Just found about Lemuria on Cool Hunting. I especially love the Tuta Mucca Cow dress and would LOVE to have one…
one dress endless possibilities – video here.
Monthly Archive for March, 2010
Stylish Dress Book 2
ISBN978-4-579-11226-5
Dress D
Now my wallpaper is officially competing against my dress. Pardon the terrible photo quality, the exposure is totally off and the weather wasn’t helping either. And next time I won’t be taking pictures from an angle as high as this one. But I thought, I post anyways. Who knows, when I get myself to take another picture, weather being nice to me AND have washed hair…
The fabric of this dress is a find at Mills End, $2.99/yard and has been there since 1999. That means 11 years sitting there – would you consider this vintage? When do we speak about vintage anyways? I’d personally start in the 70s and earlier. Everything after that I’d call by it’s aera. But how about you? When do you start calling something vintage?
It isn’t summer yet but this weekend we were once again drawn to get out of the city. The weather forecast predicted one sun filled day before the rain would hit again. While Andy practices surf techniques on his Dumpsterdiver, I am practicing the manual modes on our camera.
Noch hat der Sommer gar nicht angefangen, aber fuer einen Tag letzten Freitag war schoenes Wetter angesagt – und uns hat es natuerlich wieder raus aus der Stadt gezogen.
Waehrend Andy seine Surftechnik auf seinem Dumpsterdiver verfeinert, uebe ich mich photographieren im manuellen mode unserer Kamera.
I love to discover new great design that is close to home (SE Morrison to be specific). When I saw the beautiful product from Pigeon Toe Ceramics here in Portland, OR, I can’t decide which one to get first:
Askew for the kitchen
this hanging urn with leather straps from ‘Patio’ or
just because? ….
Love Lisa Jones aesthetic and designs.
Ich freue mich immer wenn ich was wunderschönes aus der Gegend entdecke (SE Morrison) und Pigeon Toe Ceramics ist genau das. Ich kann mich gar nicht entscheiden, was ich als erstes haben möchte. Die Salz und Pfeffer Streuer ‘Askew’, die Hängeurne mit Lederriemen ‘Patio’ oder den Lampenschirm einfach nur so zum anstaunen? Ich mag Lisa Jones´Aesthetik jedenfalls sehr gerne.
Last year, i volunteered to create a logo for a preschool that some of Leona’ s aunties started. I chose one of the most beautiful paintings Leona made as backdrop for the Logo. And now, Jade Preschool website is up and running. And I am very proud of my little girl. Does that mean I am exploiting my child?
Letztes Jahr habe ich ein Logo gemacht für einen neuen Kindergarten, den einige der `Tanten´von Leona gegründet haben. Ich hab einfach eins von Leona´s schönsten Gemälden als Hintergrund genommen und mehr hats eigendlich schon nicht mehr gebraucht. Die website ist jetzt am laufen und ich bin ganz stolz auf meine Kleine. Heisst das jetzt, dass ich sie ausbeute?
Excellent collaboration: Acne Jeans with Lanvin. Available here with quite hefty price tags. But lovely styles. Photos by Acne
I finished my third rendition of the Birch Lace Shawl from Rowan 34. This one is the first one I made for myself however. I didn’t use lace weight yarn, and I could have gone a needle size up as well for the lace pattern to come out more clearly. But I love it anyway.
Too late, I found a tutorial on the split and spit method here, it would have come in extremely handy for this project.
Ich habe endlich meinen dritten Birch Spitzen Schal fertig gestrickt. Ist aus Rowan Heft 34. Diesmal ist der Schal nur für mich!. Ich hab nicht das original Garn genommen, und mit der Nadelgröße hätte ich auch ne nummer höher gehen können, damit das Spitzen Muster besser rauskommt. Aber ich mag den Schal trotzdem super gerne!
Leider habe ich zu spät diesen blog eintrag von Nancy gefunden. Die Split and Spit Technik hätte ich hier wirklich gebraucht. Einfach Garnenden aufzwirbeln, die beiden offene Stränge vom zu Ende gehenden Wollknäul und neuem Knäul mit etwas Spucke zwischen Daumen und Zeigefinger zusammen reiben, bis die sich untereinander verfilzt haben, und dann einfach weiter stricken. Und wenn man die offenene Enden einfach bisschen zurückschneidet, kann keiner sehen, wo die Garnenden sind. Clever, oder?
Just some images from our long weekend. Andy took Friday off, we visited Leona’s new school – she’s getting so big so quickly – and passed the rest of the day at the coast. Beautiful weather! 70F in March! Leona playing in the waves, and spending some quality time with her dad while she’s squirming and climbing on me. Building has begun (for a couple of weeks already) for the New Seasons building. We are enjoying a lovely drink at Por Que No? and i am wearing, and wearing and wearing my Daffodil sweater.
Und jetzt nochmal auf deutsch, weil ich so langsam das Gefühl für meine Muttersprache verliere. Wenigstens im schriftlichen: Hier ein paar inspirationen vom letzten Wochenende. Andy hat Freitag freigenommen und so konnten wir alle zusammen Leona´s neuen Kindergarten besuchen. Danach sind wir gleich an die Küste gefahren. Es wahr für März unglaublich warm – so etwa 22 Grad! Leona konnte in den (ziemlich kalten Wellen spielen) endlich etwas mehr Zeit mit Papa verbringen und auf mir rumturnen. Seit einigen Wochen haben jetzt schon die Bauarbeiten am neuen New Seasons Supermarkt begonnen. Wir drinken leckere Limonade bei Porque No! und ich hab ständig meine neue Strickjacke an!
This post is long overdue! Last year i attended an incredible course at the OCAC: Exploring natural dyes. During the time I developed seek, i researched several dying methods then settling on reactive dyes for my yoga apparel. But dying with natural dyestuffs was still a method that I was very eager to try even though it is more for private use as it’s hard to achieve consistent results in production. When i found a natural dye course was offered here in Portland, i didn’t have to think twice. I will write in more detail about all i have learned in a separate post but wanted to share a project i made with some of the fabric i dyed myself.
I discovered the Village Frock through this picture on flickr and fell in love with the design. With a little research, i found the lovely designs from Sugar City including the village frock.
It arrived in it’s sweet instruction booklet and beautifully designed paper pattern. I used some hemp/cotton blend fabric that i had dyed with Logwood. I am laughing at myself – ‘i am going all amish’ from dying to sewing myself.
As you can see from the picture, Leona is still a little too small for the garment. Is anybody surprised? All my projects turned out being to big even though made sure to measure her beforehand. Then i was enlightened by Shelly from Figgy’s Kids that all US patterns include seam allowances! Dahhhhhhhhh! That’s why ALL my projects are too big! Except for the projects based on japanese patterns as those don’t include the seam allowances. Having learned to sew in Germany where all seam allowances need to be added, i just kept on doing exactly that. Selber schuld.
Hah! Even better as now the whole preparation process is much faster! Hurray! And she’ll be able to wear the stuff that much longer…. Oh, she’s a big girl now and does her own dressing choices. There was no way on earth I could convince her to wear other shoes then those blue crock-alikes. So I just went with it.
While researching some print inspiration, i came across this here.
Eley Kishimoto is drawing a pretty picture answering a popular question: What are we going to wear next fall?
they might have answered the question. I love the combination of bold color blocks and the variegated zig zag.
But my favorite are bold stripes however:
Eley Kishimoto
Coven (available through UNA)
American Retro
Collina Strada and monserat
I love the versatility of stripes! The combination of bold stripes with small stripes, the way they can be angled, broken up, twisted. Stripes can look new and contemporary or retro. Whatever you want them to be.
