http://www.banane.com Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:12:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.banane.com/2008/11/10/ideas-to-creation-3-jeanskirt/ http://www.banane.com/2008/11/10/ideas-to-creation-3-jeanskirt/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:49:32 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=956 http://www.banane.com/2008/11/10/ideas-to-creation-3-jeanskirt/feed/ 3 Ideas-to-Creation: make a little pencil sketch and then create! Worked on a landscaping gig, then a beach cover, and now, altering some old jeans to make a tulip-shaped jeanskirt. Done! Very happy with results. The plan- take old black worn jeans and turn into jeanskirt. Read a few blogs, vaguely remember doing this ages ago, [...] http://www.banane.com/2008/09/18/sewing-photo-story-beach-cover/ http://www.banane.com/2008/09/18/sewing-photo-story-beach-cover/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:36:58 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=853 http://www.banane.com/2008/09/18/sewing-photo-story-beach-cover/feed/ 5 So I thougth I’d take sequential photos of my latest sewing project: a beach cover for my sis! Here is my sister. Isn’t she cute? So we talked, and decided to make a beach cover that’s like one she has that is made of terry cloth, but will dry faster. I bought the fabric (last [...] http://www.banane.com/2008/08/17/costume-in-action/ http://www.banane.com/2008/08/17/costume-in-action/#comments Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:34:38 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=800 http://www.banane.com/2008/08/17/costume-in-action/feed/ 0 Credit to Tudor Tailor- a great book you should buy, that may be a little advanced sewing-wise, but very interesting historical research on Essex wills & effigies. About the “plain townswoman”: This figure comes from a painting showing people under attack in Paris in 1572. It offers a rare glimpse of a citizen in incomplete [...] http://www.banane.com/2008/08/16/sewing-machines/ http://www.banane.com/2008/08/16/sewing-machines/#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:09:08 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=795 http://www.banane.com/2008/08/16/sewing-machines/feed/ 3 So I have a week to make a lower-middle class woman’s Tudor costume. I spend the weekend reading about it out of town, on MOnday I do real paid work (girl has to eat!) and then, Tuesday go and buy the fabric and start cutting it out. I’m a piece-by-piece worker, mostly finish the bodice, [...] http://www.banane.com/2008/06/05/finished-project/ http://www.banane.com/2008/06/05/finished-project/#comments Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:55:13 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=720 http://www.banane.com/2008/06/05/finished-project/feed/ 4 Note, I wanted it to look like this: Well, done toa degree- the wicker boxes were for the old paint job, which looked like this: So I just need to add some accents & stuff. Going to use an old vintagey wallpaper behind la toilette (or so that’s the plan, if I have enough energy [...] http://www.banane.com/2008/06/03/painting-rooms/ http://www.banane.com/2008/06/03/painting-rooms/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:03:15 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=719 http://www.banane.com/2008/06/03/painting-rooms/feed/ 0 Finally got to a chore I’ve been meaning to do for 3 years. Painting my bathroom- that’s the color up there. And fixing the scars of two failed toilet paper dispensers. I also have been staring at the same painting flaws in that room- former paint is brick- little strays outside the lines onto the [...] http://www.banane.com/2008/05/27/notes-on-sewing-again/ http://www.banane.com/2008/05/27/notes-on-sewing-again/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 04:15:07 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/?p=716 http://www.banane.com/2008/05/27/notes-on-sewing-again/feed/ 0 Working on a cross-over dress with lining. w00t! Crafts, as a newly unemployed, fill the void somewhat. Or at least postpones the inevitable job-searching! BTW I’m free for lunches. When I was 16, I wanted to be a seamstress. I thought my life would be perfect if i got a small Victorian in downtown San [...] http://www.banane.com/2007/10/15/la-cloche/ http://www.banane.com/2007/10/15/la-cloche/#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:57:55 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/2007/10/15/la-cloche/ http://www.banane.com/2007/10/15/la-cloche/feed/ 0 I love these kind of skull caps. It’s a riff on the 1920s style cloche (French for bell) hats. Funny to think this was a feminist icon for so long, when now it seems fuddy duddy (Thoroughly Modern Millie and Bernice Bobs Her Hair). The modern (or poor, in its time perhaps) variant is knit [...] http://www.banane.com/2007/08/23/social-networks-real-and-imagined/ http://www.banane.com/2007/08/23/social-networks-real-and-imagined/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:25:24 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/2007/08/23/social-networks-real-and-imagined/ http://www.banane.com/2007/08/23/social-networks-real-and-imagined/feed/ 3 I’m doing two totally new- to me- things this week. Joined Facebook, and I’m going to the Renaissance Faire. Two friends of mine responded to this newness with: “Facebook- why?” Ren Faire: “omg you are desperate for geeky guys.” What I read into those comments is that there is some supposition that neither are real [...] http://www.banane.com/2007/07/11/kiwis-matryushki/ http://www.banane.com/2007/07/11/kiwis-matryushki/#comments Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:57:34 +0000 banane http://www.banane.com/2007/07/11/kiwis-matryushki/ http://www.banane.com/2007/07/11/kiwis-matryushki/feed/ 0 My friend Gavin has started his own blog. He’s one I wrote about in, “Kiwi-isms.” Posts to check out on his: - Stubbies. The voice is my new crush Jemaine from “Flight of the Conchords” (Move over Baron Davis!). My sister made me a wallet, and the fabric is tiny matryushki, that is the plural [...]