AlterNation was mentioned in a lengthy (and interesting) article on AlterNet recently. I particularly enjoyed this quote:
The DIY movement wants you to make stuff. The DIY movement is huge, and sometimes it’s charming and sometimes it’s annoying and it is an anti-mass-production insurrection, a cuddly-soft revolt whose arsenal is crochet hooks, needles and glue guns. [...]
With both Xan and Shannon selling on Etsy.com, you never know what we’ll post. Xan’s got the corset skirt from the cover image for sale right now… click the photo to be taken to its page. Also, see the Shop page for more from both of us.
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My Fat Quarters Yukata Jacket is in CRAFT magazine issue 7, on page 68. If you’re a digital subscriber, you can find it at that link.
That’s my friend Arabella modeling. If you show up needing a photo taken of your latest painting on a day I have my camera and also need of a model, [...]
My friend Rae has been posting some interesting stuff on fused plastic bags, where you sandwich several layers of bags between paper, then use an iron to fuse them all together. The Tyvek-like, super-durable fabric can be cut and sewn into whatever you like, but its plasticky waterproofy goodness makes it ripe for bag use.
The [...]
Found after one of the owners commented on a post here: Pintucks, in Los Angeles. (It’s been added to my must-go-to list the next time I’m in California).
They’ve got vintage fashion and accessories, plus a fabric studio with both vintage and new fabrics, including mid-century modern upholstery fabrics, which aren’t always super-easy to find. Pintucks [...]
(From Shannon’s favorite, favorite webcomic, nataliedee.com)
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Quilt designer Denyse Schmidt has been selling scrap bags of her fabric for a while, including very cool kimono scrap bags which you could use to make projects like this. I’m notorious at Stitch Cleveland for never wanting to throw away even the tiniest scraps, and that’s why.
Now fabric designer Anna Maria Horner is also [...]
We did a book signing at Lake Erie Artists Gallery in downtown Cleveland yesterday. Here’s part of our display:
and here’s Xan working away (she set up her sewing machine and serger so people could watch her at work)
Not pictured: me puzzling out a knitting swatch for a sweater I’m working on, repeatedly.
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