Around the Web: April 1st through April 30th

Interesting stuff from around the web:

ric rac dahlias - I’ve been wondering what to do with my vintage ric rac. I love these little dahlias, from designer Made With Love by Hanna
“Floating” Artwork on Decorative Paper - how to float artwork, rather than matting it. handy!
San Francisco is Crafy - Check out this [...]

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Book Review: Pattern Magic Vol 1 and 2

I’ve been meaning to post about these books forever: Pattern Magic Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, which I purchased from the always wonderful Kinokuniya in San Francisco.
I’ve been working a lot on pattern making lately, and I can’t tell you how inspiring these books are. They’re laid out like many other Japanese mooks, with [...]

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International Flight Lounge

Our favorite tiki bar is starting a new night, International Flight Lounge, featuring “A hi-flying mix of the best uptempo ’60s French pop, Euro beat and film soundtracks, exotica, British invasion, and much more.” Seeing as I like all of those things (particularly 60s French pop), we had to check it out.

I am drinking [...]

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Cropped Lace Cardigan from Rebecca #31

Here’s another sweater I finished not too long ago. I hadn’t shown it before because I despised the buttons I’d chosen for it, which were cheap-looking plastic things, so I replaced them with these gorgeous etched glass ones.

The pattern is from the German knitting magazine, Rebecca, which labels itself “the young knitting magazine with [...]

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Coral

I recently acquired this vintage coral blouse from Etsy. I love its fluffiness. It was a bit baggy on me at first, so I added some darts at the front and back and it looks much nicer tucked into a high-waisted skirt now.
I’m liking coral at the moment, it’s a color that really [...]

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Portland is still magic

It’s been a busy busy week for me, so I’m very glad I had last weekend off to hang out in Portland with friends. The weather was gorgeous (mostly), we had some great food, and got to explore several different neighborhoods.
One of the things we did is visit Seaplane, which I’ve been meaning to [...]

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Off to PDX!

I’m off to magical Portland for the weekend! This will be a nice little vacation to one of my favorite cities.

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Folkwear 1930s Day Dress

Long ago, someone sent me this pattern for Folkwear #249, 1930s Day Dress. I bought the fabric, cut the pattern, and for one reason or another, it languished in my sewing box for many months after.
Well, I finally finished it, and it’s quite nice! I used a gorgeous blue toile cotton for the [...]

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Sunshine Yellow

I love my new bright yellow bag from Valhalla Brooklyn. It is incredibly soft, and incredibly happy.
I’m really into yellow right now.

{ps: it looks like my feed was broken for a while there, so if you’re reading this via a newsreader, that explains the sudden flurry of posts.}

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Redhead

I recently dyed my hair bright red. I’m liking it. I haven’t had really unnatural hair in a while, and now I remember why: upkeep and bleeding and staining. But red is purty, especially in the sunlight.

Today, I’m going to the Alameda Flea Market, which I haven’t been to for one reason [...]

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