My Passion - bags & totes

Sewing has always been my passion and I'm getting more and more custom orders.  Mostly bags, totes and wallets.  I love creating them, even if I'm just modifying a pattern I purchased.

There are so many different styles and each client has their individual likes and dislikes they want to add - the best part of a custom bag.  It suits what you need, the colors or print you want.

Here are some different versions of the same bag, one of my favorites.  This pattern is called the Sophia Beach bag.

Like I said, this is one of my favorite patterns because it can be customized for so much.  This one in particular if from a gal that received one of my other bags for her birthday, loved it so much and ordered this one for her mom's birthday.  Her mom was just starting out in yoga, so I made her a matching yoga towel to go with it.

If you click on the picture, you can get a better picture of the embroidery design.  I used the same fabric for the embroidery applique as was used for the bag.  Mom loved her new yoga bag :)

And what's so cool about this bag, is the beach towel "holder" straps.  It works on each side.  Lots of room inside for other things.

Plus the other side has a large pocket with magnetic closure to put in your phone or keys, or anything you don't want to dig for.

Zip pocket inside for cash or anything you want secure.

An addition - holder inside for a water bottle (yoga bag)

And one of my favorites - giraffe print with bright kiwi green lining.  Love the print with a splash of bright for lining.  My girlfriend ordered this one for her daughter who just joined dance class.  And of course, I added a matching hand towel with personalization.  Makes it extra special :)  

So, what do you think?  Very cool right?  The Sophia Beach bag is so versatile and is from Swoon Patterns.  I plan on doing a lot more of these for the upcoming summer.  If you want to custom order one of your own, email me or go Dreamscape Studio Facebook page and message me.  We can come up with a design you will love to take to the beach, yoga class or dance studio.

Thanks for stopping by.  More styles of bags & totes coming up, see you tomorrow!!

Tea Cozies with Style

I love creating gifts that also give me the space to embroider, and these cozies are ideal.  Choose the theme and I have the design or color combo to match up.

The Dapple horse on the left sold as soon as I posted it on my Facebook page.  The Christmas tree was for the Holiday Shopping Party event in December.  A fun way to piece fabrics together centered around the focal point - embroidery design.

Here are a few other designs I did:

Applique and embroidery - I think there was 9 or 10 fabrics on the design alone.  The detail is so pretty close-up

Embroidered on glitter felt

I love Maxine and her wittiness

Have a few more of these Maxine's/quotes that I really want to do :)

Tomorrow I'm going to share some of the wallets that have been super popular - be sure to come back and check them out.

Have a super day - couple more to relax and back to the office.  And with that being said:

I {heart} Justin Bieber

No not me :)  My girlfriend's daughter is totally infatuated with him.  

I promised I would make her a little something to thank her for making my daughter a wooden sign that was decorated up with "One Direction".  Another boy band in case you hadn't heard of them.  Something for her in return.  Girls these days :)

Every girl should have a journal no matter what age.  I still use one - just not faithfully like I used to. It's good for them to put their thoughts down on paper sometimes to sort life out.  I found one of mine from when I was 10 and had just lost my mom.  I sat down and read through the whole thing.  Sure brought back a whole lot of feelings.  And kinda cool that I still had it to help me remember all that I went through.

So this is what I did for her.  She loves purple so I found a very pretty turquoise with purple.  Love the tropical look to it.  I found a Justin Bieber applique design too!

The elastic was definitely a good idea to keep it closed when not used.

I love this print - I am going to get some more in different colors.  

I attached a ribbon to mark her place when she needs to.

And of course, the embroidery close-up.

I really like how it turned out and I know she will.  I will add a pocket next time to the inside I think.  A place to hold some notes or photos.

And I may as well show you what I made her mom.  It is from the fabric collection: Free Spirit - Tula Pink - Saltwater (corals).  Love these beachy prints.  I let her choose which two she wanted and then I surprised her. 

