Clean and Crisp

The Classic Linen Peep

This classic little linen shoe is the newest addition to the Lily Collection.

I'm so excited about this little peep toe. It is perfect for absolutely every outfit my little Lily owns. 

I have a thing for the T-strap right now so you're going to see a few more of these T-strap beauties soon.

Oh my PEEP! 

I just love seeing her cute little toes on the end of these dainty little things.

Bring it on

Brady just started school again. Yeah for only just over a year left to a masters degree, but not so yeah for a busy husband.

It looks like my evenings just opened up. Wide open!!

For the months of September and October I'll be taking any *custom orders you can throw at me. I'm tossing the schedule to the wind. 

so I invite you to start your creative juices flowing and...

BRING IT ON!

I can't promise any opening from October throughout the rest of the year (chances are there will be a few slots open, but I make no promises) so if you want something done before Christmas or in time for a birth sometime this year now is the time to order. 

Orders will be filled on a first come first serve basis, but should only take 10-14 business days from the time you order to be ready for shipping.

Questions? Please feel free to ask!

*When you place a custom order you get to pick the exterior fabric of your item (at no additional cost, I'll even order it if I don't have it in stock).

Limited Edition iPod Sweater

I stayed up much later than normal last night creating this little beauty. I couldn't stop until it was finished.

This little iPod case is made from an up-cycled sweater with the cutest wool on the inside to keep your iPod nice and safe. 

The sweater is only so big so this case is a special limited edition with only a few available. I just posted it in my shop so grab one quick!

A bag for L&M

Here's hoping L is too busy with her new baby boy M to read my blog!

L (not the same as last time.) ordered a bag and told me that she wanted me to pick everything. She wanted to have nothing to do with the design process at all! 

I had a great time! 

I didn't know she loved purple until I had already ordered the fabric so that was a very pleasant surprise indeed!

I did the new Boo Bear style bag for her and can I just say that it is HARD to find this color of purple. It is exactly what I had in mind, but I honestly ordered and sent back four different fabrics for this bag. I'm so glad that I finally got the right stuff at the last minute.

Thanks L for letting me make a bag for you. And thanks for your huge vote of confidence in letting me pick everything out. It was so much fun!

The ipod Case

I have an ipod.

I recently crushed said ipod.

Thus, The ipod Case.

(This one has a small whoops on it. I accidentally put the eyelet on the wrong side so I had to add another. If you would like the OOPPPS one for a great price just let me know. Also, it is more of a mustard color not so much bright yellow.)

 In the interest of full disclosure I dropped and shattered the screen of our ipod a couple days after I made The Case, but I randomly was not using it. I was so mad when I picked it up and saw the nice shiny screen all cracked and chipped. I don't know if my cover would have helped the screen to not crack, but I really beat myself up for not having the ipod in there. I therefore came home and made a bunch more cases to cover the ugly spiderweb crisscrossing my screen.

(There is an eyelet on each case for your little ear buds to fit in)

These three are available now! The buckles are now on backorder so I'll list a bunch more when I get some more buckles in.

Something Old...Something New

 I have a huge pile of clothes to donate. The only thing is I can't help but thinking about how cute some of the fabric is. I decided to do something about it instead of letting the two laundry baskets full of old/way to small now clothes sit in my room and clutter away.

Something old...

Something new...

I'm working on a tutorial/pattern for this dress, but I hate stopping to take pictures of the process. I just get way to excited to get to the finished product. So Lily will have to have a few more dresses like this just to get all the steps documented.

Lily just learned how to scoot and found herself a new hiding place. I think this girl loves fabric almost as much as I do.

Peep Toes (Black Tie)

For two years I have wanted to make peep toe shoes. For two years I could not get my mind to create what I wanted it to. Then about a week ago I was chatting with my Mom in my studio holding Lily while the boys took a nap and it hit me! It literally popped right into my head. I had to have my Mom hold Lily really fast so I could sew a sample right away before I forgot.

It worked. And yesterday I tried to make one again. Good thing I had the sample to refer to because as quickly as the idea came it left.

Say Hello to The Black Tie. The second shoe in The Lily Collection.

