Sonya Nimri

This is a quick and easy way to make a kitten hat out of an old sweater sleeve that I came up with for Ideal Bite 's Mama Bite column .  For photos of each step go to my Flickr page .   Any soft, light weight knit will do and it is a great way to recycle that sweater that has too many moth holes to wear anymore.   What You Need: The bottom 10 inches of an adult sweater sleeve (a soft, breathable knit works best) Matching thread and a needle 2 little felt triangles Embroidery thread to match the felt (optional; the regular thread works OK too) Scissors Directions: Cut off the bottom 10 inches of your sweater's sleeve. Lay it flat with the sweater's original seam on one side, and sew either the cut end or the cuff end closed, depending on which edge you want to be the the top. Sew it inside out if you want to hide the seam or let the seam show as decoration. It'll look like a rectangle with one edge closed. To make the ears, sew pink felt triangles to e...

This was a really easy costume to make and only took 1/2 an hour.  Chris' costume is a muscle shirt from Venice beach with holes poked for Grippy's arms and a length-wise slit for his head from the neckline. What You'll Need: 1/2 yard 60 inch blue vinyl (this piece was $3.00 downtown L.A.) a 55" hoop of some sort- I made this one out of copper fridge tubing and duct-taped it the seam Florescent yellow duct tape Wax paper Clear packing tape Safe-T-Shapes for the shower floor in fish designs Glitter Bubble wrap Glue stick Scissors Fabric to make straps out of Some aquarium figurines- I had a diver and a treasure chest Optional- battery operated book light Directions: 1.  Cut a hoop for yourself out of tubing.  Duct tape it and round out the circle. 2.  Fold vinyl in half width-wise.  On one half, place fish stickers all over and use glue stick to stick paper backings on the vinyl as well- double the fish! 3.  Stick a foot and a half o...

Check out the Fox Searchlight page with my Fantastic Mr. Fox costume and the three other characters in the movie that won the contest!  The film-makers made mine a little crooked but it's still a super-cute video.

Revamped T Originally uploaded by sonyanimri This year's Swap-O-Ramarama at Venice's Center for Peace and Justice was amazing!  The cool feature about the Swap-O-Rama which other swaps don't have are the booths with awesome designers helping with makeovers.   KB Vanhorn from Kokolelo had these amazing stencils that she designed.  I used her anchor on my Lacoste and one of her tree stencils for this off-white shirt.   Stephanie Girard of Sweater Surgery had a booth with adorable Hello Kitty, Tree, and letter die cuts.  One of them were cute as a button birds so those had to perch in my tree!  

finishedfoxmask Originally uploaded by sonyanimri Wes Anderson  , the incredibly talented director of such notable movies such as Rushmore, and The Royal Tennenbaums is coming out with his claymation adaptation of Roald Dahl's "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" over Thanksgiving weekend.  Gen Art and Fox Films co-sponsored a how-to costume competition that I just had to enter.  Gripps had the flu and needed to be held 24/7 so I was literally working on my costume 10 minutes a day for a couple of weeks.  I couldn't believe it when I got the call last week that I actually won for the "Mr. Fox" costume how-to!  Yipee!  My costume uses the simplest of materials and cost less than $7.00 to actually construct which helped it stand out.  Anyone could make this out of stuff lying around the house- I did! What You’ll Need: Fox Head: ·        Brown paper grocery store bag ·        S...

Back to work finally after a LONG break from having baby Gripps.  Currently working on a really fun project creating mannequins for Annette Tatum of House Inc.  This one is for the Quilt show coming up this week.  They are all the fabrics in her new collection made into a patchwork dress with some vintage accoutrements.  I would love to sip a nice cool lemonade on a midwestern porch swing in this!