studio time...

new projects!

so i've been playing around in the studio this week with some new projects. i'm working on a line of tunics, and i'm pretty excited about it! i've been interested in making clothes forever, almost went to fashion school instead of textiles. and i'm really excited to finally be creating my fabrics into clothing. i'm working in greys and blacks, some transparent, in over sized and flowing shapes. i just got one done, and i'll so it to you soon! (i wanted to take some pictures outside today but it was raining).
ohh and i got this book from the workroom, and i'm using it for some inspiration.

printing up a storm...

so in just over a week i'm going to have a booth at a huge craft fair here at home in London, Ontario. i haven't done a show this big before, so i don't really know what to expect or how much product to have. so i've been making as much as i can! plus i just got a job, so life has been super busy!!
i've got the scarves in all kinds of colours, and i'm loving how they look. so nice and bright. and last night i started some new projects (why not have even more stuff to work on right?!), i'll show you them later. ohh and i'm taking some of my work up to this adorable little beach town on Lake Huron this weekend to put up in a gallery/cafe. man life is busy right now!!
hope your all having a wonderful week! check back before the weekend for a giveaway!!

more printing...

i printing more scarves in the studio today. i did a few more purple and then moved on to blues. i'm really loving all of the colours right now. the dyes came out more saturated than some of the other dye batches i've done before, and i'm using a new brand of pigment (what i print the pattern with), and i'm really liking it.

printing in the studio...

i've been pretty productive tonight printing in the studio. i had dyed these new colours a few weeks ago, and am now working on printing a whole bunch of scarves. i've got a pretty big show coming up in a few weeks, and i'm trying to load up on inventory.
i'm really loving these colours right now, coral always seems like such a summer colour.

studio!!

so i finally have my little studio up and running! we made a print table this week, but the top still needs to be finished (thats why it looks like it doesn't fit all the way to the back). and i got a little floating shelf up with all of my pigments and printing tools on it. and i have a whole brand new batch of screens!! which is so exciting. i'll show them all to you sometime.
its so exciting and fun, to be able to work on my own line whenever i want, right in my house! and i'm loving having all of my stuff in one space, thats just my own. and i love being able to print whenever i want!!
(ohh and i'm getting ready for a craft show tomorrow, so theres lots of product to sort thru and get ready to take with me.)

new scarves...

so i printed two new scarves tonight! (the ones on the sides). the prints are my two new screens, and i'm really happy with the way they turned out! i'm excited to print more. hopefully I'll get more printed on the weekend, I'm waiting on an order of scarves so I really hope it comes tomorrow!

camera bags...

so these are what my final camera bags look like. i really like how they turned out, and their pretty cute to keep my camera in! i printed the 2 colour image onto unbleached cotton, and then zig-zag stitched the image onto some cute fabric, and sewed it into a little zippered bag. stay tuned to see more of theses, i'm defiantly going to be making more this summer.

good client project pictures...

i just checked out the workroom's photostream and today she up loaded her pictures of our work from the client critique last week. i really like how some of the projects turned out, and the pictures look really nice.