We really like the Columbia River Gorge town of Hood River. Not only is it beautiful, scenic and home to very cool action sports like kiteboarding and windsurfing, it’s also home to both Full Sail Brewing (Session seems to have become our “house beer” lately) and Tofurky (don’t knock it ’til you’ve tried it – the soy Italian sausage is really good!). You can’t beat that!
We, along with Sarah’s mom, went out there for lunch this week and after lunch walked around the town. In a window of a shop called Parts + Labour, we spotted this:
That vine of flowers is constructed of pieces of sewing pattern tissue with measuring tapes, ribbon and pins holding the display together. Plus, some embroidery hoops thrown in for an added dash of stitchery. Here’s a close up of one of the flowers:
It was a pretty fun idea and certainly drew us into the shop (which was a very interesting place, not only with clothes and accessories from small brands, but a number of one-of-a-kind handmade items – including clothing). Although, perhaps normal people are more excited about the merchandise than the sewing-related window display…
This would be fun to replicate with any of the zillions of tissue paper flowers tutorials out there, especially this elaborate tissue paper bouquet from (gulp) Martha Stewart (note how they say it takes “just an afternoon”). In fact, that would look just right on the desk in the new workroom/home office/sewing room we’re in the middle of organizing (that probably won’t happen, but we can dream, right?).
Finally, a use for those Simplicity patterns we bought just because they were on sale for 99 cents!
~Sarah & Josh
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Just stumbled into your blog. Interesting blog here…I’ll be following it from now on!
You’ll have to post about your paper bouquet once you make it. Last time I used a craft from Martha’s website, it was for naturally dyed eggs and they turned out awesome! Martha’s my personal hero…
Interesting. During my summer travels this year I also stumbled upon a reuse of patterns. The local cafe had wall papered the rest room with simplicity. You could probably use it for any kind of decoupage project for example decorating a sewing basket. Glad to have you in the book club. Cool Blog!
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