Brown is the ultimate blending neutral, covering the gamut of shades from 1 to 10 with more interest and variety than gray. It can complement almost any color on the color wheel, when selected carefully. Brown rugs are easy to live with. Unfortunately for my ability to product brown rugs, brown is not a very…
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Black and White Rugs
The black and white rugs above are available to buy: (click on the thumbnail for a larger image with details) Black and white rugs are fun to make. I stash black and white fabric separately, until I have a full bin. Then I sort it into six or eight different shades, depending on the amount…
Crafts Made from Recycled Materials
If you’re looking for ideas for crafts to make from recycled materials, get this book: 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse, by Garth Johnson. It is simply the richest source of ideas, per book-dollar or per page, I have found. Read the comments and the reviews about the book; if you’re looking for step-by-step instructions,…
Investment or Extravagance?
Previous posts have indicated that I have a collection of antique Singer sewing machines; three Red Eyes and a Memphis Sphinx. Three of them work; two of them are people-powered and one is electric. (The non-working machine is people-powered, but sticks somewhere in the stitch cycle.) I am experimenting with a new product for the studio, a…
Singer Red Eye 66
Love at first sight Sewing briefcases is a non-trivial use of a “fashion” sewing machine and it has quickly become apparent that my old machine (circa 1981) wasn’t going to hold up under the stress of pushing through eight or more layers of fabric. I did a few searches for “industrial” and “heavy duty” sewing…
