Hot off the presses!

Here they are, smokin’ hot off-the-presses and still steaming– two new patterns from SUCH Designs! These feature a design by guest designer, Cyndi Coon. Read the earlier post about our fun photo shoot here.

(These are the pattern covers. They fold in half, so the back cover is on the left and the front cover is on the right.)

They will be coming soon to my Etsy shop and a store near you! And, by the way, come take our T-shirt yarn class next Wednesday, June 22nd from 6-8 pm at Bernina Connection. Click here for more info. It is loads of fun. Bring young girls, teen girls, young women or your mom. It is fun for all ages and the results are amazing. All you need are your ugliest old 5k t-shirt, scissors and Tacky glue (available at Bernina.) Don’t have old t-shirts? Raid a thrift store. The real problem is that this is so fun and addictive you might start cutting up favorite t-shirts from your closet! read more

T-shirt Yarn, anyone?

So my friend, Cyndi Coon, is a making, blogging, artsy, craftsy, chefy, supah-stah. She’s a writer, designer,promoter of all-things-craft, a marketing whiz and all around cool person. I adore her and have done so for a long, long time. She is a real, live human– real the way you wish everybody could be. You can see her blogging about craft here and here and visit her website here. Now, I’m no dummy…and I can see a good thing when it is staring me in the face. I saw one of her tutorials for creating jewelry from old t-shirts a while back and I just couldn’t shake it. It is so good. So simple. So fun and easy to make something that looks fabulous. I thought about her amazing and addictive T-shirt Yarn jewelry tutorial and collaborating with her somehow (read: vulturishly profiting off of her talent and/or promoting and supporting her by publishing and selling her pattern so we can both become rich beyond our wildest dreams off of recycled t-shirts.) And I just had to ask her if she’d like to be a guest designer for SUCH Designs. To which she said yes. So, SUCH Designs’ two newest patterns featuring Cyndi’s designs will be coming out in the next two weeks! These are kits including the items you need to create your own jewelry and hairwear. Check back at my etsy shop to buy yours soon! I will give you a sneak peek of our incredible…nay, words-cannot-describe-the-greatness photo shoot with the mind-blowingly talented photography duo behind www.jillandjill.com (Jill McNamara and Jill Richards or rather, Tall Jill and Short Jill, as they call themselves.) In an effort to promote all the people I adore, let me just say: hire these women to photograph your life, your business, your kids, your house, whatever…just do it…you’ll be glad you did. So, Cyndi wrangled up some models (who are not models) by simply putting out a call to her friends on Facebook. Little did we know that we would get the three perfect girls on the perfect afternoon with the perfect photographers with the best T-shirt Yarn jewelry this side of the Mississippi. Allow me to stop writing so you can see the splendid fruits of that day.