For two years, I’ve been making things from clay at morning classes with Louise Gelderblom, but haven’t really catalogued them anywhere, so today’s the day to show all the Oddjects (or the ones I remembered to photograph, at least) all at once.
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All the Oddjects
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Making Friday: From Sketchbook to Oddject
Notebooks are very useful things to have with you. They’re good for recording fleeting ideas, and good to look back on to see where you’ve been. For two years, I’ve kept this little “Ceramics Ideas” notebook alongside my other general notebook, jotting down ideas for shapes I’d like to make in the Monday morning ceramics classes I’ve …
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Making Friday: Printing at Warren Editions
Attentive readers of this blog may recall that during 2015, I spent four Saturdays at Warren Editions print studio, learning all about CMYK lino printing. I loved the workshop, so was super excited when Zhané Warren started opening the studio on Monday nights to alumni of the courses she’s run. I signed up for three months, …
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Making Friday: Lino Shavings
A little Christmas tree made of lino shavings is a neat way to round off a year where block printing has loomed large, what with our block print inspired Diggi Dot collection, two collections of block printed scarves, and another trip to Jaipur to teach (and learn) about this amazing way of creating pattern. When …
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New in the shop: Block Printed scarves
On my recent teaching trip to Jaipur with Ritchie Ace Camps, I had a couple of days off, and was pleased to put them to VERY good use, because after the success of our last crop of limited edition block printed scarves, I was excited to design some more. So now, just in the nick of …
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Making Friday: The restorative power of a nap
I’ve been feeling a little scattered in the Making Friday department lately, partly because of all the promotions work that this time of year takes up, and partly because I’ve been working on designs for next year’s new fabric collection, but on Friday I really felt the need to simply sit down and make something. …
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Best Things: Ray Komai
Instagram and Pinterest are wonderful sources of treasures, best enjoyed when I go beyond a simple ‘like’ or ‘pin it’, and take the time to explore a little. This morning, thanks to @modernform on Instagram, I spotted this intriguing image of a design by Ray Komai – a name I’d never heard before. Some Googling told me that …
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Crazy Happy Thanks
We’ve had a truly odd assortment of things on the studio table lately, and I thought they were a perfect expression of what this time of the year is like. In a nutshell, it’s totally CRAZY, but there’s plenty of HAPPY underneath too! So let’s focus on the HAPPY as we go crazy and celebrate my …
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How to: Fold a Christmas tree napkin
Wish you knew how to fold a napkin (or dozen) into a forest of Christmas trees for your Holiday table? Follow our video tutorial below, made by the super clever Melissa!
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