This gorgeous textile is an 11-foot-long weaving made from spider silk, specifically the golden orb spider of Madagascar. The story of how it was made is fascinating and well worth reading (a few tidbits: the saffron color is the undyed color of the spider silk, the threads have five times the strength of steel by weight, and it took more than one million spiders to make the cloth).
Project Runway Season 1 winner, Jay McCarroll shows off his quilting expertise and a few laughs in this clip from Interweave’s Quilting Arts TV. Jay shows off some of his cool fabric designs too!
Amy Butler announced her new line of fabric, called Love, yesterday. Preview pictures posted to her web site give glimpses of the vibrant floral designs sewn into garments from vintage-inspired western shirts to 70s-style frocks and even modern dresses, beautifully exemplifying the versatility of the fabrics.
It’s Rachel’s birthday! Happy Happy Joy Joy! In that spirit, here’s are three stunning garlands that if I would love to use to decorate her house!
Kate Pruitt posted a clever Notebook Lunchbag tutorial on Design*Sponge. She used striped canvas fabric and a sewn red line to replicate the look of notebook paper and then wrote a sweet little message on it in black fabric pen.
To keep a nice book nice, and to disguise one that’s been defaced, sew a simple fabric book cover. Plus, text book cover designs are usually utilitarian at best, and ugly at worst. Your books will stay protected from the constant ins and outs of lockers and backpacks.
I absolutely love this gorgeous pillow from A Ervilha Cor de Rosa, a fantastic Portuguese craft blog (she often posts both in Portuguese and English, or you can use Google translate ). Rosa gets a really soft but lovely contrast from using both right and wrong sides of the jean fabric.
