Creativity | Focus

Focus – Weeks 46 & 47

By on November 28, 2018

The holidays are now upon us!  It has been a busy few weeks, with not much sewing in store.  I did cut out a bunch of projects, but haven’t gotten around to it. My accomplishments this week Focus Photo – Last week was Thanksgiving and this pretty much sums up the girl right now. I […]

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Lightning strikes!

By on November 11, 2018

I am a sucker for red fabrics.  Anything I can mix with black usually ends up in my shopping cart, since I wear it so much.  Having my kids’ school colors as red and black definitely helps, since I try to wear the fan colors at their tournaments and games. This is the Flash lightning […]

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Pride City Stripes

By on November 10, 2018

This was my top for the Pride round at Fabric Anthropology.  When I got sent the fabric I was a little concerned by how “colorful” it was.  If you haven’t noticed…I tend to wear a lot of neutral colors…and red. So…I thought about what kind of design I wanted to make that would still be […]

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Creativity | Focus

Focus – Weeks 41 & 42

By on October 22, 2018

My accomplishments Focus Photo – First snow of the season! Sewing – I finally got to share the Fabric Anthropology makes I had worked on this past month: The Warrior Into the Woods #makenine progress: The first outfit above has the bolero that was on my #makenine, so now I have 4 out of 9 […]

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Costumes | Creativity

Feathered Headpiece

By on October 17, 2018

In my editorial photoshoot I did for the Fabric Anthropology Fashion Week line, I made my headpiece. I was going full on gothic with this outfit, so a headpiece with feathers was a must.  I WAS NOT trying to create a caricature of a tribal headpiece, which in my research I did not find one […]

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FA Fashion week line – The Woods outfit

By on October 16, 2018

Here are the deets on this outfit.  I was going for a gypsy/forest witch kind of look to them. The fabric is from the Fashion Week line at Fabric Anthropology.  The woven and bamboo printed with a more purple and less black color than the brushed poly from the pants outfit.  I desaturated these photos […]

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FA Style – Into the Woods

By on October 15, 2018

Details to come. Fabric – Skirt:  Fabric Anthropology Fashion Week line Top:  Fabric Anthropology Fashion Week line and Black bamboo, Nature’s Fabrics Crop top: Black bamboo, Nature’s Fabrics Patterns – Self-drafted  

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FA Fashion week line – The Warrior outfit

By on October 14, 2018

This was a fun outfit to make, and I was going more for a post-apocalyptic look for it.  A strong, fierce female.  I have a board on Pinterest where I gathered a bunch of ideas, and then started working on drafting my vision. The Jacket: The first item had to be this little jacket.  I […]

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FA Style – Warrior

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Details to come. Fabric – Thorns: Fabric Anthropology Fashion Week line Black top: Black bamboo, Nature’s Fabrics Crop jacket: Black quilted knit, Aurora Fabrics Patterns – Self-drafted

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Faux cable knit

By on October 7, 2018

It never ceases to amaze me what designers can come up with for fabric patterns.  The push for faux fill-in-the-blank can give you a fun look with the comfort of knit.  I’ve seen faux leather, faux sparkles, faux glitter and here we have faux cable knit.  It gives you a look of winter, but without […]

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