A Rainbow For Katy

Today is the birthday of a sewing superstar! In the sewing world, pretty much everyone has heard of and is in awe of Katy who sews and blogs at No Big Dill. She has inspired many people with her beautiful sewing, photography and blogging. And today is her birthday! We wanted to thank Katy for all the times she’s inspired us to greater heights and so we made her a gift. We invited some of our sewing and blogging pals to surprise Katy and help celebrate her birthday…Katy Style!

Now what exactly is Katy style? Although we’ve never met Katy, we feel like we have learned about Katy Style through her beautiful blog. One thing we’ve learned is that Katy loves to “rainbowtize” things. She is the master at organizing things beautifully in rainbow color order! We also have gleaned the information that orange is her favorite rainbow color and purple is her least favorite rainbow color. And stark black and white complement the rainbow perfectly in Katy’s world. The last thing we’ve come to learn about Katy is that she’s a budding bee keeper. So we took all those little tidbits of information and combined them together into a gift for Katy. After we show you our rainbow for Katy, we’ll show you what some other bloggers created. And if you want to see everything in one place, we’re curating a new Pinterest board called “A Rainbow For Katy!”

We made Katy a Sew Together Bag. After we realized there are 7 colors in the rainbow and 7 compartments in the Sew Together Bag, we knew this would be the perfect gift for Katy. From the stash, we picked our finest fabrics. There was a suede black and white piece just barely big enough for the exterior of the Sew Together Bag. (This fabric was used 1st on a shirt for one of my boys last year.) We made binding from a piece of beeswax colored bee fabric by Moda. The zipper tabs are little pieces left from Aria’s black denim jacket.
Although the outside looks sedate and sophisticated, when the Sew Together Bag is opened, a rainbow bursts out! A red silky fabric starts off the rainbow party. Next, inside the 1st zipper compartment, orange bee fabric hides. (Do you remember what we made Annie from this fabric?)
Yellow shot cotton comes next, followed by a green and blue green shot cotton from Imagine Gnats.
Also, we decided to add another blue/green hue to the rainbow and leave off one of the purples at the end in true Katy Style! The navy blue is a dark, silky fabric, but we used a bright blue for the zipper above it! (Navy that we used first on this top for Annie.)
The remaining section is purple, but we chose a dusky purple, barely even purple in some lights! (We used this fabric first on a different Sew Together Bag!) And we diminished the purple even further by adding an orange felt needle lading and bee pin cushion.
We really hope this Sew Together Bag is true Katy style and that she loves it! It really was nerve racking sewing a gift for a sewing superstar, and many of the seams were ripped out and re-sewn several times!