Meet BerylLast month, one of my blog readers got hold of me to tell me she had something interesting for me (more on that later). Intruiged, I went to meet Beryl, and found one busy lady, with countless embroidery projects on the go , including these little pincushions… …and also beautiful embroidered pictures, like the …
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Meet Beryl
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Keys from Beryl
Keys from Beryl The interesting thing Beryl had for me was a whole drawerful of keys that she’d accumulated over the past almost-80 years of her life. She didn’t want to just throw them out, and she thought I might like to make a design with them. I haven’t done anything designey with them yet …
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Finally: Sevilla Rock yardage & a giveaway
Finally: Sevilla Rock yardageEndless statements of intention to put my upholstery-weight Sevilla Rock prints into my Etsy shop have finally been put into action. It’s there and it’s for sale! Everything in the shop is now arranged according to colour rather than product, so have a look through the blues, reds, yellas, greys, neutrals and …
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Texture secrets
Texture secretsThanks for all the nice comments yesterday about my Sevilla Rock cushions, made up in the upholstery fabrics (and soon to be available as yardage, promise!). A couple of you asked about the texture of the prints, so I thought I’d reveal my secret, which is nothing more than a happy accident, but one …
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More book stuff
More book stuffYesterday’s post certainly seemed to catch many peoples’ imagination, and I was sent some links I’d like to quickly share with all you book cover geeks out there. Jesse was up late into the night, looking through the amazing records at the Everyman Library Collecting site, where I found these beauties. Thanks, Jesse! …
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A fortunate find
A fortunate findIn a pile of abandoned books at the bottom of a flight of stairs, I found these two beauties. Lorna Doone had a dust jacket on, so I didn’t see the amazing design on the cover at first, nor that the books had the same publishers, which must have had a rocking design …
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Lunchbox Cowboy
Lunchbox CowboyI’ve had such the nicest possible papercutting project to do lately. David Fletcher, a singer/songwriter from Davis, California, got in touch and asked me if I’d like to work on his album cover. Either he’s the easiest client in the world, or else we were simply a perfect match, because soon enough he’d approved …
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Frankenflowers
FrankenflowersHa haaah! I’ve just come down from the lab, where I created a monster. Six of them, in fact! But they’re much friendlier and prettier than monsters usually are, because… well, because they’re made of flowers. These Frankenflower mugs , now available in my Etsy shop, have been great fun to make. I’ve been chopping …
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The blog’s the boss
The blog’s the bossI’m telling you, this blog is the real boss around here. This quick snap is of one of the mugs I’ve been meaning to photograph for aaaages so I can get them into my shop. But I’ve been procrastinating for so long, I got called into the office for a talking to. …
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