For those of you in need of a DIY Paint Guide, today is your lucky day. The ultra-hip, fierce and feminine magazine, Venus Zine asked me to contribute to the Fall issue of their quarterly. Venus is a rad and up-to-date, stylish source on women, art, music and the DIY movement. I was totally stoked and incredibly honored to write their DIY Paint Guide.
The Long Thread has these great posts that publish on Mondays.. not every Monday, but quite frequently. Here's her latest post on how to make a flowerpot pincuishion. What a necessary tool and would look great with your new Threadbanger Sewing Machine, don't you think? Also, you could take this project one step further and decorate your flowerpot!
I thought I’d try to make one...
After the Threadheads' great backpack tutorial on the show last week, I wanted to show you a few more options for handmade backpacks and messenger bags you can make for back to school time! These simple drawstring backpacks by Little Birdie Secrets are made with recycled pillowcases. I made a bag super similar to these (but simpler) when I was maybe 12 years old, one of my first sewing...
Place an old long sleeve shirt out in front of you and, with some chalk, sketch a front breast plate pattern to the front. Take a piece of newspaper and trace half of your pattern onto it. Fold over and cut out. Pin to another piece of fabric. Another old shirt preferable a good contrasting color.
Pin down the pattern and cut out, allowing a half inch seem allowance. Pin a hem all around...
I am a self confessed lip balm junkie. I have a million of little Chapstick, Burt's Bees, and Labello cases everywhere. Ten points if you know of Labello- it's only sold in Europe. But all those little lip balm's get really expensive- especially if you need one in every bag and send them through the washing machine in your pockets as often as I do. Well, there is a thriftier way! In a...
I recently moved into a new apartment in New York City, and since it's New York City, the neighboring building is about 9 feet away from mine with level windows, so i need some curtains.
I found this great tutorial for simple curtains at Craft Yourself Rich by Sew Bettie.
Get some cool fabric, you can buy the chainlink fabric and butterfly fabric pictured above at Sew Bettie's...
I just spent last weekend at the Portland Zine Symposium, selling my DIY zine and swapping with other zinesters, and I wanted to tell you a little about the DIY zine world in case you don't already know about zines. I'll start with the basics - zines (from the word magazines) are self-published books of any kind, usually photocopied, usually smaller than a standard magazine, and usually...
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Here they are my top 5, all-out favorite street style pictures from the last two weeks of street style blog uploads. Be sure to leave love and all disagreements in the comments section below...
I liked these first two for their original spins on menswear. The left photo is from an August 19 post at Pike/Pine, and while I've worn variations of this exact outfit dozens of...
In need of a dress, but don't have a lot of time to sew? If you're like me, projects that give me immediate gratification (i.e. can be made in a day or weekend) are my favorite and a dress like Sharon Stone's definitely fits the bill. To reproduce her style use Butterick 5174 and an animal print from Spandex House such as this purple\blue leopard print or a pink cheetah from...
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