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Quick Sew Project: T-shirt Redo

Posted in sewing on November 6th, 2009 by emily – 1 Comment
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Altered a $4 clearance sale men's BDG tee from Urban Outfitters using vintage ribbon trim from the thrift store. The buttons are from an old jacket. I thought the colors and styling were reminiscent of Marc Jacobs, but maybe its just me.

New Dress Form

Posted in sewing on October 19th, 2009 by emily – Be the first to comment
My sister Janine brought this awesome birthday gift over for me last week.  I guess they've been hanging on to it since my birthday.  Now I have two dress form mannequins in two sizes, which makes it easier to photograph smaller sized clothing (In my Etsy shop I try to carry bigger sizes, but sometimes I find things that I just can't pass up!)


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I think they look nice together.

The dress form on the left is the new one.  It came from a music shoppe that was going out of business.  Janine and my niece Hannah also picked out some old sheet music for me, and included a bag of Lindt Lindor Truffles, which are my absolute favorite!  (Dark chocolate especially.)

sewing for craft dollars

Posted in craft, craft fairs, embroidery, emilyaugust, etsy, jersey city craft mafia, pillows, sewing on March 24th, 2009 by emily – Be the first to comment
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Preparing for the LITM craft show this weekend. I've made a few feathery hair things, stapled a pile of zines, and ordered lots of copies of my CD-r from Monotone Records, but I am proudest of these vintage linen pillows sewn from rescued flea market remnants in fantastic shape. They are luxurious and took a lot of pressing and detail work.

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I'm also pretty stoked on my banner, even if I DID get epoxy on it this weekend. Argh.

Anyway, wishing I didn't have to do my real job for the rest of this week because I'm so excited for the craft fair! I can't wait to stamp out some tags for pricing, and figure out how I'm going to bag my wares! See you at the show (pretend I just sang that at you like I am the lead singer in a pop punk band)!