POSTED BY Kendra Cunningham, 27 August 2008 | PERMALINK

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...
POSTED BY Lee Meredith, 27 August 2008 | PERMALINK
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...
POSTED BY Morgan Hungerford, 26 August 2008 | PERMALINK
Hey guys!
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...
POSTED BY Stacy Schlyer, 25 August 2008 | PERMALINK
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...
POSTED BY Kendra Cunningham, 25 August 2008 | PERMALINK
Complete Embellishing is the first book by crafter extraordinaire, Kayte Terry, the former Visual Manager of Anthropologie. It's a personal and inspiring work, illustrating how crafting and embellishing have been a formidable presence all her life. Sometimes a battle and sometimes a burden, in her introduction she explains how her book is a collection built upon her adventures and...