Posts Tagged ‘Make it Sew’

An homage to the best season in Vermont: Sugaring Season! Thanks to Sugar Bob’s Finest Kind for lending us the sap buckets <3

Rather than take the Snow in Love window down after the Holidays, I thought it would be nice to adapt it for more of winter. So I took down the twinkle lights, garland, and red bows and replaced them with lovely pink flowers! These little beauties are made from hand dyed coffee filters. They took…

It’s that time of year again! Let the Downtown Rutland Holiday Window Contest commence! This window took me three months to plan and prep for, and three days to install. The concept for this window was to make it look like the two figures were sculpted out of snow and deeply in love in a…

October is National Book Month and I got super inspired this year to create an elaborate book themed window display. I am a die hard Harry Potter fan (Hufflepuff for life!) and have been obsessivly listening to a podcast called Potterless, so of course they were the first books that came to mind! I chose…

Gotta love the thrift store! I found this hat, shirt, and the apple basket all at a thrift store and spent about $10! The “apples” in the basket and hanging from the ceiling are made from dollar store tissue paper puff balls, with some green burlap leaves and brown floral wire stems. The sunflowers are…

My boss’ friend who made the quilt in the Visiting Artists post completed a dragon fly wall hanging and wanted to display it in the shop window. I went looking for inspiration to incorporate the wall hanging into the display and found a beautiful dragonfly costume on instagram and the pieces just fell together! The…

Wedding season is in full swing! A number of years ago, this stunning vintage wedding dress was donated to the shop and has been stored ever since. While cleaning out some shelves I discovered it and just HAD to make a window display out of it! To give the whole scene a fantasy, Cinderella vibe,…

It’s prom season! I put this sparkly number together to sit in front of the doorway at the shop, just for fun 🙂

So this is a unique window display because I didn’t actually make anything in it! There were a number of things that led to this particular display: a friend of the shop’s owner made the life-size doll, a different friend made the quilt, and another friend is opening a yoga studio down the street from…