Preserving Summer Apron.

Here's a sneak peek at what I have been working lately. I'm calling it Preserving Summer. It's an apron of mostly Amy Butler Fabric. If you haven't heard of her, click here and get ready to fall in love with this med-western designer! I was commisioned to make these aprons by the photography firm Buiscut 8. Check out their blog, it's pretty fantastic! They wanted to give some promotional gifts to Kerr (the canning company) and keep it local. Thus the name, Preserving Summer. I thought it only appropriate, and maybe a little funny. Here's my lovely tape mannequin modeling one of the first hot off the iron!
Later, Jess

Dwell Studio Curtains

Detail. Don't you just love how the sun comes through the weave?:

Funny story about this fabric. I showed my boyfriend a bunch of different fabrics I thought would be cool to use for curtains. This happened to be the one my boyfriend liked the most the Dwell Studio Bella Porte Citrine for Robert Allen @ Home. But, it was about $16/yd, so we were going to hold off on buying it. That day, my boyfriend and I decided to go to Hancock Fabric to look for faux fur for a rug. When we got there, we couldn't find what we wanted, but while we were browsing the remnant fabrics table we found a small section of this fabric, for FOUR DOLLARS A YARD! Can you believe it?! After a bit of digging, we found two more even larger sections. The way the pieces were cut we had to retrofit it to the curtains, but in the end they looked fantastic!

Later, Jess

Couch Pillows

In the living room:

Detail:

I'd been meaning to take a picture of these for a while, but I hadn't gotten around to it. But now that the living room is finally coming together, I thought it was about time. I started out with some wool suiting fabric for the base, and did some machine aplique on top with yellow and cream colored felt pieces. I thought the tessellation went well with the mid-century feel of our living space.

Also, the owl piece above the couch was a needle felting project of mine I did in college.

Later, Jess