Hooray! It’s time for a Spring Sale! Yup, on Friday and Saturday this week, selected items will be sold at two for the price of one from my shop in Somerset Rd, Greenpoint. Click here for a google map to the shop. See you at the Toofer!
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The Toofer
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Mastering the Art of Fabric Printing and Design
Mastering the Art of Fabric Printing and Design by Laurie Wisbrun is is a book I am always happy to recommend to people who are interested in learning about how to do pattern design. It was published in 2011 by Chronicle Books, and includes heaps of great tutorials and technical advice, as well as great interviews …
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Decorex Designer collection
I’m so thrilled to have my work included in the Decorex Designer Collection, launching today at the Joburg Decorex. My contribution to the collection (which includes work by Heath Nash, Lisa Firer, and Design Team) is a range of table runners, mix-and-match napkins, aprons and tea towels, all in my Abacus design, printed in a …
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Rena Tom
Ooh, exciting! There’s an interview profile with me over at Rena Tom’s website. Ever since I started reading blogs and so on, Rena (who started Rare Device with Lisa Congdon) has been a figure of inestimable cool and savoire faire, so this is particularly thrilling for me. Now, after having sold Rare Device, Rena has …
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Sunday Argus
There’s a new art & design supplement with the Sunday Argus, and this weekend there was an article in there about me by Lorelle Bell. Lorelle’s published the full article at her lovely blog Hoolie Hah, so click here to read more.
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Seconds online
Thanks so much to all the Capetonians who came out over the weekend to make our Studio Sale such a roaring success. I heard some disconsolate wails from elsewhere in the country last week, wishing they could be in Cape Town too, so the good news is that I’ve listed bundles of seconds tea towels …
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Mine, all mine!
I’m all gloat and cackle this morning, after having picked up a huge box from the post office, stuffed with this great big fat stash of my Cut Out & Keep collection for the Designer Series from Cloud9 Fabrics. It’s been held up in Customs for ages, so it’s joy quadrupled to actually have these …
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Save the Date
Cape Town peeps, take note! Peeps further afield, do not fear. There will be online celebrations prepared for you too. And, yes, I did make the invitation on my sewing machine. I may curse that temperamental, but it really can step up most admirably on occasion.
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A perfect wedding
Sigh. Nothing like a perfectly planned wedding on a beautiful day, is there? Actually, if you ask me, there’s never been a more perfectly-planned and executed wedding than that of Bridget McNulty and her husband Mark, who didn’t forget a single detail of theirs. Of course, the best part (for me) is that they used …
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