{"id":5953,"date":"2018-02-23T14:18:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T22:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2018-02-23T14:18:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T22:18:04","slug":"february-2018-winter-catch-up-new-products-bonus-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/2018\/02\/february-2018-winter-catch-up-new-products-bonus-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"February 2018: Winter Catch Up, New Products & Bonus Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOY! This winter has been a rough one!\u00a0 Although I started the year healthy and raring to go,\u00a0 I’ve been battling a string of colds and bronchitis.\u00a0 When your health is poor, it’s exceedingly difficult to stay focused and be productive.\u00a0 However, even though I was under the weather, here is a run-down of some of the highlights of the past two months.<\/p>\n

Bedlah Repairs<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Staring on January 1, I picked up this lovely fuchsia and black bedlah sets to make some repairs.\u00a0 This was a collaboration with dancer\/designer Poppy Maya a couple of years back, and it was nice to have it back on my table making some repairs, replacing some hooks and eyes and tightening up some loose jewelry components.<\/p>\n

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Margo Anderson’s Choli Pattern<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I was so pleased to get this new Choli pattern from Margo Anderson of Margo’s Patterns<\/a>.\u00a0 Last year, she ran a Kickstarter<\/a> campaign to help fund the release of a new line of dancewear patterns. I fell in love the “Cold Shoulder” style on the bottom left. I just think that Margo’s patterns are great. Margo’s patterns are easily assembled, accurately sized, and fit well.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to putting this pattern to the test in the spring.<\/p>\n

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Wicked Mojo – Jax the Seam Ripper<\/strong><\/h3>\n

My brother, Joe who runs a woodworking company Wicked Mojo Designs<\/a>, does custom turnings in wood and acrylic.\u00a0 While I have admired his custom pens, what I really need in my life are some chubby hand sewing tools.\u00a0 He did a little research and sent me three prototypes including this beautiful tool.\u00a0 I decided to keep one made of wood, and put this little number on his brand new Etsy store<\/a>!\u00a0 Ya know what happened?\u00a0 It sold before I had a chance to share it on this blog!\u00a0 These seam rippers are comfortable to hold, and this double-ender comes with both a small and a large end.\u00a0 Best of all, you can turn the points in to protect the point when you store your tools. I’m so proud and happy for him!\u00a0 And although I may be highly biased, there are lots of great reviews over on the Studio Davina Facebook Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Nancy Hay’s – Booty-Licious Knit Skirt<\/strong><\/h3>\n

One of my oldest and dearest friends just released her first knitwear pattern for a skirt on the Ravelry<\/a> website.\u00a0 Although I am not a knitter, I’ve seen this skirt in person and it’s super cute!\u00a0 I gave her some assistance laying out her pattern and creating the .pdf and I’m so happy that it’s finally up and available and I wish her great luck in future sales!\u00a0 If you knit, be sure to check it out!<\/p>\n

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Costume Rehab – Berry Delight<\/strong><\/h3>\n

On the workbench is a leftover costume project from 2017.\u00a0 Although this project has been on my bench, I have a reasonable\u00a0policy of not working on sewing projects when I have a cold or a runny nose.\u00a0 I know, that’s a bit “TMI” but it’s a good policy.\u00a0 Since I’m a one-woman shop, when I’m under the weather, sewing projects get postponed.\u00a0 But I’m now only a few hours away from being finished with this bedlah set and am pleased with the results. \"\"<\/p>\n

I have to head out of town for family business and will be back at my desk beginning March 8.\u00a0Watch for a future blog post, where I’ll be sharing some of the images of the deconstruction and remodeling of this “Costume Rehab” project.<\/p>\n

Until next month!<\/em><\/strong>
\nDawn Devine ~ Davina<\/em><\/strong>
\nFebruary 23, 2018<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

PS:\u00a0 My Christmas Kittens are now 8 months old.\u00a0 Stormy is on the top and Silver is on the bottom.<\/p>\n

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BOY! This winter has been a rough one!\u00a0 Although I started the year healthy and raring to go,\u00a0 I’ve been battling a string of colds and bronchitis.\u00a0 When your health is poor, it’s exceedingly difficult to stay focused and be productive.\u00a0 However, even though I was under the weather, here is a run-down of some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belly-dance-costuming","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/GEPD2855.jpg?fit=551%2C826&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2YZtR-1y1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5953"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6034,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions\/6034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davina.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}