From the category archives:

technique

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 […]

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New Techniques

28 March 2008

I’ve got a shiny new copy of Pho­to­shop CS3 and have been exper­i­ment­ing.
In Pho­to­shop Cre­ative Col­lec­tion v3 (no link avail­able) there’s a tech­nique that mim­ics pen and ink. Some­thing that is sim­i­lar to some water­color and ink work that I did a cou­ple of years ago.
I did the tuto­r­ial and got this effect.

Which I liked well […]

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