As I mentioned in the last post about Kaari Meng’s book, French General Home Sewn, I planned to make one of her featured projects called, the Bread Warming Bag. It was super simple, with minimal seams, which meant minimal pressing. The only part that was frustrating was finding the flax seed, the key ingredient to…
Many years ago I first learned about Kaari Meng while working in a cool little shop called Helix down in Athens, GA. The shop carried her wonderful jewelry made from vintage findings. It was a few years later that I found out she had opened a shop in NYC called French General. I was sure…
With my son’s two year birthday coming up next month and invites to other soirees from his playmates, I have been thinking a lot about toys that I can make. All this considering has me surfing the net like crazy and although I have found some really cool things to inspire and spur me on, I am also getting…
Recipe For Success On Cotton Fabric: – Scorched item – Hydrogen Peroxide – Piece of old cloth big enough to cover the scorched area (I used thin cotton flannel, the same thing used for a typical pressing cloth) – Iron on medium heat – Ironing board Dampen the piece of old cloth with the hydrogen peroxide,…
I wrapped up my sewing book review over at my other blog, http://www.kitschdesigns.com. For some information about Celine Dupuy’s, Simple Sewing with a French Twist click over here, NOW! ;o) (Image taken directly from the book) Here is some eye candy from one of Celine’s projects. Tres cool, am I right? Erika
I had to put the embroidery down for just a minute. It has been fun and I like the therapeutic nature of zoning out while I stitch, but I had some other projects on my mind. You know how it is with some projects. It’s not that you don’t want to finish them, or that…
As you may recall, I decided to try my hand at embroidery after reading through some sewing books recently. The main inspiration for jumping into this tedious process of adding depth with fine stitches was Anna Maria Horner’s book, Seams To Me. Among her many fun project pages she has a couple that add detail…
….has turned into a three part series. Just so busy around here. I can get to the books, but the posts are falling behind. Yikes! Click Here for Part 2
I have been continuing the embroidery attempt #1 since the end of last week. I have managed to outline a couple of little vintage fabric pieces for an art project with the blanket stitch, a chain stitch, a runnning stitch and then I ended the border with a herringbone stitch. Although, I have found that…
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