Blog Archives: December 2008

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31 Cornlane Purse Give-Away

We're giving away a very special limited edition 31 Cornlane tote bag as seen on todays episode. To win all you gotta do is tell us why you need a new totebag and what you'd use it for. The fate of the bag and its winner will be decided upon by Rob and Corinne and announced later on in the wee

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Pom Pom Scarves by Purlisthegurl

I just found these awesome scarves on the forum made by member Purlisthegurl. They are so stylish and look very easy to make. Great work Purl! xoxoo c"Ok. Ever since I started finger knitting, (thanks to the awesome tut!) I had been looking for ways to use the easy and fast technique. I made hippy

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Threadbanger Book Club!!!

   Ok, so I love reading. There are always so many books I want to share with all of you. So we've decided to kick start a Threadbanger Book Club. If you are interested, check out this forum post...January's book is Green is the New Black by Tamsin BlanchardRob gave it to me for the holida

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Recycled CD Case into Desk Calendar

  With a clever trick, a recycled CD case becomes a cool display for a desk calendar. Make your own calendar design, or download my pirate-themed calendar*. In Windows, Right click and Save Link As to save it. Project Materials: CD casePaperComputer printer or copy machinePaper cutter (not

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Detachable Tuxedo Bib Pattern on BurdaStyle.com

To get the pattern for this weeks show and a whole lot more be sure to hit up BurdaStyle.com for the free downloadable pattern.Tell em Rob and Corinne sent ya ! Tuxedo Bib Pattern  

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How To Make A Tuxedo Bib

How to make a Tuxedo BibWatch the Episode here:  Materials:Fabric Scissors, Fabric, Ruler, Pins, Pencil, 4 Buttons, Iron-On Interfacing, 2 Small Pieces of Velcro, Iron, Pattern download (available at Threadbanger.com and Burdastyle.com), 1. Measure and cut 2 pieces of 12" x 15" from your fabric2. U

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Weekly DIY Roundup: Games!

I don't know about you and your families, but to me the holiday season is all about games.  Board and card to be more specific, not video or sports.  My family rarely all gets together for more than just dinner, so when we're in the same house for hours or days, we break out the board games!  My

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Plaid Scarf into Super Stars

  Plaid is in this season! Make these clever package tie-ons that double as ornaments. Made from plaid scarves and pipe cleaners purchased from the dollar store, these are so simple and fun to make that you'll want to spend all evening making them to dress up your packages.   I f

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Celebrity DIY Style: Kelly Osbourne Leopard Print Dress

  I am absolutely nuts for animal prints at the moment. So, it only stands to reason that when I saw Kelly Osbourne donning this fabulous zebra print charmeuse dress I would go ga-ga. While there currently isn't an exact match to her dress style, there is one pattern that comes close - M

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Reminder for 10% Off TB Sewing Machines!

  This is your REMINDER to get your Threadbanger Janome Sewing Machines and get 10% off so make sure you pick one up for your family members, friends or even yourself this holiday season. Let me tell you, these machines are easy to use, great for beginners and advanced sewers and the run so smooth

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Our Home Featured in Apartment Therapy

  The set of your favorite DIY decor show was just featured in the amazing design site Apartment Therapy as an inspirational interior. Will, Gracie and I are very proud. The incredible photo accompanying the entry is by Wendy Hickok, our fantastic wedding photographer. Reading my quote you can

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Weekly DIY Roundup: Gift Wrapping!

My last in this series of holiday-related roundups, gift wrapping! Now that you have all (most?) of your holiday shopping and making done, it's time to wrap those gifts, and it would be awesome to put a little extra crafty energy into this part. So I've found a variety of ideas for the paper, boxe

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DIY Aluminum Leaves

 Over on Craftershock (via Craft) they have a great fall winter project that requires a few leaves, some aluminum cans and a crafty spirit. These aluminim leaves are carefully traced and cut out from old soda cans to give a lasting tastful fall project. They make great home decor, ornaments, presen

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The Coolest Christmas Tree

   This season has fostered many unique tree alternatives as shown here and here. Perhaps it's the economy, perhaps people are just being way more creative than they have in years past. Either way, Christmas 2008 has provided some really cool alternatives to the traditional tree. My favor

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How To Crochet a Hat!

