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…
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…
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...!
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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'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…
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 …
A new collection of knitted and printed cushion covers is available from my Etsy shop.
This is a sample fabric woven by me with a toy loom. Not too bad for my very first weaving project? :)