Thursday, September 9, 2010

Holiday Fabric - Santa Donkeys and Boots in the shop!

I can't tell you how much fun it was to get your feedback on the holiday santa donkeys and the holiday rainboots. I read through all of your comments and really appreciate all of the great suggestions and ideas. Here's where I landed on revisions to the original design from a few weeks ago.

The donkeys who are wearing Santa Hats are no longer wearing boots. They always say to take off one accessory, right? Can't have the donkeys overdressed can we?

I changed the size of these donkeys so they are roughly a third smaller. The original donkeys are each 5" x 4". These holiday donkeys are roughly 3-1/2" x 3". So now you have MORE donkeys to sew with!

I tried and tried and tried to incorporate your suggestions on antlers and Rudolph noses. Really loved the ideas. But at the end of the day the antlers ended up looking like sticks coming out of the donkeys heads and the red nose looked like a tumor. So, needless to say, I had to step away from those additions. :)

I'm so excited to announce that both fabrics are now available in the shop!! I only have yard of each on hand but I'll be placing an order for more yardage this weekend. So for those of you anxious to get started on holiday sewing projects, place your orders and I'll start shipping fabric as soon as I receive it (should be 2-3 weeks max).

Thanks again for all your great ideas and I hope you love these little sweeties. I'm really happy with how they turned out!





9 comments:

Kerri said...

eeek!! they are sooo adorable!!!! love, love, LOVE them!!

Heather said...

They are so cute! My daughter was reading me a book about donkeys when I read your post, we love the fabric :)

Dolly said...

How great that you responded to feedback !

There's even plain donkeys with no hat or boots !

Hope you sell a truckload !

momto2wasd said...

Oh, my goodness!! Those are sooo cute! I especially like the rain boots and the santa hat ones! I'm really tempted even though I shouldn't!

Anonymous said...

Oh - these take my breath away - how adorable! I keep thinking I need more donkeys and wellies ... and now I need these! I can't think of a more cheerful fabric for the holidays. Time to start planning sewing projects!

Leslie said...

these are just way way too cute!

Bec said...

oh they look amazing!! sooo cute! xx

Regan said...

oooooh my...im heading over asap...my mom has donkeys and she would flip her LID if I made her something with these!!!

sally said...

My kids wear mud boots all the time. We just love this fabric!!