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 way to experiment (maybe most of design … Read more
Posts Tagged ‘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 … Read more
How to Make Yarn Wrappings for Woven Fabric Designing
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. Yarn wrapping is … Read more
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 colourways I like. Then I … Read more
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 I have … Read more
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 finished products make … Read more
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 yarns addictive and … Read more
Toy Loom
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 and you can weave a … Read more
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 our shed. How lucky I … Read more
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 doubt … Read more
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 is very small and just … Read more
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 process up to 90×60 … Read more