Holbein Watercolour Palette and Match Watercolours
この記事を日本語で読む Recently I bought a new watercolour palette. I've been using the black Holbein colour palette for quite a while but found this new blue one so decided to try it. …
この記事を日本語で読む Recently I bought a new watercolour palette. I've been using the black Holbein colour palette for quite a while but found this new blue one so decided to try it. …
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
I'd been looking for a wool winder and have finally found one I really like. It's an old/used Silver Reed Jumbo Winder and I like the size and colour. I find winding yar…
Look what I've got here - a spinning wheel! I've been interested in starting weaving and spinning recently and just happened to find that we had this spinning wheel in o…
I found this book a couple of weeks ago and instantly fell in love with these exquisite Japanese thimbles! They are made of paper, floss and colourful silk yarn. If I make one, I …
It's been a while since I've refurbished my studio and there's still a lot more to be done! Today, I made a small new "dark/drying room" using a shelf. It…
This is my screen for "Mari" design and UV light box to process the screens. I use this home made light table to expose emulsion-coated screens to UV light. It can proce…
The Sewing machine came back from overhaul and it works brilliant...!!
This is how my computer/sewing room looks at the moment. I got the yellow sewing machine last year but it was not as powerful as I thought, and then... found this nice and heavy e…