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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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