Can you imagine this summer ???  Wild off beat zebra Halters and iconic 70′s tablecloths and then OMG the quilts!!!  This is a large scale, go big or go home is the rule of thumb here. !!!  We can hardly wait to get these made up , this is my mock up yardage so that means in 4 weeks it will start to ship to stores!!! Are you on board?? overboard???  Will we see a swimsuit??  Please??  What you’ll need to do is get to Craftsy today all your other shops will have up by Monday !  Carla made two styles of top you can plunge or not.  The modest crossover could be your pic.  Your call. So think of the possibilities. Then show us what’s going on and we’ll try to keep up.  As you know I get around try to give cheers and well wishes to everyone because you are so important to me.  So check out Super Fly and dream big..

You have to meet Megan Bell Womack!!! She opened just about a week ago and called me a tiny bit panicked. I need your books and I need your fabric..Yesterday.  So we called in all the big guns to make it happen and voila Crafty Shack of Louisiana is born!!  So I’m minding my own biz..sort of not really and all of a sudden up pops these frilly shorts on facebook and within minutes she is taken orders for both the Pattern and the actual product.  How cool is that!!  So my facebook page Jennifer Byrne Paganelli is open to all of you as a showcase where you can share your work possibly get an order or two hey in this economy you can’t be shy..Remember Girls World and I still haven’t shut up about that book.  It’s ok to be assertive the only requirement for us is kindness.   I have no other rules than that I don’t have very much tolerance for any kind of other exchange. It makes me sad.  I’m not grand standing seriously it should always be the place we start from..Mama taught me that. So thank you Megan it’s like you were delivered to us on a happy cloud !!!! She’s taking orders. 

The girls are happy!!!! Meet beautiful Jenny who you know from Sew Pretty Dresses and Sara Boughner Gallegos 2 of the testers for the Lucy Halter.  I also added Cathy Caprio Peckiconis our lovely customer service rep that makes all of your sewing go more smoothly. Thanks Cathy!! By the way most of our patterns and fabrics are named for people we love in the community.  Just saying.  We appreciate their input so much and love the fabrics they chose..!! So Monday check out the pattern at all your favorite pattern spots it may take a few days for everyone to load their sites so be patient.  Enjoy!!!

Check this out by Allie Oops in our flickr group..sent me straight to the moon!!! Love the detail.  Come hang out at Sis Boom Sightings where there is always something going on!!  You may have to register on Flickr but worth it!!  Allie blogged about it on her blog Sweet Happy Life!

Isn’t it wonderful that the young kids are all wearing the upcoming Halter dress Lucy as a top?? !!  Their moms are testers for us and they are so happy to have halter tops!!  Thanks to Carla our dream is a reality.  Still in the testing phase the Lucy is going to wow!!!!  Thanks for your patience , larger sizes are testing and by the end of next week a new pattern will emerge!!!!  This is exactly how my daughter wore it!!!  Love it with the tank!!!

Thank you to Jayden and Nicole below, we love you guys!!