“Beauty Is Worth The Investment”

Soft Leather Ballet Slippers Made in America

Donovan Slippers located in Scobey, Montana has been manufacturing beautiful, soft, 100% leather ballet slippers for more than 2 years.  We have created delicate, feminine styles for all age ladies that we have shipped all over the world. 

Investment For Your Feet

You may have purchase slippers from vending machines when you’ve been out dancing.  What a great idea.  Our beautiful leather ballet slippers are a great investment for one evening or for many months and many occassions.  Our soft ballerina slippers are flat and will slip into your bag when you are out for the evening so you can slip off those uncomfortable, but wonderful, heels that turned heads  and go home in comfort.  With your investment in Donovan Slippers you can enjoy those soft, unbelievably comfortable leather slippers anytime, for a long time.

Cute Designs For Your Feet 

One of our designs is called the “Megan”.  It is so adorable with little tucks on the outside of the slipper that are defined with a leather bow.  You will feel very sexy when you put these on after an evening of dancing.   If you want a more basic design there is the “low cut basic ballet slipper”.  There are 11 colors, basic black, white, red, blue, yellow, lime, purple, brown, tobacco brown, pearlized pink, and pearlized beige.  We have sizes 5 – 11 for ladies.  There is a color chart and a size chart on our website with measurements if you reside outside the United States. By the way, shipping is free worldwide.

Durable and Perfect for Many Outings

The sole is a durable black cowhide suede so you can wear these to run some errands and to go to the mall.  They are perfect for Sunday morning at the local sidewalk cafe.  Your feet will thank you.  Use your imagination about where you can wear the most beautiful and  comfortable footwear available on the market today, AND, made in the good ol’ USA.

Now Is The Time To Invest In Beauty.  Go To Donovan Slippers.com

Print Your Own Baby Shower Invitations

300 Printable cards and Activities

You will be able to print nearly every kind of card, invitations to baby showers and birthday parties, games and coloring pages.  Take a moment to look at this great possibility to save on cards and invitations.  Click Here!

Diaper Cake Video

Are you trying to make a diaper cake for a baby shower tomorrow night? 

Can’t remember how someone showed you to do it?  It looked so easy when they were explaining it to you, didn’t it?

Your problems are solved.  Now there is a video about “How to Make a Diaper Cake”.  A video is so much easier to follow than reading the instructions, too. There are also great pictures of cakes that other people have created. 

Follow this link to learn how to make a beautiful diaper cake.

The Baby Sleep Solution

Is it the middle of the night?  Are you awake because your infant or toddler is awake again and you can’t get him or her back to sleep?  There is a solution.  It has been tested and proved to work for many.  This is an audio so you can go there right now and listen to it and use the principles mentioned. 

Here is the link you need. 

100% Leather Flip Flop Made in Montana

Our sister site Donovanslippers.com  has introduced a new style.  This is

Red Leather Flip Flop

a 100% Leather flip flop.  It is very comfortable with 100% lambskin leather colored leather backed with chamois that is braided into a strap across the foot.  The durable cowhide sole is black suede with a 1.5 inch foam insole and a 100% lambskin leather chamois lining. 

This is not just for wearing in the house.  The sole is durable to be worn outdoors.  The colors range from lime, red, to basic purple, black, white and several more.  We offer them in sizes 5 – 11. 

Our introductory price is  good through 6-14-09 and we will begin shipping on June 15, 2009.  Place your order now for several pairs. 

$2 Yard Fabric Special

flannels4baby.com  has a daily fabric special.  Each day we select one of our fabrics to be offered to you at only $2 yard.  This price applies to purchasing by the yard only. 

We have a nice selection of baby print flannel/flannelette from Alpine Fabrics, Baum Textile, Marcus Brothers, and AE Nathan, to name a few.  Our cotton quilting fabrics come from Avlyn, Wilmington, Kings Road, and more.  These fabrics are regularly at $3.99 yard.  This is a great buy on your cotton quilting fabrics. 

Have you checked our Twitter page? 

Please contact us if you have any questions before placing an order.  We enjoy hearing from you on any issue.  Our telephone number is on the home page and other contact pages include a mailing address and an email address.

Follow us on Twitter

It just sounded like it would be fun.  I am a little surprised at my interest in all of the new technology.  Five years ago I had problems logging on to a computer just to get emails.  I guess it is possible to teach an old dog new tricks after all. 

We would like to invite you to follow us on Twitter.  We are new to this and have few followers at this time, so help us out.  

Right now you can follow the progress of our 48 Hour Fabric Special.  Now only about 24 hours to go.  We still have fabric available and of course there are many fabrics not included in the special, but at our great prices.  Remember that free shipping on any order over $75 in the continental US.

