At the beginning of this week I came down with quite a cold. For two days I didn’t feel too good and I helped my healing process with some wholesome food and a little sketching in the sun. These sketches then became the starting point for a new pattern collection, that emerged quite naturally. I… Read More
It’s been a while since I posted my last pattern, nearly six weeks actually. And this was the time I took off this summer, for travelling with my family to Thailand, for being mostly offline and not missing much, for drawing with no aim in my sketchbook. For replenishing, filling the well, seeing and doing… Read More
I brought my sketchbook home brimming with sketches and the feeling of fun I had while drawing them. Nearly all of its hundred pages filled up with memories and the big and little things I saw and put to paper on our Thailand trip. Things, that a camera can’t capture this way. Mostly little things,… Read More
Fabric from Little India in Bangkok, a sketchbook full of drawings, a coloring book from the airport, Chinese brushes from Chinatown in Bangkok, Micron pens bought in Chiang Mai, a dress from Pattaya, a stylus pen, a pouch and mini lotus buds from the world’s biggest weekend market. Plus a tan, wonderful travel stories, hubby… Read More
Last year around this time I sewed myself a pair of pants. I had so much fabric left over, that I could cut it out to sew a tunic like this one, this time with short puffy sleeves and a size tighter. And since then, the cut-outs have been lying around. The months passed and… Read More
My pattern of the week comes from week 2 of the Make Art that Sells course, where Baby Apparel was the featured market. The warm-up drawing exercise was “seahorses”. I must say, I have always loved seahorses since I was little. Did you know that seahorses are the only known species in the world where… Read More
Welcome to my new blog! I am so happy that you are here. To kick off the New Year in celebration style I would love to show you something I am quite proud of. Constant readers of my former blog might remember those plates I designed in November. I put one of the plate designs… Read More