Last night BurdaStyle launched their new How To series at the fabulous Mood fabric store in Manhattan. If you don’t know Mood already, it is the store where Project Runway contestants get their fabric for challenges. First, we got some information about how to select fabric for projects and then Mood owner Eric Sauma gave […]
Meggiecat points us to this tutorial on batiking with kids, using glue instead of hot wax. It looks like fun, and the results are pretty impressive.
I’m drooling over the new Garden Party fabric collection by Anna Maria Horner. WIth bright colors and prints, it’s the perfect fabric for your projects this summer. You can purchase the fabrics now in her shop and once you have a project done, add them to the Garden Party Sewing Flickr Group. As an added […]
If you’ve ever wondered about what barkcloth is–where the name came from, what it’s made from, how to use it–check out this informative post at TrueUp.
Marimekko is having a huge sale on their fabrics and other products. Get 20-40% off now through July 15th. I love their classic green pear fabric pictured above.
Sew, Mama, Sew! has a nice interview with fabric designer and quilt maven Denyse Schmidt, which covers her new line of home decorating-weight fabrics from the County Fair collection.
Rachel points us to a cool how-to for doing batik-like fabric dying using a simple paste based on flour. Bridget Benton uses a pastry piper and spray dyes to achieve this interesting effect. From the pages of CRAFT: Chic Batik by Teresa Mak – Preview in in the CRAFT:07 digital edition (or read if you’re […]
