I feel like a different person after having taken (more or less) four days away from the email deluge to spend working on a very exciting design opportunity to which I simply haven’t had time to pay attention. It amazes me how taking charge of a situation (no time to design) by changing the rules …
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Leaves
I have a new fabric! Made up into cushions! In my shop! It’s called Leaves, and comes in autumn gold and winter grey. The original idea for this design came from a papercut called Botanical, which I made and sold at the very first DrawingRoom illustration show, all those years ago in 2006. I wonder …
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Long weekend stitchery
Although I worked on Monday’s public holiday, it still made the weekend seem longer, so I took it easier than usual on Sunday and got some way closer to finishing my neverending stitching project. Monkey helped a bit too.
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Tutorial: cut vinyl illustration
When I get my knife out, it’s usually to make paper cutouts, but also like to cut adhesive vinyl, as it has a couple of advantages over paper, namely: the finished cutout gets stuck to another surface, so you don’t have to be pernickity about designing something that will hold together, as you do with …
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Blackboard birds
I’ve just added a new colourway to my Cloud Birds print, and this one’s called ‘blackboard’. It’s just the colour of an oldfashioned school chalkboard. So, top to bottom of the pile below, the colours go:Blackboard, Verdigris , Blue Sky and Granny Smith. All four are now available for sale in my Etsy shop, either …
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Making Friday 30 July
Today was a full on Making Friday, not just a duty-bound one, as they often are, where I squeeze in a few hours after I’ve just finished this, and must quickly do that… This time I started early, switched off the computer, played loud music, and cut cut cut all day long. And as often …
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Colour formerly known as ‘seafoam’…
After all my colour talk lately I couldn’t NOT do it: I saw this lovely Etsy treasury by EuphorbiaDesigns the other day and pondered the right name for the colour I was seeing, and then I saw it: it’s Verdigris. Literally, it’s ‘green-grey’ and physically, it’s the name for the tarnish you get on oxidising …
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Making Friday: 23 July
I got out the scissors and sewing machine this Making Friday and had fun making this Button Bunny*, who is now looking for a home via my online shop. *By the way, the Button Bunny is a decorative cushion, not a toy, and should definitely not be given to small children who might gnaw off …
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Colour cuts
Freeworld Coatings, the company that owns paint brand Plascon, commissioned me to do a couple of paint sample cutouts for their brand new offices, and I had lots of fun doing them, and here’s how they turned out: And talking about paint-related stuff, on the ELLE Decoration blog today, there’s such a cool step-by-step makeover …
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