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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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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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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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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Making Friday: Blank faces
When you run a creative biz, it’s important to make sure that sometimes the creative part has to be given more space than the business side, cos the inventive cogs get clogged up when the things you make are always purpose- or deadline-driven, and that’s why I spend Fridays in my studio. I thought it …
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Making Friday: Why good style is generosity
I took a sneaky snap of a stylish looking person while having a morning coffee, and then, because I enjoyed her look so much, I spent my Making Friday studio time doing a whole heap of little sketches and paintings inspired by that snap. And this is exactly why I called one of my Pinterest …
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Making Friday: weaving progress
I pinned up all the bits and pieces so far made on my kiddie loom, along with a couple of experiments on my rather clunky second-hand rigid heddle, and all together, they make me feel pretty good about my progress But now that I’m the proud owner of a brand new Ashford knitter’s loom (a …
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Making Friday: Snakes!
Honestly, I don’t know why this is happening, but I keep drawing, weaving and printing snake motifs. Someone said it’s a symbol for change, so I’ll go with that. The snake at the top of this post is one I made at Baobab Batik when I was there in April with Ace Camps. He’s pretty …
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