I made another new hoodie today. It lacks closure. I need to go zipper shopping, I've got two closure-lacking hoodies done at the moment. I gave my last favorite wear-around-the-house one away last night because it looked WAY better on him than on me, and this new one is much to my liking. Pretty sleeves! Also it fits me better. I may not keep it long, though. Something in me adores having a brand-new hoodie to wear every week, and if I just keep on giving...
Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Sunday, 28 November 2010
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I've got this huge pile of fleece in my closet. The last few hoodies I've made have been made using unusual fleece (peacock print) and the fleece itself both inspired, and limited, the hoodies. You can't get too crazy with design, when the fleece itself is all crazy, or you end up with way too much extra crazy, and nobody wants that.I've got ideas rolling around for some of the simpler colors. I have some black and red patterned fleece that wants to be a Darth Maul hoodie, and...
Wednesday, 24 November 2010
Tuesday, 23 November 2010
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I just finished this Peacock pullover a couple days ago. I had a lot of fun with this one. I started with this peacock fleece panel, and the fun part was laying out the hoodie so that the peacocks' eyes and feathers all ended up in the right places and the lines flowed well. This was a bit of a challenge.. I took a long time deciding what should be the front, how to fit the sleeves,...
Saturday, 20 November 2010
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Remember this? First posted in 2006:I found this box on ebay a few weeks ago and was fortunate enough to win it.Did you count them? That's right, 24 little hinged boxes, with a lovely display area in the middle. I knew right there and then this was to be MY Advent gift to myself, no sweets (candy) and miniature toys going in this box.The first job was to mask up the box, so I could use more...
Friday, 19 November 2010
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I love making gloves and arm warmers. They're quick to make, satisfying in that "I just made three finished products in under an hour" kind of way, and they use up extra fabric scraps so I don't have so much waste. LOVE that.I really adore having them too. They add bright color to any outfit, and they're all funky and stylish and stuff. I've listed a few pairs on Etsy .. take...
Thursday, 18 November 2010
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This morning I spent almost 4 hours sat here at my computer beavering away at my blog. I had had a run of spam comments that had not been caught by the spam catcher on blogger. I decided that in order to move forward I would remove the ability to comment on all but the most recent posts. Now blogger allows you to set to moderation based on age of post but not close comments completely based on age of posts so i had to do it individually, post by post by post. It wasn't a...
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My name is ZoeI LOVE THAT NAME - it's Greek for life, but there are two words in Greek for life and this one actually means "God's life in us!"My maiden name means "owner of a wedge shaped piece of land" - Make of that what you will.My married name means "watchful" or "watchman".I am married to Andrew.He works as an electronic design and development engineer, currently working in the automotive industry.I have two boys aged 16 and 19I work part time speaking to children in local schools about...
Sunday, 14 November 2010
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I just got back from the park where we took some photos of my latest hoodie creation.. let me know what you think! I feel like an elf in this one. This is actually a revisit of my original Forest Faerie hoodie, which was one of the first designs I ever did. It may have been the first one I ever made after getting my serger for christmas last year, and I've worn that one so much. It...
Friday, 12 November 2010
Thursday, 11 November 2010
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For Halloween, my hubby Darrell wanted to be the Mad Hatter.. he had just about all the costume bits except for a good Mad Hatter Tailcoat, so .. since I had a bunch of fleece on hand, I made one up for him out of cozy dark blue anti-pill fleece.Of course, Halloween in San Francisco was unseasonably warm, so he ended up running around with it under his arm for all of Halloween. Ah, well. He...
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
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I made some fleece pants the other day and it got me thinking about my favorite pants.. the ones that make me feel like a fairy.. the ones that are so much fun that I have to wear just simple stuff with them so as not to go overboard with STYLE. There are some amazing designers out there! Here are a couple of my favorites:Phoenix Rising pants.. I discovered these while looking for a fire-safe...
Monday, 8 November 2010
Friday, 5 November 2010
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I have silly fleece pants I got for Christmas maybe 3 years ago. They have penguins on them. Every morning when I get up and crawl out of my floating fairy bed, I go straight to the closet for the fleecy penguin pants.. what I want is something comfortable, handy, cozy and warm so I can go downstairs and sip tea and write in my journal.I realized the other day that I need some Fire Pixie fashionable...
Thursday, 4 November 2010
Wednesday, 3 November 2010
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Angela from Fancy Fairy makes the best fairy wings in the world. Srsly.I want to make hoodies that accommodate her wings - i.e. hoodies with a back hatch where the wings can be easily slipped in, under the hood, and worn comfortably with the hoodie. This is definitely on the radar and definitely not too far out.She just posted some new ones with a new color design technique at her etsy...
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