Blue Sky is for Hoopers

Be the grooviest hooper around in our awesome Flare Foldovers and A-cute Angles tank. Music is Railroad Earth performing 'Whiskey for Breakfast' on 7-20-2006, available for free download at archive.org. The video was filmed at the breathtaking Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia.

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Make your own Prayer Flags out of recycled clothes!

We love to donate our old clothes to charity because it makes us feel so good! But every once in a while there's a textile that we love so much we can't say goodbye. While spring cleaning we found this old Blue Sky skirt that's just too big for us, but we weren't quite ready to get rid of it yet.

So we're looking at it and trying to think about how to utilize the five colors, and it hits us...prayer flags! We've been wanting to make prayer flags with our own hands so they're just that much more special and this skirt seemed like the perfect item to up-cycle. This tutorial doesn't involve a sewing machine, all you need is an old garment, a seam ripper, a ruler, scissors, hot glue and hot glue gun, and some string. Find a woven cotton garment that you want to use, any colors and patterns you're drawn to will work. The only thing we recommend is no stretchy fabrics, so tee-shirts are out. Please note that it is possible to work with knits, but it's going to require a LOT more work, so we'd stick with a woven. The most time consuming part of this project is deconstructing your garment, we watched movies while we removed our seams over a couple days so it wasn't as overwhelming as doing it in one sitting. 

After you've got your garment deconstructed your next step is to iron the heck out of your fabric. You want it to be as flat as possible. Once it's ironed, you can cut out 5" by 5" squares of your fabrics. We did 8 of each color and are going to put them in color order to more closely resemble traditional prayer flags, but there is room for creativity. We love the idea of each square being a different print with no rhyme or reason too. Go with the flow, work with what you already have and something beautiful is sure to follow.

We have a hard time working in a space that isn't organized, so we like to set everything out and make it a little easier on ourselves. Grab 5 flags and lay them out in a straight line. Use a ruler to make sure everything is in order. We like the look of about a 1/2 an inch between flags. Next pick a yarn or string to use to connect your flags. We used an 8/2 cotton thread. Give yourself about a yard of slack before you start. This gives you a bit of leeway when you're hanging up your pretty new flags.

With your yard of slack hanging out to the left of your first flag, squirt a dot of hot glue onto the left corner and press the thread to the left and to the right of the glue so that the thread is smushed in there securely without you ever having to touch the hot glue. Continue to do this in the middle of the square as well as the right side of the square, so that each flag is connected to the string in 3 places. Make sure that from each dot of glue to the next that your string is taut. This will help your flags to lay beautifully once they're hung.

Continue all the way down the line. Once you glue the last flag of that row, move them to left and start another row and continue the process until all of your squares are gone.

Hang with thumbtacks wherever you please and enjoy your good fortune. To get this look, pair with a Blue Sky tapestry. And yes, that IS a print of Fishman playing a vacuum cleaner on the right. :)

MerleFest

We had so much fun at MerleFest, the sun was shining and the grass was blue. Check out some pics of happy customers rockin' the Blue Sky.  
We love you guys! 

Our lovely tent full of lovely people.

They're definitely workin' the tie dye!

"Here honey, these embroidered flower flares would look awesome on you!" :)

Yep, those are the Embroidered Flower Flares we were talking about. We think they look so great on her!!

Aww...what a cute pair! She's wearing our Boho Tunic/Skirt and doing well.

It was definitely temping to go spread out their new tapestry and listen to some banjo pickin' with these happy folks!

Our friends call this look our uniform. Cute tank and a colorful, long skirt. Get the look on our site, we have the right tank and skirt for everyone!

These flower children are looking so groovy all decked out in their hippie gear.

Usually when we use the term 'festy feet' we're referring to the amount of dirt that's on our feet after a few days of festival life, but this pair gives new meaning to the term.

This beautiful lady is a musician and a volunteer!  She wore her new Blue Sky spinner skirt on stage while performing.  She is as lovely as the sky!

These two are rockin' our Ruffle Mini-purse!
It's compact size makes it perfect for festival fun.

Our Asymmetrical Spinner is just awesome!   The best part about the dress is when you're movin' your feet and jammin' out and it's spinning around with you.  Groovylicious!

These 2 ladies look awesome in our Party Time dress, we still can't decide which color variation we like most.

How many Buddahs are in YOUR house?

Someone asked us how many Buddha's we had on our home...the answer is a lot!! :) What can we say, Buddha's face makes us happy in any of the many representations that we've seen.

How bout that laser cut Steal Ya Face...sweet, right? We are thankful for awesomely artistic friends!

This one has a hole for a screw in bottom, but we don't know what to screw it on top of, or where the heck it came from for that matter.

Now who the heck would burn this candle? We can't see ourselves doing it anytime soon...

 

A Chinese watercolor on treated wood of Buddha with bamboo.

A tissue paper representation, with mini prayer flags in the back that we are obsessed with! We have a make your own prayer flag tutorial coming soon!! Keep checking back.

This is our most sacred, we've had it since we were 10 years old!!!!

 Candle holding Buddha, how kind of you! 

Doesn't this one look like the baby of the last one?

We can't figure out what the heck this guy is holding on top of his head, but we aren't gonna discriminate!

Even Buddha likes to dangle!

Shine on you crazy......Buddha!

Raise the roof Buddha! 

He looks a little weathered, but we love him so much!

And finally, the motherload, the Buddha of all Buddhas.

How many Buddhas do you have in your home??