Archive for the ‘tutorials’ Category

Here are the two cape tutorials I have made for this years swap-o-rama-rama @ maker faire. wheee! I can’t wait!

I think I forgot to post my finished bicycle skirt. Here it is! A crappy picture of it anyway. It’s hard sometimes to take a good picture of yourself. It’s not that my camera doesn’t have a self timer but more about shot setup. I could have gone outside with the good camera and tripod [...]

I’m making a few sets of baby blankets for my aunt, the other set would be done by now but I am out of cream colored thread and stopping by the fabric store with a baby is sometimes too much of a pain. My scraps stash has reached epic proportions. It’s absurd, really. I need [...]

I’m taking a garment construction 101 class right now. So far it’s been pretty good. Here is the dress I will be making: I bought 3 yards of this cute Sevenberry Japanese fabric for it: In class we first learned about fabrics and some basics for picking out a pattern. I had that fancy vintage [...]

 We did it! The labyrinth is built, mostly! Read my previous post about our planned labyrinth here. We chose a spot a little closer to the Container house as the labyrinth ended up being a bit bigger than I thought. I _think_it ended up being about 16 feet across each spiral. We spent two days [...]

Have you ever gone to a framing shop thinking eagerly and excitedly about how nice your art will look hanging up on your wall? have you gone in, picked out a nice mat, a gorgeous frame only to have them tell you it will cost 300$ to fucking put it all together?   well, I [...]

Here is a sample of my chicken fabric. yesterday I went to pilot’s house for a first fitting of my chicken dress.. it was just the bodice done in scrap fabric. I did not know people did I this way but it seems super smart. Pilot was very focused and professional and clearly knows what [...]