Flip-flops are a perennial summer favorite - but can be a little, well… dull sometimes.
How about using fabric yo-yos to decorate them?
Or if you’re really in the mood to be adventurous - how about making your own?
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The night-blooming cereus decided to grace my studio with not one, but three blooms last night!
Unfortunately, I was teaching for most of the evening, so here’s what they looked like just before I left:
And then the full bloom after the sun had set:
I definitely think there is a piece of embroidered fiber art in there […]
Okay, this is the most obvious solution to my problems… and I should have come up with it years ago.
Oh well, better late than never!
Seeing as a new cutting table isn’t in the budget (and I have very limited studio space) and my current cutting table is short enough that I get back spasms when […]
I’m so excited - my night-blooming cereus looks like it may have several blossoms tonight!
It certainly inspires me to get my sketch book out and start planning a piece of fiber art based on the flowers :-) I think painting the background and then using wool or silk fibers and fabric to form the […]
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Okay, so do you have everything I asked you for yesterday?
Good - let’s get sewing :-)
To begin, we need to interface the back of the fabric with a heavy-weight interfacing. I find it’s easiest to cut a square of fabric out with the motif in the center, rather than trying to fussy cut the fabric.
Interface […]
I’ve got this fabric sitting on my studio table right now:
I’m planning on sewing a hobo tote with it - but I was looking at the butterflies and got a brainstorm.
What if I made a 3-D pin or brooch from one of the butterflies that I could wear, or pin to the bag? It would […]
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