : )