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Block Printing and New Pattern Design

September 17, 2017 by Hitomi / 3 Comments

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...

Various types of shuttles for hand weaving
Weave

How to Make Inexpensive Weaving Spare Shuttles with Wire

January 11, 2016 by Hitomi / 0 Comment

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 m...

Various yarn wrappings
Knit/Weave

How to Make Yarn Wrappings for Woven Fabric Designing

December 29, 2015 by Hitomi / 0 Comment

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 many of these...

Woven sample
Weave

Sample Weave: Plain Weave Checks

December 1, 2015 by Hitomi / 0 Comment

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 ya...

Sketchbook

This is what’s in my head

August 20, 2013 by Hitomi / 0 Comment

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...

Knit

Knitting on knitting machine

August 9, 2013 by Hitomi / 2 Comments

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 o...

Miscellaneous

Old Wool Winder

October 10, 2012 by Hitomi / 0 Comment

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 colou...

Weave

Toy Loom

April 23, 2012 by Hitomi / 28 Comments

This is a toy loom I got last year, original version of this loom is made in the UK and it was called “Masterweaver”. It has a very clever system an...

Miscellaneous

Need To Start Spinning?

March 26, 2012 by Hitomi / 12 Comments

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 h...

Uncategorised

Beautiful Sewing Tool

May 28, 2011 by Hitomi / 4 Comments

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...

Print

New Dark Room (or just a box)

November 18, 2010 by Hitomi / 5 Comments

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&...

Uncategorised

My Screen and UV Light Box

January 25, 2009 by Hitomi / 2 Comments

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 U...

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