Tomato Festival!

 I am so excited to be a part of Red Fire Farm's Tomato Festival! The event is being held at the farm on August 25th from 12 - 5.  There will be live music, cooking demos, a 5K Tomato Trot, local artists, local food, and yesssssss TOMATO TASTE TESTING ALL DAY! I will be selling my upcycled clothing and eating as many different types of tomatoes as I can.  

Red Fire Farm is an amazing place!  We are in our second year of doing a CSA with them and the produce is beyond delicious.  So many beautiful and perfect tomatoes this past week.  And the corn was out of this world!  

Hazel, modeling a tomato-hued t-shirt skirt.

Red Fire Farm's Tomato-Corn Salsa Recipe:

FRESH TOMATO-CORN SALSA

3 Tomatoes, chopped 

3 ears Corn 

1 Onion, chopped 

1 pepper, chopped 

3 cloves Garlic, minced 

1 hot pepper, minced, or 1 tsp cayenne pepper 

1⁄4 cup Lemon juice or vinegar 

2 Tbs. Olive oil 

Salt to taste 

1 Tbs. Maple syrup 

3 Tbs. Cilantro

Chop tomatoes, salt and let sit in a colander for 30 min. to drain off extra juice. In the meantime, cut kernels from corn (yep, it's delicious raw) and mix in the rest of the ingredients, adding the drained tomatoes last and salting to taste.

Final Projects!

Our last session of sewing was great!  Such amazing projects came to a conclusion! Mark brought a lovely snack of grapes and cheese to share.  I see many awesome future projects to come...happy sewing friends!

Pictured above are the two lovely skirts that Mark made for Lola - gorgeous!

Emily's amazingly adorable dress - I think I need to make one of these!

 Gaby's lovely ruffled skirt.

 Therese's "Banana Republic" inspired pencil skirt- so gorgeous!

 Mark used a shirt he got in India to create this!

 Handmade fringe by Mark - love this technique!

 Mark's fringed bag.

 The belt for Emily's Lisette dress.

 Therese's golden zipper peaking through! Great touch!

A close-up of Emily's dress, what a great combination of fabrics! 

Skirts, Part Dos

 Mark's first zipper, complete! 

 A skirt perfectly fitted for Lola, Mark's wife!

 Gaby works on hemming each flounce for her skirt.

 Emily works on her lined and pleated skirt.

 Almost complete! Just the zipper and the hem to go! Lovely!

Skirt Time

 Therese models her freshly sewn darts on her white a-line skirt

 Gabrielle stay-stitches 6 fllounces for her skirt

 Mark's darts on the skirt he is making for his lovely wife!

 Emily busy adjusting her pleating to perfection on her skirt

 Mark's finished apron! Look at that gorgeous pleating!!

And on to zippers tomorrow!!! 

South End Open Market!!

 Busy gearing up for my first SOWA of the season.  Come check out the market this Sunday from 10-4!

Local, handmade, vintage, farmers, food trucks, general love of dogs and sunshine.

Why wouldn't you come???

460 Harrison Ave. in Boston's South End

http://www.sowaopenmarket.com/

Six Week Sewing!

 We have begun another Six-Week Sewing Intensive at the studio! 

Our first week we made tote bags (Mark's is above - made from gorgeous upholstery fabric in maroon hues) and this past Thursday we moved on to aprons.  More pictures to come - can't use this computer for editing.  

 The beginning of Mark's pleated ruffle

 Gaby's springy floral half apron

 Emily's soft gray paisley half apron

 Therese's retro floral apron

 Her first night of sewing and she tackles a curved pocket! 

Mark ironing the fabric for his ruffle - can't wait to see how it turns out!

Love is in the air!!

New valentines in my etsy shop!