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Archive for February 2008

February 15th, 2008

fiber art source of the day - Embellishment Village

Have you heard of Embellishment Village?
It’s a company dedicated to fiber art and all the fun things we can use to enhance & embellish!  They have free patterns, an inspiration gallery and a great link list :-)
Tags: fiber art embellishments, fiber-art, fiber-art-supplies, links

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February 14th, 2008

okay, so people are making fabric out of junk mail

In my last post, I jokingly remarked that I was waiting for someone to come up with a way to make fabric out of junk mail.
Apparently fiber artist, Greetje van Tiem is doing just that!  Cyndi from Layers Upon on Layers has the photo here :-)
Tags: Fabric, fiber arts, junk mail fabric, links, paper fabric, […]

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February 14th, 2008

fabric made out of milk?

This is amazing - there is now fabric made from milk! Wow - trees, bamboo, soy, water bottles and now milk… I’m waiting until they can find a way to make fabric out of junk mail :-) Isn’t technology amazing?
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Tags: , Fabric, milk fabric, milk protein fabric, sewing

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February 13th, 2008

Valentine’s Day projects - sewing your own lingerie?

Lingerie is one of the “traditional” gifts for Valentine’s Day - but let’s be realistic here, how much of the stuff on the market actually is nice to wear?  It’s usually sewn out of scratchy lace & nylon, using itchy invisible thread - and forget trying to find pretty lingerie if you’re plus-sized!
How about making […]

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February 12th, 2008

more Valentine’s Day wishes from the Lifestyles Channel

Not everyone got their posts into the first Valentine’s Day Lifestyles channel round-up - so here’s the complete one :-) Happy reading!

In celebration of the upcoming holiday, the b5media Lifestyles Channel participated in their own little carnival, hearts and flowers, hugs and kisses…
Because of nasty weather and the horrible flu bug going around and […]

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February 11th, 2008

framing fabric

I saw this cool idea on Apartment Therapy for large-scale framed fabric kits.   There were a couple of small issues I had - first of all, I live in a small house and don’t have any more room for biiiig pieces of art :-)  The second is that I have tons of my own fabric […]

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February 10th, 2008

fabric gift bags for birthdays?

You all know that I love making fabric gift bags for Christmas - but they’re great wrapping almost any kind of present.  Fabric gift bags are a great way of using fabric that you love, bought and aren’t quite sure how to use up…  I’m not sure if I want to wear a shirt […]

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