You’ll need card, thin coloured paper (I used origami paper), scissors, a stamp pad, lino and cutting tools. Carve your stamp from the lino. If you’ve been to one of my workshops on this, you’ll know exactly how to do this! If not, try carving a soft material like an eraser. Cut two circles from …
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How to make cute gift tags
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Making Friday: Punch needle with Crafters Box
Much earlier this year, I had an email from Morgan at The Crafters Box, asking for my postal address. This US-based company, whose aim is to make it easy for people to bring crafting back into peoples’ lives by providing subscriber-based mail-order kits and online instructional videos around particular crafts. What a great idea! The …
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Making Friday: Blank faces
When you run a creative biz, it’s important to make sure that sometimes the creative part has to be given more space than the business side, cos the inventive cogs get clogged up when the things you make are always purpose- or deadline-driven, and that’s why I spend Fridays in my studio. I thought it …
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Best Things: Local lamps and stands
It’s not that easy to find a great lampstand or lightfitting when you need one, so I’ve been putting together a collection of my favourites… and ALL of them are designed and made in South Africa. Woltemade Studio makes this large and sculptural A Lamp , which is simultaneously impressive and discreet. Their beautiful Vonk Glass …
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Piped Pillows: Flower Fields
Who can get enough of our Flower Fields 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 pillow shapes, piped in lemon. Yummy! The Pillow Lab is where we like to play with things like colour and shape and scale, so …
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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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Custom Piped Pillows
We’re giving the Colour Pop treatment to everything now, because we LOVE the way it just gives our patterns a lift! The latest trick is to add the Colour Pop palette as piping to our patterned pillows. Don’t you think the lemon piping on our Flower Fields pillow is simply too fab? Do you think another …
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What goes with grey?
I never think of grey as a pastel shade, but when I saw the interior of Casaplata restaurant and cocktail bar in Sevilla, my views on greys, and on pastels in general, did a big back flip. These dusty, silvery tones are so subtle and gentle, without a hint of sweetness. The soft tones are …
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Workshop: How Pattern Works
I’m super excited to announce that all through June, I’ll be teaching a four-part hands-on course in print & pattern called HOW PATTERN WORKS. Classes will be held over four weeks in the Skinny laMinx fabric studio at 201 Bree Street, from 6pm – 9pm on a Monday (update: Mondays are sold out) or a …
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