kid’s clothes week and I

I’m really happy to share that I’ve been working on a kid’s clothes week (KCW) project with Meg, and it goes beyond even the usual stitched realm of goodness. We’re working on giving KCW its own website. Yay!

I love Kid’s Clothes Week—I’ve stitched along in many. I like how simple it is, how accessible, and I like seeing all the beautiful things that others make. It’s been a semi-annual event (we’re now bumping that up to seasonal), and it seems like it deserves a site of its own. It’s big enough, it’s cool enough, and it just feels like there’s more to be explored.

The website we’re building will give you a place to find kid’s clothes patterns and designers, to post your own projects, and to see others’ projects all on one place. You might be thinking, hmm… like a ravelry for kid’s clothes? Well, yes and no. Yes, to posting projects and sorting by patterns, and tagging, and searching. No in that it’s still driven by seasonal challenges. The site will be the place to go for that round’s inspiration, and it will be beautiful.

It has been really fun for more me, as a developer, to work on a site that belongs to the sewing community. If I get to do code-y stuff and stitchy stuff at the same time, I’m pretty much in my happy spot. It’s also be great to be able to make a pretty site. Most jobs I work on do not have the goal of being pretty. It’s refreshing.

I hope you’ll like what we’re building, and actually, I hope you’ll help. Take a look at the KCW blog for more, if you would!