Need an idea for a Holiday Gift? How about one for yourself -- in EVERY Color! How to Crochet a Hat! Check out the Threadbanger Episode here! or down below: Materials:10.5 Crochet NeedleYarn1. Begin with a slip stitch and 8 chain stitches.2. Connect the two ends by putting your needle through the fi

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Pomegranate Place Card Holder

  Sticking with the food theme, here is a lovely way to incorporate seasonal pomegranates as part of your holiday table decor.     Purchase one pomegranate for each person who will be attending your holiday dinner. Hold the pomegranate so that the stem is towards the top.   Take

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Jared teaches Audrey, Clint and Jessicka how-to Sew!

Check out this sweet video featuring the Threadbanger Janome sewing machine.  

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How To Make A Gem Sweater

Leslie Hall of Leslie & The Lys shares with us the glory of Gem Sweaters! Check Out the episode here!and the how-to down below: How To Make A Gem Sweater: Materials Needed: Puffy Paint, Assorted Jewels, Sweater, & Cardboard (that will fit inside your sweater) Step 1:Fit cardboard inside sweate

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Cool Website Alert: One Pretty Thing!

   If you like checking out my Weekly DIY Roundups every Friday, this is the site for you! Rachel of One Pretty Thing does nothing but round up DIY and indie stuff, with multiple posts every day! Each weekday you'll see the Daily DIY, full of tutorial and project links from all over

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Placemats and Tablecloths

  Ever since I bought my Threadbanger Sewing Machine, I've been looking for the perfect project that's simple, yet aesthetically pleasing and great to give as gifts. Spool Sewing has the answer that I've been looking for: Placemats and Tablecloths, but sewn in a clever fashion with the str

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Holiday Trends

Last year for Threadbanger I posted on Holiday style by way of Vintage Style Inspirations, and just this week at my own blog I wrote about my current Brothers Grimm obsession and how it's informing my wardrobe THIS season (think lots of velvet and winter florals). While you'd think - at this point -

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Brussel Sprout Wreath

   This is one of the cutest edible objects I've ever seen. I usually don't go for the food-as-decor thing, but this brussel sprout wreath is pretty rad. And tasty looking.

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Dig Some Senior Street Style

  Move over Mary-Kate and Ashley! Advanced Style is a blog devoted to showcasing street fashion from the silver-haired and fabulous set. The young can only teach us so much about fashion. Senior citizens, on the other hand, have been through every trend the first, second, and third times

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Celebrity DIY Style: Yves Saint Laurent Blue Belted Dress

  Now that the holidays are here, I'm on the lookout for a stunning dress to wear for New Years Eve. I ran across this Yves Saint Laurent cobalt blue dress worn by both Kylie Minogue and Becki Newton which bares a striking resemblance to this Vogue Donna Karan pattern (by lengthening the

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Isabella's Tree Alternative

 One of the coolest Tree Alternatives I've seen was sent in by Threadbanger, Isabella. This DIYer took her assignment of thinking-outside-the-box seriously, and came up with such a unique idea. Tell us what you think of her model form tree by leaving a comment below!    

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Dookie Scarf How-to

The ladies at Compai were kind enough to share with us their awesome Dookie inspired accessory how-to! Watch the video here.   Materials you will need: scraps or remnants of old fabric scissors safty pins cotton battinga sewing machineMeasure your wrist and then add about an inch for seam allow

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Weekly DIY Roundup: Ornaments!

 DIY HANDMADE ORNAMENTS!  Ok there are a ridiculous amount of great projects this week, and I want to include them all, so I'm going to do it a little differently - I'm just going to tell you the name of the project and the blog/site that it came from, linked of course, with no extra commentar

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Worn Out: Street Style Picks

Hey guys! Per usual, here are my top 5 faves from the last few weeks of street style blogging. Leave YOUR favorites in the comments section, and be sure to fill me in on what street style sites you're digging these days. Let's go:   It's WAY COLD here in DC (finally!), and I am totally on the look

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DIY Coaster How-To

  In today's holiday special, you saw several gift & decor ideas. Here is the step-by-step how-to on recycled coasters.    First, cut circles out of your scraps of fabric that have a diameter of 5 inches.    Place your circles on top of the second fabric good sides together and

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Recycled Garland How-To

  When gearing up for our holiday cocktail party, I wanted to make our apartment feel as magical as I could. With a tight-budget and not a lot of time, I worked with what I had. If you are as into Domino, Martha, Vogue, and a myriad of other magazines that provide ideas and inspiration, than

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The 12 Days of Handmade Christmas

For everyone out there who makes their own holiday gifts, buys or sells them. Pledge Handmade this Holiday Season! (P.S. All gifts below are available to purchase from indie artists.) On the first day of Handmade Christmas my true love made for me:1. A Partridge and a Pear Tree Lightbulb Ornaments2.

