Most Popular DIY's for Craft for Shelters Day with Links!

Cheers to National Craft for Shelters Day!!  The official day is July 21st and we are having a crafting party on the 23rd at our local sewing store here in Seattle.  Here's a collection of the most popular DIY's for the shelters.  What do you think?  Which ones would you make?

Click on photos to be directed to the DIY tutorials.

No Sew Dog Vests from the Etsy blog

Rope toys - the perfect craft for young kids or adults who don't know how to sew!

If you have DIY craft ideas for shelters, share the links in the comments so we can check them out!

XOXOXO,

Erika and Sebastian

DIY Candy Crush Color Bomb Squeak Toy

Yeah, we're addicted too.

We can't help but notice the Candy Crush craze.  It's everywhere.  Everyone is doing it.  And In April, Buzzfeed reported Candy Crush as the highest grossing app in the app store and the biggest app on facebook.  Scary!

While we were waiting for more lives on Candy Crush to accumulate, I decided to make Sebastian his own Color Bomb Squeak Toy.

As always, here's a tutorial:

Colorbomb to the rescue!

XOXOXOXO,

Erika and Sebastian

DIY Pet Coat Pattern - Sewing it Together!

This is part 2 of our coat tutorial.  To get your pattern pieces, visit our first tutorial on making the pattern here.

Since we are recycling junkies, we decided to make this coat from an old wool shirt.  And since the old wool shirt had pockets and a collar, we decided to incorporate those items (because how could we not?).  It's SEW easy!  Of course this coat can be made without a pocket or collar and still be cute (just skip those steps if not using extra items).

First things first: cut out all your pattern pieces.  

If you are using the shirt pockets and collar, keep following along.  If not, just skip the next two illustrations.

Now, anything you might add to the outside of the coat needs to be sewn on FIRST (i.e. pocket and collar).

If you are skipping pocket and collar, continue on here!

You are now ready to start sewing entire coat together!

Almost done!!!

How about adding some buttons from that shirt?

He's workin' that new coat.

Now flip that collar up and prepare to look bad@$$.

XOXOXOXOXO,

Erika and Sebastian

Project Runway: All Stars - Part 10

Challenge: ???

Well for those of you who watch the show, the challenge was to "talk business" by creating a look within a certain budget based on the retail price the item could be sold for.  And blah blah blah.  With that being said, Sebastian and I were clueless on what direction to take.  

So....  We decided to create a look inspired by Mondo's dress, which won the challenge.

photo courtesy of Lifetime

He took strips of totally different fabrics and made stripes with them.  I actually like this dress and Mondo happens to be who I hope wins the finale.

I went through my closet of fabrics (literally) and collected a combination of prints.

Since Sebastian IS a boy (lets not forget!  ha), I went with a nautical theme.  I sewed the strips together and then cut out Sebastian's tank pattern.  Pretty easy.  

We are ready to sail our way to the Project Runway finale (which airs tomorrow night)!!!

xoxoxoxoxo,

Erika and Sebastian