Renegade Craft Fair

If you’re in one of the cities below, try to attend Renegade Craft Fair:

Brooklyn’s Fair is June 23 + 24, 2012 from 11am-7pm each day at the East River State Park, aka the Williamsburg Waterfront (just a few blocks from our old location in McCarren Park). My friend Marie Yi will have a booth […]

Seamstresses Having a Coffee Break

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Afternoon Coffee, Venice; Cecil van Haanen (1844-1914), The Netherlands, England, oil on canvas

I enjoyed seeing this on view at the Auckland Art Gallery in New Zealand the other week. What do you notice in […]

Easily Make a Dress

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If making a dress from scratch seems intimidating and following a pattern seems daunting, all you have to do is lay fabric over a dress that already fits you and cut around it. Perhaps you have a dress that fits […]

NY Street Style

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I like this image taken at University Place, New York, via The Sartorialist. I love the laid back way the style is mixed and matched together…topped with […]

Journal Des Dames

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Old books are always so inspiring to me. I love the illustrated patterns in the Journal Des Dames et Des Modes. The first edition came out in 1912 and the last one in 1914 due to the outbreak of World […]

Selvedge Magazine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selvedge is an independent textiles magazine based in the UK that publishes 6 times a year. It also offers an online subscription with online access. However, even without a subscription, you can have access to fun things in their craft section like how […]