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guest post: olivia jane handcrafted sews atelier brunette

Fabrics November 11, 2014 admin Leave a comment

we have a very special guest post today from meredith of Olivia Jane Handcrafted. we asked our very talented (and very liberty obsessed) friend to work her magic with atelier brunette fabric. we hope you enjoy it as much as we do! Hi there! I’m Meredith from Olivia Jane Handcrafted. J&V invited me to do a guest post here at the Cabinet for the Curious with some brand new Atelier Brunette fabric, and I wanted to tell you a bit about it. click to read…

undulate

Free October 20, 2014 admin Leave a comment

sometime last year we took on a not so tiny home decor project for a friend. it started out being just one room and then it became the entire house! getting to the knitted object in the photo above, we wanted something that was neutral but with a lot of luxurious texture and heft. not being able to find such thing at the time, we commissioned ourselves to knit it!

as seen in . . . vogue knitting!

Other September 16, 2014 admin 2 Comments

the other day . . . we took ‘lil munchkin over to our local barnes & nobles, picked up a copy of the latest vogue knitting (fall 2014), and there they were . . . our pretty little scissors on page 12. hooray ! ! !

washi x liberty

Fabrics, Patterns September 10, 2014 admin 4 Comments

it’s no small secret that we’re a little bit obsessed with liberty. we love how smooth and silky the fabrics are. we love the detail and thoughtfulness that goes into the designs. and we love to sew with liberty. the fabrics sew beautifully (especially when you’ve outfitted your machine with a microtex needle!) often times, when we place our liberty fabric orders, we have a million ideas about how brilliant a given fabric would look if fashioned into a dress, a tank, or whatever…

pearce dreams on cotton + steel

Fabrics August 19, 2014 admin Leave a comment

pearce did a very bad thing a few weeks ago. yup . . . he managed to scratch a very large hole on both sides of his dog bed cover. his new bed took about 10 days to arrive . . . and, well in between the wait, we got so sick and tired of hearing him pace back and forth in the middle of the night (for want of proper bedding, of course), that we decided to make him a new dog bed…

a jinzenji skirt

Fabrics June 16, 2014 admin Leave a comment

look what we made on friday! a skirt based on liesl + co’s everyday skirt pattern and yoshiko jinzenji’s simple quilt fabric! looks sort of avant-garde, no? the best part is that making the skirt out of this particular fabric is a bit like opening up a box of chocolates . . . you never quite know where the patterned patches are going to fall on the skirt until you’re done. every skirt ends up being totally unique! plus . . . it’s super comfy, and has got these wonderful…