CHICKPEA SEWING STUDIO

Announcement #1 today:

Marimekko fabric is on sale at the REPRODEPOT. I am not typing any exclamation point here but don't be fooled, I am having finger cramps from not ordering any NOW. It makes great nursery fabric (excuse to tell husband when he gets the bill). If you cannot resist I should point out that they have super cheap accessories in the same fabrics on sale (bibs, wallets, aprons).

Announcement #2:

I have scored the fabric deal of the century last night. Where? at work of all places. As I am helping to look for a mystery bolt of sandy Gervais valentine's panel, my eyes wander to the sale table and see, just sitting there in plain view a bolt of this Alexander Henry goodness:

price : $4/yard. length left on the bolt: 9 yards.

I guess I know what the nursery theme is going to be. No need to brainstorm any longer. This print happens to fit the mid-century modern theme I had fantasized about, and it will fit great (I hope) with the grey crib currently stored in the middle of our bedroom in a large cardboard box. This is what I really covet, I think it would be a brilliant echo of the fabric.

To celebrate this good fortune, those two bend-the-rules-sewing bibs were born. I used two layers of Gerber diaper cloth instead of the prescribed flannel back. just because.