From the monthly archives:

August 2008

Pellon (sewing products) is not well served by it’s web presence.

19 August 2008

BTW find­ing on-line infor­ma­tion for Pel­lon sewing prod­ucts is dif­fi­cult. When I was work­ing on the pre­vi­ous post I wanted to put in a link to the prod­uct page for the inter­fac­ing that I was talk­ing about. Clar­ity and all that… Not so easy it turns out. www.pellon.com is the home page of Finnish com­pany that produces […]

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Sewing — Pink Boucle Purse

19 August 2008

My first exper­i­ment in build­ing a struc­tured purse. I used the Dorothy/Evelyn pat­tern from Emma Brennan’s Mak­ing Vin­tage Bags. Charm­ing bags and good instruc­tions — a lovely book. The pink boucle fab­ric jumped off the shelf at me in JoAnn’s one after­noon. It seemed like some­thing that should be made into a Chanel jacket but I […]

Tagged as: pink, purses

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WIP — The Loop Road Project (pop-ups)">WIP — The Loop Road Project (pop-ups)

19 August 2008

Our recent vaca­tion gave Jim the chance to take a lot of pic­tures of motor­cy­cles and rid­ers on the prover­bial “closed course.” Some of them are in fact “pro­fes­sional rid­ers.” I now have tons of unclut­tered pho­tos to work with. Hence the cre­ation of a new series of work, this time in engi­neered paper. First […]

Tagged as: motorcycles, paper engineering, pop-ups

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Buffalo — Newly Arrived from Mexico

6 August 2008

We’re just back from the Gather. (Pho­tos here.) Yes­ter­day this fine fel­low arrived from Mex­ico (via San Diego.) He was carved and painted by our friends Jacobo and Maria Ange­les who live and work in Tilca­jete, Oax­aca. You can see more of their work on their web page. (If you get a chance to stop by […]

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