pedestrian sunday

Just back in time for Pedestrian Sunday at Kensington Market today (yesterday?).

Thanks to Old Weston and Kid Icarus for inviting me to set up shop! And friends for stopping by!

I pretty much only took photos of Old Weston's display, so, enjoy!

nani iro fuccra

My favourite Nani Iro double gauze design yet! I wanted to make a dress from this, but I'm really impatient and wanted to wear it right away, so I made a top instead. It started out as just the top of dress A from Stylish Dress Book 1, but I added some sleeves, opened the back up a bit and finished the bottom with a wide tie. So... it's kind of not really like dress A at all. No matter, I love this colourway and the double gauze is so nice to wear. It's so comfortable!

Thank you to Karyn for helping me take these headless shots! (I'm never doing self-portraits. It's way too hard.)





(Also, just ignore the loose threads everywhere. I had just finished the bucket hat class at the workroom and I forget to clean those loose threads off. I always forget!)

customize your own book cover: generation a

Inspired by Customized Coupland, I made my own. I re-used some crumpled up kraft paper to wrap the cover, stamped it with white ink, and drew on the "a" (unfortunately in silver because my white pen dried out). I love how the used kraft paper gives the cover so much texture. (I even placed it so that there's a bit of a gradient in crumpling from the front right corner.)

I even added a bookmark!

fabric flower garland

I made this fabric flower garland about a month ago for ot's belated birthday gift (it's a tradition - the belated part). Her signature colours are red, white and black (and sometimes grey.) I based it on this tutorial I found. I folded the squares a bit differently and placed two up and two down so the pattern sides are visible from the top and bottom.

I kind of liked it, so I made one for myself in orange, yellow and blue (my favourite is the orange chiyogami print.)

yard sale trunk show

June 13, 2010 @ the workroom - fun guaranteed!

ocw magazine

Killside Krafts got a super nice mention in OCW Magazine's blog! It's a neat independent, not-for-profit arts and culture magazine based in Vancouver, BC.

If there's one thing I want my books to ooze with, it's the "charm of something made by hand".

Thanks for the kind words and support, Tracy!

wild rabbit

A few weekends ago, we found this guy (girl? I don't know, I'm going to assume he's male.) lazing under a tree in the backyard. Look how camouflaged he is! He was hard to spot from far away.


As soon as I took the photo, he bolted. I caught up to him a few seconds later on the other side of the trees.


I probably shouldn't have chased him, but it was fun.