Entries Tagged as ‘sewing’

12 May, 2009

Whole Earth Festival 2009

We started with the first cherries of the season at the farmer’s market.  We bought a big bag and munched on them all day in the warm sun.

There was music and dancing on the quad, we crashed on a blanket and ate more cherries and shared Carrie’s garlic fries.

There were booths with clothes of all [...]

16 December, 2008

The Upcycled Fingerless Gloves

By popular demand, here are the fingerless gloves with the stockings.  They where made with the extra sleeve ends by cutting a 1 inch snip about 1-1.5 inches down from the edging. I cut them so the seams of the sleeves ended up on the palm side. Now they are keeping my hands warm while [...]

15 December, 2008

Upcycled Sweater X-mas Stocking: A Tutorial

Well it is that time of year again, time to hang up those stocking in hopes that someone will come along in the middle of the night and fill them with goodies.
Last year I threw away the ratty acrylic $0.99 cent stockings my BF had promising that I would make new ones worthy of actually [...]

13 November, 2008

Experiments in Surface Design

This is a piece of cotton sateen that has been hanging by my desk at work for a long while now and I keep looking at it wondering what I should do with it. Cut it up? Sew into/ onto it? Parts of it I like, other parts not so much, it was my least [...]

6 November, 2008

Design for Mankind: Handmade Edition

A fab Blog/Mag by Erin Loechner, not to be missed! Oh, and a pdf of the mag is FREE and no trees are harmed in its downloading, but some of the stuff is so cool you might want to print a few pages.

9 October, 2008

Down at the Pond

These photos are of a piece of raw silk noil that I printed for a screen printing class back in college. As a square envelop bag it is not that great but I have plans to rip out the sewing and re-work the fabric either as a separate work or into something else, not sure [...]

15 July, 2008

Mosaic Monday: Sew

I love sewing, so this weeks mosaic is images that involve putting thread though fabric to create things, I hope you like them.

1. Sewing machine + bokeh, HBW!, 2. Sewing is Fun, 1958, 3. sewing cat shirt complete!, 4. lifetime sewing, 5. my sewing machine tattoo, 6. Sewing mends the soul 136/365, 7. sew sew, [...]