WIP - midterms week

 With the last two weeks of school being midterms, I haven't had much time to devote to the store or just crafting in general. But I still wanted to post a few pictures of exciting things that have happened since last week. Enjoy :]

I made a dainty pair of baby pink heart barefoot sandals that I love!

We sent a hippie headband all the way to Oklahoma this last week. I was VERY excited about being in a new state!

Here is a lovely camera print circle scarf I sewed for my little sister. Just in time for our trip to Franklin TN this weekend :]!

and this was a project that I intended to make MONTHS ago, and I finally found the time to do it this afternoon. I love it. I found the idea on pinterest and printed off maps that showed my parents house, Vince's family's house, and our house is on the map in the middle :] I'm very happy about this new addition to our home <3

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WIP- custom order and start to spring line of products!

Well, the first thing I made after breaking out of my "block" was a custom order scarf. It was a beautiful color, not at all sure what the brand or name was, awful I know! I really will try to remember to go back and check through my labels to try and remember which one it was. My mind is just currently blanking out. Anyways, it was adorable, and made so that you could wear it long and wrapped several time like a regular scarf, or button up the ends together to make it an infinity scarf! So cute! and was actually one of the things i had been wanted to try but just didn't have an excuse too!

Now I'm hitting the point where I really need to start getting some ideas around about new products for the spring. I'm definitely going to start carrying some cute and fun iPhone covers such as this flower beauty :] I also have a few other different items in mind, but if there's something you're hoping to see, let me know! comment on this
post, or email me. (chelseamadeblog@gmail.com)

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W.I.P- team spirit gear

It's WIP Wednesday here at the blog, and even though I failed to take detailed photos on the gifts for holly's family, I still wanted to post this week. So rather than post on my projects I had been working on, I thought I'd post on a different topic I have been meaning to post but just never seemed to have the time last semester.

Team spirit gear! In any color(s) you'd like! As you should know by now, chelseaMADE accepts custom orders, so any item on the store or in your mind can be custom made in your favorite team's colors! Giving you a cuter style to show off your team spirit than that regular old school team apparel!!!

 these girls are such hams! lol! their team "lost" in this one ;P

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WIP: Magneto Hat

This week's WIP post will be short but sweet. Like I said last week, a lot of my projects the last week or two have been for orders from loved ones. So since I am avoiding accidentally spoiling someone's surprise, I'll just be writing a short post this week.

First off, last week I completed an order for a friend for her significant other :] It was a custom order Magneto hat! Definitely a little different from anything I had done in the past, but I loved the way it came out! Very proud of this little chelseaMADE goodie :] !

Also this week, chelseaMADE had to ship out its very first out of state order! Very Exciting!

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W.I.P. - custom orders

This week I was working on several different custom orders. I was lucky enough to have several people take part in the birthday sale! So this week I worked on a hat, two pairs of boot cuffs, a chunky infinity scarf, and packaging. I also worked on some templates for personal notes to add to orders and cute little fold overs that I can staple on a bag for small items that do not get chelseaMADE labels sewn on.

I should of taken more pictures of the goodies while I was working through out the week, and of the packages for them. Two of my orders were from lovely ladies at my school, so I got to dress theirs up like presents since I could deliver those in person instead of via mail. Above are pictures of the order for a custom slouch hat in hot pink and the lovely soft pink green and brown cowl I made earlier this month :] You get to see it in its cute little bag, with tissue paper and the care instruction cards on top.

This picture is of both orders waiting to be delivered!

And below are my templates! I'll have to do up a bad so you can understand what the fold over things are. I just wanted something to look more professional so it looks more like it'd hang on a retail store"s shelf now :]

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W.I.P. - coffee cozies, and scarfs-galore!

This week was busy busy busy!! I designed my firs coffee cozy, as well as making lots of scarfs, even finishing a WIP I've had laying around since my freshman year of college....yikes!

I'll start off with the three year old WIP! its a really simple yet classy and elegant scarf :] I uploaded two looks on Instagram and had a vote for it since I couldn't decide myself which way I wanted to go. Even though I only had two participants in the vote it helped me make up my mind even though it was a 1:1 vote ratio. I decided on the look pictured to the left. I like the simplicity of a plain long rectangular scarf since most of the items I make these days are cowls. I can't help it, they're my favorite right now :] This little darling was crocheted in a pale yellow, using a repetitive double crochet stitch. I then decided to pair it with a jumbo sized white rose broach in the front. I really like the feminine touch the rose added.






The next scarf from this week was a plain cream classic cowl. This one had a very simple stitch as well but I didn't feel the need to dress it up as it was such a nice soft texture of a yarn I wanted it to speak for itself. I have the label at home so maybe later I'll update with a note as to what brand it was and the name of the color. For now, it was soft, cream, and purchased at  Jo Anne's fabrics. The whole thing was stitched in a half double crochet.


The next picture is of the first coffee cozy I designed and finished completely :] I have about 8 more just plain colored bases done with out details sewn on or appliques made. The colors are all different, and hopefully I'll have a good image of them completed on next week's WIP Wednesday. For now, this is the only one :]




The scarf in the next picture is to die for! I just think it is absolutely gorgeous and I adore it! I bought this skein at Jo Anne's as well. I might have the skein label for this one at home too. So I'll have to check, but this yarn was also very soft and cozy. The color of the skein was a elegant fade between pinks, greens, and brown and it just worked beautifully with the pattern I made for the cowl. It was worked length wise in a connected circle vs width. The picture to the left shows a close up of the pattern.

Geez! I bet you're all thinking, when she said scarf-galore, she meant SCARF-GALORE! Hahaha :] There's only two more I swear! The next one is a custom order made by my mum! She came to visit this week and while she was in town checking out all my goodies I've made recently she decided she needed one too! or a few really, lol, but we decided to start with just one for now and make our way through her list of requests! This skein was purchased at Walmart and is also a super lovely cozy soft skein. Its colors faded rather nicely as well. I have a pet peeve sometimes when it comes to multi-colored dyed yarn because I find that many times the yarn is NOT evenly distributed color wise, and that rather bothers me. I don't want to look at the outside of the skein and think, "oh i love that!" just to take it home and have a decent amount of time into a piece to find out, eww, this yarn is NOT at all how it looked!

Last, but not least, is the Halloween inspired infinity scarf I made using orange and black yarn. It is knitted using both threads at the same time. Not much else to say about this one, just that it is super cute and you can wear it all kinds of ways! 

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