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2011 February
Tutorial: Designing Smocking Plates in Illustrator Pt 1
Posted by Claire on Feb 11 2011
This tutorial is designed to allow smockers to create their own smocking graphs in Adobe Illustrator. It’s what I use to create the free vintage plates I offer here on my blog, like the one here and which I use to design many of my magazine projects, too. Pretty, no? Why Illustrator? Well, there is […]
Valentine’s Mail Pouch
Posted by Claire on Feb 10 2011
These Valentine’s mail pouches were easy to make and a ton of fun. I got the tutorial for them on the At Second Street Blog. Nice step by steps with photos and they take hardly any fabric at all, which is nice when you’re trying to use up the “too big to toss but […]
Felicia Continued
Posted by Claire on Feb 08 2011
Look what arrived in the mail! Silk. Ribbon. Yumm. The buttons are stash. They’re glass and while they look really dark here, they’re a darn near exact match for the fabric. They’re just the right size, too so hurray for serendipity. When we last left our intrepid heroine, she was here: And here’s the progress […]
Flower Power WIP
Posted by Claire on Feb 06 2011
This is one of the projects that sort of got started by accident. It started because I wanted to make one of these for each of the boys: Adorable, eh? The tutorial is here on the At Second Street blog. She’s got some cute stuff and I don’t get to make a lot of ‘cute’ […]
The Most Beautiful Pajamas in the World!
Posted by Claire on Feb 02 2011
Let me tell you a story about how these pajamas came into being. Just before Christmas, I popped down to Ottawa Street to pick up…something. Elastic? Buttons? A spool of thread? I can’t remember but I took my son with me. He’s well trained for fabric stores and knows not to touch or pull or […]