Lets all jump into this new technology and have some fun and take a few moments to get our minds off of our problems.

Ohio Star Quilt Making the Sashing

The sashing strips are made up of the 4 inch Quarter Square Triangle Block and the 4 inch squares cut from the Fabric B.

Quarter Square Triangles Sashing

Start sewing the Quarter Square Triangle blocks together in groups of 2.  Join the sides with Fabric A so you create the appearance of a square of your main fabric in the middle of triangles.  Use a 1/4 inch seam and 10 – 12 stitches per inch.  Pin the seam at the top and bottom of the piece by putting your straight pin in the seam allowance and matching to the bottom block just as you did to sew the triangles together to form your block in the last posting. 

Sew 40 sets of 2 quarter square triangle blocks.  Press seams flat and then open them from the back then press from the front.  Divide the sets of 2 into 2 groups of 20.

Creating Sashing Row

You will be making 5 sashing rows.  For each row you will need 5-4 inch blocks from Fabric B and 4  of the quarter square triangle sets.  The layout will look like this:

B = 4 inch square of Fabric B  and

QST = Set of 2 Quarter Square Triangles.

B – QST – B – QST – B – QST- B – QST – B

Press all seams flat then open from the back and then from the front.

Row 2

You will do 4 rows using the large blocks and the other sets of quarter square triangles.

QST = Set of 2 quarter square triangles

LG BK = The large block of Fabric A

QST – LG BK – QST – LG BK – QST – LG BK – QST – LG BK – QST

Press seams flat and open from the back and press again from the front.

Once you have all of the rows made we will be sewing them together.

Ohio Star Quilt Quarter Square Triangles Step 3

Making a Quarter Square Triangle Block   

Quarter Square Triangles Pinning & Sewing Block

  

Pinning and Sewing to form a Square

Insert a straight pin into the seam on the top triangle and match the point of the pin to the seam on the bottom triangle.  When this is matched up place a straight pin on each side of the seam to hold this in place.  Do not remove the pin matching the seam.  Pin on each end of the triangle.  This is a bias edge so a couple of extra pins are a good idea to keep the edges matched and when you sew the seam it will not stretch out of shape.

Sewing the Seam

You will sew a 1/4 inch seam using about 10 – 12 stitches per inch.  I prefer to backstitch at the beginning and end so my seam doesn’t come apart at any point.  When you get to the center where the pin is matching the seams leave it in the fabric until you are up to it.  Slip the pin out just as you sew across that seam and continue to the end of the triangle.  Then look at the right side of the block to see  that you have sewed this square so you have all 4 pieces meeting nearly perfectly in the center of the block.  If  they are off a thread or 2 don’t worry about it.  With flannel you can gently move it into place and when you press and later when you quilt it will not show if you are off just a little.

Pressing the Seam

Use the up and down motion to press the seam allowance closed just as you sewed it.  Then open the block and from the wrong side press that seam open.  Flip the block and press the seam from the front, again with the up and down motion, not a sliding action.

Quarter Square Triangle Block

Squaring the Quarter Square Triangle Block

Use one of the bias square rulers available.  You are making a 4 inch square.  The 2 inch line will match the center of the block and the bias line is with the seam line.  Trim along the outside edge of the ruler on two sides, then flip the square and line it up again to trim the other 2 sides.  Now you have a 4 inch block.

 

In our next post we will be sewing these blocks together with the 4 inch block to form the sashing of the quilt.

Ohio Star Quilt – Quarter Square Triangles – Step 2

My favorite technique for making Quarter Square Triangles comes from Wendy Gilbert  “A Star for All Seasons Table Runner and Placemats” a Quilt in a Day Publication

Cutting The Square                                   

Quarter Square Triangle Cutting

 

Cut along the pressed fold lines from corner to corner.  You will have 4 pieces.

 

 

 

 

Pressing the Seams

 Note:  Pressing is an up and down action with your iron rather than sliding the iron over your project.  Sliding the iron can result in stretching of the seams or the fabric.  I prefer to use a steam iron for a flatter seam.

 

Quarter Square Triangles Pressing

+Press the seams flat to seal the stitches into the fabric and to begin with a flat fabric.  Then from the wrong side of the fabrics use the tip of your iron or your finger to open the seam and press it open.  Then turn to the right side and press from the right side. 

 Note:  I like to press the seams open on flannel to reduce the bulk when joining blocks together.  If you are concerned about the seam coming apart, consider how you are going to quilt the blanket when you are finished.  If you use a quilting technique that sews across the seams you will reinforce the area. 

Next Post will discuss sewing the triangle shapes together to form a block.