I must admit that for some time, I’ve been anticipating the experience of seeing my work in a thrift store/jumble sale, and wondering how to prepare myself for this. But this weekend it actually happened: I got an email from Steve Basile, who had spotted one of my Mountain Garden screenprints that I made in an edition of 20 …
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Thrift store sighting
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New in the shop: Block Printed scarves
On my recent teaching trip to Jaipur with Ritchie Ace Camps, I had a couple of days off, and was pleased to put them to VERY good use, because after the success of our last crop of limited edition block printed scarves, I was excited to design some more. So now, just in the nick of …
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Spoons again
Josh Vogel makes spoons. Lots and lots of beautiful carved wooden spoons, and in his new book, The Artful Wooden Spoon, the former architect and founder of Blackcreek Mercantile & Trading Co. shows us what he does… as well as how you can do it too. It looks like a gorgeous book, and reminds me of when …
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Diggi Dot
Last year, I went off to Jaipur at the invitation of Ritchie Ace Camps, to teach a three day course in pattern generation and design as part of a seven day experiential tour focussed on traditional Indian block printing and dying techniques. My role was to teach how to design and create pattern using lino …
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Frankenflowers… on your cellphone!
Quite a few years ago, I used to spend fun hours with ceramics transfers that I’d had made, creating plates, bowls, mugs etc, decorated with my sketches. I was only able to have the transfer sheets printed in one colour, so I liked to chop up the sheets, and assemble the parts into crazy mixed-up …
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Breathing new life into old favourites
The very first Skinny laMinx print collection was called Sevilla Rock. Although I put it into production on running metres in 2009, in fact, it was my very first attempt at fabric design, and it turned out rather well. The idea behind the collection was that I used beautiful rock paintings from the Cederberg mountains …
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Eepmail – first edition
I’m ridiculously over the moon with the new little rubber stamp I’m using for the mini envelopes and notecards I send off along with my Etsy orders: Hey, I’ve got an idea. Why not go buy something from my shop, then for no extra charge, I’ll write your name on the front, fill it up …
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Skinny at Silk & Cotton Co
I’ve spent the last couple of days heaving great big bolts of fabric around my studio, cutting them into fat, crisply-folded piles, and then getting blisters all over my fingers as I cut and pinked hundreds of sample squares. All this, in preparation for my big news of 2010 so far… As of now, my …
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Herd it on the grapevine
Herd it on the grapevineAnd yes, what you “herd” is true. I have more Herds cushion covers in my shop, in both red and grey. Happy weekend, all!
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