knick knacks & ric rac

never go out of fashion i found this at a junk shop on a cross country road trip almost 20 years ago, it’s been hanging in my various workrooms since then. the artwork really amuses me. it was a nino cerruti ad in a 1979 issue of W. here’s to making truly beautiful clothes in […]

perusing the aisles of the 99cent store the other day, i saw these packages of brightly colored polyethelene rope. my first thought was that it looked and felt like jumbo sized plastic raffia. my second thought was how awesome would it be to make jumbo sized flower loom flowers with this stuff? totally awesome!! i wondered […]

i had to do it, i couldn’t stop myself… honeycake chair! i probably could have stopped myself from making the gingerbread one, but i did it anyways… making the chairs reminded me of this little box i found, and i saw some coordinating items on etsy that i find pretty irresistable, like these shot glasses… […]

a few months ago, nynke asked me to make some art to be printed on the back of a flyer for a holiday craft fair in the Netherlands. we talked about making an ornament, so i made a kissin’ kritters ornament using the elements from my kissin’ kritters skirt print. want to make one yourself? […]

ever since i saw these adorable embroideries on etsy (and bought them right away, of course!) i’ve wanted to make a knothole skirt. then i found a few more at thrift stores, and the little mouse one on etsy again. i’ve only seen these 4 designs. have you seen any others? when i first moved into […]

knothole skirt-tree bark print with a lil squirrel peeking out of a delightful knothole pocket at the hip. printed on a fabulously textured stretch twill. trimmed with ric rac at the hem. honeycake skirt-super fun skirt inspired by hungarian honeycakes! decorated with soft vinyl ‘frosting’ appliques, accented with giant buttons and a row of jumbo […]

at some of the new goodies coming this week!  

when i made this skirt i knew i liked it (of course!) but i didn’t know it would become my go-to skirt…i’ve been wearing it all the time, it’s fun to wear and so easy to throw on and go out. i bought these pairs of embroidered pockets downtown years before i started madewithlovebyhannah, but they […]

cactus flower skirt batea skirt lion print skirt fabric fun skirt flower basket skirt cottage garden skirt

some motifs i find myself a little obsessed with throughout the years, hex signs are one of them… rug is 28 inches across. this is actually the second pattern i made, after a little miscalculating the first one is turning out huge…i’m estimating it’s going to be 4 or 5 feet across when i’m finished! i just […]