Apple Fall Harvest

Autumn in the midwest is GORGEOUS! Cool crisp night air, sunny days, blue skies dotted with white fluffy clouds, and the spectacular colors of the fall leaf-turn. It's been a favorite time of year all of my life.

One of my many happy memories from childhood is the fall apple harvest. The fun began with a ride on the tractor with Pap, a picnic lunch lovingly prepared by Granny, and tree climbing to fetch the apples! As if all that fun even needed a reward, it had many in the homemade goodies of applesauce, apple butter, apple cake, and apple pie. Yummy! To this day, the sight and smell of apples bring those happy days to mind.

Maybe those lovely memories have something to do with being drawn to these adorable apple fabrics or maybe ther'e just darling i nthier own right. Perfect for border skirts, peasant tops and dresses, reversible pinafores, and ruffle pants! The colors are also perfect for pairing up with corduroy in leaf green, milk chocolate brown, winter white, and red. Oh, and of course, everything does with denim! See the fun styles in the shop. Here's a peek at a few of my fave fabric combos.

apples and brown dots apples and green swirls

apples and brown ovals

apples and red swirls

farmdale apples and black/white dots

farmdale and curio

Rainbow Garden

This happy fabric from Australia is some of the softest cotton I've ever touched. Love it! With tons of vibrant colors it's easy to combine other fabrics and add items of your own to mix-n-match oufits.

Look how cute it looks with any of these dots!

Orange in pindot, irregular dot, or quarter dot.

Pinks in fuchsia pink tiny dot, dark coral pink irregular dot, dark coral pink small dot.

Fuchsia pink quarter dot.

Which one would you choose?

Orange!

These sweet little ruffle shorts are perfect for adding a bit of feminine detail to the practicality of shorts. Add a tee of your own or a cute little peasant top, reversible crossback, or two new reversible styles to be added to the shop soon!

Like your dots a little smaller? How about these half-inch dots?

Check out all these fun fabrics with orange!

Alexander Henry Shroom

AH: Owls in white

Alice Kennedy floroals

Sandi Henderson Meadowsweet Pink Medallion flowers

Thyme Wildbirds Paula Prass: Another option for the dot shorts. Dots are over 1.25" big.

Paula Prass: Woodland Delight pink, fuchsia, orange on brown

Paula Prass: pink, fuchisa, orange, carnation pink on light pink

Heather Ross Princess and the Pea Princess and the Pea close up

Heather Ross: Unicorns Light Blue background with white, golden yellow, and orange

Sandi Henderson Meadowsweet Butterflies

Sandi Henderson Meadowsweet

Rainbow Garden from Prints Charming: Rainbows

Colors: magenta, tangerine, orange, coral pink, butter, thistle, fuchsia, peach, lavendar

Rainbow Garden Plaid: white, magenta, mulberry, fuchsia, lavendar, carnation pink, orange,
Rainbow Garden Big Dots: white, lavender, periwinkle, mulberry, magenta, raspberry, thistle, peach, pink champagne,
Rainbow Garden 1970s print: fuchsia, raspberry, mulberry, orange, red, turquoise, peach carnation pink

New, Beautiful Fabrics!

Here's a peak at a few of the beautiful new fabrics I'm sewing with!

Hope Valley from Denyse Schmidt:

Amy Butler's newest collection: Love

Watch the shop for items made up in these new, lovely designer fabrics!

Daisy's Dress Design

One of the best parts of creating custom items is the collaboration with customers - helping them design a one-of-a-kind item that reflects their own personal sense of style. Daisy, a girl who has her own eye for fashion, and her Momma have chosen a peasant style dress with a border fabric on the sleeves and hem.

The main fabric is a delightfully happy and colorful cotton poplin from teh Rainbow Garden collection of Australian desinger, Prints Charming. It's luxuriously soft and feel slike PJs next to you skin. The background of dark plum purple is a gorgeous backdrop for the many shades of pinks, oranges, and purples of the paisleys.

Here's a peak at the 13 potential go-withs I found in my fabric stash. Now - let's see what Daisy thinks!

1 - Orange with tiny white pin dots

2 - Orange with 1/4 inch white dots in a random pattern

3 Orange with small white dots

4 - Orange, a more muted shade, with white pin dots

5 Orange with yellow, fuchsia, and white 1/4 inch dots

6 Plaid - another fabric from the Rainbow Garden collection that the same super soft poplin

7 Pink - similar to the dots of number 3

8 Fuchsia pink with a deep, deep pink scribble

9 Pink corduroy - hey where did that photo go?

10 Orchid pink with flower print

11 The pink version of #2

12 Pink, the same shade as #9, but with tiny white pin dots

13 Another fabric from the Rainbow Garden collection. This one has big 1-inch dots.

What would you choose?