If you live in the Northeast, don’t miss Lucille Marcotte‘s latest show at Galerie Saint-Dizier, in Montreal. Lucille’s artwork is powerfully idiosyncratic and imbued with sensual and sonar qualities. Her canvases are always depicted with the use of strong black strokes of paint portraying a body, frequently female, on white canvas. The white areas around [...]
Pattern: Kwik Sew 3422, Men’s Shirts Fabric: Cotton dobby in ocher, linen printed with robots Notions: Oval buttons in avacado Pattern Description:The Men’s Shirts have a double yoke, patch pocket, and shirt-tail hemline. View A has a collar with a separate collar stand, full-length sleeves with cuffs and sleeve plackets. View B has a collar [...]
We haven’t lived in Vermont for nearly 8 months now, but this week marks the end of a chapter for us. We sold our 150 year old farmhouse, cutting off a major tie to the state. I’m not sure that rural living was the best fit for us, but we do have some funny stories [...]
I’m usually a pretty positive person, but I can’t believe how difficult it is to find a decent cup of tea in Santa Cruz. I’ve been singing the praises of kukicha lately because the taste resembles that of gyokuro without the cost or the water cooling nonsense. I had been ordering tea from a great [...]
2008 was the year of the skirt. Safe, flat, fun and rewarding. Also rather quick to make. Now that I’m comfortable sewing in linings and invisible zippers, I think it’s time to up the ante just a bit this year. Not only do I want to continue to experiment with drafting my own patterns, but [...]
