I’ve been easing my way back into work this week, starting with planning a new shop window, and also starting to make a very solid plan for 2014. One of my resolutions for the year, however, is to slow down and to look back upon my own history, trying to get a bigger sense of …
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Looking back on 2013
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Resting Bones
I’m still kind of on what I’ve been calling ‘skeleton time’, which means that although I’m on holiday, I’m still available, occasionally popping into the studio and shop to do bits of work. But in between, I’ve mostly been staying home, going to yoga and taking naps. Over New Year’s, the shop closed, and we …
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Annie’s quilt
Not long after I opened my shop, a very pregnant lady called Annie came into my shop, wanting to buy some fabric to make a quilt for her baby. I chatted to her about colours and ideas, and then I suddenly remembered some half-made patched things that I’d started, and hauled them out to show …
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Colour thinking
I’ve been holed up in my studio this week, with scissors and pinking shears in hand, as I hack into mounds of my printed offcuts, putting together colour groups as I think about next year’s fabric collection. It’s a wild life, this!
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Making Friday… is now on Monday?
I started my Making Friday routine because I didn’t seem to have any time to spend in the studio, so I had to schedule it in. In particular, I needed time in which to tackle non work-related projects, as I find these “just for fun” things seem to inevitably provide the basis for future design …
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Humans of New York
I caught the bus to The Book Lounge on Sunday, and spent a happy hour browsing. One book that held my attention for quite a bit was called Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton. It’s a photographic book that does what it says on the cover: photographs of all types and shapes of human (and …
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Making Friday: 15 November
Actually, after such a looooong break from my Making Friday routine, I’m planning to have an entire Making Week (or more!). I have an ‘away’ message on my email, and I’m doing my best to get my teeth into a new collection of prints. Of course, before I began, I first had to pull and push every …
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Joburg shapes and colours
I’ve just spent a week in Johannesburg, doing the FoodWineDesign fair, which is held annually on the roof of the Hyde Park Corner shopping centre. I spent a lot of time driving in and out of the centre, and really came to appreciate the parking lot on the 3rd floor, which has a great paint job, …
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Making Friday – on a Sunday
I had a peaceful day catching up with things in the studio on Sunday while Shepherd wielded his paintbrush downstairs, but eventually found myself with time on my hands, and so I dug around on the prop shelves and lined up some interesting shapes for an Instagram moment. And suddenly, after trying to kill time, …
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