I’m thrilled to bits that the chairs I’ve had covered in Sevilla Rock are featured on Design*Sponge’s Befores and Afters today! This one was a gift for Peter Slingsby, who let me use his records of Cederberg rock art. Thanks Pete! This glider was a rather lucky find in a very cottagey furniture store. And …
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Befores and Afters
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I Wish we had IKEA in burnt orange
Some time ago, I released my I Wish we had IKEA tea towel (read the story behind the design here), but only printed it in grey. Now I’ve done it in orange too! Find the burnt orange I Wish we had IKEA tea towel in my Etsy shop.
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Meet Beryl
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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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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A weekend in Kleinbaai
A weekend in KleinbaaiWe were writing books all weekend, and somehow you get a whole lot more work done when you go away, even when the place is as distractingly beautiful as Kleinbaai.
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