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Qaspeq Fun

Womens 2XL Qaspeq
Womens Medium Qaspeq
Womens Large Qaspeq
Womens Large Qaspeq
Progess
Womens Large Qaspeq
Halibut Fishing
Cottonwood Buds
Cottonwood bud picking
Deskinning Halibut to tan
Womens Large Qaspeq
241 Tote Bag
Cottonwood Buds
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Fun March Happenings

 

Its been a wild March month!

We bought a house, remodeling the house, working full time, making baby quilts, Kenai Construction academy which is a 4 week training with electrical, plumbing, carpentry, and welding. Its been an amazing 4 weeks and I have learned A LOT. I will hopefully be building a sewing table/fabric storage/cutting table this week in carpentry.

School part time with my diet and nutrition courses, and my ethnobotany course. I am slowly working towards my Ethnobotany certificate and am excited to continue and learning about plants as medicine.

I was able to travel to Bethel last month for work and it was so great to be home.

Two fun giveaways! And I am thinking about doing another giveaway on this page so I can get the word out 🙂 Keep posted!

I finished my first big qaspeq order for the Kuskokwim Campus college. I cant wait to share pictures of the students in their beautitful qaspeqs.

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Qaspeq Class

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Home sweet Home

Home sweet home in beautiful Soldotna!

I am so excited to start making some serious sewing magic in my new sewing room.

Stay posted! I should be getting all my things for sale posted with prices hopefully by this weekend 🙂 I am trying to juggle school, work, part time job at the quilt shop, my business, and my family.

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Cats in the Hats where do I begin!

Its been a busy busy few months since I last blogged! But I have been a crafting fool!

Its been bags, bags, and more bags. I have been the crazy bag lady and it has been FUN! Some of these have been spoken for but some are ready to go to new homes!

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Tote Bag available $75 + shipping
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Tote Bag available $75+shipping
scraps4
Scrap tote bag $85 + shipping
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Tote Bag $75 +shipping
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Side 1 of tote bag $85 + shipping
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Side 2 of scrap tote bag
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Bags for days!
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More bags for dayz!
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These two have been spoken for and are hanging out in their new homes 🙂
scraps to good use
When in doubt use scraps to make a diaper bag 🙂
scrap use
I dont like wasting any scraps so I whipped out these fun bags to put in the diaper bag
more bagzzz
Blue & Gold tote bags $75 +shipping the one in the front is taken the rest are available
more bags
More tote bags available
fun bagz
This was my first time “quilting” and I had alot of fun with this! This one has been spoken for already.
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The one on the left is available (looking at screen). I ended up keeping the one on the right because it had minor mistake that I didnt want to fix or sell it the way it was 🙂
bagz in the making
What I am currently working on smaller tote bags for $65

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Its been a busy December

Lets just say it was a busy busy December with sewing, sewing and more sewing!

Because homemade gifts are the best it was a busy sewing month. Frozen quilts. Christmas qaspeq vests. And just call me the crazy bag lady it was a busy month of bag making.

I have decided to move forward and start my own sewing business. Coming up with the business name was tough but I nailed it down to Sew Yup’ik.

another frozen quilt
It was a frozen themed Christmas sewing of gifts.
christmas vests
Nothing like matching qaspeq vests to bring on the new year!
cup cozies
With each changing season the cup cozies must change too 🙂
finished order
These were two orders matching qaspeq set for two lucky girls, and bags for a happy customer.
fish bags
I wanted to have fancy fun colors for the new set of fish bags.
frozen quilt
Like I said another Frozen themed Christmas sewing. I have one quilt left to sew!
moose slippers
These were created for a special someone who I hold close to my heart. Yes, one slipper says Dick they are for the great Dick Newton of Takotna.
more progress
Because I work full time and am a full time student along with step mother, and wife its a busy life for me so an assembly line is how I work.
out with cold in with new
My husband suggested I sport a new bag since I am a walking advertisement anyway so I had to upgrade my look. 🙂
progress
Step by step I make progress and am working with new designs and new bag layouts for fun!
wall hanging
This was a wall hanging that I worked out with the help of a few ladies. This was not easy but it turned out awesome because I love bright colors and it had to be an old school skandic or elan snogo 🙂
fancy qaspeq
Im playing with fun designs for new qaspeq looks and this was one of them.
Bags
This was the set I Just finished last night.
New batch bags
Another batch of bags.
sewyupik with antlers
My name business name! I love it and cant wait to sport my clothes with this awesome logo!
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Another order done.
bags
I had fun making these I love pastel fun colors.
Slipper tops
My poor husband has been so patient with me this is one of his slipper tops. I have finally finished the other side and will add the beaver on this evening! I will have an updated set to load hopefully in my next post!

Lets just say its been a busy month. With the new year approaching I am so thankful for my amazing supportive family and my obsessive personality to never sit down and rest and to always keep busy. 

May your new year bring on happiness, good cheer, and all smiles!

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Holy HUT damn.

Lets just holy, frigging canolly.

Lets just say I was a sewing mean machine and no one was getting in my way.

You ready…

back side of snowskirt
My first upcycled snow skirt from an existing snow skirt.
bags
A set of bags for a wonderful neighbor.
bubbles up
The bubbles were placed in a very strange place, but I love it! The bubbles are going up, not down 😉
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My lovely teacher Jeanne! Shes amazing!
owl organizer owl rice pad
Owl organizer, and owl heating pad.
pink snow skirt
Showing off the hot pink waistband!
sewing galore
My weekend of sewing action. This is no distractions, and just a sewing fool. Sweater skirt with the arms for leggings, recycled carhart pants that didnt fit my step son, 2 snow skirts from one with hot new designs, ipad cover, owl organizer, owl heating pad, and many many bags!
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Love this!
snow skirt in action
Hot pink in action!
teacher
My mentor, adopted mother, friend! Couldnt have done this without her!

This was one weekend of some serious sewing! I joined a sewing guild here in my hometown and I think it has released a beast in me! But I love it!

I cant wait to whip out more things! The owl heating pads are going to make great gifts, and those owl organizers are great for sewers!

BUT!

How the heck can one get excited for Christmas when its 40 degrees and raining?! UGH! Small world problems, I guess I should just be grateful, right….

Anyways! Enjoy! Its November 13th and we are nearing to a new year, a new leaf, and a new sewing machine maybe! 🙂

Happy Thirsty Thursday for those of YOU that celebrate 😉