Category Archives: the autodidact
- July 31, 2010
- Video Tutorial: Lenee Alexander Teaches Us How to Make Handmade Purses – Video 3– also posted in general ephemera
- July 31, 2010
- Video Tutorial: Lenee Alexander Teaches Us How to Make Handmade Purses – Video 2– also posted in general ephemera
Lenee’s sewing machine sounds like a freakin’ machine gun. What a magnificent fright!
- July 31, 2010
- Video Tutorial: Lenee Alexander Teaches Us How to Make Handmade Purses – Video 1– also posted in general ephemera
- May 1, 2010
- Candi Cane-Canncel Teaches Us a Few Things About Installing Zippers– also posted in general ephemera
Sewing a zipper: Part 1 Candi Cane-Canncel teaches us a few things about installing zippers and such. Not only does she have a kick-ass name (rather a cross betwixt a burlesque dancer and 80′s game show host) but she also has mad skills with a sewing machine. Sewing a zipper: Part 2 Sewing a zipper: [...]
- January 21, 2009
- handy sewing tutorial videos: steps 5-10 for sewing a shirt
Note: 2nd Chunk of Stephany Jess Sewing Tutorial Videos expert village is the bomb of d.i.y. tutorials and what not! here’s steps 5-10 for sewing a shirt…. though the wonderful stephanie jess sews clothing strictly for humans, the info she imparts falls under the header of “priceless knowledge” that can be applied to just about [...]
- January 15, 2009
- handy sewing tutorial videos: steps 1-5 for sewing a shirt
Note: This is the first chunk in the Stephany Jess tutorial video posts. i’ve always wanted to compile an easy reference area for sewing tips and videos, so here we are. below are some awesome tutorial videos. i’m still torn as to whether i will use these from Expert Village or from YouTube. the YouTube [...]
- January 15, 2009
- handy tutorial video: making a 2 sided vest
- March 25, 2008
- restringing asian ball jointed doll– also posted in general ephemera
- February 10, 2008
- of blue voodoo dollies– also posted in general ephemera, orihime daydream
this voodoo doll was a special project i undertook for a couple of friends of mine. i inevitably ended up making two of them. my best friend brandi is just awesome and hence it was high past time for me to put together a custom made gift set just for her. then another friend of [...]
- November 20, 2007
- the knitting needle case & star treckian fabrics– also posted in orihime daydream
orihime: japanese word meaning seamstress what is it about sewing that fixates me so? it’s many things, but overall its about the careful rituals of the machine…and i so looove rituals. preparing the machine for use is just the start…cleaning and oiling its parts, threading bobbins, weaving thread through precise points, checking tension and finding [...]
