FNSI Results: Blankets and Gift Set

A new finished gift set in adorable animals! This fun animal-print fabric is so sweet.  Paired with either a green bib and onesie set or a yellow bib and onesie set.  I also finished up more light dog blankets and an airplane set...the first of each went out to Indiana for two new bouncing baby boys, so I needed to make others.

 Hope others that joined FNSI were productive! 

January 20: Friday Night Sew-In

The first Friday Night Sew-In of 2012!  It is my New Years resolution to try and make as many of these this year as possible.  Sometimes I forget, or am too tired, but I'm going to mark my calendar nonetheless. 

January 2012 - Three New Quilts!

My goal is to get up some new quilts throughout the year.  Here are THREE - yipee! Three new quilts!!

1) Today we have done a vintage feedsack fabric blues, greens quilt.  It is quilted on the diagonal through the squares and has a new turquoise, purple, and white plaid back. 

2) We also finished an adorable - in my opinion - girl quilt.  The top is cotton squares in various pastelly-colored fabrics with little girls playing, jumping, watering plants, playing ring around the rosy.  Just very sweet fabrics!  We put a plaid pink flannel border and backed it in pink with white polkadot flannel fabric, so it is soft and cuddly.

3) We bought the Sugar-Pop fabrics designed by Liz Scott for Moda Fabrics...and it is a great set of brighter colors. No"baby fabrics" but makes for a great baby quilt ot lap quilt for an adult....

 What do you think?
Vintage Feedsack Quilt

Girl Hopscotch / Playing Girls quilt

Sugar Pop Quilt



Happy New Year! Welcome 2012.....

And we at Olive Street Studio wish everyone a joyous, peaceful, safe, and healthy 2012.....

We are planning for an innovative, productive year and we're starting off with a new quilt - a log cabin style flannel quilt in dog fabrics.  Measures at a 38" square.  A baby crib quilt or a lap quilt for the dog lover you know.....What do you think? 

Merry Christmas!

Hope all is merry and bright.....!!

New Christmas Skirt....Great for twirling!

My very talented Mother Olive whipped up these awesome Christmas skirts in red plaid taffeta.  I think the plaid is "Royal Stewart"??  Circle skirts really float out when twirling around, and what young girl doesn't spin when in a big skirt?  Decided to keep these simple so girls can wear it more casual to school or more dressed up for Christmas Eve church or Christmas Day dinner.  We make in custom sizes.  If no girl in the family?  We can make a plaid Christmas tie for the boys!  Not out of the taffeta, but from another smaller red plaid. 

Cousin Olive is modeling....and Little Olive is already wanting to wear hers.  :-)

 "You spin me right round baby, right round like a record baby, right round, round, round......" Can you name the band?

 Bottom hem is added from a separate piece of material - a nice way to finish the skirt:

October 30: Outdoor Craft Show & New Items

Our little town of Long Beach has a few arts organizations that got together to do Sunday "Arts in the Plaza".  I've exhibited 4 times since May - I intended to do 4 other shows, but the weather worked against us twice, the event was cancelled by City Hall on 9/11, and another time I was just too tired form working a garage sale the day before.  So with that in mind, I set out to exhibit on the last Sunday.  Now, Old Man Winter stepped in yesterday and threw the Northeast a nasty snow storm.  The temps didn't get above the mid 40s today.  I lasted 4 hours and was done.  BUT I did sell a onesie set and a chenille quilt.  :-)

Since I called Mr. Olive to come get me at 2pm, I then spent the afternoon battling pictures and new listings.  I managed to get 4 new new posted - two new corduroy skirts and two new vintage chenille quilts.  I have one other skirt to post along with the two jumpers....What do you think?