Category: made&DIY
analog & digital. working on some patterns
it took a while until we figured out what’d be the best way to make your own patterns. And as i always love the combination of working analog and a little bit digital, this seemed to be the best way for me. Creating a pattern, loading it into photoshop, offsetting it, printing it and draw on it again… I’m very happy, beeing able to produce my own patterns now. Results will be posted here soon..
little pouches
pouches on the left side made by myself, the ones on the right side are from Muji-Collection 2009.
about pillows
Zeit mal wieder ein paar Kissenbezüge zu nähen. Back in Berlin. The weather is not too nice (and there’s so much snow in the mountains…), not much work until now, sewing mashine is here – so why not create some cozy pillows out of some beautiful fabrics..
find the double card
Weihnachtsgeschenke: selbst designtes Memory-Spiel: find the double card | 44 Kartenpaare.
find the double card
find the double card… sometimes it’s easy, sometimes you really have to concentrate your brain. But one thing is for sure: it’s always fun..
modern gone cozy
Modern gone cozy: a yarned Eames Chair. A little DIY- project for the colder days: All you need is a wire chair and some chunky yarn or roving. I don’t really know, but i suppose that the right chair is woven and the left one knitted or crochet. Photography by Osamu Koizumi. Work by Noriko of Plain Living and styled by Akira Ishikawa.
I found this on: re-nest (abundant design for green homes)
Free People Diy Project – Natural Dyes
I found this fun diy – project on Free People Blog. An experiment with natural dyes! You can for example use red-cabbage for a bluish/purple dye. Blueberries can make a lovely dusty rose color and yellow onions can bring out an alluring mustard yellow. When you work with natural dyes, remember that experimentation is the key. Depending on the amount of ingredients you use and how long you leave them in the water, the color you get can vary. I prefer ingredients you can still eat afterwards or you can use ingredients that aren’t so eatable anymore..
And thats how it works: Pictures and instruction from Free People Blog
- chop up your ingredients and put them in a pot with twice as much water as ingredients. Bring the water to a boil and let simmer for an hour. For deeper colors, you can leave the ingredients in the water (without heat) overnight. Remove the hard materials from the mixture with a strainer, leaving you with the liquid dye.
- Before dyeing, you will also need to create a fixative, which will help your fabric hold the dye. When working with berries, use a salt fixative – put 1/2 cup of salt in 8 cups of water, put the fabric in and boil for one hour. When working with vegetables, use a vinegar fixative – mix one part vinegar and four parts water, add your fabric and boil for one hour.
- When you remove the fabric, rinse in cold water.
- The fabric is now ready to dye! Just drop it in the desired color, let sit until it reaches the shade you want, remove and hang to dry.