Yeah, collection. I could not pick one single shoe to make and name Lily so I decided to have a whole collection named after her. I guess that is one benefit to having your Mom be the designer. Downside? You also have to model.

These cute little shoes have a pleated satin T-Strap with a satin ribbon that wraps around the ankle and ties in the back. Look at those cute chubby legs! Admit it, it's way cuter than the shoes!

My little Lily makes a great foot model. Just look at how she works those shoes. Ok, honestly there was a little help from Daddy with the crossing of the feet. :)

Thanks Mom for holding Lily for that quick second. Good things always seem to pop into my head when you are around.

Purple

I have a bit of a thing for purple right now. 

Here is a little peek at a few of the purple things to come.

 This little purple Bracelet Cuff is custom made to fit any little girl. It is the perfect little dainty accesory. It makes me think of little tea parties and little girls all dressed up for the occasion.

This is also available in different colors. I just had to make Lily a purple one. :)

LW. This bags for you!

I just wanted to post a quick custom order.

LW is expecting her third little boy in October. I'm in love with how your bag turned out L. And congrats on the new little cutie to come!!

Patterns

I have to apologize for the lack of posting lately. We've had such a packed summer it's hard to find the time. 

I do have some fun news though! I'll be spending the next little while making a few of my designs into patterns! This means that in a little while (date yet to be determined) you'll be able to purchase these patterns and make some Vintage Clothespin goodness (everything from quilts to aprons to bags)all for yourself!

I'm excited to get these out and show you a few of the fun new things I'm working on. I hope you are all having a wonderful and crazy summer and that you'll be ready for a Fall full of sewing!

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It's Here!!

The new bag I just know you have all been waiting for.

The Boo Bear Diaper Bag

This would also make a great overnight/daycare bag!

This bag is made of heavy decor weight fabric to make it nice and strong. And is accented with a great velvet ruffle!

This bag still has the traditional six pockets with four tiny pockets for pens, pencils, crayons or tweezers.

Also available is this little key holder! I LOVE mine. no more searching in the depths of my bag to find my small keys. I just hook them on and they are there waiting for me when I need them.

This bag is also sporting a magnetic snap closure.

So there you have it the NEW Boo Bear Diaper Bag. (another nickname my Daddy had for me.)

I'll start taking custom orders for it, but you must sign up for a month (on my sidebar). And in the next couple of weeks I'll have a few in the shop ready to be shipped.

Enjoy!

Tuesday

For some reason my site gets the most traffic on Tuesdays. I'm not exactly sure why. Do I post more on Tuesdays than other days? Are people more internet active on Tuesdays? Or is is just a random thing that no one can explain? Who knows.

This being the case I have decided to embrace Tuesday.

This coming Tuesday I'm going to show you my new bag design! 

Yea get excited!!

Some of you have already seen the bag. :( It is the one that I carry for my little Lily. And one of my friends in Colorado has one too. But that is it so the rest of you can be surprised!

Have a great weekend!

I just couldn't wait

Usually I wait until a project is finished to share it with you.

not this time though. I was just to excited to show you our new picnic quilt (well the top anyway).

Brady and I have been a picnicing couple from the beginning. It's something that we look forward to every spring summer and fall (darn winter!).


I have wanted to make a quilt for our special outings. Something that our kids would look at and have tons of memories from. I'm finally done. Just in time for picnic season.

My mom asked, "Well who will get this sentimental quilt when you picnicing days are over?" a nice way of saying "gone". Kind of a sad thought, but it had crossed my mind to. It would be hard to have one child have the sentimental quilt and not another. 

Here's my plan. I made a few extra blocks from the quilt fabric of our special quilt. When each of my children get married I am going to make them their very own picnic quilt from fabric they have chosen for themselves. Then on the back there will be 1 block from the  picnic quilt they grew up with. 

And this houndstooth beauty will be arriving at my Mom's door hopefully in time for Mothers Day. My Mom and Dad would have celebrated their 30 wedding anniversary on Easter this year. I wanted to do something special for her so remind her of my Dad and let her know just what an amazing Mom she is. Her wedding colors were peach and baby blue. I found the peach, but could not find the right shade of blue. So gray it is. 

