LOVE CHALLENGE Winner and February Roundup!

STASHBUSTERS!!
  It's time to announce the winner of our first challenge of the year!! But before I tell you who won I've got to show you some of my favorite selfish sewing projects of this month!!

Crab and Bee's Lovely Linen Tunic!

The Cataloguer Goes Green

Heather's Butterfly Cardigan

Beautiful Brown Cowl Top

Everyone has been sew inspiring and you all have kept me motivated this past month to keep sewing and create beautiful things! To see who got voted into the Top 5 head on over to Cation Designs and to check out all the lovely projects browse through our flickr pool. Great Job Everyone!

Now, without further ado, Andrea of StitchParade won this month's challenge with her beautifully done men's shirt. 

A Gift of Love

If you guys keep it up I'm going to have to try my hand at one for some of the men in my family. Andrea, please get us your mailing address so you can receive your prize!! With that our February festivities come to an end and it looks like our March Madness is off to a good start. While it is still super chilly here I'm working on a silly summer project already! See ya'all next week!

Kawaii Stashbusting

Hello Again Stashbusters!
  How's the last week of this lovely dovey month going to go? Probably as quickly as the rest of the month has! That hasn't stopped you from making some AMAZING things! If you participated in our Challenge this month, Sewing something for a loved one, head on over to Cation's post and leave a link so we all can see your creativity! You have until March 2nd to enter, voting will be open to ALL stashbusters, whether you entered or not, from March 3rd through the 6th. Cation and I will pick a winner from the top five!

So how's my stashbusting for others going? I thought you'd never ask! Well last week held a few surprises that changed up my plans. My best friend from college was in an accident and broke her ankle in two places and my Aunt is turning 60. While both of them sound like they will survive, they both sounded in need of some care packages full of sewn goodies.

I loved getting to use some of my new decorative stitches and how they
added perfectly to the sad vibe.

Over Skype, my Aunt shared she had decided to have a "Pathetic Pizza Pity Party" 

full of black, red and white decorations. Kawaii had been popping up on my radar lately and a quick google image search gave me plenty of sad kawaii inspiration to make her this tiny potholder.

 I feel he is appropriately mourning with her without being too depressing about it. I told her I was glad she didn't take the alternate route for growing old. Me only being in my mid twenties doesn't really see why 60 is such a sad deal. Shouldn't she be happy she's made it that far?

Perfect for pulling out pizza!

Anyways, we do love each other and no disrespect is intended in this post. She seems to be having a lot of fun planning a party. I hope this will add some laughs to it as well. Do you think she'll like it?

All I want to do is make a giant quilt full of kawaii faces now... Is kawaii the Japanese word for cute? Does the word mean a specific style or just any old cute thing? 

Hmmmmmm....

Keep up the good work stashbusters! I'll be back later this week with a tutorial just for you expressing all my love!

February Stashbusting!

It's February my friends!! The first month of 2013 is over and what a month it has been! Before I show you all the amazing makes of January scraps I want to talk about what we are doing for February.

Pinsource

It's a Challenge Month!! What's a Challenge Month, you ask? Well, any month that says CHALLENGE means that if you sew along with our theme, you can enter your finished project in a contest! We'll all vote on our favorite makes and you'll get bragging rights and a tiny but AMAZING prize.  So without more ado,

February's LOVE CHALLENGE!!!

 Challenge Details:

• Since February is the month of LOVE that's our theme and focus of the challenge. Making things for those you love.
• Near the end of February, Cation will be hosting another link party for your projects, then all stashbusters can vote for their favorites! We'll announce the top five voter favorites, and pick the winner from them the first week of March.  

Challenge Rules:

• Item must be made for someone else, preferably someone you care about and not some random stranger or inanimate object. Pets also count.
• Item must be made primarily from stash fabrics, you are allowed to buy notions, if needed.

To Enter:

• Item must be entered in the link party by February 28th. 
• Leave a description of why this item is so perfect for the one you love.

February Pinspiration full of inspiring mushyness. 

 Our Flickr group, please continue posting All stashbusting projects here, including your challenge photos because it is so inspiring to see all your creativity.

Speaking of inspiration, look at some of the amazingness that happened in January!

beautiful quilts were a popular choice

AMazing Shorts

Ferocious Stashbuster here!

Some of the cutest pjs ever seen!

The prison bra!

Lovely print into sewing machine cover.

Pouches were popular too.

Guys, there were so many amazing projects and this is only a taste! Go check out the rest of the makes at the Flickr pool and Cation's link party. There are still two days left to join in so everyone can see what you have been up to. I didn't even include any of the amazing stash pictures. (they'll either make you feel guilty or relieved at your fabric.)

Thanks for participating with such enthusiasm in January. I can't wait to see what February brings us! Hello to all our newest stashbusters as well! It is never too late to take the pledge!

So who do you love enough to stashbust for?