Project Minima

dedicated to simplifying my consumption and accumulation of stuff (especially clothes), one step at a time, starting today 6-1-11 for one year. Ok, 2 years. Well, now we're going into Y3. Make that 4. - so who's counting anyway?

Project Minima:

Thursday, April 30, 2020

MayDay Is Coming & The Star-Spangled Banner









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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Where Are We Now?







WARNING:  This Is Too Sad


 
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Fixing A Hole

Another Shelter-in-Place Tune





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Monday, April 27, 2020

Living In A Ghost Town


Tunes for the Times





(just click on that arrow in the center)

yeah. 

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Stitching & Art:

  • ONE I MADE EARLIER TODAY
    The month of May
  • Feel Free (Spirit Cloth renewed)
    Sunny Day
  • Judy's Journal
    Janice Wright Cheney: Widow
  • ANY Texture
    Inside Out Art Quilt Series
  • blog - Bonnie Sennott
    Bonnie Sennott: Abstract Embroidery at Kingston Gallery
  • Tanglewood Threads
    Re:Play - A Show Opening on October 6th
  • Art With a Needle
    Daily art on the cruise 2
  • Spirit Cloth
    still standing
  • Danny Mansmith
    Flora
  • Thread and Thrift
    Fish
  • Marisa Ramirez
    morgan brig
  • hanwriting
    forgotten photos
  • Blog - Christine Mauersberger
    October - Teaching at Pacific Northwest Art School
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sewing & dresses:

  • Creates Sew Slow
    Sewing Workshop Me Made May 2025 Part 1
  • the thread
    FS Colour Series: FIRECRACKER RED Inspired by Sir Howard Hodgkin’s Hot Fire
  • Handmade by Carolyn
    a Minä Perhonen dress and some new clogs
  • The Dreamstress
    A Fairy Penguin Penguin Fairy Godmother
  • Sewingplums
    The ‘Embody’ book
  • A Dress A Day
    Today’s Pattern Story: Vogue 7895
  • Now Sewing
    coutures anglaises
  • The Insouciant Stitcher
    Arthur Meets Corduroy
  • oonaballoona by marcy harriell
    Step into my Handmade Closet! Everything I've Sewn in 2021
  • Damselfly's Delights
    Another Month; Another Post
  • well-suited
    Japan Skirt - Sewing Instructions
  • Ivy Arch
    Signing Out
  • Gayle Ortiz
    Cashmere and Vintage Japanese Textiles
  • Sewing Like Mad
    The Sapporo Coat by Papercut Patterns, Review.
  • Japan Couture Addicts
  • corecouture
    Kilty
  • Communing With Fabric
    Mesh Vogue Top and Catching Up (Let's Try Again...)
  • Spotty Dog Social Club
    Lorraine has left us
  • Up Sew Late
    Named Esme Cardigan (How to Wear a Blanket All Winter Long)
  • A Fool for Fabric
    THE LIFE-CHANGING MAGIC OF SLOW SEWING!
  • JuJu Vail
    Yarnporium Workshop: Yarn and Colour for Fair Isle Knitting
  • Blog « SewingArtistry.com
  • Textillia | Online sewing community
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recycling & dresses:

  • Vintage Vixen
    The Glasto Countdown
  • Spy Girl
    Let's Get Poetic
  • Bag and a Beret
    The Age of De-Consent
  • Refashion Co-op
    Small cat wallhanging with jeans
  • Sew Outside the Lines™
    MakeOver Monday - What Goes Around

designing clothes:

  • Folkwear - News
    Summer Sewing Contest!
  • In the Folds
    BEHIND THE SCENES: EMILY'S SEWING STUDIOS
  • Elbe Textiles - News
    Townsend Shirt - Fitting Adjustments
  • PatternVault
    The Nightdress: Gothic Edition
  • PalmerPletsch Sewing Blog
    NEW PALMER/PLETSCH PATTERN DESIGNER FOR BUTTERICK PATTERNS
  • secret lentil - studio journal
    studio notes / building notes: on working intuitively
  • Pearl Red Moon Art
    Partridge in a Pear Tree
  • Sew Different
    Launching Sew Different boutique fabrics
  • GIBBOUS
    a new makeover dress
  • Grainline Studio
    Pom-Pom Trim Petal Sleeve Scout Tee
  • Diane Ericson Design
    Surface Design with Stencils
  • PatternReview.com Sewing Community Blog
  • The Sewing Workshop
  • sew tina givens
  • Marcy Tilton
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Fashion Smashion:

