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 …
Tools
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…
This is what’s in my head
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 …
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…
Old Wool Winder
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…
Need To Start Spinning?
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…
Beautiful Sewing Tool
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 …
New Dark Room (or just a box)
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…
My Screen and UV Light Box
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…
Sounds Like a New Machine!
The Sewing machine came back from overhaul and it works brilliant...!!
Good Old Sewing Machine
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…