I didn't have the proper gray to use so I went with coral color embroidery thread.  Blends a little too well I think, but I still love it.

Just completed another order - His 'n Her towels with Blowing Kisses penguins.  They will be going to Lorrie in AZ tomorrow I hope. Will share those with you soon :)

Until then, pop over to my Facebook page and you can look at all my projects there.  Be sure to LIKE my page if you stop by too.  Now to finish off a birthday gift, get started on my "baby boy basket" and I'm dying to sew up one of my embroidered totes.  It has been a while and I've got some stitched out ready to go together.

And remember...............

Giraffes & Star Wars

I can't believe how much time has passed since my last post.  Work is getting busy again and I've been filling orders. Since I posted the I-pad cover I made for my girlfriend, I have received 4 orders - three complete and one more to go.

I want to share with you two today that a friend of mine ordered for her daughter and son-in-law for Valentine's.  Her daughter's had to be "giraffe" type.  That was an easy fill since I had the perfect fabric and embroidery design  to use.  I love how it turned out.

This is the back (if you can see the tab that slips in the loop).  Here is the inside view and of course, she wanted her daughter's nickname inside as well.

This is the low-stand position.  Sorry I don't have an I-pad for display :(  And here is the embroidery - butterfly with giraffe print wings.  I love this one.  I also have a zebra and leopard print.  These look stunning on towels!!

And now on to Star Wars - this was a little more difficult to complete.  I didn't have any Star Wars fabric and had to go online searching.  The closest was Toronto and she was sold out of the print we wanted and then I found it in Oregon. I had 7days to get the fabric and complete it for the special day so we paid a lot of money for shipping to guarantee the pkg to be here in 3-5 days.  Well as it turned out, it was late and didn't arrive until the Friday after Valentine's.  The seller got it out that night, but for some reason after research and talking to USPS and CP, it took 6 days just to get to the Canadian border!!  Long story short, I am messaging the seller because she is the only one that can request a refund. Then she can give me the refund.  We will cross our fingers.  So on to the cover:

- the back while standing

- both standing positions

Needless to say, they were very happy and said they that it was totally worth the 2 days late.  That made me very happy.

Thanks for coming by to visit and before I go, you can check out my FB page - link on the right - to see my sponsor of one of these I-pads for giveaway.  If you aren't on FB, go here and check it out and all the other giveaways.  Just scroll down and you will see my giveaway.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Kiss Goodnight

I have been wanting to do one of these pillows for a while now.  I found a perfect saying for the pillow and decided to give it a try.  This fabric was a piece from that I had in my "large" stash :)  I love the color combo of this fabric.  It is sort of a thick satin. This is the front:

And here is the back - similiar texture to dupioni silk. 

I love this color, very rich.  

I had to do a closeup of the saying.  That was the only part I wasn't too happy about. Didn't think it would look so small.  Will definitely re-size next time.

These make awesome Valentine, anniversary, birthday or wedding gifts.  Also just to say I love you, thinking about you, whatever.

Let me know what you think?  Too small or ok?  Need to definitely try some more sayings/quotes on pillows I think :)

Off to create.................but isn't this cute  LOL

Colorwash Butterflies

Hey there
So I am here to show you another Ipad cover I made for a friend.  I got this fabric from Hypernoodle Fabrics a while ago.  I absolutely love it with all the colors and how it all flows. You can combine it with so many different colors.

This is the front view which I obviously couldn't embroider on since it is busy enough.

The Colorwash Butterfly is a favorite of mine from Kreations by Kara. She has got some of the most gorgeous, creative designs.  And very unique which I love.  I found this design easy to use for this project because of the colors of the main fabric and embroidering on black makes it pop.  And a little personalization which to me, makes this whole project special.

This is the different positions you can utilize the stand and the back view.

They are sturdy yet padded to protect your Ipad.  I hope she likes it!!

Enjoy your day!!