Favorite Things

Check out this fabric I found on Etsy! Rabbits AND sheep! Two of my favorite things!

Fabric Fun

So, I'm taking a textiles class this semester. It's supposed to be about wearables, but right now, it feels like a survey class. We've been watching various demos on various techniques, the first two of which (acid dying and felt making) I've had plenty of previous experience. But last week we covered Thermofax, a low tech silk screen method, and fiber reactive dyes. I've also been messing around with rusting fabric. I don't really know what I'm going to do with all of these test pieces, but I'm enjoying playing around. I really love fabric and always have, but I don't always know what to do with it. Hence, the trying to learn how to sew. Anyways, here's some of the fabric I've altered in the past few days.

Saturday Finds

Jewelry artist Keith LoBue is visiting us in Greenville this weekend and yesterday I had the opportunity to go antiquing with him at a few of the wonderful junk shops here in town. It was a wonderful outing full of great furniture, lovely rusty things and just all manner of stuff. I got some beautiful vintage linens and these really fantastic old needle cases (I'm a sucker for a needle case!). Later, after I purchased them, I discovered that each case was full of sewing machine needles! They're all different sizes, though I'm sure none will work in my more modern machine, but they were a nice surprise!