NekoCon and progress

So... I have some awesome new! I guess I'll get to have a table in the artist alley cosplay section of NekoCon 2008! I can't wait to see people and sell some hats! Now to just sew up enough stuff to make up an inventory. :)

I've got a slight head start on all of this and I actually got new pictures to post! Not really of any specific hats, but pictures are worth something, right? It is a blog after all and... well, I just think this fabric I found while on vacation is amazing!


My aunty has an orange cat who's fur matches this fabric perfectly! (Oo! Ouch... Pun.) I really should get a picture of Sabby just so I can point it out better. I can't wait to see what this stuff sews like. :)

So here's the product of my labor so far. A hamper basket with hats in several stages of being complete. Quite a few are finished, some need to be lined, and a few in there are still just cuts waiting to be sewn to life. Zippy bags to keep them clean and not let all the scrap fabric shed all over them.



And here's three of the tubs loaded with fabric yelling at me to get working. Someday I hope they'll be empty enough that I can buy more fabric without needing more space. (*)_(*) Also a few tails in progress.

Finally... I was bored a while ago and whipped up this ubber quick banner for the etsy site even though it will probably be a bit before I upload anything more there. The site just looked so bare...


So I'm off to dream up grand and glorious ideas. A friend recently asked about a dragon hat design that I just must figure out before the con!
May happy dreams and ideas fill your day!

Changes

Things have been going a little crazy here and since Marscon Fran has handed the company completely over to me now.
Hopefully I'll be able to pull it all together and post more of the hats I have made in the last few months.
-Christina

Con (1) - Marscon '08!

Thingama Bobbin has now been to it's first Con! It was a really cool experience and many people were so encouraging. We've already booked our table for Marscon '09!
So here's me (Chris) behind the table on Saturday.

And here's Fran behind the table working away.

A bright yellow hat that was made right before the con.

This pink hat was made at the Con and sold not long after it was placed on the table.

Here's a look at the pile of hats during part of the prep work for Marscon.

I'll have to post more pictures of some of the hats later. Of course I'll have to make more hats to take pictures of being that I didn't do it before some of them were sold! ^^;

Hat (5) - Tiger Hat

This hat was a commission by one of my boi's coworkers. The fabric was an absolute pain to find, but luckily it was on sale so I didn't have to charge her even more for it! Yay!

It turned out a whole lot better than I had planned. ^^
Plus I fixed my my pattern with the fox hat so this one is almost perfect!

Edit: I still have some fabric left over from this hat so I made a couple more to sell on Etsy! The link to that site can be found to your right in the column. -->

Hat (4) - Fox hat

Fran told me it would be an awesome idea to make a fox eared hat. So I got it in my head the other day to do so. Here's Fran with the results. Isn't it cute!

She can get so darn serious sometimes! ^^

Well... like I said... sometimes.
But these kind of moments are so much more fun!

Hat (3) - Black kitty hat

My boi asked for a black kitty hat, so I made him one! The inner ears are a light pink, but it's hard to tell in these pictures. They look rather white.

He's so cute. <3 How could I not make him the hat! ^^

Hat (2) - Zebra Hat

For last Christmas I made my little sister a hat using a pattern I had just manage to put together. It turned out really nice since I found the PERFECT fleece to go with the design. She's obsessed with zebras.

I made some other hats for friends, but I have yet to get pictures of them. It was easy to wrangle my sister, my friends... Not so easy. They didn't have ears on them though so I haven't been persistent. ^^;