going to try something new: a pre-sale

I'm posting this on Whigs & Tories Facebook page tonight. Please find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WhigsandTories we would love to have you join us.

While we plan to try out this pattern with some of our seersucker for a pretty summer top... we happened to see this tie-dye online tonight and admit to being a little excited about it. We are looking at the indigo and the purple prints. As it happens, we have plenty of fabric waiting to be sewn up so it wouldn't be good business to rush out and purchase more... unless we knew we'd already sold it. Hence the pre-order. We will check fabric availability Monday and hopefully place the order then. Haven't ordered from this supplier before so I'm going to give them 2 weeks for delivery and then depending on how many orders 1 to 2 weeks to get it made it up. So it is a possible 4 week wait to receive your piece. Please keep that in mind.

So find this post on our Facebook page. Comment the color you'd like and the size. If you are not sure about sizing; let us know what size the child generally wears and if you can measure their chest at the widest. We will send you a paypal invoice. Keep in mind that if you are not local you will also be charged for shipping. Once the invoice is paid your item is purchased. Once we have 5 orders we will order fabric.

Gypsy Tunic in Yellow, Aqua & Purple

Currently listed in the Etsy Shop:

This pattern lends itself to mixing and matching prints

We are taking custom orders, see something you like but need a different size? Let us know. We will be happy to make a custom piece just for you while supplies last.

Shown above, Long Sleeve Tunic with elastic at the wrist, in Aqua Floral, Yellow Dot & Yellow Leaf. Perfect colors to brighten up the raining days of "Spring Showers."

Riley Blake Fabrics: Yellow Dot, Yellow Leaf & Aqua Floral
make a sweet spring tunic
etsy listing: https://www.etsy.com/listing/273131628/sweet-and-sunny-spring-gypsy-tunic-in

and sometimes simple is best. Here the tunic is shown in Yellow Leaf:

Tunic in Yellow Leaf
etsy listing: https://www.etsy.com/listing/285557213/sunny-spring-tunic-size-3-in-yellow-leaf

and a short sleeved variation in lavender:

Trying out a Cold-Shoulder Pattern

I am a fan of Striped Swallow Designs Patterns as I have mentioned in previous posts. This week I have been trying out a cold-shoulder pattern that I purchased from Striped Swallow Designs. It is on trend, cute, and doesn't compromise my ideas about what my little girl, tween girl and teen girl should be wearing in public.

Sizing is always tricky, the size 12 fits both my 11 year old and my 17 year old. (The 17 yr old wears women's xs and s. She's long and lean.)

I've sewn in up in a knit:

the 3rd grader adores hers. She's worn it three days in a row...

today I'm trying it out in a woven fabric, dress length for my oldest. And then I think I'm ready to try some pieces for the shop.

More Fun with Tunics

sweet spring tunic by Whigs & Tories

this fabric combo is available for custom order while supplies last. Spring fabrics by Waverly:

spring in Paris, with lavender & white at the bodice and a pretty lavender, purple and yellow print on the sleeve. Sweet, spring, light & breezy. Perfect over shorts or leggings.

Spring Tunic in Lavender listed on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/273816022/spring-tunic-with-short-sleeves-in

Striped Swallow Designs - shorts & tunics

Striped Swallow Designs sells patterns online. 

Last summer the shop tried the coachella shorts pattern. It was a good pattern and made up well.

Coachella Shorts by Whigs & Tories, Pattern by Striped Swallow Designs

Recently Whigs & Tories purchased the pattern called the "Wanderer Tunic" and tried it out in purple to create a lovely piece. But this particular model didn't like the feeling of the fabric strips at mid arm. Which is too bad, it makes the piece, but she doesn't find it comfortable. We would like to then try adding elastic to the sleeve bottom and seeing if the resulting puff made it more comfy. We will try that soon. Meanwhile. We are cutting tunic patterns and hope to have them in the shop next week. The pattern lends it self to a "hodgepodge" style fabric usage.

 

Purple Gypsy Tunic by Whigs & Tories, Pattern by Striped Swallow Designs

Because Pink & Hearts

pink and green, hearts, trim, inspiration

pink cord overalls size 18 months

Loving playing in the studio on the cold evenings. No matter that it was warm yesterday. It was brisk today and these sweet little corduroy overalls would have been perfect! We love pink at Whigs & Tories and we love hearts. So sure, Valentine's Day is coming but hearts look sweet on little girls (and big girls too!) any day of the year.

The shop is back open. Whigs & Tories Etsy
Stop by and see what we've been up to!

Get the work done first

Post by Cailin:

I'm reading an interview with Maya Anjelou from the 1980's and she is answering a question "How do you fit writing into your life?"
she answers "It is important to get the work done. The work is all there is. And when it's done then you can laugh, have a pot of beans, stroke some child's head, or skip down the street."

which I've paraphrased as "get the work done first"

so I'm "adulting" as they say in current popular culture. I'm getting paperwork ready for the accountant and paying attention to where we ended up last year and where we are going this year. Funny how adulting always makes me feel so proud of myself. I really despise it.

I did indulge myself a bit and play though:

my " lil' rock monster" adorning a long-all ready for the shop to open back up