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Cool Website Alert: Photojojo!

This is one of my favorite blogs for sure, myself being a crafty photographer - Photojojo is all about photography but they have a major DIY point of view and incorporate all kinds of crafty stuff into their posts! And they have a great sense of humor! Some posts are just about photography - b

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Holiday Party Outfits a la TMI Weekly

Over on Next New Networks' newest show, TMI Weekly, Julia Allison, Mary Rambin and Meghan Asha, talked about the differences between cocktail and black tie affair dresses. Very helpful for those of us who don't have the slightest. Also, Mary gives a great tip on how-to make an old dress new again. S

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Threadbanger Coupon for Capes

 All Threadbangers recieve a BIG DISCOUNT on Enderby capes. Simply send a convo through the Etsy shop mentioning coupon code THREADBANGER, and you will receive 20% OFF! So start sewing and shopping for the holidays!

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Celebrity DIY Style: Victoria Secret Fashion Show

   Last Wednesday, Victoria Secret's fashion show hit the airwaves. Jewel encrusted braziers, fancy knickers, and giant bows made their way down the runway, enticing everyone to buy their goods. While I love thumbing through their catalog and occasionally splurging on a purchase, I cring

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Cape Template

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Weekly DIY Roundup: Wreaths!

I love all the crafty, non-traditional wreaths I've been seeing around craft blogs, so I want to share some ideas with you for personalizing your holiday decorations and making your own special wreath! I love pretty much anything made from recycled sweater felt, and this wreath by swallowfield is n

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The Nesting Bible

 This is the ultimate nesting bible.   It is the amazing Martha Stewart book I was reading in the opening of today's Threadbanger episode. It's called Martha Stewart's Homekeeping Handbook, and boy is it ever. It was a bridal shower gift form my man-of-honor, and it hasn't left my hands or bedsi

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How to Sew a French Seam

In today's Cape tutorial, Meg wasn't sure if the seam she was sewing was a french seam or not. It is actually a double topstitch seam as Guenevere pointed out in the comments of the episode. Sewmysoul on the forums posted the following youtube video on how-to sew a french seam. Thanks for catching t

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Renegade Craft Fair Chicago Holiday Sale

If you are going to be in Chicago on December 6th and 7th, definitely stop by the Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Sale for all your gifting needs. Renegade puts on one of the best shows we've ever been to so you don't want to miss this one. xoxoxo cp.s. If you are trying to find a good indie craft show

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Christmas Tree Alternatives

Are you feeling green-guilt for thinking about buying a Christmas tree this year? Or are you just too broke like the rest of us to fork over the dough? Well, Re-Nest has some great tree- alternatives that might inspire a new, creative idea to replace our old tenenbaums. Items like an antique drying

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Cool Website Alert: BurdaStyle!

   If you're into sewing, this is a must-bookmark website! It's an "Open Source Sewing" site, with tons of free patterns and how-tos! I love this "Danielle" dress - like all the patterns, it's in printable format, and you can view user creations to get an idea of changes you could make,

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Holiday Special

 You sweet, loyal Threadbangers thank you for the support, comments and enthusiasm on the forums. I read each and every one of your responses, and really appreciate the computor love coming my way. I am very excited to return once a month to fill your nesting needs, starting with a holiday special

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The Man Show

The fashion blogosphere is, by and large, a girls-only club. From the street style blogs to more personal endeavors, 99% of it seems to be about the ladies. Inspired by this guide - What Men Should Really Wear - at DC-based BrightestYoungThings.com, here are some of my favorite (but few!) resources

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Amazing DIY Flower Jacket

Stopping by one of my favorite blogs, Orange Beautiful, I found this great idea. Have you ever loved a garment so much, but cannot afford it? Make it your self! Try this new flower jacket on for size. This would make a perfect gift for someone this holiday season, or just keep it for your self! &nbs

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Celebrity DIY Style: Celebrity Bodysuits

   Beyonce showed up for the Today Show last week wearing a skin-tight body suit which made me wonder, who else has worn something similar? Several other celebrities came to mind, Shania Twian, who wowed everyone several years ago in her sexy lace version, and the women of Batman - Miche

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How to Make a Circular Scarf

Hi Everyone! Bre Pettis just sent us a video he made featuring Lux Alptraum making a circular scarf. I cannot wait to make one...its so easy! xoxox cThings - Lux Alptraum Sewed a Circular Scarf from Bre Pettis on Vimeo.