http://karlene.falkor.gen.nz My sewing, refashioning and upcycling projects revealed Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:58:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm very excited to announce that my new online store is open for business, check it out http://felt.co.nz/shop/karlene-c Just a few things in there at the moment, more to come soon :) http://karlene.falkor.gen.nz/2011/09/26/big-news-i-have-a-shop/ This is the dress I made from the painted denim jeans panel. Alas, some of the detail in the top layers of paint have been lost in the wash, still looks OK though. Next time I try this I will know to do all the painting in one flat layer, like a ... http://karlene.falkor.gen.nz/2011/08/28/painted-flower-dress/ I've been painting! Every now and then my friends and I get together for an arty/crafty painting session. Rather than doing the usual painting on canvases, this time we decided to try stenciling on T-shirts using freezer paper. I had never tried this before as we can't get freezer paper ... http://karlene.falkor.gen.nz/2011/08/04/painted-flowers/ This is another dress we used in a recent photo shoot, beautifully modeled by my lovely sister. [caption id="attachment_629" align="alignnone" width="200" caption="Peach dress"][/caption] The skirt is made from vintage fabrics and lace. The larger pieces of fabric in the skirt are square shapes, with one corner rounded off in a ... http://karlene.falkor.gen.nz/2011/06/28/fairy-style-dress-peach/ Thanks to my husband Keith, I got some lovely shots of the finished fairy style dresses I made. [caption id="attachment_611" align="alignnone" width="200" caption="Green fairy dress"][/caption] This one I am wearing is the one I wrote about in my last post , made from denim scrap from some jeans and other bits and ... http://karlene.falkor.gen.nz/2011/06/23/fairy-style-dress-green/ The dress, as is, on my dress stand. A bit lopsided but there is a reason as you will see... I'm pleased with how this is turning out, there is just one little thing I have to change, the top part of the "petticoat" lining layer is sitting too high. It's kind ... http://karlene.falkor.gen.nz/2010/09/21/green-denim-dress-almost-complete/ Some fabrics fray nicely and look cool, like denim or cotton. Other fabrics just make a really big mess with lots of threads going all over the place. I wanted to use some scrappy pieces in the skirt of the dress I am working on without all the mess, so I ... http://karlene.falkor.gen.nz/2010/09/09/melted/ Remember this green jeans skirt I made? I'm using the cut off pant legs to make a bodice for a patchy fairy style dress. Here's a look at the front part of the bodice before being completely sewn up. You can see I've used the unpicked hem at the top of ... http://karlene.falkor.gen.nz/2010/09/06/green-denim-dress-a-work-in-progress/ I've been wanting to have a go at dyeing with tea for a while now. I had an old white cotton skirt with a broderie anglaise hem that I wanted to incorporate into my current project (using up the pant legs from the green jeans) and needed to be less, well, ... http://karlene.falkor.gen.nz/2010/08/26/the-tea-dye-experiment/ I started with a pair of slightly faded green jeans, then made them into a skirt like this. It was a bit plain so I decided to add some patchwork applique and lace My favourite so far! If you look at the back of the waistband you can see the original colour ... http://karlene.falkor.gen.nz/2010/08/23/green-jeans-to-skirt/