It’s almost time for our annual Pattern Repeat Retreat. Are you coming? We’ll spend two days in beautiful Swellendam, getting hands-on with exploring and understanding pattern. I’ll send you back home feeling inspired and capable of creating pattern using the simplest of tools. It’ll be fun! JOIN US: A 2-day pattern & printing workshop with me, hosted by Grace + Merci Cafe in …
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2022 Pattern Repeat Retreat
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From Drab to Fab with Dan Saks
While my old pal Dan Saks of Saks Corner is in the biz of producing solid wood Scandi-inspired furniture, his first love is to breathe fresh life into old things.
So when I handed Dan a brown-painted 50’s cane chair I’d bought on a whim, he offered to share his tips for taking something from drab to fab, using our new Flower Ring fabric.
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Cold Comfort
This image by Andrey Avdeenko is of Comfort Town – a neighbourhood in Kyiv that’s been painted bright colours to lift the spirits during cold, dark winters. I hope it lifts your spirits today, even if it is just to recall that beauty and joy have power, even in the darkest times, and that …
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Eye Love…
I’ve been wearing eyeglasses since I was 8 years old. But imagine if I had never got spectacles. I couldn’t read, draw, watch movies, enjoy people-watching, notice shadows, birds, shapes, compositions… and a million other things too. Without glasses, my experience of the world would be vastly different. In a hugely unequal country like ours, there …
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On my bookshelf
I took this photo when promoting our 2021 calendar, choosing titles from my bookshelf that I thought made sense together. Then, as I was packing them away, I thought perhaps some of you would be interested to know more about them. So here’s a bit more, with links for each. Yes, yes, this is a …
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The PROMENADE lifestyle collection
When you take 3 midcentury architectural facades on the Sea Point Promenade, add a pinch of admiration, 3 dollops of attention, a few choice collaborations, what do you end up with? The PROMENADE lifestyle collection. This collection pays homage to the large-scale public murals at Fortuna and Bonne Esperance apartments, and on the Beach Road …
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Making Friday : On the Promenade
The Sea Point Promenade really is my favourite place to take a walk. There’s so much to see! Waves & surfers, paragliders & windblown trees, dads with prams & nurses with wheelchairs, doggos & joggers all making up a passing parade that’s one of the enduring pleasures of Cape Town life. It also has some …
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Modern Fabric
Look at what arrived in the post… with our Bowls print on the cover! I’m thrilled to bits that Skinny laMinx has been included as one of the 25 textile designers in this book by Abby Gilchrist and Amelia Poole, published by Princeton Architectural Press. What a thrill to share pages with heavyweights like @kaffefassettstudio, …
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Lifestyling
There’s been so much change and loss in the print magazine industry during this time of Covid, so it’s heartening to hear from JP de la Chaumette who used this time to launch a brand new online magazine, called Lifestyling.co.za. I asked JP to tell us more about the origins, plans and dreams for this …
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