Scissor Love

I've been working on embroidering even more scissors (hair stylist, more vintage embroidery, diagram, etc.) and have hung up two more in the show still up at Starbucks. I will post the newest additions soon.

In the meantime, two scissor-related crafts that tickled me pink today.

Lauren Levy's show currently at D. Berman Gallery here in Austin, wonderful use of buttons! I just found out about this today and since it ends in a couple days, plan to check it out tomorrow.


And I love this demo display Rachel / Average Jane Crafter made for her embroidery classes and demos she's doing at Maker Faire San Francisco this weekend:

sweet!

science & craft

from Milly and Tilly

Embroidered for a menstrual cup pouch (like The Keeper or Diva cup - I'm a huge fan! "The chemical structure of a heme group. Heme B is the oxygen binding molecule found in hemoglobin, a major component of blood."

crafty ephemera kits : in shop

Here's a really fun activity : going through all of your collections (some call them hoardes) and picking out items by color theme rather than type of supply. Also, when I found these adorable little lunch boxes, I knew I had to do something with them! (in etsy shop)

Urban Threads : when crafting is used for evil?

Various craft blogs and etsy among others have been posting the news about Urban Threads - a company who poses as an indie, crafty individual - ripping off designers and artists including Sublime Stitching. Feel Stitchy has a nice thorough piece with side by side comparisons that pretty much erase any doubt.

So I was especially disturbed when recently my embroidered embroidery scissor piece was favorited on flickr by Urban Threads. I'm sure they feel free to do whatever they want with any artwork that is out there but I did what I could think of which was to block UT on flickr.

It really makes me crazy and upset that this person/these people are out there continuing to do this crap, using the online communities we use for positive things like support of each other to troll for ideas. I'm not flattered, just disgusted.

coveting rings on etsy

Melanie Favreau

Karalee Designs

Adorn Jewelry

I want you on my fingers!

coveting from Home Ec.

fabric pattern love

Craft Pudding, whose wonderful carved stamps are some of my favorites. She sells them on etsy. This fabric was printed by the custom fabric printer Spoonflower.


A friend gave me a quarter of this hand-printed house fabric from Summersville for Christmas and it's so adorable I'm going to display it in an embroidery hoop hanging on the wall. I'm embroidering outlines of a few of the houses and trees.


More great hand printed fabrics on etsy:

Emily Me

Umbrella Prints



Green Olive Textiles
Peanut Butter and Yelly