As you know, my Making Friday studio practice is all about making, making, making, with no real plan or expectation or need in mind. I find it so important to simply generate work that’s liberated from all the necessary work restrictions of cost and production possibility etc that product development requires. Here’s some of the …
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Making Friday: From the studio walls
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How to style your Scarf: Headwrap Tutorial
Our stockroom manager Nobuzwe is one stylish lady and can rock a headwrap in all kinds of ways. Here she shares one of her favourits styles with us in a nifty headwrap tutorial, using our Matchsticks blockprint scarf. Find our Matchsticks & Sun & Moon Scarves online & in the Skinny laMinx store at 201 …
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Pets on Pillows
We asked a bunch of snooze experts about their favourite Skinny laMinx pillow, and the score was unanimous: Everydoggy (and kitty) gave it a solid ZZZ! These are just the ordinary ol’ pillows though. Imagine how many ZZZ’s we’d get if we made a proper Skinny dog bed. Oh, wait. We did! What’s the score on this …
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Farewell Design*Sponge
This is a loaf of my Aunty Betty’s banana bread that I brought into the Skinny laMinx shop for our Wednesday general meeting this week. It’s significant, because this recipe appeared twice on the Design*Sponge blog over the years, along with multiple features of Skinny laMinx products and a home tour, all resulting in a …
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Colour Yum: Sand and Persimmon
One of the things we love about all the colour and beautiful things in our shop and fabric studio is the way that new colour ideas suddenly arrive before your eyes, often in surprising combinations. For instance, ever since we’ve had the grassy tones and textures of baskets & mats from Design Afrika in our …
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NEW: Apple Green Alexander Sack
Ooh, heavens! Did you see? Not only have we updated our Flower Fields design in a spanky Apple Green colour, we’ve gone a step further and turned it into a particularly delicious Alexander Sack with Shell Pink straps. Like it? Want one? Find it for sale in our shop, and online too. Find it right …
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Colour Yum: Pink & Green
My Instagram Collections has had a Pink & Green folder for a while now, and I think it’s time to share.
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What to do with your SALE fabric
It’s the DESIGNER CLEARANCE SALE on the 2 & 3 August 2019. We’ve put together some inspirational images for how to make use of our discontinued fabrics which will be on sale. If you REALLY want to come to the sale all planned and ready, check out the super-useful info at these links: How much …
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Sun & Moon and Matchsticks
Ever since the first teaching trip to India with Ace Camps in 2014, we’ve been working with the same small-batch blockprinters in the Rajasthani village of Bagru to produce our small batches of limited-run blockprinted scarves. So far, we’ve produced 5 different designs, and now we’re thrilled to introduce two new scarves: Sun & Moon …
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