Creative Space: Blue

New electric blue patterns are now new electric blue tea towels :)

In my shop too. I think I'll do up some fat quarters next.

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Blue Monday

I've been working on some new designs... and, strangely, they've all been 

inspired by colour. I'm so in love with this electric blue at the moment.

This simple Harlequin block printed pattern came first...

... then this one, another block print, which I'm calling Seismograph 

(for obvious reasons)...

... and lastly, a screen print and block print combination which was totally unplanned 

and just evolved as I cut out the screen. Not sure what to call this, so at the moment 

it has the highly unimaginative name of Leaves and Thorns ;)

They've all been printed onto white linen tea towels and I'll probably be listing them 

in my Etsy shop soon. If you have a better name for this last one I'd love to hear it. 

Hope it's a good week for everyone :)

Creative Space: New things

It feels like a million new things have happened this week...

On the weekend I finished putting together a new book bag prototype, made 

from last week's new fabric. So I was thinking about book bags + printing up some 

new lining and I started experimenting with the background block to another design 

of mine from last year. I changed it a bit (two dots) and I printed by lining up the pattern...

I rather like it. In fact, I don't think I'll be using it as a lining... I think it needs more

work; another layer perhaps - but not like the old pattern, something softer. I may

have tickets on myself* here but it looks a bit Mina Perhonen to me! :)

A funny thing my eyes kept falling on while I was printing... a part of an ad on the 

newspaper I was using as table protection... "A well fitted suit is a dream of every 

man and a woman..." What? Only one woman?? ;)

Something else I put together this week... thank you cards to include with purchases from 

my Etsy store. I made use of the 'flooded' tea towel, cutting it up and sewing the panels

on card. By the way, I have two new tea towels in my Etsy store now :)

Hope you've had a fabulously creative week? You can see more spaces here.


UPDATE: You can also have a peek at all the Creative Spaces on Instagram now.

*to have tickets on yourself... Be conceited, have a high opinion of yourself—

‘He’s got tickets on himself if he thinks I’ll go out with him’. 

[from Meanings and Origins of Australian words and Idioms.]

Creative Space: Toe tapping + Tote making

I've had these panels screenprinted, cut out and embroidered for ages... 
It took a friend's birthday and me with no gift for them to be jettisoned to the 
top of the 'to do' list. One finished tote...

Strangely, this was completed pretty much without a hitch... Everything else 

I've put my hand to this week has been a dismal failure. I'm feeling better now 

but I think it was the cold I had that impaired my judgement. 

Background artwork is a print by Karl de Waal "The Step Ladder of Incompetence" ;)

The blanket is once again in bits waiting for me to construct yet again... 

and some screenprinting of tea towels I foolishly attempted are destined to be 

cut up and hopefully reused at some point in the future. 





Talk about flooding the screen! The photos really don't show how blobby 
they are... Hopefully, I'll have some sharper prints in the shop by next week.

So, it was a win some / lose some kind of week here. 

Hope it's been a more productive one for you?

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Congratulations!

 Thank you to everyone who has supported my new blog and 

entered the Welcome to Paravent giveaway. 

After a rigourously random process, congratulations go to... 

Julie Gibbons who entered via the Paravent facebook page. 

Hope you enjoy your new teatowel Julie ;)