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...!
Crafts
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
New yarn and new colour
Last week I received a box full of colourful yarn to be added to my colour palette and for my experiment of new colourways. It's so exciting to have a variety of colours and …
New collection – knitted cushion covers
A new collection of knitted and printed cushion covers is available from my Etsy shop.
Playing with My Toy
This is a sample fabric woven by me with a toy loom. Not too bad for my very first weaving project? :)