Lora’s partner passed away several years ago and I made this bag for her out of his old clothes. Her partner was a woodworker who made bentwood boxes that joined in front using the pattern on this bag. Lora lent me some of his old plexiglass templates so that I could copy the pattern exactly. …
Tag Archives: feature
Handwoven Flatcap
The fabric of this wool flatcap was woven on a rigid heddle loom. Warp yarns were bits and ends left over from various knitting projects, while the weft was recycled sweater yarn. The lining was made from a silk shirt.
Handwoven Wool Blanket
This blanket was woven in three separate panels on a rigid heddle loom and stitched together. All yarn was unraveled from thrift store sweaters and dyed using various natural dyes. Also featured in this image is the recycled-bedsheet braided carpet.
Upcycled Chevron Dress
This dress was awarded 3rd place in Fashion Revolution Canada’s 2023 Student Upcycling Contest. This was one of my favourite sewing projects to date – I was tasked with turning at least two old shirts into a dress. I happened to have two corduroy shirts at home already, and scrounged up two pairs of corduroy …
Sliding Tiles Blanket
When I first started learning how to use natural dyes, I split about three recycled sweaters’ worth of yarn into 20g skeins so that I could dunk them into whatever dyes I wanted to experiment with. After about a year or so of that, I figured I had to do something with all those sample …
Braided rug with recycled textiles
It’s been a while since the last carpet and I somehow convinced myself to make another (bigger) one… These braids have been hanging around my apartment for more months (years?) than I care to admit and it’s time to sew them together. As always, all materials are recycled – this one contains a number of …
Hand-tanned salmon leather
I tanned these salmon skins over a year ago and I finally got around to stretching them. The silvery ones were oil tanned and are pretty much the natural tone of the salmon skin, but I think my favourite is the brown tea-tanned one. Next experiment: tanning with tannic dyes…and, well, figuring out what the …
The Naily Dews: Uber Eats Driver
This is kind of a ridiculous thing to have spent countless hours stitching but now the world can know what goes through my head every time I see one of those @ubereats stickers. Stitched entirely with @dmc_embroidery cotton and mounted using a very helpful video tutorial by @sarah_homfray_embroidery View on Instagram
December: Self Portrait
In 2021, I began embroidering one 4-inch hoop a month. This hoop is from December, the last installment in this project. After 11 months of landscapes and objects, I realized that I hadn’t tried to embroider a person yet. This self-portrait took me about 36 hours and by the end of it I was very …