Chic 'n Cheap Living Contest: Modern Apron and crafting love from Kristin Rix (KRIX Designs)

As an avid lover of beautiful clothing and accessories, I am always appreciative of those that have the talent for sewing.  Kristin is one of my newest blogger buddies and has an eye for the stylish and fun as you can see by the aprons and sewing necklaces in her shop, Krix Designs.

She first learned sewing and crocheting from her grandmother and has crafted everything from bags she sold at the Buffalo Exchange in San Diego to developing her clothing and accessories capabilities in Chicago.

Kristin is now in Omaha with her soon to be husband living the good life.  She makes the loveliest aprons with inspiration from fabric designers like Anna Marie Horner and Amy Butler.  This led her to develop the multi-print style of the full apron and she is constantly looking for new fabrics and enhancing her techniques.


What else can we learn about Kristin?  Let's see...
What is your inspiration?
I adore fabric, print, cut, and construction, and am heavily inspired by clothing designers like Marc Jacobs, Valentino, Chloe, and so many more. I also take a lot of inspiration from catalogs like Anthropologie and Urban Outfitters. When I start a piece, the material seems to always come first, and sort of organically decide what it's going to become--a blouse, a bag, a necklace, an apron?

What makes your items unique?
Everything I make is one-of-a-kind and not really reproducible.  My fiance likens my sewing projects to paintings. The fabric being the paints, I put together a unique piece and hope someone somewhere likes it as much as I do.

If you love fascinating details, lovely prints, and have a good imagination, then you should definitely check out Kristin's shop!
http://www.etsy.com/shop/krixdesigns

Kristin has been kind enough to give away anything from her shop!
How about an adorable half apron?

Sewing scissors necklace?

Beaded necklace?

It's your choice!

It's the third in my series of Bloggy Birthday giveaways lovelies!

Image from here

I've partnered with some pretty awesome vendors to bring you some coolio gifts.  Each contest will last 2 weeks (except for the last giveaway which will last one week!).

Still to come:

Giveaway 4: Vintage style bird cage veil

This is for the Chic 'n Cheap Living family (aka blog followers - Blogger, Google Reader, BlogLovin) only because you rock!  New followers are always welcome too of course.

To enter, tell me your favorite item in Kristin's shop or what you'd like to see her make more of and how you follow (if we're blogger bffs already and I regularly comment on your blog, no need to say this, you know who you are).

If you win, please respond to me within 5 days.  I would hate to redraw a winner.

Note: Please WRITE A SEPARATE COMMENT FOR EACH EXTRA ENTRY, it will make the cross-referencing a little easier (esp. for people with different handles on different accounts).

Extra entries:
1. Become a Twitter Follower AND tweet about this contest with this line: "Enter to win a lovely apron from KRIX designs and @cncliving http://bit.ly/9biyPn"
2. Become a Facebook Fan - for my friends who love to keep up via Facebook! (If you already do this, please remind me!)
3. Blog about the contest/sidebar w/a picture on your page linking back here.

I'll leave this contest up until Thursday, May 6th, 11:59 pm PST.   This is open internationally!

Good luck