What do you stash? You know, the stuff you buy to do things with. Food items? Cookbooks? Yarn? Fabric? Sewing Patterns? Wood? Beads? Whatever you stash, dive into it when you take on your next project. I’m not talking getting…
What to wear with white jeans – winter by asiegle featuring akris
Chances are you have something like this at your house too. Pilates, yoga, buns of steel whatever. Get them out and add variety to your workouts. I personally love gorgeous Hawaiian vistas in mine. In a cold winter night it…
Step three of ten. Fuse knit interfacing to every jacket panel and piece. There are fourteen pieces. Jamming to deep house club music as I press and hold the iron in place over the pieces. It isn’t ironing. It is…
What to wear with white jeans – winter by asiegle featuring a red long sleeve shirt
So this series is all about buying nothing and using what you have. So what was I doing buying new white designer jeans at a sum of money that is way outside my thrift-and-secondhand-boutique price range? I have no idea…
Today I’m doing slow sewing. I cut out the lining of my couture jacket and the interfacing. And that’s it. Yep. I’m not fusing, sewing, anything. Just taking this slow and savoring the beauty of the fabric and the process.…
I’ll bet without a doubt that most of you have some sort of exercise equipment gathering dust in your basement. What is it? A set of weights? A weight bench (if you do have a weight bench you are willing…
This is the start to a beautiful jacket I will wear forever.
I hand dyed this silk satin lining using my Procion professional dyes. I have had this set of Procion dye kit since about 1998 or so. I took a class at our local community education on how to do batik…
This pattern was my grandma’s and now I am making it for my toddler son. I think grandma would be pleased. She never met either of my kids but I think she will like this.
I’m taking a break today from the Use the Good Stuff posts (though I have one about the sled….I haven’t yet taken photos of it) to look at all the cool things I pinned on Pinterest and see what rises…