Due to continued interest, I'm running another wee screen printing workshop at The Banyan Tree.
May 18th, only £45. You can see the marvellous results from past workshops just here! The 4 spaces tend to book up fast, so get a shimmy on if you fancy it!
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I was super chuffed how well my first screen printing workshop went, and very impressed by the creative outcomes the lovely ladies produced! I hope they're all happy with their beautiful tote bags, and feel inspired to try the technique again. The next one is pencilled in for the 18th May, confirmation coming soon. Please get in touch if you're interested! A lovely lady got in touch to see if I could create a laptop bag out of KateMoby fabric... Some designing and international ordering later and, yes I can! My most useful tool was a cereal packet "laptop" I made to match the size - it's nerve wracking making something to fit a specific object if you don't have said object in your possession! The final design incorporated a button closure, zip front pocket, lining and padding, canvas and leather handles and a good sprinkling of Beech Leaves! Not a bad foray into construction. Personally I'm most chuffed how the button I made lines up with the pattern so nicely. How I did it: Do you have a bespoke project you'd love to see brought to life? Get in touch!
The Banyan Tree in Brackley - home of Fair Trade products and artisan crafts. Plus now some illustrated and photographic cards and hand printed fabric Kate Moby goods. Yay! Plus they are connected to some pretty exciting workshop news coming soon... Watch this space!
A lovely lady mistook my hand-printed fabric buttons for earrings, which I thought was a jolly marvellous idea! So here is my tiny jewellery range, which you may have spied if you'd popped in to say hi at the Christmas markets last year. Always fun to design new packaging too! So far available in sets grey, blue and birds in "Midnight" in the shop! Each set will have two large and two small pairs. The earrings are silver plated and nickel free, as are the rings. Everyone likes things to match, so here are some rings, also available in the shop, so far in large (30mm button) and small (15mm button) birds in "Midnight!" The rings are adjustable and silver plated, and of course, hand printed.
I'm staring down Christmas like a head on collision, but have still managed to sneak some hand made products in there for a couple of First Christmas presents for some tiny people I know. No better time for some personalised zebras printed in Midnight Blue I thought! Are Zebras just for Christmas, or should I add them to the repertoire?
Some left over bird fabric was just asking for some love! I'm the least koumpounophobic person I know! Someone spotted my buttons and mistook them for earrings. What a marvellous idea I thought, I'll be sure to rip it off shortly!
I've been working on some hand printed fabric designs... They're not ready yet, but I couldn't help taking a grainy phone photo of how they're shaping up! I'll put more effort in for the real ones, I am a photographer, honest...
I've discovered today there's not much that's more stressful than doing low tech screen printing in a rented house...
Apart from trying to clean up in a white bathroom, getting bleach in the eyes and somehow the plug mechanism falling down the drain... Note to self, find a workshop! Hopefully these totes with birds in Midnight will seem worth all the pain! Since I've been laid up with a broken foot (the doorframe and I had a misunderstanding...) I've literally been forced back to the drawing board. The car keys are officially out of bounds for a while.
It's made me realise how much I like making things, which is where all this new surface pattern malarky came from I think. A means to create "things" that people might take into their homes and love. So I've been researching, from fabric printing from Spoonflower to digital ceramic transfers for a china range... Hopefully there'll be a flurry of activity to show you soon! |
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