Tag: patterns

cassolotl:

Last night I made two matching furoshiki to wrap two gifts for my mum.

She is getting more into reducing her plastic waste and persuading supermarkets to do the same, so I’m hoping she’ll be into the non-disposable culture aspect and maybe she will reuse these.

If you’re into environmental whatever you might be familiar with the Five Rs of Environmental Responsibility, which come in order of priority:

  • Refuse – wrapping paper and plastic tape.
  • Reduce – I suspect this one isn’t relevant in this case? But it is great that they are rectangular – the only waste was cutting off the tiny corners and the endy bits of cotton, both of which will be recycled.
  • Reuse – these are completely reusable.
  • Recycle – fabric is recyclable at many recycling centres, but it’s also possible to unpick the hems and turn them into something else.
  • Rot – the fabric is 100% cotton and therefore biodegradable and compostable (though I think it would take a couple of years).

I’m probably going to make more – these two were made from fat quarters, and all I did was roll the hems so it’d be pretty easy to get some “furoshiki – please reuse” labels made and then sew them into the hems.

Okay, so it was actually pretty involved and took me several hours, but it was very easy. If I make several at once and get a shedload more pins I could definitely save a lot of time by doing each step to like 10 pieces at once.

HOW TO MAKE FUROSHIKI

  1. Find a good rectangle of fabric. You want something thin but not transparent, so cotton is ideal. Using something that would otherwise go to waste is extremely compatible. If it has two good sides that’s a plus. You can often find fat quarters in batches in fabric shops, tied with a ribbon.
  2. Iron it.
  3. Cut off the corners a tiny bit, maybe a centimetre, to make your corners tidier when you sew the hems.
  4. Fold and pin your hems. Go around the whole rectangle, folding the edges in once and then again, and pinning in place. Pin perpendicular to the fabric – it makes machine sewing much easier! My hems were about 1cm. Be warned that blocking pins for pinning out knitwear as it dries are too big and make holes in the fabric, not that I have ever done that.
  5. Iron the hems as flat as possible, being careful not to melt the pin heads, not that I have ever done that.
  6. Sew around your hems with either very matching thread or something contrasting. I’m really pleased with how the blue one came out – I used blue thread that ended up basically invisible (perfect!) and white to match the cornflower pattern, because I couldn’t be bothered to change the thread on a bobbin.

pattipogodzinski:

I made a few patterns inspired by traditions celebrated in the month of december. These will be printed on silky fabric and sold as Furoshiki. The goat pattern is based off of the Scandinavian Christmas tradition of Yule, which comes from a pagan festival celebrating Odin. The heads were inspired by Saturnalia. It celebrates the mythological god Saturn and it was a time of equality, lights, gift giving and madness. 

Hi! Love your work. I was wondering if you would ever consider selling the patterns to your Voltron Lions on your Etsy shop? They are adorable, and I would definitely love to try my hand at them. Thanks!

mostlyharmlessdesigns:

Patterns are on my list of things to get to eventually. But they take time and energy to translate into “people besides me can read this” and to photograph and at this point I’ve had zero sales of my Pikachu pattern so making more isn’t the top of my list.

I’ve thought about setting a Ko-Fi goal to release some (anyone who contributed would get the pattern at a discount then it would later be available to buy) but I haven’t quite gotten that off the ground.

So the short answer is “eventually”

gretapepper:

archaeologistproblems:

glaucophane:

archaeologistproblems:

glaucophane:

archaeologistproblems:

Archaeologist problems: No time to sew dress from scratch with archaeology fabric; had to go to the sci-fi convention as Outer Space Ms. Frizzle instead of Archaeology Ms. Frizzle. (Still had a blast though.)

That looks fantastic! All you need is a Liz plush to sit on your shoulder.

(And I should look into making a paleontology Ms. Frizzle dress! Hell, I’m even a natural redhead, so if I can convince the hair to stay up in a beehive…)

That would be awesome!

Check my hair – there’s a baby Liz in there!

I went for a frizzy bun with one of those mesh donut things to make it puffy enough. Seemed to match The Friz pretty decently!

I didn’t even see little Liz there! Hah!

I hope there are more lady scientists out there who think to cosplay Ms. Frizzle someday. Just imagine a bunch of us descending on SDCC or NYCC, dressed to represent our field of study.

Hell. Yes. Sign me up, I’ll be using this fabric for mine!

Oh my goodness that’s my pattern! Super flattered!!! (You are rocking the Ms. Frizzle look btw!)

clockwaysarts:

Cross stitch is my not feeling great art work. Enough to think about but not any decisions to make (assuming the patterning work is done). The one on the right is a weather tracker minisal for dad and on my mother’s suggestion started one for my brother this weekend too which is the one on the left.

Pretty drastic difference in the weather, huh? Going in a haphazard nature on the blue since I can just turn through the first part of the year. The holes in the red is because I need to go back with fresh thread for a color and haven’t bothered yet.