bits and bobbins

a recent post on the craft: blog mentioned the LIFE photo archive @ google.com. it’s a huge collection of historic photographs that were published in the famed magazine in years past. one can virtually dig through said archive using keywords.

i had a fun time plugging terms into the search field on the site, such as: sewing, fashion, dressmaking, crocheting, knitting, needlepoint, needlework, quilting…and i got a kick out of the images that turned up (the results of some of those searches are shown above).

interesting, inspirational, and fun to look at, eh?

a colorful, clever, and cute little animated vid with legos modeling designer jean-charles de castelbajac’s clothing designs…from his s/s 3001 collection. cheeky! (via craft:)

on the latest episode of threadbanger, quilt/fiber artist caroline hwang demonstrates how to do english paper piecing (a quilting technique). more detailed instructions for the english paper piecing technique that caroline hwang demonstrates can be found here. caroline uses the technique in her illustrative art pieces, but the same technique could surely be used to embellish clothing, methinks…as always, use those noggins!