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I adore the work of Mariska Karasz. She made her embroidery into art (seen at Embroidery as Art), but what’s less well known is she had also been a fashion designer. A real inspiration of mine. Images like this just make me happy: She wrote an embroidery handbook that just makes you want to get down [...]
One of the things I enjoy the most about what I’m working on is finding and testing new materials. I don’t mean fabrics, exactly, although that’s part of it. I mean finding things with ‘ingredients’ that are uncommon, even surprising. For example, hemp blend fabrics. I think these are my current favorites. Hemp is, as [...]
It takes me forever and a day to come up with color schemes for quilts. So I decided I will try to record things with color combinations I like. This blanket, for example, which belongs to a friend I visited with E. E thereafter walked off with a container of lentils that she played with [...]
There’s this pile of stuff on my work table. It’s a different pile every night. Daytime is when I can do emails, with wholesalers, friends who give me ideas, family, anyone. When I acquire supplies. Nighttime? I sew. We’re getting ready to do a Kickstarter. But that means there are more samples to be sewn, [...]
Lately I’ve been amusing myself with making clothes with vintage patterns. Ones from the late 1920s and early-to-mid 1930s are my favorites. There was such elegance to cuts of the period, to the draping of fabric, and – last but not least – to the pattern illustrations. Although I must say the patterns themselves are [...]
… from home, with two very young children around, looks something like this: today, we were finalizing the details of our first set of products because we had to place an order with a foreign supplier this afternoon. In this scene, my older daughter Z is eating salami and watching the little mole on her [...]
Making things is something I’ve always really enjoyed. Whenever I could sink into working on a project I’d feel okay, whatever else might have been going on in my life. My husband is the same way. Z and E too, no matter how young (3 and a half and 19 months). Which makes me wonder [...]
Since I really like the pattern, I made another Violet: You can also see my little helper as she tries to knock down the dress form. I confess that for this version I changed the pattern to the point where it’s a mere sliver of it’s former self: I left off the collar, made the [...]
This summer I tried really hard to get back to sewing for real. I find summer sewing to be easy: you can use light, airy cottons, easy to get through the sewing machine, and prints, prints, prints. I don’t actually wear as many prints as my admiration for them would warrant. My favorite summer project [...]
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