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March 18th, 2009

Shokay Yak Yarns

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“Luxury with a story”. That’s how Shokay describes their hand-combed Himalayan yak down products. Good for the Tibetan yak herders and great for snobby knitters. And aren’t we all snobby about our fibers?

March 18th, 2009

Lounge Pants Pattern Tutorial

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Wanna try making your own clothing patterns? BurdaStyle has a great video on making your own lounge pants to get you started.

March 16th, 2009

Bye Bye Domino

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As a faithful subscriber, I am sad to see Domino go. Their projects and resources were excellent, their ideas inspirational, and their budgets reasonable. They are pulling their “My Deco File” services down shortly and who knows how long they’ll maintain their project archives. So get over there are check them out before they’re gone! [...]

March 9th, 2009

Selling Ideas

Editorial Props

Jeffrey Rudell from CraftStylish put out a great article recently about crafting for magazines. Crafting Editorial Props: A Case Study walks you through a real world crafting-for-dollars scenario including working with an unrealistic budget and bringing your own backdrops. The most cringe-inducing thing about this article is realizing that Jeff actually cut up over 50 [...]

March 4th, 2009

Junk Beautiful

Junk Beautiful by Sue Whitney and Ki Nassauer

Everything claims to be “green” these days, but this is my idea of perfect re-use. The duo from junkmarketstyle.com offer a great collection of rooms decorated with flea market finds and clever transformations. Their aesthetic is a little bit country, but junking is about what you do with what you find. Their ideas are easily [...]