Fabric Gone Wild

I rearranged the office, aka the Fabric Room, earlier this week. All the store products, fabrics, and other rescue related items are held in this room. Even after adding another set of shelves, and cleaning out an entire trash bag worth of fabric to give one of our volunteers, my shelves are STILL overflowing! I guess that's what happens when you have almost 300 different fabric choices!





These shelves have all the cotton and flannel prints for the rescue. Up above is out of season products, plus the solid flannels. In the storage bins to the left is my (very messy) personal fabric stash. In the wicker basket are seasonal fabrics that don't fit on the shelves.
























And here is all the fleece. Don't you just want to curl up in it and take a nap?
























In other rescue related news, we released a new hammock design over the weekend, and we've gotten a ton of orders for it so far! I can't wait to see some of the finished products. If I'm lucky, maybe I'll finish early enough tonight, I can make some new hammocks for my crew!


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Good weekend for FO's!

I've had a rather productive weekend here! Hooray! First up, I finished knitting a hat that was supposed to be for Kaiden. It's the LTK Bucket Hat, knit in toddler size. Unfortunately, it came out large enough to fit Nate! It was knit in lime green Sugar and Cream cotton yarn. Aside from being really huge, it came out pretty nicely. It was my first time knitting with cotton, and I must say, I actually like the feel of it in my hands.

On Friday I received my order of Solarveil from a co-op. I ordered blue and turquoise, with plans on making a Mei Tai carrier, as well as two pouches - one for me and one for Nate. I'm pretty sure I'll have extra left, though I'm not sure what I'll be making with it yet. Saturday evening I got to work making the Mei Tai. It's is reversible, with blue on one side and turquoise on the other. I made this using a faux BBO pattern, and I LOVE how it came out. I hadn't used this pattern yet, and I'm really liking how it fits. The straps are wide, but not as huge as the ones on my BMT. Very, very comfy!

Tonight I finally got around to making Kaiden another diaper. I'm still tweaking the design a bit, but I'm getting closer! Ignore the sewing mistakes in this one - it was late and the sewing machine wasn't cooperating! It is made from the Fattycakes pattern, and is a side snapping fitted diaper. The body contains an outer layer of cotton woven, inner layer of velour, and a hidden body layer of hemp terry with an additional 3 layers of hemp in the soaker. The snap in soaker consists of two layers of hemp topped in velour. Very soft, and pretty trim considering all the layers!

All Done!

Tonight I finished sewing up my newest diaper. It's a medium Fattycakes side snapping fitted diaper. `The outer layer is a printed cotton interlock, with a red velour inner. The internal soaker is two layers of hemp terry, with a snap in soaker consisting of two more layers of hemp terry, topped with velour.

I made another diaper in the same pattern, but in a size large. The rise is a bit high on that one, but I think the medium should fit him well. Kaiden is already down for the night, so it will be tried on tomorrow.

Here are the pics as promised. For the most part the diaper came out as expected, though I did forget to put in the size tag while adding the snaps, and the snap-in soaker is shaped oddly. Otherwise it came out fine. :)