Archive for December, 2007
Back to dreaming of footware…
Sunday, December 9th, 2007Thought I’d continue with making the pair of shoes I taped the pattern for. I’ve drafted the two peice flat pattern for the block or base. Planning for something simple, based on the W size 12 lasts I bought in Thomastown they will have 1 inch heal and a slightly squared round toe. In the [...]
Bag attachments
Thursday, December 6th, 2007Thought I would drop this link in here for later. Bag handles, frames, do dads and things and all on one site. the even have bag frame crimpers.. While sure, it isn’t bench mounted with a foot pedal, I haven’t seen one of them since I was making hand bags for a living. Ps, I [...]
Teddy Bear
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007Decided to make something I could stitch by hand while watching a marathon of dodgy horror films on Saturday. Googled for a pattern for a bear and found this one. The picture looked cute, Printed the pattern out and cut the peices from the red leopard faux fur I picked up off Ebay. Probably would [...]
Free hand transfers
Saturday, December 1st, 2007Had an idea yesterday for how to print line drawings and free hand one colour images on to fabric. THe fabric paint fixes to the fabric by melting, so in theory it should be possible to paint an image on to grease proof paper and then use heat to transfer the image to the fabric. [...]