Who can get enough of our Flower Fields fabric design? We certainly can’t, which is why we’ve been pushing it into new shapes lately, the most recent of which are our Oblong and Round throw pillow and scatter cushion shapes, piped in lemon. Yummy! The Pillow Lab is where we like to play with things …
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More shapes of Flower Fields
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Best team ever!
This is a big shout out to the Skinny laMinx team who, in just 4 weeks managed to nail our first New York trade show at NY NOW, pulled off a GIANT fabric sale and topped it off with a very successful Maison et Objet show in Paris. It’s all been done at the same …
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Where fabric comes from
Sometimes I have the incredible good luck to take a peek beyond the factory door, and when I do, I’m almost always blown away and knocked sideways when I get a glimpse of just how much ingenuity, expense, commitment, skill, development and effort goes into making the things we use every day, and simply take …
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Making Friday: weaving progress
I pinned up all the bits and pieces so far made on my kiddie loom, along with a couple of experiments on my rather clunky second-hand rigid heddle, and all together, they make me feel pretty good about my progress But now that I’m the proud owner of a brand new Ashford knitter’s loom (a …
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Skinnylaminxenstein: What’s a clearance sale all about?
Although we’ve had sales before, the weekend’s Warehouse Clearance (now online until 6 September!) was something new for us, because we’ve never slashed our prices as radically as we’ve done for this one. These Skinnylaminxenstein posts are all about sharing some of the thought and ideas behind running this particular business, and so here goes with …
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Colour Pop piping on Cushions and Pillows
We’re giving the Colour Pop treatment to everything now, because we LOVE the way it just gives our patterns a lift. Our latest trick is to use the Colour Pop palette to add piping to our patterned pillows and cushions. Don’t you think the lemon piping on our Flower Fields pillow is simply too fab? …
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Making Friday: Snakes!
Honestly, I don’t know why this is happening, but I keep drawing, weaving and printing snake motifs. Someone said it’s a symbol for change, so I’ll go with that. The snake at the top of this post is one I made at Baobab Batik when I was there in April with Ace Camps. He’s pretty …
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New York subway scenes
Ok, so that’s me on the New York City subway platform, sporting my freshly Colour Popped Alexander Sack, but… this is not the only sighting of Skinny laMinx on the hot, hot New York subway ride this week. Take a look… Ok, you got me. It’s all been a setup. The part of Stylish Girl …
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News from New York
Donna and I have had a great time in New York, launching the Colour Pop accessories at NY NOW. and showing America what we’ve got! Didn’t our stand turn out well? We were lucky enought to be nearby some other SA stands, like Wren Design, Zizemele, Rarity and Mungo, which was really terrific. What an …
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