Watercolour Experiments with Flowers and Pebbles
I've been doing some experiments to try different pattern design styles. It is quite frustrating but I hope it's worth the effort...! To start with, I set up a bunch of …
Rubber Stamps and Floral Design
I've designed two floral patterns using the rubber stamping technique. It was just another experiment, but I made some little envelopes with those designs, and it was fun. Co…
Zelkova Pattern Redesign
Recently I have redesigned my Zelkova pattern. New Zelkova design Old Zelkova design I reduced the colour number and the space between each leaf. I don't know if it's wo…
Epson Design Paper
If you are using an Epson printer, you can now print two of my pattern designs for free! Two of my pattern designs you can print from your Epson printer https://support.epson.net/…
Surface Pattern for Book Cover Design
I was commissioned to create a surface pattern design for a book cover.
Block Printing Illustration
I made a block printing sample. The image is taken from an old picture I took. The size of the wood block was too small (postcard size) so I couldn't carve the details...!
Cats Drawing
I tried to draw a lots of cats with only my memories. It's an experimental drawing, trying different styles, medium and surfaces, etc. It was fun but frustrating at the same …
Embroidered Covered Buttons
It's been a while since I started embroidery and here are some pictures of work in progress and finished work. Cross stitching is fun and making patterns with the technique h…
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…