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Creating Handmade Hippie Patchwork Designs and crochet Dreadlock slouchy tams -- For Sale and Where to Find Them Online

The pleasure of creating handmade crafts in a complex world

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In our fast-paced world it is essential to keep a certain simplicity and back-to-earth mentality for our mental and physical sanity.

If you are like me and want to avoid the superficial atmosphere of a shopping mall then buying handmade clothes and accessories is a great alternative.

If you are looking for handmade patchwork threads, skirts, dresses, apron tops, hippie rasta dreadlock tam hats or corduroy bags and totes, please visit my links. Bringing you earthy designs in a high tech world. You will find great online sources for handcrafted clothes and accessories. Many artists/seamstresses and crafters maintain their own websites or sell on auction sites. My recommendation: search on ETSY! This is my philosophy in a nutshell. Greetings to all the kind people out there, I am glad that you found my site.

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Patchwork...an old craft revived

saving resources in the fashion industry

Guess it's sarcastic to call myself an entrepreneur of the fashion industry, but hey, why not.
Reviving old frugal techniques to recreate clothes from scraps...it's the hippie way to say "We love Mother Earth".
Nothing is more unique and intriguing than a garment made with small pieces of fabric, arranged in a pattern or just patched together randomnly. No uniform look when it comes to expressing yourself. Especially if you want to leave the designer fashion craze behind you...
Patchwork clothes for sale are mainly constructed with new materials, but it always leaves room for the use of perfectly good quality recycled fabrics, usually from clothes that would never fit or flatter the owner. The fabric can be recycled to create brandnew clothes, designed by down to earth mamas (or papas) out there behind their sewing machines.

Creating with a simple crochet hook

a production method without electricity anywhere

Crocheting is my favorite fibreart. It's complex but yet simple once it has become your 2nd nature. Among crocheters the phrase "getting hooked" has become a reference to the only tool they will ever need to create the most intriguing garments or accessories, a simple little stick with hook tip...the HOOK.
My favorite designs are crocheted hippie tam hats, suitable for dreads (dreadlocks), or just for a kynd person who prefers a slouchy beanie, or a larger beret type hat.
I love natural materials, hemp, wool, cotton, rayon, but also work with blends or just the plain old acrylic yarn, suitable for easy laundry care or for vegans who avoid wool (and anyone who wants an affordable item).

Personalize with appliques

a tiny scrap can be used in a very creative way

And when patchwork is not enough handmade appliques (not the store bought iron-on ones) will add the final touches to pockets, bags or entire pieces of clothing.
I personally love mushrooms, owls, howling wolves and trees.

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SunPhishArts Nov 4, 2010 @ 6:41 pm | delete

Very nice work making it the old school way no machine made stuff. Not to many items made this way anymore especially patchwork

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vmark Apr 17, 2009 @ 3:29 am | delete

You have a great lens and i like the patch work designs. Other designs you can't believe they are handmade. Gave you 5** rate. I have a lens on Kenya Crafts, can you rate and comment, thanks
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