Knit Monsters for Christmas

This is such a cute little present that you can make for all the kiddos on your list.  The pattern is at Michael's Canada.  Make this a wristlet for lunch money.

I have red "mouth" zippers on my website: Monster Mouths

Tuffets

Wish Upon A Quilt in Raleigh, NC has a class to make this very cute tuffet.

If you need legs, I have them on my website: TheZipperLady.com

Legs are under workroom supplies in the left menu.

Great for a little girl's room with all the fabric scraps from her draperies, bed skirt, duvet cover, pillows.

Cute Slipcover for a little girls' bedroom.

Found this great slipcover on Karen Powell's blog.  She is a slipcover maker out of Michigan & she uses my zippers.  Thanks Karen!

Ann Clarke, Fibre Artist

Event Navigation« Creating Original Art Quilts with Liz Ber»

Friends of Textiles Lecture Series 

October 21, 2014 – Gallery Talk by featured artist Ann Clarke
5:15 p.m. reception, 6 p.m. gallery talk

Ruth Funk Center for the Textile Arts

Florida Institute of Technology, 150 W. University Blvd, Melbourne, FL 

Ann Clarke serves as dean of Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. Dean Clarke has exhibited her work across the U.S. and internationally, including at the Noyes Museum of Art in Oceanville, N.J.; gallery gen in New York City; Dongshin University in the Republic of Korea; and the Everson Museum of Art. In her studio, Two Sticks Knitting, she creates one-of-a-kind art to wear, including coats, hats, and wall hangings. Her work is featured in many private collections and has been published extensively. She holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting and printmaking from the University of Michigan and a master of fine arts degree in textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Image: Anne Clarke, Happily Ever After, 2014. Commercial and created textiles, pieces, hand and machine embroidered; cotton, wool, linen, silk. Photo by Revette Photography and Digital Imagery.

Flanged Pillows

I wanted to pass along these pictures from a workroom using my invisible zippers in pillows & also her comments:

" Hi Alicia,

I am so glad that I ordered all that zippering while I was at the beach last week!  I finished up and delivered 4 pillows today and I want to share a couple of pictures with you.  Two of the pillows had a micro-welt and then a 1.5" flange with mitered corners!  Would love to see a how-to video on easiest way to construct this with the invisible zippering.  I managed but it did take me too long.

                                  --- Jane"

Great Job Jane!

Am working on new video tutorials today..... stay tuned.

Zipper Information:

This is a great explanation of different configurations of zippers:

Little Black Dress

This is the greatest idea!



The dress is made completely out of separating #3 metal zippers.

Designed by  Sebastian Errazuriz

Three Story Seating is Using My Zippers!

These are my #6 heavy duty invisible zippers in seating cubes.

Great for use in homes or offices  Easy to move  Comfy.  Great for kids or adults.

You may see these at NeoCon in Chicago this week.

Another Pillow

Love this Linen!  Simple design for really nice fabric.  Tiny little cord-on-lip picks up turquoise in print.  Love to do work for Audrey...... no ugly fabric up-charge!

Olympics!

The last couple of nights I have fallen asleep to the Olympics, woken up several times during the night to watch with the dogs on the sofa next to me.  Olympic size kink in my neck. Dogs get dumped off sofa during yelling & rooting for the snowboarders from Colorado!

We so LOVE the Olympics! Yes, this is about as excited as bulldogs get......

Next time I'm treating myself & going!

Zipper Fork Trick

If you are having problems putting the slider on your coil zipper, here is a progression of pictures to help you quickly apply the slider onto your tape.

Notice that I took an inexpensive fork & bent it at an angle (just used my fingers). Vise was a .50 garage sale find. Orange clamp is from my local Downtown Ace & it is the $3.00 & 4" long wood clamp.

Pull the tynes of the fork apart so that the zipper head will fit between.  Zipper head is UPSIDE down.  Then the tape is opened about 2" & is UPSIDE down.

Side view……..

Front view……..

Teaching Zipper Tricks & Tips at Rocky Mountain Sewing Expo

Please join me in Denver on February 7 & 8 at 3pm to talk ZIPPERS! On Friday, we will talk about what you need to do to make your love of pillows into a business.  On Saturday I will tell you all my tricks to pick a zipper & install it in your projects.  So, bring all your questions or you can email questions to me at alicia@thezipperlady.com.

Custom Pillows

It's all about the details!
These pillows I made to the designer's specifications:

Notice how they look out of proportion to the headboard.  When you are designing pillows against a high headboard like this, think about making the back pillows higher or the center pillow higher to change the proportions. Squint at your design, like you would a painting, to check lights & darks.

End details of the neckrolls:

Great trim selection!  Trim is long & full.  Made the little button in the middle with leftover trim.

New Website For Dogwood Designs.

Cathy Cuddington's new website: Dogwood Designs

Custom Slipcovers

Just finished this house. 12 custom slipcovers in dining room & 5 2-piece slips in the breakfast area.

Roman shade in kitchen.

Friday at the Shop

The back pillow was made with boring brown upholstery fabric overlaid with patchwork from the other fabrics in the room.  Works!

The front pillows are gold chenille from Kravet with hand applied tapes in two colors sewn over the top.

Of course all the pillows have my #4 "new gold" invisible zippers along the bottom edge.

Body Art by a 19 year old Girl from Japan

Invisible SEPARATING Zippers

These zippers are really wonderful!  This size is a #6 invisible (size of coil) on a twill tape.  These would be good for costuming or a jacket.

This is the back of the zipper & the side that you sew from.

To stitch, separate the 2 sides of the zipper.  Start from the bottom & sew up to the top of your garment. Sew the side without the pull on first.

Then stitch the side of the zipper with the pull & box on it.  Start again from the bottom.  The REALLY COOL (or as my brother would say, "wicked") part of this zipper is the box moves out of the way so that you can stitch from the bottom. THEN the box snaps back over the bottom metal piece & you continue sewing up towards the top of your garment.

If your zipper is too long, then tuck the remainder or trim off to a couple of inches & tuck into the top of your garment.


Life is SHORT! Zip it UP!
Alicia

New Zippers

These are #15 molded tooth zippers.  In England, these are called 20 gauge.  I'm now stocking these in SEPARATING zippers & as yardage.  Only Black for right now, but am thinking red or purple teeth on black tape.  These are used a lot for costuming because they are so big (yes, that is a quarter next to the box & pin) & the quarter also fits inside the ring on the pull.  They are on my website: Monster Zippers

97 Yards of Hand Sewn Trim!

I was so happy to have my tacker needles for this project!  When done, this job didn't look too hard but the fabric is burn-out silk velvet that took over 7 months to get, it shipped in 13 pieces from about 3 mill runs.  All of the hems were reinforced then hand sewn.  All of the 97 yards of trim was then hand applied!  It took Mary, Kathleen & me 4 weeks of 10 hour days to complete.  Took Ted 3 hours to hang!