Welcome to the new Cucicucicoo for 2021!

Take a tour of the brand new Cucicucicoo: Eco Sewing and Crafting for 2021! The new blog and pattern shop are now more simple, sleeker, faster and- best of all- glitch-free! #sewing #repurposing

Guys, I know I’ve been away from the blog for a while, but I’ll explain in a moment. Because I just can’t wait to show you the brand new Cucicucicoo for 2021! Quite a few people had written to me about glitches and errors that …

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How to get free sewing patterns from Cucicucicoo!

There are tons of great free sewing tutorials and patterns on the web, but have you been wondering how to get free sewing patterns all in one place? Cucicucicoo has dozens of free downloads and printables to sew, craft and create unique and customized clothing, toys, home decor and more! || #freesewingpatterns #freecraftingtemplates #freeprintables #sewingpatterns #crafttemplates #freedownloads #cucicucicoo #cucicucicoopatterns

I have some exciting news for you! I have moved ALL of my free downloadable materials into a new exclusive members-only area of Cucicucicoo! So, if you’ve been wondering how to get free sewing patterns and a bunch of other great free crafting materials, you are …

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Super Bib Pattern Pack – testers’ versions!

The Super Bib Pattern Pack by Cucicucicoo - loads of bib sizes, styles and variations in one! Here are some of the pattern testers' versions of the Cucicucicoo bibs. www.cucicucicoo.com

Looking for the perfect bib pattern for your family? Check out how the Super Bib Pattern Pack testers personalized it to their needs through many options! www.cucicucicoo.com

Last week I released my latest sewing pattern, the Super Bib Pack, which has all sorts of styles, sizes, variations and sewing options, meaning that there are dozens of ways to personalize your bibs and burp cloths! Just to give you an idea of some possibilities, let me show you some examples of what my pattern testers came up with! They are all very different and reflect the personalities and needs of each family!

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Check out this absolutely adorable hedgehog bib Rachel from Golden Rippy made for her boy!

The Super Bib Pattern Pack by Cucicucicoo - loads of bib sizes, styles and variations in one! Here are some of the pattern testers' versions of the Cucicucicoo bibs. www.cucicucicoo.com

Jennifer from Historical Sewing and Emma Lily Designs tried out both sizes of snappable bibs for her daughter:

The Super Bib Pattern Pack by Cucicucicoo - loads of bib sizes, styles and variations in one! Here are some of the pattern testers' versions of the Cucicucicoo bibs. www.cucicucicoo.com

The Super Bib Pattern Pack by Cucicucicoo - loads of bib sizes, styles and variations in one! Here are some of the pattern testers' versions of the Cucicucicoo bibs. www.cucicucicoo.com

Sara is a gal after my own heart because she loves repurposing materials! She used an old umbrella for a waterproof layer! Fantastic!

The Super Bib Pattern Pack by Cucicucicoo - loads of bib sizes, styles and variations in one! Here are some of the pattern testers' versions of the Cucicucicoo bibs. www.cucicucicoo.com

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Health update and how the menstrual cup helped

This was the view outside the balcony where I spent four nights a couple of weeks ago. Pretty, right? The bay of Naples, Mount Vesuvius, the classic Mediterranean pine tree. Except I didn’t really get to enjoy it very much because I spent most of …

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Kreativ and Eppela supporters

Kreativ - La maglietta rinata
Kreativ - La maglietta rinata
All fair images are from OrloSubito’s Instagram.

Thank you everyone for your moral and financial support in getting Sandra and me to the Kreativ fair in Bozano this past weekend! It was a really interesting experience, although I unfortunately ended up getting some sort of stomach bug or something, which was exacerbated by the sheer exhaustion of weeks (months…) of intensive preparation, and I had to skip out a little early. However, I learned so much about how a fair works and what sort of products and services to offer, and I’ve gotten a really good idea of what I want to work towards in the future. So really and truly: thank you!

Kreativ - La maglietta rinata

The following is a list of supporters of our Eppela crowdfunding event. Some of them are very talented individuals with websites of their own, so I highly recommend that you click through to visit them!

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Support Sustainable Sewing!

