After my wonderful experience making fabric buckets back in February I've decided to keep the theme rolling and make buckets for all Nicolas' little friends' birthdays this year.
This latest set was a special request from the birthday boy's mama. Looking around at her son's toys she noticed that most of them had wheels. Boys (our boys at least) and trucks (and cars and trains) go together so well they end up with not much else in the toy department. Please make him something without wheels, she asked, and suggested a bean bag throwing game. Perfect, I thought. She is my craftiest friend and it's challenging coming up with made-for-you gift ideas for other crafty people I find.
I made this set of nesting buckets from maya*made and I have three thoughts:
i) I really liked using Maya's round bucket pattern but I absolutely LOVE the nesting bucket pattern! I may never go back.
ii) I am rapidly becoming addicted to buying sewing tutorials online. They are great! I just bought the easy children’s pant tutorial and the activity to go wrap tutorial from Adirondack Patterns. No shipping fees just a pdf file sent straight to your inbox. And I find tutorials much simpler to follow than store-bought patterns: no sewing lingo shorthand, LOTS of step-by-step photos and even e-mail help if I require it.
iii) Creating and selling your own sewing patterns/tutorials online is where it's at! From three to ten bucks a pop (a decent price for a pattern I feel) if even only a small fraction of the Etsy views end up as purchases, you could be doing really well.
The nesting buckets come in four sizes and I made the bean bags (rice bags actually) with coordinating scraps from the various lining fabrics.
After the birthday party I got to feeling sorry for Nicolas whose toy cars were kept in an old mayonnaise jar and whose dinosaur toys were stored in an old ice cream bucket. So I whipped up a couple of the small buckets. “Mine buckets!” he shouted when he saw them after his nap.
It was so simple, so easy (so perfectly perfect).
most excellent, you are the most talented lady I know
Posted by: Sharon Jenkins | June 14, 2012 at 05:53 PM