Comments on: My Japanese Craft Books I – Reconstructing Clothing

By: crealicia

crealicia — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:29:56 +0000

I bought this book 2 years ago and It’s already so excellent. I realised the model which it’s presented… if you want to see it on my blog, you’re welcome. Sorry for my english. crealicia from france.
http://crealicia.canalblog.com/archives/2009/06/22/index.html
crealicia´s last blog ..Reconstructing – collection printemps été 2010 – modèle5

By: ellifolks

ellifolks — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:18:29 +0000

Hi Violet I followed directions in the book, Sock and Glove: Creating Charming Softy Friends from Cast-Off Socks and Gloves, mentioned in the post. The English version should be available at a library.

By: violet

violet — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:20:27 +0000

Ellifolks, how about a tutorial on making the SockDog
on your blog?

By: Marilynn

Marilynn — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:43:05 +0000

Thoroughly enjoyed your site – your choice of pictures and comments about the books made me want to order them:)

By: Ellifolks

Ellifolks — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:54:21 +0000

Thank you for the kind words, rainbow19 and pete S.!!

Pete, I’d love to see your reconstructed t-shirt, and I hope you get a chance to make your French-cuffed grey slacks. They both sound like such fun. Those slacks would be amazing! The deli rye from the book is so good. It tastes like the real stuff to me.

By: pete S.

pete S. — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:28:24 +0000

Hi Ellifolks!
I came to sewing from a different direction, engineering, once I started learning about drafting and leaving allowances for bends, fit, etc. in design/drafting classes. I started by sewing covers for some equipment. Of course, that stodgy background didn’t stop me from sewing the legs from my old olive-green corduroy bell-bottom pants in to replace the sleeves of a yellow and brown striped tee-shirt. I had plans to put my old Dijon-mustard colored dress shirt’s French-cuff sleeves onto the top part of a pair of grey slacks as new legs, primarily to be able to wear cufflinks over my dress boots, but fell prey to fashion cowardice and fell on semi-hard creative times, joining the marching band. Your post brings back some fun and crazy messing-about with the notions of style. You and your class of teens pulled off some much more practical remakes, very nice work! I enjoyed this and the other posts I’ve been perusing on your place here, as well. The refrigerated bread stock sounds like a great way to have a wonderful olfactory treat every few days, as well as a source of bread for which you know the ingredients. Very nice blog. More!
Cheers,
pete

By: rainbow19

rainbow19 — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:36:11 +0000

I love crafts and sewing stuffs.
Now I have your blog add to my favorites.
Very nice and creative blog idea!

P.S.Thank you for your comment at my blog too.