"The Reborn T-Shirt" and other refashioning/upcycling sewing workshops by OrloSubito and Cucicucicoo. Contribute at least €2 to choose among lots of great eco-friendly rewards, discounts and free tickets! More details on www.cucicucicoo.com

"The Reborn T-Shirt" and other refashioning/upcycling sewing workshops by OrloSubito and Cucicucicoo. Contribute at least €2 to choose among lots of great eco-friendly rewards, discounts and free tickets! More details on www.cucicucicoo.com

Good morning, everyone! As you’ve probably already noticed if you’ve followed me at all, I truly love sewing and teaching others how to in my tutorials and my free Learn to Machine Sew beginner’s course. I know that my lessons and tutorials help a lot of people learn the techniques they need to sew garments and items, but there’s no hiding the fact that it’s not always possible to show everything over a computer. It’s a lot easier to explain and show others how to do something in person. So I’m super excited because this September, Cucicucicoo is finally going in the direction that I’ve wanted it to go for a while: teaching sewing in person!

I am working on finding a place where I can hold sewing lessons in or around Naples, Italy, where I live, but my first experience will be in Bolzano, in northern Italy, at the Kreativ Fair in September. I’m teaming up with my friend Sandra, from OrloSubito, for three days of of sewing workshops, with an emphasis on refashioning and upcycling. (I’ll tell you more about those below.)

"The Reborn T-Shirt" and other refashioning/upcycling sewing workshops by OrloSubito and Cucicucicoo. Contribute at least €2 to choose among lots of great eco-friendly rewards, discounts and free tickets! More details on www.cucicucicoo.com

Sandra and I want to spread the love for sustainable sewing, showing people that refashioning can be easy and fun, even if you’ve never done it before, and to help people understand why it’s better for everyone to move away from the fast fashion trend. However, we are both very small businesses and we need your help. This is why we’ve created a crowdfunding campaign on Eppela, so that we can finance our stand and other costs stemming from it. Let me tell you about it.

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Pattern news and Verona Tessile competition

Verona Tessile 2015 Concorso

Yes, I’ve been missing more than usual from this dear-to-me blog but, as I’ve already briefly explained on Facebook, it’s because I’ve been working on some pretty cool things. And what will be the most interesting to you is that one of these pretty cool …

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A tour of the new Cucicucicoo

Tutorial Archives

Happy Thanksgiving, folks! It has taken me the time from one American holiday to another four months later to get around to giving you all a virtual tour of my blog on its new platform. On July 4th, I posted my first (very quick) post …

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Welcome to cucicucicoo.com!

Yes, you are in the right place! This is my new website and my old blogspot blog is now being redirected here. However I still have a lot of work to do with the layout, so just be patient and I will eventually have lots …

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Cicciluzz’, Haircut, Birthday, Instagram

uccellino

We made a new friend on June 1st. We found him on the street near our home. Knowing it wouldn’t have survived long there, we picked it up and brought it home, asking my father-in-law for help, seeing as he’s saved more than one sparrow …

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interview at “il caffè delle mamme”

ilcaffedellemamme

the very sweet francesca from il caffè delle mamme proposed me to do an interview for her column “progetti di mamme” (mothers’ projects) and published it yeterday afternoon! go take a look! i’m really happy with it! it is in italian, but i will translate …

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Meeting up with Ork’Idea and Arteteca

cristina cuore

the first week of 2012 has a nice surprise for me…i had the opportunity to meet cristina from ork’idea atelier and rachele from arteteca, two italian bloggers that i just love for their creative use of recuperated materials. what can i say…it was so cool …

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Works in progress…or rather, abandoned

homemadesamoas

our digital camera broke a couple of weeks ago. we brought it to get fixed and when it finally was ready, we discovered that whoever fixed the lens apparently broke another part while doing it. i brought it back to re-fix it and they tried …

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Diary of the first year

diary of the first year

my mother has always cut out magazine and newspaper articles that she thinks i would find interesting. once she thought of me reading an article about the actress jenna fiscer in oprah winfrey’s magazine, “O,” from may 2007. she circled a part about when the …

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Back to school and life

i don’t even want to think about how much time has gone by. i thought that i’d gotten past the hardest time at home with the kids, but apparently i was wrong. i really missed the blog, but i just didn’t have time for it. …

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A wonderful Christmas gift!

i know that i’ve been completely absent from my and everyone else’s blogs, but i have a good excuse… our christmas present arrived on december 22! i’d been very busy what with preparing for his arrival and christmas (and very tired) and now i don’t …

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Distances

there are so many great things about living in a place far from where you’re from. you constantly learn, open up and grow. but there are also great difficulties, the biggest of which is the distance from your family and dearest friends. i’ve missed out …

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Cucicucicoo goes to Rome!

this weekend i’ll be participating in a national demonstration of “genuino clandestino” in rome. groups of farmers and artisans from all over italy will get together to renounce the laws favoring large industries and making it impossible for small producers to get by. saturday, after …

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