Don't look at all the strings. Remember I said I was still working on these. :)


Too many quilt pictures. Hey I'm excited remember?

Drum Roll Please...

This time around I decided to consult one of those random number services online. I had to throw out a couple of entries due to me commenting back to you all and some people entering just a few too many times.

So after figuring all that out here is the lucky number

Enter a lower limit:
Enter an upper limit:
Random Number:

So apparently this one does not paste the numbers it picked when you paste it to your blog. LAME. The number picked was 
#45


Congratulations to ...

WADES

Yay!

Be sure to email me to claim your prize and so we can work out what you want your prize to be!

Thank you all so much for your comments and GREAT ideas! Look for the fun new stuff to come soon. It is spring after all and I can't wait to get sewing!

P.S. Whoever congratulates WADES first gets a free mini wallet. I'm just sayin' be a good sport. :)

P.P.S. If you have a custom order coming in May and I have not contacted you then I do not have your e-mail address. Will you shoot me an e-mail so we can work out the specifics.

Thanks guys.

What Will You Win??

If you think I just forgot to post what the winner of my Give-A-Way will receive you are wrong.

I honestly just could not decide. 

So here is the deal...

The winner will get to pick from a huge variety of things. I'm not even opposed to trying something new.

Here are a few ideas:

Baby Shoes

Changing Set

Wallet

Gadget Case for your gadget

Pillow cover

Maybe a skirt for your baby girl

Headband (for you or baby)

Ok you get the idea. 

The point is you don't have to have a baby or even know anyone that does. I'll make you something that will be a great fit for you no matter what stage of life  you are in.

So go ahead and enter on the next post down.

Spring Cleaning, Anniversary and Maybe A Give-A-Way

Okay okay, yes there will be a give-a-way, but back to that in a minuet.

I love spring. Spring in fact is when I first started The Vintage Clothespin. Yep, it's been 2 years this month that I sold my first pair of oven mitts. Affectionately named "The Scrappy Mitt".

Spring is my creative time. I'm not sure why. Maybe it is the warm weather, maybe the sun and all the Vitamin D. Or maybe it is just when for no reason at all my mind starts to go and does not stop.

 I'm in sort of a predicament. I have so many ideas in my head right now. So many in fact that if I don't start sewing them soon I'm afraid I'll loose them. My sweet husband suggested I draw my ideas out so I don't forget them. Oh sweet husband of mine, don't you remember...I CAN'T DRAW!! That is absolutely not a talent of mine. That is also why you will NEVER see sketches of things I'm working on. I simply don't have any and just plain can't make them.

In order for me to be able to sew these new ideas I have to have a place to put the finished product. (Umm, yeah I'm out of places to store things. I even moved everything out of our linen closet and renamed it "The Vintage Clothespin Storage Center").

Here is where you come in. You lucky people you!

I'm having a HUGE SPRING CLEANING SALE!!!

I'll be listing ABSOlUTELY EVERYTHING I have that is made and ready to be shipped. Some of it is new stuff that I have just never had a chance to list and some of it is already in the shop now.

EVERYTHING LISTED IN THE SHOP IS ON SALE.

The sale starts TODAY, as in RIGHT NOW and ends on Saturday April 30, 2011!!!

Head on over to the shop! Once it is gone it is gone!! 

And just because blogs are boring without any pictures I added some random ones in. Yeah, they have nothing really to do with any of this, but I hope you enjoy them. :)

WAIT!!! The give-a-way! I almost forgot.

Three ways to enter:

*** Like me on Facebook***

***Facebook, or blog about the sale***

and last but not least

***Tell me something you'd like me to start making or selling. No new ideas? Tell me your favorite thing I already make.***

Listen up this is important

POST A COMMENT FOR EACH OF YOUR ENTRIES.

if you do all three things make sure you post a comment for EACH OF THEM. That means if you complete all three tasks you should leave me three different comments.

And now if you have made it through this whole long wordy post leave an extra comment for yourself. You deserve a BONUS entry. :)