hand printing

More buttons

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The rest of the hand printed linen buttons are listed and available to buy now.

I couldn’t resist putting these quirky ones in 🙂

If you like what you see, pop over to my Etsy shop for more photos and details.

Thanks for visiting and a happy and blessed weekend to you all!

Hand printed buttons

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I have a whole range of linen buttons hand printed with our original carved lino designs.

I’ll be listing a bunch of them in my Etsy shop over the next couple of days.

These are available now 🙂

And these are too.

They come in a set of three and you’re really only limited to your imagination when using them (if you’re like me you collect buttons mostly just to look at!)

The post is cheap too 😉

You can check them out here.

While I’m here I’d like to welcome all who are new to my blog and thank you so very much for stopping by. If you stop by regularly but have never said hi, please do, I love to know who I’m talking to and it means I can visit you too 🙂

Oriental brick purse handbag

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Yes, I’ve named this bag the Oriental brick purse handbag which sounds a bit nuts but there is a reason! Firstly, I’m really bad with naming things. Pets (the cat is named “Kitty”, the chickens are “the chooks”) or bags, or other inanimate objects – I’m just poor with names.

Secondly, this bag was designed to fit my purse, which I’ve dubbed “the brick” due to it’s immense size. It seems the day I went shopping for a new purse after the old one died, the shops were only selling huge ones, so I lucked out. And the bright red and black print is the oriental print from the print studio.

So, the purse fits perfectly with a little room leftover for a couple of tissues, a prayer book, keys or some other small essentials. The design is fairly basic with a magnetic closure and no pockets and a long strap to wear across the body, which is just how I wanted it.

I’m learning a lot about the design and construction of bags and of course the best way to learn is by doing!

Husband had a new lino design to try out, so I got him to print it onto a lovely little piece of linen I had and made it up into a pincushion. I love the way it looks! Simple, rustic, classy!

Can you believe he drew this design and then actually carved it out of a piece of lino, he just amazes me with what he can do with some lino and carving tools!

From the print studio

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Some experiments that turned out pretty well!

Hand dyed homespun with husband’s lino prints. Looks kinda oriental don’t you think? I like this one so much I’m going to make myself a bag with it 🙂

Hand dyed cotton lawn with linocut prints. Pretty.

Not sure I like black prints on the blue here, but it was an experiment after all!

I finally finished this UFO. I did the Maisy in wool felt and embroidery over a year ago to go with the quilt and hadn’t gotten around to making it up into a cushion.

It always feels great to finish something you started.

My littlest girl loves having a matching cushion for her quilt!

It was easy to do too – just traced the picture from a Maisy picturebook, cut out all the separate pieces and traced them on to wool felt. Things like the stripes on the pants, whiskers and bicycle spokes were embroidered.

Ottobre 301

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Summer sewing – yay!

Ottobre 301 pattern again. This time I left the sleeves off and added binding instead.

Fabrics are white Stella and spotty Stenzo from the Crafty Mamas shop. I used freezer paper and textile medium with Jo Sonja paint to stencil on the little squirrel. The stencil came from here and there are heaps of fantastic stencil potential there!

Hand printing

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I’ve been wanting to try screen printing for an awfully long time but haven’t due to the cost of setting up. Last year I was really inspired after reading Lena Corwin’s Printing by Hand and decided to give freezer paper a try. I didn’t get far. I think my designs were to intricate for a beginner and my head wasn’t in the right place.

Enter the new year and my new sense of trying to fulfill my creative inspirations! I’ve been very busy drawing designs, cutting (love you Xacto knife!) and experimenting with printing. I’ve been collecting a lot of folliage from the garden and various trees to take impressions from.

I bought some linen and will see what I can come up with!

There is something so special about hand printed fabric, don’t you think?

And I completed my first ever cross stitch! It has now joined the pile of other stitcheries that live in hope of being framed one day.

Happy, sunshiney, creative day to you all!