Sleepers to jacket refashion - guest post at Me Sew Crazy

Some time back I showed you these jackets and promised a tutorial. Well, here I'm the tutorial is live as a guest post at Me Sew Crazy. Hop on here to check out my tutorial. If you know Jessica you know that she does crazy amazing things with the sewing machine and has the cutest models to flaunt her creations. So look around for a huge selection of children's clothing tutorials. If you have never visited Me Sew Crazy you are in for a real treat.

Link Love: Features and Made by you

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Features:

Totally Tutorials featured our Reversible Zen Dress.
Craft Gossip and One Pretty Thing featured our 2 color Pieced Pants.




On another note, I asked you to share your creations based on the tutorials here...and some of you listened. Here're a few things that you made:

Namrata sent across the pics of this Butterfly Shrug based on the tutorial here. I think this red color is perfect
for the fall and winter.

She also made this Kaftan tunic top.

Its amazing and inspiring to see your creations. There are a lot of perks to blogging, but nothing really beats the satisfaction of seeing your creations based on my tutorials. Keep them coming.

On another note! We reached 150 followers on blogger last week and our facebook page has also gotten more than 250 likes. Our pinterest and twitter groups are rising steadily as well. So thank you so much for spreading the word about Blooms And Bugs.

I have some interesting things lined up for November, A fabulous giveaway, some very interesting tutorials and some fun stuff as well. So keep visiting...and keep sewing.

Link Love: Made by you for your Blooms and Bugs

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Features:

Totally Tutorials featured our Kaftan Tunic.
Craft Gossip featured our Happy Dress Tutorial as well as Coveralls Tutorial.


There're some other places where I have been submitting my tutorials and they have been quietly accepting them, so there hasn't been any emails or any badges, but I do see a lot of readers coming from these places. They are Free Needle and Make For Baby. I wanted to share these forums as they are very well maintained lists of useful tutorials and other resources and I'm sure many of you could benefit from these.


On another note, I asked you to share your creations based on the tutorials here...and some of you listened. Here're a few things that you made:

Namrata sent across the pics of this Carnival Dress, based on the tutorial here. She also told me that she got a complement when her princess wore it to the mall. I love that pink and red combo.

Amy of Buffaloes and Butterfly Wings made these Knotted baby hats based on the tutorial here for her newborn. Aren't they cute?

Link Love and look how far we have come

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The last week brought with it a lot of recongnition at many reputed blogs.
Knotted Baby Hat tutorial got picked up by Craft Gossip,
One Pretty Thing liked our Coral Reef Dress.

Another feature that I'm pretty excited about is that our little blog made it to the feed of Seamingly.com. Now, what it means is that whatever I post here automatically gets posted over at seamingly.com. Neat...huh? Folks at Seamingly also asked me to become a curator on their website. I was like..."So I get to add my favorite sewing blogs to your site? ( Saying to myself - "SO I can read all my fav sewing posts at one place and bookmark the ones I like? Are you freaking kidding me?") - Sure.Ok."

During the last 6 months we have also seen a lot of traction in terms of followers, social media interactions etc.
We have more than 100 followers on blogger, more than 150 subscribers via google reader. As of today we have 225 facebook fans. Our twitter and pinterest groups are also growing slowly but steadily. To me, this means that we are getting heard by many more people than ever and that I need to keep producing quality stuff for this blog, but that's just my part, you could help too. I often wonder if my tutorials are being used by anyone, if you guys are using it, are you running into any issues? Am I writing what you want or is there something else that you would like to see at Blooms And Bugs? Social media has made it very simple to get heard. Leave me a comment, drop me a mail, leave a note on our facebook wall. I would love to hear from you. If you have made something from one of the tutorials here, share the pics, of course, I love to see them, but I think the whole Blooms And Bugs community would like to take a look.

There's something new coming up in October, which I'm really excited about. I know...I want to just shout it from the rooftops...but can't...yet. But I'm feeling the momentum building up. Thanks for joining me in my journey...I certainly can't do it without you. Its one heck of a ride.

 Happy Sewing!

Link Love this week

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Last week's tutorials have been featured at a lots of places this week as well. It just goes on to show that people are interested in sewing and crafting, its just that they are looking for some quick and easy projects to begin with.

Sew Easy - Part 5( Strawberry Vanilla Dress) was featured at One Pretty Thing. It was also featured at  Delicate Construction.

Sew Easy - Part 6(Reversible Zen Dress) was featured at One Pretty Thing.


Knit Rossette Dress was also featured at Craft Gossip and One Pretty Thing.

Summer Spring Necklace had been featured by One Pretty Thing.

Thanks a lot and welcome to the readers stopping by from Craftgossip, One Pretty Thing and Delicate Construction . Hope you have fun here. Don't forget to take a look at some of the popular posts listed on the sidebar. I also have a tutorials page now, listing all the free tutorials at one place. Check it out. Happy sewing.

Link love for new posts

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Last few Sew Easy Tutorials have been featured at a lots of places. It just goes on to show that people are interested in sewing, its just that they are looking for some quick and easy projects to begin with.

Sew Easy - Part 4 (Kaftan Tunic Tutorial) was featured at One Pretty Thing,

Sew Easy - Part 5( Strawberry Vanilla Dress) was featured at Whip Up and Craft Gossip. It was also featured at Truly Lovely.

And our little shrug here has been nominated for the Best in Show award this week at Lamb Around. Could you please vote for it and help it get selected. 


Thanks a lot and welcome to the readers stopping by from Craftgossip, One Pretty Thing, Whip Up and Truly Lovely. Hope you have fun here. Don't forget to take a look at some of the popular posts listed on the sidebar. I also have a new page now, listing all the free tutorials at one place. Check it out. Happy sewing.

Link Love for new posts:

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Last few Sew Easy Tutorials have been featured at a lots of places. It just goes on to show that people are interested in sewing, its just that they are looking for some quick and easy projects to begin with.

Sew Easy - Part 3 (Butterfly Shrug Tutorial) has been featured at Craftgossip. It was also featured at One Pretty Thing.

Sew Easy - Part 4 (Kaftan Tunic Tutorial) was featured at Craftgossip and WhipUp, 


Thanks a lot and welcome to the readers stopping by from Craftgossip, One Pretty Thing and Whip Up. Hope you have fun here. Don't forget to take a look at some of the popular posts listed on the sidebar. Happy sewing.

Link love for new posts

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Last few posts have been featured at a lots of places.

Sew Easy - Part 3 (Butterfly Shrug Tutorial) has been featured at WhipUp. Its my first feature at WhipUp.

Sew Easy - Part 2 (Dress Tutorial) has been featured at Tuesday Confessional link party of Confessions of a Stay at Home Mommy. It has also been featured by  Strictly Homemade. Craftgossip also featured this tutorial.
Thanks a lot! You guys are awesome!

I have been featured!

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More posts, more link-love!

First off, craftgossip featured my flower girl dress here.

My 10 mins Skirt also got featured on A Round Tuit here.

People are gossiping about me!

I just came home to find that my 10 min skirt tutorial was picked by craftgossip here. Looks like the best things happen to you when you are not looking. Thanks a lot to the sewing team at craftgossip.com.
And thanks to all the craftgossip readers who stopped by and took some time to comment. Welcome to Blooms And Bugs.

More love for Coral Reef Dress

So coral reef dress brings us more accolades...
Maybe Matilda features it as one of the five favorites.

Jill at Creating my Way to Success, liked it as well and featured it in A Round Tuit 50.

Go check it and other cool projects out.

Thank you guys, when I started the blog, I never imagined making it to all these cool blogs. Looks
like I'm in the company of very generous people. :)