Mood LA

February 21, 2013 by mymateriallife

One of the things I learned in the March issue of Threads magazine (read more about it here) is that Mood Fabrics of Project Runway fame has a shop in Los Angeles.  I was very happy to learn this because I was about to make a trip there.  I’m just back from that trip and though the West Pico site listed in the article has closed, we did find Mood in a very nice, large and light-filled space on La […]

Categories: Clothing & Accessories, Places, Sewing • Tags: cloth magazine, design, fashion, fashionary, mood fabrics, project runway

Jackie’s Style

September 16, 2010 by mymateriallife

Project Runway is doing a show tonight inspired by the style of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.  You’d never know it from the promo they’re showing though. It looks like things get positively ugly which is so not Jackie. I too have been smitten by her style.  In my mind’s eye I can see her as a debutante, as First Lady, and in late middle age, but my favorite image is probably as Jackie O., wearing those sandals, white pants, black top […]

Categories: Finery, Reading Material, Sewing • Tags: books inc., jackie o., jacqueline kennedy onassis, mrs. kennedy goes abroad, project runway

TV Tonight!

August 29, 2010 by mymateriallife

I’m kind of excited to have two shows to record tonight!  The first, on KQED Masterpiece Theatre, is a new Inspector Lewis episode and the start of a new series.  You know I’m crazy for a good British mystery and I know who’s who with my Agatha Christies, but I’m still trying to figure out these more modern stories with Inspector this and that.  Lewis is the one who works in Oxford, England and I believe he used to work […]

Categories: TV & Movies • Tags: design star, emily henderson, inspector lewis, joanna lumley, project runway, secrets from a stylist, tim gunn

My Very Own Project Runway

August 4, 2010 by mymateriallife

Did you catch the premier of Project Runway on Lifetime last Thursday night?  I just love that show.  Love, love, love it!  And it’s funny, but it only occurred to me long after I started watching it that I had my own little “sewing under pressure” experience when I was a teenager way back in the summer of 1978. That August I participated in something called The Greatest Sew on Earth at the Los Angeles Convention Center.  There were about […]

Categories: Sewing, TV & Movies • Tags: greatest sew on earth, project runway