Block Printing and New Pattern Design
I've been designing new patterns for my shop on Spoonflower and I'm trying a new approach to create patterns - it's making rubber stamps. It's a very analogue …
Craft Book: Japanese Hand Embroidery “Totsuka Embroidery”
The other day I bought a book on hand embroidery. The craft book introduces embroidery works of "Tostuka Shishu (embroidery)", which was established by Kiku Totsuka in 1…
Roostery Blog Feature
A couple of months ago, I got interviewed by Roostery and it was featured on their blog. Roostery is an unique home décor marketplace where you can select surface designs and crea…
Studio Visit: Screenprinter PataPri
I visited my friend and textile/printing artist "PataPri". Her studio is by the sea in Akiya, Yokosuka, Japan, and you could get all the great ocean view from the room s…
Pattern Design File: MARI
Indigo x Ocean Blue Orange x Custard This MARI design was inspired by a shell but it also looks like a traditional Japanese ball TE-MARI so I named the pattern after it. Type: Sur…
How to Make Inexpensive Weaving Spare Shuttles with Wire
When you weave using many colour yarns, you might want to prepare as many shuttles as your yarns. But shuttles are not very cheap. Then I found an easy way to make spare ones with…
How to Make Yarn Wrappings for Woven Fabric Designing
Various colours and proportions When I weave or knit, the first thing I do is to make yarn wrappings. Because I love this process I usually forget about time and just keep making …
Sample Weave: Plain Weave Checks
Here's my sample weaving project with rigid heddle loom. I tried to do things systematically and first thing I did was selecting yarns and made several yarn wrappings to find…
New Publication for Crafters
Earlier this year, I received a copy of this book “The Crafter's Guide to Patterns”. It's written by Jessica Swift, a talented artist and pattern designer from Portland…
New cards with patterns
I love MOO. The printing company offers excellent service and their “Printfinity” technology gives me pleasure to make things.
Go into details
The other day, I got a roll of bleached cotton cloth so decided to make some tea towels with it. I sewed the both ends with decorative stitches and trimmed away the edges. All the…
New year gift from Seoul
Yesterday I received an international parcel from Plus X - a leading design studio based in Seoul, Korea. Apart from brand designing they produce mobile accessories like iPhone ca…
This is what’s in my head
I almost always carry this little note pad with me and I write down ideas, thoughts, doodles, quotes, to-dos, shopping list, anything that come up to my mind. I even take it when …
New home textiles
New home textile products are now on sale from Belle Maison. I designed "animal themed" patterns for the first time...!
Knitting on knitting machine
I've been knitting mainly beanie hats recently and feel I'm getting good at it :) Learning to machine knit is such a slow process and I need a lot of patience but finish…
Colourway experiment and yarn wrap
I've been looking for nice colourways and thought, I could spend a whole day doing this. And I also tried knitting using one of those colour combinations but it ended up a di…