Things I want to make - a cowl neck top

A green cowl neck top.

Free printable gift tags!

I've made a printable set of gift tags - the PDF is available to download for free here

These are so easy to make:

Print them out on 200gsm or higher card (you can find this at your local stationery shop). If you don't have a printer at home you can take the file to a copy shop and they will be able to print them for you.

Cut the tags out just inside the dotted line

Punch a hole in the top of the hat

Loop a length of string or bakers twine through the hole

Write your note on the back and then attach to your presents!

Things I want to make - A green hat

A green hat for walks in the forest. 

Things I want to make - A grey dress

I saw this dress and thought it was such a lovely idea to have a plain grey dress with a beautiful lining. 

Things I want to make - A mustard yellow hat

Top of my knitting project list is a mustard yellow hat. Preferably with cables.

Things I want to make - A Duffle coat

I've been thinking a lot lately about a red, hooded, woolen duffle coat.

I'm not sure I'm confident enough in my sewing abilities to attempt this just yet! But when I am I could try the Albion coat by Colette Patterns, I've seen a few lovely versions, especially this one by Peppermint and Paisley. 

Things I want to make

I thought it would be fun to combine my two loves of drawing and sewing in a series of illustrations depicting things that I want to sew and knit. I'm going to post one of these a week for the next wee while. And maybe I'll actually sew some of them, if I do I'll let you know!

So here is the first - a green skirt with pleats and a row of buttons down the front.

There are are a couple of patterns I have my eye on for this skirt - the Wiksten Tulip Skirt available here or maybe the Helena skirt from BurdaStyle.

Some plants

Little Garden Studio

I've had a lot of fun drawing rabbits for The Little Garden Studio over the last couple of weeks. They are a working garden and community space based in Vancouver, Washington. They'll also be stocking some of my prints too.

Meadow

Meadow

snail

A snail from my sketchbook!

Potted Plant

Production lines and Encraftment Market

I had some fun today making up a batch of business cards and pretty-ing up some Jiffy Mailers for posting out my prints. The cards are made from test screen prints and rubber stamps. It is probably not the most cost and time effective way of producing business cards, but I love the process and how each card turns out slightly different.

And in other news I'm very excited to be doing the Encraftment Market in three weeks or so. All going to plan I'll have a few new prints and a few new brooches to show you.

Three Trees

Here's the latest print in my shop - available here and here!

Prints

Village print

Winter Garden print

Winter trees

New prints in the shop

Here's a few new illustrations that are now available as prints in the shops here and here. 

House and Garden

Rabbit

Floating Garden

Dog walking

I've been doing a lot of this lately.

from the sketch book