May 2013
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April 2012
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I just realized I could dye linen
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Spring Jeans: Muted floral filagree
Item: a pair of boot-cut, white-on-white jeans with embroidery. White House Black Market brand; I snagged them at Amvets Thrift in San Diego.
Idea: I wanted to try a cold, low-water immersion dye. I know my dyes only react with cotton and that the thread was most likely nylon. So I could immersion dye the fabric and the embroidered details would remain white.
Process: I scrunched the jeans in...
March 2012
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February 2012
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Inspiration Series #1: The Lepidopterist's...
In an effort to hone my skills I have started a series of projects inspired by and created for people I know and love.
The first item in this series was inspired by and created for Alicia. She had recently taken up a hobby of cultivating orchids. And I wanted to create a bright and colorful sweater or jacket that prominently featured orchids. Something that would be suitable for chilly spring...
December 2011
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November 2011
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Presenting: HELIODESK
Until now my tracing designs onto fabric has been done entirely with the help of a small and dim lightbox. So small and dim it certainly did not deserve a name (not even a “Darling Lumensquare” or “Brother Bulbcrate”. I was getting frustrated with the constant shifting and retaping and repinning of paper and material necessitated by the small working area of the box (no...
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Onesies for one groovy baby
A coworker commissioned some tie dye onesies for a friend’s baby shower (it’s a boy!). I’ve never tie-dyed before but I was up for trying something knew. I looked up a few techniques online and made some samples that night.
A) scrunch B) spiral C) immersion D) twist
I like the immersion the most. I just randomly gathered the fabric and shoved it down into a tupperware and...
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October 2011
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Constrictor Cropped Tee
I went to Amvets Thrift store, here in San Diego, and found this crew cut shirt which had apparently ESCAPED FROM THE NINETIES!
It was cheap and I figured I could give it the “beach bum couture” treatment. Here is the concept:
I altered the shirt first. I widened the neck line until it was off-the-shoulder. Then I hemmed the bottom into a descending crop. In the front the...
Anonymous asked: what colour lipstick are you wearing in that picture gang gang dance
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Josephina's Technicolor Yukata
Once again I forgot to take a picture of the product before I altered it, but it was a standard looking yukata (like a kimono, but just one thin layer of fabric, intended for informal use.) It looked something like this:
Apparently someone stole it as a souvenir from a hotel resort in Hawaii, as it had a hotel logo on it. I got it at a thrift store for about $3. I’d been using it as a...
September 2011
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Scratched Pants
I bought a pair of mustard jeans at Amvets Thrift Store here in San Diego. Now, normally I wouldn’t buy anything yellow because yellow doesn’t really suit me:
Yellows wash out my olive complexion but I went for it anyway because I had a good feeling. I bought a pair of long (long for me) size 3 jeans:
I bleached and weakened them with sand paper. I wanted them to be scruffy....
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Bleach Blossom Skirt
I should have taken photos of the skirt before I altered it, but I forgot. OOPS! It won’t happen again. It was a standard above the knee colored denim skirt from Gap that I got second hand at a thrift store. Here’s my attempt to recreate what it looked like:
The skirt is too big for me (It’s a 6, but Gap sizes run big so probably more like an 8) so maybe I can sell it.
The...
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Commissioned dress for Reed's #1 girl
This is the very first and only piece of work I’ve ever been paid to make. And hopefully not the last. He wanted a dress, something that hearkened to the countryside, possibly with wind turbines and most definitely with prancing goats and patchwork. I was going to make a pattern from this existing dress:
Here was the initial concept (ghastly I know):
It turns out the dress I picked...
