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Making Friday: Macrame
If you’ve been following blogs for a while, you must have come across Bloesem – the beautiful design blog which Irene Hoofs has been writing for the last 10 years (we both started blogging in 2006!)....
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MAKING FRIDAY: A Multi-dimensional relationship
You know Heath Ceramics, by now, right? We’ve been working together since they placed a first order in 2008, we’ve designed and produced staff aprons, tea towels and other custom designs for them, and...
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Making Friday: Keep going
One of the things I like to do on a Making Friday is to take a single motif and to print the heck out of it until I feel I’ve exhausted all its possibilities… and then to print some more. Had a great...
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Afro optimism
It’s election day today, and a public holiday too, so I recommend picking up a copy of the new Elle Decoration magazine to get a dose of Afro-optimism, courtesy of the editor’s letter and Peet...
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Making Friday: Renewing my vows
One of the things that keeping a blog is good for is to make public commitments that (in theory) hold me accountable. So here’s a pronouncement from me: Making Friday is not optional, and for the rest...
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Making Friday: Old habits and new designs
Whenever I end up in my Think Tank on Making Friday without a proper idea of what I’d like to get done, I seem to do the same thing: I fill up a page with regular brush marks that look like multiple...
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Making Friday: collection
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you’ll have no doubt have heard me banging on about what I made on Making Friday. In case you don’t know about it though, that’s the studio day I try to...
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In the shop: Oddjects exhibition
For the last two years, I’ve been busy making a lot of rather idiosynchratic, non-functional ceramics – which I like to call “Oddjects” – and then also drawing and printing their shapes on paper and...
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All the Oddjects
For two years, I’ve been making things from clay at morning classes with Louise Gelderblom, but haven’t really catalogued them anywhere, so today’s the day to show all the Oddjects (or the ones I...
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Making Friday: From Sketchbook to Oddject
Notebooks are very useful things to have with you. They’re good for recording fleeting ideas, and good to look back on to see where you’ve been. For two years, I’ve kept this little “Ceramics Ideas”...
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Making Friday: Printing at Warren Editions
Attentive readers of this blog may recall that during 2015, I spent four Saturdays at Warren Editions print studio, learning all about CMYK lino printing. I loved the workshop, so was super excited...
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Making Friday: Lino Shavings
A little Christmas tree made of lino shavings is a neat way to round off a year where block printing has loomed large, what with our block print inspired Diggi Dot collection, two collections of block...
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Making Friday: The restorative power of a nap
I’ve been feeling a little scattered in the Making Friday department lately, partly because of all the promotions work that this time of year takes up, and partly because I’ve been working on designs...
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Group ceramics show
Every year at this time, my ceramics teacher Louise Gelderblom has a show at which all her students can display some of their work. I’m going to be showing some of the peculiar Oddjects I’ve been...
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Making Friday: Block Printing mega version
This week, I’m in Jaipur, India, starting my second teaching stint with Ritchie Ace Camps. Last year’s Jaipur experience was amazing (lots of pics here), and I can’t wait to meet everyone who is coming...
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Making Friday: CMYK lino printing
I’ve had a really extended Making Friday in July, spending every Saturday at Warren Editions learning the art of CMYK lino printing from master printmaker Zhané Warren and head of relief prints, Morné...
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Making Friday: Fun with scraps
This Making Friday post is about what other (small) people have been doing with Skinny laMinx fabrics, courtesy of our production manager, Sarah. Sarah loves what she does at Skinny laMinx, but I think...
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Making Friday: CMYK lino #01
The last workshop I did at Warren Editions was way back in 2011. I loved it so much, so it is unfathomable why it took me so long to sign up for another? Ah well, regrets at lost opportunities aside, I...
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Making Friday: Meet Us +
It’s an unusual Making Friday post this week, as it’s not something I made, but rather something I watched being made in the studio. Over the weeks leading up to the launch of the Diggi Dot fabric...
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Making Friday: Book Rainbow!
If you read my Best Things post from last week, you’ll see that I’m pretty colour crazed at the moment, probably because I’ve been working pretty non-stop on the Skinny laMinx Colour Book, which I’m...
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