knick knacks & ric rac

i always get really excited when i have a piece of vintage fabric, and then while stumbling around on the internet or in a thrift store, i see the same fabric in action. it doesn’t take much to get me excited! today, while i should have been working, i was looking at bathing suits on etsy and i saw […]

this may very well become one of my favorite websites. i read about spoonflower a while ago in true up and was pretty excited to learn about it. i’ve been anxiously awaiting an invitation to try out their services during the testing stage, and when it arrived in my inbox last night i was thrilled and whipped […]

i found a few yards of this fabric at a thrift store a long time ago (about 20 years ago!) you can imagine i almost fainted when i got my hands on it. i love many different fabrics and prints but i think i can safely say this is my all time favorite piece of fabric in […]

here’s a sneak peek at one of the new skirt prints i finished up this week. i’m calling this one ‘fairytale forest’, for obvious reasons! there’s also a third colorway featuring red riding hood. it’s a wrap-around skirt with the deep dark woods print all the way around, and fairytale figures on the very end based on illustrations from […]

you might have figured out that i really like alpine-y style woven trims. i designed the ribbon print skirt based on a few that i have, and i make this belt out of super wide vintage 60’s woven trim. okay, i’ll admit i may be a little obsessed with them, and when i find ones i like i hoard them. […]

i just added a new colorway for the schwarzwalder skirt! it’s pale gold with a brown print, brown toadstool applique and brown ric rac trim.

lately i’ve become enamored with this pixelated style of folky graphics. they’re supposed to look like a cross stitch sampler, but it reminds me of old fashioned computer graphics, or being bored in math class and coloring in the squares of graph paper with one of those big retractable ballpoint pens that had 5 or 6 colors in it. […]

another new print for fall/winter… inspired by woven ribbon trims and ric rac. i printed this one in three colorways. coming soon! next week if i can get my act together…

i just finished sewing up skirt samples of one of my new prints for fall/winter. i call this one my ‘favorite things’ print, well, because it features a few of my favorite things. like toadstools and edelweiss and kissing bunnies and…see for yourself! the red print is paired with black denim, and the green print […]

for some reason i really like printed ticking stripes, even better than real woven-in ticking stripes. i’m not really sure why, but whenever i see fabric with printed ticking stripes i have to grab it. i picked up many yards of these three a while ago. i’m using the orange one for my striped sunflower skirt and matching […]