I discovered on Making Friday that Folk art and sun shapes are best friends.
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Making Friday: Baskets and suns
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Post-Trump Making Friday
What I did when Trump was elected.
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A Making Friday in Jaipur
The last time I was block printing in Jaipur, I had a brainwave…
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Making Friday: Macrame
If you’ve been following blogs for a while, you must have come across Bloesem – the beautiful design blog which Irene Hoofs has been writing for the last 10 years (we both started blogging in 2006!). Over time, Irene has evolved Bloesem, rebranding as BloesemDesign, adding BloesemKids, and now she’s even started a magazine… on paper! It’s called Koel, and …
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Making Friday: A Multi-dimensional relationship
You know Heath Ceramics, by now, right? We’ve been working together since they placed a first order in 2008, we’ve designed and produced staff aprons, tea towels and other custom designs for them, and last year I had a pop up shop in their LA store. We’re old friends! Lately, I’ve been using Heath’s Dimensional tile collection as …
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DIY with Cloud9 Fabrics
It’s so good to see what what people make with our prints, and our our Around the Block collection for Cloud9 Fabrics are perfect for home sewists. Just look at all these great ideas Cloud9 Fabrics has come up with to inspire: Remember to tag us with #skinnylaminx or #skinnylaminxDIY on Insta and Facebook so we can …
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Making Friday: Keep going
One of the things I like to do on a Making Friday is to take a single motif and to print the heck out of it until I feel I’ve exhausted all its possibilities… and then to print some more. Had a great one of these days on Friday, using this simple motif. Now I’ve got itchy fingers …
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#BriseSoleilSA competition
Not too long ago, when I wrote one of my BEST THINGS posts about all kinds of breeze brick walls and screens, I started the Instagram hashtag #brisesoleilSA, hoping to start a record of brise soleil walls and screens across South Africa. As you’ve posted your pics, we’ve been putting them onto a Google map. Take …
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Afro optimism
It’s election day today, and a public holiday too, so I recommend picking up a copy of the new Elle Decoration magazine to get a dose of Afro-optimism, courtesy of the editor’s letter and Peet Pienaar’s AfroSuperFuture manifesto. I got my dose while reading a copy on Making Friday last week, and look what it made me do: I …
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