Recent vintage finds

This year Charity shops and car boot sales have been good to me, here are a few of my second hand and vintage finds from the past few months.

 Leather strapped wooden shoes-originally Gap- I bought for £4

 Cantilevered box- I paid £3!! I now use this as my sewing box.

 

Vintage tin- I bought for 5op

 Leather elbow pads- 50p

 Another tin I bought for 50p!..

 

Another tin just 50p

 Vintage tea tin- price unknown

Scandinavian style tin-price unknown

And last but most certainly not least a vintage typewriter which I bought for £1..I was really lucky to find this at such an amazing price but I have seen others around for about £10 (which I still think is a reaonable price!)

 

Some people think I have good luck in charity shops but what they don't realise is that I just go in them too frequently! I often donate my own unwanted goods to charity shops and hope that someone will get as much joy out of them as I do from these.

 

Thanks for reading

 

M

x

 

Facebook page

I have just set up a page on facebook for Millie's curiosities, please like for information and updates on my work and craft fairs I will be attending. Details of an event coming up on bank holiday Monday can also be found in 'events'.

 

Millie x

Fabric covered folder

In about a months time I will be going to university to study Fashion and Textiles design and in preperation I bought a lever arch file to keep patterns etc. in and decided to cover it in fabric to make it a little more exciting, and I chose a fabric with tape measures on as I thought that would be appropriate!

 

It was soo easy to do and took me back to the days in primary school and secondary school when I would cover my workbooks with old wrapping paper.

 Full of stuff allready...think I might have to make a few more :p

I started by covering portion by portion of the folder with a fabric glue (details of which I will put at the end of post), double sided tape also does the job but not to the same standard. I then covered the whole thing with fabric and turned the edges to the inside and stuck card on the inside covers to hide the messy bits!

 

Fabric from The Eternal Maker- http://www.eternalmaker.com/yellow-tape-measure-made-with-love-moda-fabric

 

Glue also from The Eternal Maker- http://www.eternalmaker.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=glue

Liberty purse

I recently became the owner of some georgous liberty fabrics and was desperate to make them into something right away! I decided on a coin purse as it is a quick and easy project and I had a purse clasp I have been meaning to use! I am really pleased with it and it looks like a proper grown up purse too!

 I wasn't sure how the fabric was going to behave as it is a lawn which I haven't had much prior experience with, but I think it worked perfectly for this style of purse!

It was my first experience using a purse frame and I found it suprisingly easy to make the pattern (something I was previously worried about) as long as the top part of the pattern matches the purse frame you can have any shape purse you desire. I started with quite a basic purse shape and added extra into it so that I could gather it.

 

Outer fabric-Liberty from Fabrics galore http://www.fabricsgalore.co.uk/

Lining fabric- Liberty from Alice Caroline http://www.etsy.com/shop/Alicecarolinesupply?ref=shop_name_search_sugg

Purse clasp- Etrnal Maker http://www.eternalmaker.com/purse-frames-2-25-6cm

 

 

I would definately recommend this as a project!

Thanks for reading,

Millie x

It has been a while, blogger...

Just a quick post to explain that due to technical difficulties (problematic computers and laptops!) I have not been able to post for a little while so apologies for that! But on the other hand with no computers holding me back I have had (a little) time to get on with some stitching so will post shortly about them!

Millie

x

Stenciling D.I.Y

Stenciling is a really easy way to change a garment or accessory, by simply spray painting through a stencil.

For my stenciling I created triangles with masking tape and covered the rest of the dress with more masking tape and plastic bags to protect it, then using fabric spray paint I covered the triangle areas (making sure not to spray too close as it blurs the edges). Once the paint is dry I applied another coat and once that coat was dry I peeled off the tape (very fun!!) to reveal the design. 

Testers...

Ooh! Just noticed it is my bloggiversary annibloggery? well either way I started blogging a year ago! So in the spirit of this occasion (if I can really call it an occasion?) I want to start some different posts, this is where you come in useful and tell me what you would like me to post. More fashion/ textiles/ craft/ tutorials/ DIY/ photography? Or something different? I am at your command so please leave a comment or email milliebutler-hiorns@hotmail.co.uk   

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Fashion show 2012

Yesterday was my college fashion show and as promised here are some pictures, unfortunately though I haven't yet got any pictures of the catwalk! Here are my final pieces being beautifully modeled in the changing rooms (very messy!!!)

Woodland life Spring/summer 2012