Patches of workI spent most of Making Friday apparently pointlessly patching together the smallest scraps of Sevilla Rock offcuts (it’s amazing how quickly you can grow a decent size bit of fabrics from the tiniest pieces), and then, inspired by Cecile’s curtain, became a bit more focussed and made this 1 x 1m patched piece …
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Patches of work
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Patching things up
Spent such a good Making Friday in the studio today. After Wednesday’s bad news, I probably should have been out, beating down the mill’s door, and scouring the city for better fabric deals, but instead I sat in my studio all alone and laid into my big pile of fabric scraps – now suddenly a …
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Wild beasts
Wild beastsI found these terrifying wild animals at Heartworks, just up the road from me. You can tell they’re rough and touch, cos they wear pullovers, not cardigans, so watch out! They were knitted by a project in Zimbabwe, but there’s no swingtag, so I can’t tell you anything more about them, except that if …
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Feeling blue
Not duck egg blue or cerulean or anything remotely pretty, but plain old depressed, thanks to the news that my local cotton mill has raised the price of hopsack by 33% since June, thus effectively ruining the hot little line in international teatowel trade I was just getting off the ground. Actually, the more I …
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Horoscopes 2009
Horoscopes 2009For ages I’ve been doing the monthly horoscope illustrations for FairLady magazine, and these are some from 2009. Leos, you’re up this month, so your pic leads the pack. Can you work the rest of them out? The answers, and more pics, are to be found in the Illustration set on my Flickr page.
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ScrapEep! again
I’ve made five more ScrapEeps and they’re in my store now. Happy weekend, all! The sun’s out this morning – let’s hope it lasts.
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The early years…
I was doing a tidy-up and sort-out at my studio yesterday, where I came across a suitcase full of my very early print experiments, when all I had was a knife, some acetate, a sponge, and a lot more free time than I have now. They’re not brilliant, but I enjoyed seeing them again. I …
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I’ve been taking photos
I’ve been taking photosI’ve finally updated my Flickr page with some recent photos of our place.
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The keys ride again
So, remember the keys that Beryl gave me? Well, I still haven’t got around to using them in a design, but my studiomate Medina Morphet has been eyeing them for a while now. Outside of her work as a painter, Medina teaches art to little ones, and this is how she got the kids to …
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