I’ve been collecting museum banners from the University Museum in the last year, I thought I could start a small production of totem bags or messenger bags to sell in FoCo. Here is the first prototipe
I’m still in the sewing mood. I found a couple of cute projects and I want to use the color of the summer, yellow! The first project is a simple makeup pochet, the second one is supposed to be a tissue holder, but I think it works pretty well as a phone case. Here are […]
I still have a lot of fabric left over from the summer bag project, I though about sewing some more useful little bags. The first is a camera holder. Here the pieces of fabric I need Let’s start the fun par, fr this camera holder I want to create an external pocket as well. The […]
Summer is here, I really just want to spend some time with my sewing machine and some happy fabric creating useful little object for my summer 2012. I will start with a reversible bag. I purchased this 2 different fabrics from my local store, they match in the color but not in the design, and […]
I purchased this Outside Oslo fabric ( Dusk Colorway), for some pillows to use in the patio (post to come…) and I had some left overs. In howaboutorange.blogspot.com in the DIY section I found a tutorial for a little sew project. Since I decided that my old wallet was way to big and not original at […]
I just had the urge to sew a summer dress, a simple one, which could be worn at the beach with flip flops or at dinner with high heels sandals or wedges. I bought this tribal fabric, and some plain dark brown one. With the brown fabric I created a top, just looping it around […]
Here is a series of pillows, curtains and similar I sewed with the (big) help of my mother for my new house. Let’s start with the basement, here is a series of two pillows and …a cat! Then our bedroom, a series of black/white/red pillows on my (just painted white) bench On the other side […]
As I already described in this post, I had a big amount of t-shirts to use for some project. This time I started from a grey no shape long sleeves shirt and a black t-shirt I reshaped neck, body and sleeves to fit myself Ruffled the leftovers (Gather-Fabric-into-Ruffles), and here is the first one and […]
Daniele, my husband, was throwing away some old, but in pretty good shape, t-shirts. I really love some of those, the colors were still ok and the cotton…well it was 100% cotton…So I took an inspiration from the ruffled shirt at Anthropologie and I came out with some original design. Here is the first transformation: […]
We went to Salt Lake City to visit same good friends and I thought about bringing an original gift for their daughter Maya. How about a little and cute dress? And there you go! Maya original ladyfreakdesign dress