  • Thread, Fashion and Costume
    Jack Rocks II
  • Wardrobe Tales
    week 20 new looks: jeats? weats?
  • Miss Moss
    A Gift Guide for no particular occasion
  • Forest City Fashionista
    2020 In a Nutshell
  • Dressing Outside The Box
    capsule collection – Dressing Outside The Box meets navabi
  • Idiosyncratic Fashionistas
    We're Today Show 2017 Style Heroes!!
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of an Age:

  • That's Not My Age
    Women who Bird ( it’s better than meditation!)
  • Yo, Is This Ageist?
    CSA in Charlottesville, VA posted an opening for a CIO. One of the final questions - required to submit your application - was the question “What generation are you a part of?” Then it listed each option witht he birth years included, so Baby Boomer 1946-1964, GenX, Millenial, and so on ..
  • ADVANCED STYLE
    Chariots Of Fire
  • Grownupglamour
    Something New /Something Old
  • Aging Abundantly
    For the In-Between Places
  • Accidental Icon
    NYPL Book Launch 3/12/24 @7:00PM : Lyn Slater in Conversation with Chloe Cooper Jones
  • Not Dead Yet Style
    It Changed My Life: Travels Abroad
  • STYLE CRONE
    The Versatility Of Scarves
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unconsumption:

  • The Non-Consumer Advocate
    Five Tiny Frugal Things
  • UPCYCLIST
    20 Midcentury Dining Table Styles (The Vintage Shopper’s Guide)
  • Frugalwoods
    I’m Still Alive; also, join the 7th Annual Uber Frugal Month Group Challenge!
  • Zero Waste Doc
    10 ways to take part in Zero Waste Week 2020
  • Style – Make it last
    12 Perfect Pieces to Pack for Your Next Vacation
  • tomofholland
    Boxpleat Jumper
  • www.raggedyrags.co.uk/blog

the Political is Personal:

  • even*cleveland
    sunday tune: the tubs - narcissist
  • Blog : Fashion Revolution
  • Rise Up Review: Poems of Protest

indescribable:

  • ann wood handmade
    the finished 2025 stitch book and 5 things I did at my job this week
  • the poetry of material things
    (via Paul Klee’s “One eye sees, the other...
  • artforhousewives
    Overgrown and Simplified
  • Stuff You Can't Have
    A Space-Time Portal for Stones
  • I'M REVOLTING
    Cách Bắt Cầu Tài Xỉu Sunwin Hiệu Quả Từ Các Cao Thủ
  • Art is a Way
    Ceramics by Shozo Michikawa
  • IKO IKO
    Slip Covers: Alex Olson, Kristin Dickson-Okuda, Gillian Garcia and Shin Okuda
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I'm Inspired to Make:

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Sisters of the Traveling Yellow Skirt:

  • Bag and a Beret
  • Thrift Shop Commando
  • Helga von Trollop
  • Butane Anvil
  • Forest City Fashionista
  • the Fashionable Bureaucrat
  • the Menopausal Supermodel
  • Dross Into Gold
  • Spy Girl
  • A Fool for Fabric
  • Ephemera
  • A Colourful Canvas
  • Project Minima
  • My Kindom for a Hat
  • the Secondhand Years
  • Flight-Platform Living
  • Hello the Mushroom
  • No Fear of Fashion
  • Handmade by Carolyn
  • Fur Earwig
  • Op Shop Mama

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Not Dead Yet Style:

Not Dead Yet Style:
Fashion for women over 40

style imitating art:

style imitating art:

Stop Shopping Start Sewing:

Stop Shopping Start Sewing:

Bag and a Beret:

Bag and a Beret:

VOGOFF, Fall Issue:

VOGOFF, Fall Issue:

40+ Blogger Meet-Up 2015:

40+ Blogger Meet-Up 2015:
I was there!

refashion co-op:

refashion co-op:

MeMade2020:

MeMade2020:

MeMade2019:

MeMade2019:

MeMade2018:

MeMade2017: