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Textile Jewelry
Several years ago I made and sold textile necklaces, collars really, to a sweet little shop in Carmel, California. Findings was tucked back off the street so you had to know about it or wander back...
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Bunkhouse Roundup
The Bunkhouse is what we call the little cottage next to our home. I use it for my workspace and it also serves as our guest quarters. It's a sweet little 500 Sq. Ft. beach cottage, single wall...
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Long Time Coming
Well, I've been sewing, taking classes and creating lots of stuff but the photos I've been taking are...eh...not so great. But this morning I decided to send them out anyway. It's been so long since I...
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Dreaming of Lopez Island
I got back from the India Flint class on Lopez Island late Wednesday but I don't think I'll ever quite get back from that experience.Sharon and I kept pinching ourselves the whole time. First, the...
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Drawn to the Dyepot
When I signed up for an India Flint class on Lopez Island last September I thought I was taking it for the "experience". I had no intention of plant dyeing fabrics and clothing in the future, I just...
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Blue Jean Lady~L.A . Baby, Seamstress For The Band~~Elton John
I'm not a blue jean lady, L.A. lady or a seamstress for a band (I kinda missed that window of opportunity!) but here I find myself with a new denim jacket.My sewing pal, Janet, collected dozens of old...
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Winter Dye Pot Tales
I haven't been getting much sewing done lately. I've been holed up in my freezing garage, hunkered down over the dye pots (I now have three...) freezing my patootie off and getting addicted to...
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News from the Dye Pot
For those of you who are not interested in eco-printing you might want to forward on to the next blog you follow and catch me in a few days when I post a new polka dot tunic!If you are still tuned in...
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Coat Dress vs. Tunic
I've made this self drafted pattern three times now. It's somewhere between a coat dress and a tunic. I love it because it's so versatile. I can wear it over pants or leggings. I wear it either...
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Winter Sewing
It's been gloriously rainy here on the Central Coast of California for about a week now. And I took advantage of it to stay in the bunkhouse and sew, sew, sew!First, I finished a coat I started last...
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Butterick 6138- Katherine Tilton Vest
I seem to be on the Katherine Tilton train lately. Her patterns are so well thought out and have great lines. Something I'm looking for in my patterns now since I'm trying to stick to solids, stripes...
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Making Cloth-Part One
It seems like everything I've been doing lately, in regards to sewing and design, has to do with using small pieces of fabric that I've saved.As you probably know, if you've seen any of my posts, I'm...
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Muslins & Mixed Nuts
I've been doing a lot of sewing in the past couple of months but it's mostly been making muslins to try out new patterns. Everything seems to be a good start and maybe not quite done. I'll show...
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Trying To Get Some Color In My Life....Not!
Although I've purchases several lengths of fabric that have a lot of color I don't seem to be using them. I think I've developed a fear of color in clothing. I'm working on that. In the meantime the...
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Variations on Vogue 9193 and Travels
I took a class with Gwen Spencer in March that was focused on creating fabric from scraps. It was such a terrific class for so many reasons. Gwen is an inspiring sewist...well, she might call herself...
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This week's wrap up
I've been making some pretty simple tshirts for an upcoming trip and decided to try something a bit more challenging. I'd seen Nancy Murakami wearing Vogue 9174 in Marcy Tilton's Puyallup booth this...
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New Summer Jacket
This jacket has a slightly Asian lines...that is if you can see past the wild colors! This cotton/linen blend fabric is Japanese Echino by Etsuko Furuya but it somehow does not lend an Asian accent to...
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Japanese Boro Class
I took a Japanese Boro class last weekend from Jody Alexander, a local book, textile and installation artist. I've been an admirer of her work for many years and have recently begun taking classes...
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Canvas and Confessions
Confessions first.I've been blogging for about, I don't know, three years now, give or take. I had a gal configure my blog with features I thought would be good to have.Over the years I've been...
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Hold onto your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo, indigoing,...
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