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Some Bunny Loves You Easter Fabric

Benartex Some Bunny Loves You

Enjoy your Easter weekend with this adorable fabric!

Fabric Name- Some Bunny Loves You Bunny Baskets by Kanvas Studios for Benartex Fabrics

Material- 100% cotton fabric

Background color- White

Theme- Easter, Spring

Description:

Adorable bunnies are sitting in baskets decorated with beautiful flowers while small birds are perched on top of colorful Easter eggs.

Check out the goody bag I made with this fabric here.

Happy Easter everyone!

 

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Carrot Patch Bunnies

StudioE Carrot Patch

March is here and it’s time to get ready for Easter!

Fabric Name- Carrot Patch Bunnies by Sharla Fults for Studio E Fabrics.

Material- 100% cotton fabric

Background color- Multi

Theme- Easter, Spring, Bunnies

Description:

Adorable bunnies are dressed in their gardening clothes collecting carrots. A cute girl bunny is wearing a dress and a hat while playing with a bird. A boy bunny is dressed in overalls with pockets stuffed with carrots. Another bunny is juggling Easter eggs. The pattern has colorful birds, butterflies, flowers and Easter eggs scattered in between the rabbits.

This fabric would be great to use for a children’s Easter celebration. It would make an adorable skirt or dress. Check out the bag I made to use for an Easter egg hunt, a small purse for a little girl, or a gift for Easter.

What will you make with this fabric?

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Love Struck Valentine’s Day Fabric

Henry Glass Love Struck

Fabric Name- Love Struck Valentine Tossed Patch by Shelly Comiskey of Simply Shelly Designs for Henry Glass Fabrics

Material- 100% cotton fabric

Background color- White

Theme- Valentine’s Day, Love

Description:

This adorable new Henry Glass fabric has tossed Valentine’s Day cards on a white background. There are six different cards on the fabric with red and pink hearts scattered in between.

  • Cupid is shooting arrows on a red card with pink hearts.
  • Red lips and the words “Kiss Me” are on a pink striped card.
  • There is a red bug with black heart-shaped spots and the words “Love Bug” written on a pink card with pink hearts .
  • Red and pink heart-shaped flowers and “Love Grows” are on a pink card.
  • A red “XO” sits on a large pink heart with an arrow through it. This background is pink with red hearts.
  • Finally, there is a large red heart on a pink background.

What will you make with this beautiful Valentine’s Day fabric? Check out the Valentine’s Day goody bag I made here.

 

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Holiday Tweets Ornaments

Holiday Tweets Ornaments

Christmas is almost here, but there’s still time to sew some holiday crafts. Today’s featured fabric is Holiday Tweets Ornaments by Kim Schaefer from Andover Fabrics.

Colorful retro ornaments are hanging from thin white strings on a black background. This fabric is fun and bright, and is sure to add some Christmas joy to your home this holiday season.

What will you make with this fabric?

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Mad Science Lab Trunk or Treat

Have you ever participated in a Trunk or Treat event for Halloween? I participated in my first one this year. It was so much fun!

Of course, the big decision was, how am I going to decorate my trunk? How do you decorate a trunk? How do you fill a whole trunk with stuff and not go broke?

By now you probably know that I love science. I really wanted to make a science lab. I don’t have any official scientific equipment, though. I have a lab coat, safety glasses, and gloves to use for a costume, but nothing to fill a trunk.

I went shopping at Dollar Tree, hoping to find something there. I found some caution tape, creepy bugs, glow in the dark rats (lab rats!), plastic eyeballs, and nasty teeth. I even found some green candy fingers. A plan was beginning to form…

I’d set up some jars of disgusting stuff to look like a mad scientist’s storage room. I could use a few old peanut butter jars to hold my “specimens”.

Specimen_Jars

Every lab has liquids for experiments. I filled a few plastic orange juice containers with water, colored them with food coloring, and put “poison” and “acid” signs on them.

Poison_And_Acid_Bottles

I added mineral oil and colored water to small bottles for bubbly concoctions.

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Then I made a batch of slime and added a few plastic baby spiders to it to make it look extra creepy.

Slime

Free scientific icons can be found on openclipart.org, like the Radioactive and Biohazard symbols, a skull and crossbones for Poison, and images of a beaker and flask.

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I made a sign for my laboratory: “Science Lab. Danger. Do Not Enter” using a neon green poster board and pasted the beakers and flasks on it.

Science_Lab_Sign

Although this sounds like a lot, it was definitely not going to fill up my trunk. It was just a couple of peanut butter jars and orange juice containers with a bowl of candy in the middle. I really had to think about how to make my idea work. I had to make my trunk smaller. It took a while, but I finally had an idea! I had a bunch of cardboard boxes sitting around. I used them to block off the deepest part of the trunk, and to fill up the sides, leaving a much smaller area in the center. I threw a black plastic table cloth on top of the boxes to clean it up. Then I stacked everything on top. It worked!

Mad_Science_Trunk

Now, I wouldn’t be Zinnia’s Closet without my goody bags. I made MINI bags for everyone. They were big enough to hold 3 Fun Size pieces of candy, just enough for a trick-or-treater.

Mini_Goody_Bag

Trunk or Treat was a success! Almost 100 kids came to the event, it was amazing!

Halloween_Goody_Bags

In case you are wondering, here’s how much it cost:

  • Eyeballs: $1
  • Teeth: $1
  • Bugs: $1
  • Rats: $1
  • Fingers: $1
  • Caution Tape: $1
  • Poster Board: $0.72
  • Mineral Oil: $1.98
  • Baby Spiders: $0.98
  • Glue for Slime: $1
  • Black Table Cloth: $0.94

Not even $12 in total! (I had borax for slime and food coloring already, that will add another $8.)

Happy Halloween!

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A Unicorn-Themed Birthday Party

This week I was honored to sew party favor bags for a sweet little girl’s first birthday! Her mom and dad were throwing a unicorn-themed party. I had the perfect fabric for them: Happy Little Unicorns by Robert Kaufman.

Happy Little Unicorns

It’s a pink fabric with three different unicorns. One is standing up with a bird on it’s back, the second is laying down, and the third is jumping over a rainbow. There are flowers, rainbows and stars filling in the background.

Happy Little Unicorns

The unicorns were spread out on this pattern. I had to carefully cut the unicorns out so that each bag had a unicorn centered on the front. It took some extra time, but it was well worth the effort. The parents were thrilled with the bags. They are putting a small framed picture of their daughter inside to thank their guests for coming to celebrate their special day.

I wish that little girl a lifetime filled with happiness.

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Celebrating The Unofficial Start of Summer

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Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer. It’s time to put away those heavy coats and snow boots and bring out the flip flops and sunglasses!

To celebrate, I wanted to share this fun fabric with you. An owl summer cookout! It has a patriotic theme with its red, white and blue colors. The red charcoal grill is smoking. One owl is cooking, wearing an apron and holding a spatula. Another owl is wearing sunglasses and waving a pinwheel. A third owl is hanging out eating watermelon. The fabric is decorated with flip flops, stars, watermelon, hot dogs and popsicles. It’s a great summer party!

Happy Memorial Day everyone!