And by “love”, I mean “hate”, but they never admit to that in tennis. This was my kitchen ceiling. This was my little reward for two days of chiseling hideous industrial hanging-ceiling tiles off the ceiling – learning that my father was quite the active doodler, and his preferred medium was Liquid Nails…
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I try to give my Principles of Design for Apparel class a shape challenge where I ask them to look at the actual shape/aesthetic properties of an everyday item and re-interpret it as a fashion material. Last semester was coffee filters. That worked so well as to be a tough act to follow. The idea of what to do next has been troubling me for months, and actually came up (as a positive and enthusiastic discussion) during a recent interview for a benefitted position in the department. In desperation, at the dollar store 40 minutes before the lecture started, I finalized on….
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This blog started out as “SewHappy” in 1998! Wowza! In internet years, I’m fossil fuel. I wanted to celebrate 15 years of helping you waste time (and possibly being educational) with a new theme, designed, like Pinterest, to help you waste more time as effortlessly as possible. It’s starting to feel a little more like home in here. :)
Leave a CommentAll of my custom post types (measurements, skills, demos, and downloads) are now back online and should show up with all their pictures intact.
4 CommentsOk, seriously… No site migration should ever involve an emergency root canal because you fell asleep at the keyboard and face-planted at just the wrong…
9 CommentsI am moving the site from one host to another. I’ve done this many times before, but this time it’s not going so seamlessly. Please…
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I recently had to make a pseudo-cavalier tabard-y-thing, using tissue lamé (hmmm…. reads like “lame”) for the appliques and trimmings. It wasn’t anyone’s fault, really, it just had to work with the ones that had been bought for other costumes. If you need to tame the “HELLO, I’M SHINY” factor of lamé, there’s a way…
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So I was peacefully minding my own business and enjoying my time remaining at the costume shop, steam-fluffing hat feathers with the gravity iron, and I saw this….
3 CommentsThe college put out a memo yesterday stating that employees can no longer work for multiple divisions. In other words, I can work for the…
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Take a look at the seam in this skirt from an Indian wedding that my boss turned up…
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