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Karlene Charlton

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Big news, I have a shop!

Karlene Charlton posted an article on Karlene's Workshop - Sep 26, 2011, 4:14 am
I’m very excited to announce that my new online store is open for business, check it out http://felt.co.nz/shop/karlene-c Just a few things in there at the moment, more to come soon
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Painted flower dress

Karlene Charlton posted an article on Karlene's Workshop - Aug 27, 2011, 11:01 pm
This is the dress I made from the painted denim jeans panel. Alas, some of the detail in the top layers of paint have been lost in the wash, still looks OK though. Next time I try this I will know to do all the painting in one flat layer, like a picture in a colouring in book.
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Painted flowers

Karlene Charlton posted an article on Karlene's Workshop - Aug 4, 2011, 1:25 am
I’ve been painting! Every now and then my friends and I get together for an arty/crafty painting session. Rather than doing the usual painting on canvases, this time we decided to try stenciling on T-shirts using freezer paper. I had never tried this before as we can’t get freezer paper in the s...
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Fairy style dress – Peach

Karlene Charlton posted an article on Karlene's Workshop - Jun 27, 2011, 5:58 pm
This is another dress we used in a recent photo shoot, beautifully modeled by my lovely sister. Peach dress The skirt is made from vintage fabrics and lace. The larger pieces of fabric in the skirt are square shapes, with one corner rounded off in a similar way that circular skirts are cut. Putt...
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Fairy style dress – Green

Karlene Charlton posted an article on Karlene's Workshop - Jun 22, 2011, 7:34 pm
Thanks to my husband Keith, I got some lovely shots of the finished fairy style dresses I made. Green fairy dress This one I am wearing is the one I wrote about in my last post , made from denim scrap from some jeans and other bits and pieces. It took me a long time to finish, as I got quite frust...
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Green denim dress, almost complete

Karlene Charlton posted an article on Karlene's Workshop - Sep 20, 2010, 8:53 pm
The dress, as is, on my dress stand. A bit lopsided but there is a reason as you will see… I’m pleased with how this is turning out, there is just one little thing I have to change, the top part of the “petticoat” lining layer is sitting too high. It’s kind of hard to tell on her, but on...
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Melted

Karlene Charlton posted an article on Karlene's Workshop - Sep 8, 2010, 7:43 pm
Some fabrics fray nicely and look cool, like denim or cotton. Other fabrics just make a really big mess with lots of threads going all over the place. I wanted to use some scrappy pieces in the skirt of the dress I am working on without all the mess, so I tried melting the edges with a candle. Tur...
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Green denim dress, a work-in-progress

Karlene Charlton posted an article on Karlene's Workshop - Sep 5, 2010, 9:40 pm
Remember this green jeans skirt I made? I’m using the cut off pant legs to make a bodice for a patchy fairy style dress. Here’s a look at the front part of the bodice before being completely sewn up. You can see I’ve used the unpicked hem at the top of one panel for a bit of added textural ...
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The tea dye experiment

Karlene Charlton posted an article on Karlene's Workshop - Aug 25, 2010, 9:35 pm
I’ve been wanting to have a go at dyeing with tea for a while now. I had an old white cotton skirt with a broderie anglaise hem that I wanted to incorporate into my current project (using up the pant legs from the green jeans) and needed to be less, well, white! I also wanted to try it on this ...
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Green jeans to skirt

Karlene Charlton posted an article on Karlene's Workshop - Aug 23, 2010, 1:04 am
I started with a pair of slightly faded green jeans, then made them into a skirt like this. It was a bit plain so I decided to add some patchwork applique and lace My favourite so far! If you look at the back of the waistband you can see the original colour where I’ve pulled the tag off. It’...
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Mum's floral overnight bag

Karlene Charlton posted an article on Karlene's Workshop - Aug 6, 2010, 10:49 pm
I haven’t posted for a while so here’s some pics of this large bag I made ages ago for my mum. The bag base was originally cut smaller than this. I had a small scrap of floral fabric from Nana’s stash that I wanted to use for the flower shapes, utilizing as much of the piece as possible. Aft...
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A glimpse of my work-in-progress

Karlene Charlton posted an article on Karlene's Workshop - Jul 8, 2010, 1:07 am
This is something I have been working on for a while now. Almost done, just got to do a few more fabric roses. The peach fabric used in the photo above are the leftover pieces from the skirt I shortened here. It’s turned out very differently from my original idea but still very pretty all the sa...
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Re fashioned denim skirts

Karlene Charlton posted an article on Karlene's Workshop - Jun 23, 2010, 6:26 pm
Not far from where I live is a thrift shop that has a regular clothing sale once a month where everything is $1 each. I’ve only been twice, and come home each time with a huge bag full of clothes to be refashioned. I’ve promised myself to stay away until all the work has been done! On my first...
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I Confess…

Karlene Charlton posted an article on Karlene's Workshop - Jun 14, 2010, 9:02 pm
Well this is kind of embarrassing. Not only have I not posted anything in AGES, this post is to confess that I went shopping and purchased some new stuff. So for the first time, here is my get out of jail free card. It is mid-winter here in NZ and I was feeling very cold, so I bought a couple of me...
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At last – pictures of the fairy princesses

Karlene Charlton posted an article on Karlene's Workshop - Apr 12, 2010, 10:54 pm
Remember all those frilly girly things I made for my nieces for Christmas? Well, I finally got some pictures of them all wearing the outfits. At Easter! The sun was very bright which is why some of the expressions are not very fairy princess like Here is Alyssa who is wearing a beaded necklace I ...
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Fairy skirts made by Cathy

Karlene Charlton posted an article on Karlene's Workshop - Apr 5, 2010, 10:44 pm
I had some comments recently from Cathy McGregor from Napier who sent me some lovely pictures of the fairy skirts she has made for her granddaughters from old scarves. The gold coloured organza fabric which is used in both skirts is from a wrap/stole she made for a wedding, and the spotted lemon sc...
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