I will be in an Art Show next weekend at Coyote Central….. and I don’t really even know what I will be showing! I will be freakishly throwing some stuff together in the next week but I also have lot of product in storage so I should be fine. If you are in the Seattle [...]
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When did that happen? Well it’s been since August that I shared anything. Oopps! Sometimes life gets a little too busy and I drop the ball. Here is a little montage of what has been going on. It goes from Party Dress to Christmas. But that is just the beginning- I have been sewing (and [...]
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So… I was at work when I first discovered the book Party Dress by Mary Adams. I lay down my credit card and took it home that day. I loved reading about her experiences as an Oregon girl to being a dress maker in New York and then her process is astounding simple and clean [...]
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So before we get to SteamCon, mom wants to see Halloween Pictures. So drum roll please: So this last weekend I attended SteamCon 2010 a convention for Victorian Science Fiction and all things that revolve around this concept from clothing to l.a.r.p. ing* and all thing between. I went to model in a fashion show [...]
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I am almost done with the Halloween costumes for this year and I am SUPER excited. This year is right up there with my bumble bee costume, my sea creature costume and, well, tweedle dee and dum from last year. It is my husbands costume that has been my mind bender, but I think I [...]
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I recently had the wonderful (paid!) opportunity to write for Stitch Magazine put out by Interweave Press. I wrote out instructions for my Shadow Applique Wool Pillow for their 1 yard gifts in the Fall 2010 issue. The magazine came out on the 14th of September so go pick it up at your nearest specialty [...]
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So this is the quilt I made for my mother for her 60th birthday. I got the batik panels from this booth at the Sewing Expo. The backing is this AMAZING Italian shirting cotton. I learned most of the techniques off the internet. I really love freezer paper after doing this quilt because it can [...]
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I have been quite busy this last month- costumes for boylesque, pillows for wThe Wedding Pantry , a bridal shop in LA …. the pillows are on my ETSY site as well, 60th birthday present for my mom (don’t worry there is no spoilers here). Fosse Jack (boylesque) is performing tonight at Neighbors- featuring costumes [...]
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I have been using my new-fangled sewing machine to do embroidery over the last three months. It is fun and nerve wrecking all at the same time. First, the world of machine embroidery is a mighty vast world full of lots of teddy bears holding balloons and SUPER cheezy seasonal crap that I would never [...]
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My mom has informed me that she does not like looking at my anthro rant any longer (I swear… and she does not like it). So I am changing it… happy?? I have been taking hat making classes from a really excellent milliner, Izzie Lewis. We started with covering buckram forms with fabric and then graduated to [...]
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