Showing posts with label fabric. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fabric. Show all posts

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Friday's Five: Supplies

Every artist and crafter needs motivation and inspiration, but when you have all that and you're still stumped?? fresh supplies always do the trick! whether you work with paper crafting, (i'm so into all the paper cut artists out there right now) mixed media work, traditional oils, or quilting these sites will have something to ease your supply cravings.

1. Paper Presentation: This store on 18th street in NY makes me giddy. it's beautifully set up, well picked items, and i always leave with a goodie or two. you can see why....they have portfolios, organizers, scrapbooking, journals, business card and invitation paper galore, the coolest cards i've ever seen (i used one of their vintage fabric thank you card sets for an interview follow up and ended up getting the job - uh huh, all the card's doing!)
photo via Paper Presentation.com
2. Denyse Schmidt Quilts: Not only are her quilts astonishing, but she'll share her knowledge and scraps with you! Denyse has a book, does workshops, and sells scrap bags and kimono pieces. Her website is great to get lost in.

images via Denise Schmidt

3. By now I'm sure most people have seen Matte Stephens incredibly cute needle felt animals. Check out this lady, too, YuYu Art who did the adorable kokeshi doll images below. If you want to try yourself, I found out through Felting Crafts on Crafts gossip.com that overstock.com has a needle felt starter kit! It's inexpensive, too!

images via Matte Stephens website


images via YuYu Art Etsy website

4. The Baren Mall: haha, yes I had to put some woodblock supplies up! In case you have a hankering to carve and print, or even have one made for you....


pictures via Baren mall
5. Joann Fabric and Craft: are you kidding me, you say? this is too obvious!! funny story- I worked there for 4 years!!! high school and part of college- it was the longest job I've had at one company! It was a great work environment, talking to the little old lady quilters- and the advice they have??? Priceless, and they'll talk your ear off. Bonus?? 50% off online coupon! enter promo code TTF120 at checkout.
Fun scrapbooking supplies! image via Joann.com

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Almost home free....

I'm going home for a long weekend after work tomorrow- yay! I probably won't get to post much but here are some soon to be projects I'm working on. When I'm putting together an illustration using my trims, I usually just dump the bag of ribbon, embroidery, buttons, etc. out (I have bags and bags, all "organized" into types of trims) and then just see what looks good together and compliments each other. I love finding new pieces, and hopefully will get to go to some great vintage stores while I'm home. Have a great weekend!





Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Springtime!

I love that it's finally staying light longer! Warm is just around the corner. I found a bunch of great nautical looking ribbons and turned them into this fabric print and of course embellished with buttons.

Friday, March 6, 2009

shirt dress fiasco...

So I bought this shirt dress at a Rugby sample sale without trying it on to get home and find that it's past my knees and looks like a ridiculous XXXL plaid flannel sleep shirt!! I needed to finally hem it so I could wear it before it's spring....and cut it wayyyyy too short! (I'm not a measuring kind of gal) so now its basically a shirt shirt...but this is what I had envisioned it looked like...if I was about a foot taller ;)


Sunday, March 1, 2009

Plum tree cat

This is an illustration for the nursery rhyme :

Diddlety, diddlety, dumpty,The cat ran up the plum tree;
Half a crown to fetch her down,Diddlety Diddlety Dumpty!


The "plums" are all polyester apple buttons, the blossoms on the tree are embroidery appliques, and the background tree is made up of faux flower petals.