Have you ever wondered how a pattern over a large area is created and reproduced? Did you ever want to figure out how to do this yourself?Join our REPEAT PATTERNS workshop on Tuesday 9 April or Saturday 13 April.
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Workshops 2019: Repeat Patterns
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Heading to Porto with Ace Camps
Are you coming to Porto with me in June? I’ll be there with Ace Camps, using the tiles of the city to teach you about how pattern is generated so that you can look at the riches of Porto’s azulejos heritage with fresh eyes.
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Making Friday: Weaving with Imisi
I got to learn the rudiments of traditional imisi reeds basket weaving from the Du Noon Urban Weavers.
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A Year of Making Fridays: 2018
The annual roundup of what happened on Making Friday.
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Making Friday: Colour monster
I’ve been using Colour Pop offcuts to make crazy beasts like this one, just for fun.
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Weaving update
How did I end up with so many looms?
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Wabi Sabi again
Oh bugger. I had just been thinking I should take return a beautiful midcentury West German vase to our home, when I moved a fan and knocked it off the bookshelf. Of course I couldn’t just chuck it in the bin. It’s been around longer than I have, so with the help of sellotape and …
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How to make cute gift tags
You’ll need card, thin coloured paper (I used origami paper), scissors, a stamp pad, lino and cutting tools. Carve your stamp from the lino. If you’ve been to one of my workshops on this, you’ll know exactly how to do this! If not, try carving a soft material like an eraser. Cut two circles from …
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Making Friday: Punch needle with Crafters Box
Much earlier this year, I had an email from Morgan at The Crafters Box, asking for my postal address. This US-based company, whose aim is to make it easy for people to bring crafting back into peoples’ lives by providing subscriber-based mail-order kits and online instructional videos around particular crafts. What a great idea! The …
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