The making of a T-shirt

Why I love being surrounded by creative friends...

Just a few days ago, my friends Liz, Molly, Jen and I were inspired to create a T-shirt for our upcoming Tap into TWEED party.  Within hours, Molly and Liz (from Revolver Consignment) had the design and Jen (also from Revolver) had our screen-printing friend Adam (from Ahpeele) on the phone.  Two days later Adam had our screen ready and he and Isaac (Raleigh Vintage) did the printing.  

We now have a most lovely t-shirt that will be for sale at the party!

 Step one: create the screen (essentially a sophisticated screen cut-out)

 Step Two: choose your color

 Step three: choose your squidgy

 Step Four: apply the paint over screen (which is over your t-shirt) with your squidgy (done here by Adam from Ahpeele)

 Here's a great shot of the contraption that holds the screen and the t-shirt.

 The finished t-shirt on the machine.

 Step Five: drying.  The screen-printed garment goes onto a conveyor belt into an intrared "oven" (here a screen-printed vest is ready to be transferred to the oven)

 The designers: Molly and Liz from Revolver Consignment

The finished product (MINE!)

We hope to see you all at the Triangle Tweed Ride 2012!

Ralph Lauren Fall 2012 - Tweed!

Many of you know how much I love a good tweed, so you can imagine how excited I was to see Ralph Lauren's Fall 2012 collection...tweed, argyle, and herringbone abound. 
Mixing plaids, tweeds, and fair isle intarsias keeps the looks from being stale, while ocelot prints update the classic silhouettes. 

The influence of the British country gentleman is strong! 

The evening wear collection is coming up next.
If you don't see the Downton Abby influence here, you'll definitely see it there!

Tweed Ride via Etsy

I have less than a month to plan my outfit for Triangle Tweed Ride - YIKES!
So far, this classic late 1960s blue and tan plaid vest is my only definite piece.  I'm turning to my friends on Etsy for help.

My plaid vest above paired with....

LuncheonetteVintage

CapriciousTraveler

WildfellHallVintage

Dear Golden

nicklefrye

JeanJeanVintage
I love the handlebar mustache!


So...what do you think?

Tweed Ride Inspiration #1

My lovely friend, Heather, and I met yesterday to discuss tweed fashion (Raleigh Vintage is helping with the first - and hopefully annual - Triangle Tweed Ride) and decided to make a few "modern" inspiration boards for the occasion.  This was my first Polyvore venture and I do believe it might just be addictive!  Now I just need to do this with my vintage goodies.