From the category archives:

sewing

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 farm­ing equipment. […]

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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 can’t wear […]

Tagged as: pink, purses

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Reusable Grocery Bag

11 July 2008

Every­body is doing it. Even here in the “bub­ble.” Using those ugly green reusable grocery bags.

Heart­warm­ing eco-points 8. Style points 0.
I won’t even men­tion what they chose to fill it with for this image. Yuck!
I made this one yesterday.

Heart­warm­ing eco-points 8. Style points 6. Maybe.
It’s still bet­ter than some vaguely poly­ester green thing with a gro­cery store […]

Tagged as: BurdaStyle, patterns

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