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Museum Canvas bags
I’ve been collecting museum banners from the University Museum in the last year, I thought I could start a small production of totem bags or messenger bags to sell in FoCo. Here is the first prototipe
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Sew: Yellow Fever
I’m still in the sewing mood. I found a couple of cute projects and I want to use the color of the summer, yellow! The first project is a simple makeup pochet, the second one is supposed to be a tissue holder, but I think it works pretty well as a phone case. Here are […]
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Sew: Summer bag
Summer is here, I really just want to spend some time with my sewing machine and some happy fabric creating useful little object for my summer 2012. I will start with a reversible bag. I purchased this 2 different fabrics from my local store, they match in the color but not in the design, and […]
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Sew: my new wallet
I purchased this Outside Oslo fabric ( Dusk Colorway), for some pillows to use in the patio (post to come…) and I had some left overs. In howaboutorange.blogspot.com in the DIY section I found a tutorial for a little sew project. Since I decided that my old wallet was way to big and not original at […]
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Recycle&Sew: #2 and #3
As I already described in this post, I had a big amount of t-shirts to use for some project. This time I started from a grey no shape long sleeves shirt and a black t-shirt I reshaped neck, body and sleeves to fit myself Ruffled the leftovers (Gather-Fabric-into-Ruffles), and here is the first one and […]
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Paint: guestroom projects
My italian friend Gabriela left Fort Collins at the end of 2010 after 9 years. She is going to Africa (Good luck dear!!) and she left us some goodies. This Little blue table lamp was probably my favorite and I wanted to use it as soon as possible. It was already very cute but I […]
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Recycle&sew: t-shirt mania
Daniele, my husband, was throwing away some old, but in pretty good shape, t-shirts. I really love some of those, the colors were still ok and the cotton…well it was 100% cotton…So I took an inspiration from the ruffled shirt at Anthropologie and I came out with some original design. Here is the first transformation: […]