Year: 2011

Vintage-Style Swing Dress Sew-Along

If one of your New Year resolutions is to do more garment sewing, and you love vintage style, check out the new sew-along from Casey of Elegant Musings. She’ll be using the 1940s “Swing” dress pattern that can be purchased through Sense & Sensibility Patterns, a small, home-based company that provides a range of period-style […]

Moveable Kitchen

Moveable Kitchen

Judging from the fleets of gas grills parked outside almost every big box home improvement store for the last five or six years one could assume that there’s been a bit of an uptick in outdoor cooking. While barbeque tends to take center stage in this ritual, there’s almost no thought given to basic kitchen amenities outside of the more elaborate setups. If you do a fair amount of your cooking outside, when the weather’s nice, and you’d like access to a sink, gas burner, cutting surface and storage space, check out this handsome DIY outdoor kitchen from London-based designer Nina Tolstrup. Step-by-step PDF instructions are available on her site.

Meagan’s Panama sketchbook

Meagan’s Panama sketchbook

Meagan was recently on an extended stay in Panama. Before leaving she made a small sketchbook which she then filled with a visual travelogue. On returning, she scanned the pages of the sketchbook and posted them for all to see. The book tells a great story of rural life far off the grid and the people she lived with. Some of the pages are cut to the contour of the images, which then show layering of the three dimensional spaces in the picture.