Archive for August, 2009

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Repurposed Men’s Shirt into Women’s Blouse

Butterick 5218, dropped sleeve, tab front, center pleat, button sleeve tabs. I used a men’s Arrow cotton shirt for fabric. The blouse front was cut from the shirt back, the blouse back was cut from the two shirt fronts stitched together (the blouse back is slightly less full as there wasn’t enough fabric to cut [...]

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Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Floating squares painting

13 inches x 13 inches, squares measure 15 mm to 25.4 mm, 33 blues. It has been a couple of years since I’ve written about my painting technique, so by way of review here is a post from June 2007 where I first described how I got started. I paint in oils on canvas covered [...]

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