Showing posts with label sewing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sewing. Show all posts

Monday, September 13, 2010

Fabric. (Yes, still more fabric.)

Three pieces of fabric, sold to a colleague.

Quilting cotton with tools on it, black stretch velour (maybe from my old roommate?) and grey leopard-print fleece. I've never even come up with ideas for what to do with these.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Fabric.

Two pieces of fabric. Sold to a colleague.

More stuff from Fabricland—a piece of black denim (too small to do anything cool with) and a piece of weird stretchy red polyester that sort of changes colour in the light. Exceptionally ugly.

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Fabric.

Three pieces of polyester dress fabric. Sold to a colleague who is just learning how to sew.

These pieces were out of my stash from when I worked at Fabricland. None of them speak to me anymore. My sartorial choices have definitely... Matured.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Patterns.

Two patterns, sold to a colleague for $4.00.

Some more patterns that I will never make. Off they go to a fellow seamstress!

Here's my yard sale and here's the free-for-all!

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Fabric.

Pink gingham and black and grey damask stretch fabric, both given to Kari.

OK, first of all, can we talk about how freakin' cute Kari is? Go ahead, I'll wait.

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Seriously, she's ridiculously adorable and so photogenic. I love the pictures she takes for the blog and it's cool that she's in one of mine now! She was helping to motivate me to clean while I was packing and purging, and took these two pieces of fabric. Now that I think about it, I think the pink gingham would make a really cute top from one of those patterns I gave her that I posted about yesterday. I never used it for anything because although it's a knit it doesn't really stretch. The black and grey damask I've had for years; I used part of it to cover three 10"x10" stretchers to use as art in my new apartment, and Kari is possibly going to use the rest for part of her Hallowe'en costume. Hooray!

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Patterns.

Two sewing patterns, both about ten years old, given to Kari.

More stuff from when I worked at Fabricland. I got these with the "free pattern a month" deal staff had at the time—not sure if that's something they still do or not. If you work at Fabricland, I hope that's something you get! However, I'm never going to make these. Hopefully Kari will!

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Fabric.

Cotton and flannel fabrics. Sold to a colleague for $10.00.

Ten years ago I worked at Fabricland. While I worked there, I bought a lot of fabric. I have sewn very few things with that fabric in that time, and I now feel like I can finally let it go. This is the first batch of what I am sure will be a lot more.

Teresa is a quilter and will use all of these fabrics where I can't.

Friday, July 30, 2010

Duct tape dress form.

Yup, that sure is a duct tape dress form. Put on on the curb on garbage day.

My friend Kym helped me make this, and of course after I had been talking about making one for years, as soon as it was finished I went and lost weight so that it's too big for me.

I may try my hand at making one again, but it's probably going to wait until I have an entire craft room it can live in.

Monday, July 26, 2010

Books.

Sewing 911: Practical and Creative Rescues for Sewing Emergencies (Barbara Deckert), 24-Hour Sewing Projects (Linda Causee), and 101 Crafts Under $10: Easy-to-Make Ideas For Gifts and Home. Sold via the ICN for $2.00 each.

With the wealth of pattern and crafty ideas that are available online, do I really need stuffy pattern and craft books collecting dust on my shelves? Probably not.

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Book.

Bend-the-Rules Sewing: The Essential Guide to a Whole New Way to Sew, by Amy Karol. This book was practically new. I sold it via the ICN for $10.00.

I bought this because I am obsessed with craft books, but once I got it home I realized that it didn't actually have any projects in it that I wanted to make.