Kraftworks - ICE

Once again, Atlanta will have a monthly infusion of indie craft!

If you've been missing Young Blood Gallery & Boutique's monthly indie art and craft market, it's back with a bang! Young Blood has teamed up with the Indie Craft Experience to bring you this fabulous event. From now on, ICE & Young Blood will be previewing artists' work to make sure there is a great balance of items to shop for, which will be a win/win for both vendors and shoppers. There will be a $20 application fee which will allow us to promote the event. There will be 15 vendors each month and each vendor will have a 4' x 6' space.

The market will continue to be held on the first Thursday of each month from 7-10 p.m. The first Kraftwork in Young Blood's new space will take place on Thursday, September 4th. The deadline to apply is Wednesday, August 27.

Interested in being a vendor? Go to the Indie Craft Experience website for detailed instructions on how to apply.

Information copied from Craftzine.com

What an incredible group!!!

The Sew Incredibles group surprised me tonight with dinner at the Relish in Roswell and a pretty birthday cake baked by June Hoffman, and a card and a gift! Thank you everyone for celebrating my 50...uh...we'll keep it at 50th birthday! Yes, the cake was sweet! What a great group of nice people! Makes getting older nicer.

I also did a quick demonstration of silk dye painting and let the group loose on a silk scarf. Wow! The scarf turned out absolutely wonderful, and after I steam and wash it, we're thinking of auctioning it at Common Threads -- well, unless I "accidentally" lose it, :)

Click on the pics to get a close-up view!

At Show N Tell, Sandie gave us a mini fashion show (she had so many outfits she made!!!), Helen Mirren -- oops! I mean Martha, made the new Shapes skirt out of batik and the Mimosa Top (see photo left), Barbara Moss made the cutest pair of plaid capris lined in lime green, Sue Eisen showed us her quilt that makes one feel happy, and I can't remember the rest, so someone let me know what they were.

We're supposed to get instructions from Barbara on how to make this nifty tote bag that folds and zips into it's own little pouch that's attached to the tote bag front as a pocket!

Jan Martin's Recycled White Cotton Jacket

Here's the info Jan sent me regarding the White Cotton Jacket she recycled and modelled for us at out June meeting:

The jacket was made about 5 years ago from a Vogue Pattern. I followed the directions, adding a medium weight interfacing to the front panel. Because the front panels overlapped quite a bit, the result was a somewhat stiff front. The fit was very good with a mandarin collar included in the front panel of the pattern.

This year I decided to remodel it so I could use it in more casual settings, including going to concerts. First, I removed the white soutache braid from the edges. Since I no longer had the pattern, I folded back the unneeded sections, pinned them and wore the jacket that way around the house. I did much stretching and moving (I'm getting visuals here, Jan!) to make sure that when I cut into it the shape of the back and sides would not be affected.

I released the mandarin collar seam. Allowing for a 1/2" seam, I drew the cutting line with a pencil and cut the jacket fronts. I closed the raw edges with hand sewing and replaced the soutache braid and mounted the large button to close the front.

It was a very nice jacket -- hard to believe it was recycled! click on the image to enlarge

Martha's show 'n tell from June 2008

Here are my show 'n tells from last night. The blue jacket and the brown skirt are both from Simplicity 3688, one of the patterns for the 2008 ASG contest. The lavendar jacket is from the 2007 ASG contest. Hope to see everyone else's show 'n tell and other projects too!

Enabler Alert

Here's the link to the CUTE cords from Fabric.com
http://www.fabric.com/apparel-fashion-fabric-corduroy-fabric-21-wale-cool-cords-fabric.aspx

Also they have some solid color cotton twill for $3.95/yard...great for skirts, pants, tote bags, etc.

I would write more about last night but my laptop is bouncing up and down from the jackhammers!!!!

June Meeting: Fringes and Trims

We had lots of laughs and fun as Desi showed us her collection of gadgets for trim and fringe making. The bottom line was: buy the trims and fringes because it's too boring and too much work to make them! However, the cord she made with wool yarn, and then felted, was something we all thought was interesting even though the bunch of samples she was clutching looked like colorful snakes. Her felted purse is to die for!

Among the many show and tells were Martha's swimsuit, her two suits, an adorable $3 jean skirt made by Barbara that was very expensive looking, Sandy's beautiful unmentionable and a cool LJ Designs Versa jacket she is in the process of completing, Karen's beautiful Diane Ericson Peony Jacket, Jan Martin's classy white jacket, an amazing smocked dress by Kay, and many more treats (including the cookies Desi made)!

Here is a link to the jean skirt Barbara made:

http://www.sewing.org/html/jeans_skirt.html
And she suggests:
"I would change the directions by marking the inset, cutting with a 5/8” seam allowance and serging the edges (even though it’s semi-bias) before sewing. It just seems like a cleaner finish to me."

And someone (who didn't have a name tag, I think) brought in her bottle cap pincushion which was ADORABLE! So we all want to make these pin cushions. Here's a tutorial (if you google bottle cap pincushion tutorial you'll get a long list of sites):

http://mylittlemochi.typepad.com/my_little_mochi/patterns_tutorials/index.html
Scroll down towards the bottomto see her bottle cap pin cushion.

This link is for other pincushions (eyecandy) designs:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bella_dia/sets/733357/

And the winner of the Nametag contest is Kay! I need a pic Kay!


July 28, Tuesday at 7pm is our next meeting. Come to dinner at The Relish at 6pm before the meeting! July's topic will be silk dye painting by Hellenne.