Organic-Cotton-Dressing-Gown

April 30th, 2008

A Finnish company called Mint Room has manufactured this lovely organic cotton dressing gown. It is very simple but yet so stylish. They manufacture bespoke items mainly for Finnish market. Their range included organic shoppers, organic towels, hand made natural soaps and organic candles.

A reversible linen/cotton zakka-style pouch

April 29th, 2008

We just love bags and purses! You can’t have too many of them - we don’t care what your boyfriends or husbands  says. He just does not understand how  beautiful  things make women happy. Simple things make men happy of course but it bit more complicated with women. This pouch is visually very pleasing and practical too. So I guess making one would make us happy! So let’s get moving and please visit Cast On Cast Off blog and make yourself happy.

Contempory Linen Curtains from West Elm

April 24th, 2008

American West Elm stores has great contemporary curtains. These curtains are similar to ones we presented in this blog earlier this year. They are very simple to make and go with many different kind of interiors. Ada and Ina’s Charlie fabric is perfect for these curtains.

Linen clothing from Japan

April 23rd, 2008

 

These cute outfits were made by Kumi from Japan. We love their unique retro look. They are perfect for the summer and they go so well with this summer’s romantic trends. Forget the standard boring linen pants and make yourself something more dearing. These are a bit boudoir style but still perfectly wearable out side of the house as well.

pegbag

April 21st, 2008

One more starters sewing project. This one we found from Claire’s Crafty Blog. Time to get your laundry sorted and make laundreing more fun. This cute pegbag is worth of doing. We love the pretty dots too! Claire has lined them up very well. It is simple and perfectly formed, Claire.

Blog about every day life and occasional crafts

April 21st, 2008

Karen Cheng ’s Snippets of Life has won numerous national and international awards and been featured in both online and print publications all over the world. She has also written a bit about her craft projects. One her personal goals for this year is to learn a new skill or revisit an old one. Sewing is one those. Here is her first master piece. Cushion which is quite lovely!  So don’t be scared to take up the challenge. It is not that difficult to sew a straight line. Well, I must admit that it has been for me :)

Curtains for Four Poster Bed

April 20th, 2008

Do you have one of those lovely antique four poster beds? Here are instructions for you how you can get a new look for you bed. Ada & Ina’s white linen fabrics are perfect for this purpose - light and summery. Our Seni fabric would be perfect for the summer look.

Bright and cute curtains

April 20th, 2008

Summer is soon here and we would like to make some pretty colorful curtains for the kitchen.  Kim’s curtains which has been made of IKEA’s fabric are quite perfect. She is a photographer from New York and her Four Beds Two Baths is worth of visiting. There is lot of nice photos which she has taken. Highly recommended!

Feeling tired?

April 19th, 2008

eye pillow

Linen is great material for other things than curtains. Time to relax and enjoy linen fabrics shooting and natural properities. Sew, Mama, Sew, has shared with us this great tip how to make same relaxing items of linen - rice heat theraphy bag and eye pillow stuffed with flax seed.

Luxury Padded Hangers

April 19th, 2008

Anna Mazur has written these great instructions how to make padded hangers. I remember that I used to hate them when I was child but now there is certain old world charm in them. I might even make small collection of the for myself. Maybe we will make different theme for each wardrobe. This is real starters projects - they are so easy to make. Thanks Anna!