My creative space: willow pattern

 Today in my creative space I've been printing up a storm.  I just got a whole lot of lovely sturdy linen cheaply because it was a bit water damaged and I've been trying out some blue ink on it. 

The colours reminded me of willow pattern.

 I'll probably sew it up into some more pouches - I've been thinking about making myself a screen printed obi-style belt too - using the same pattern you can see in these photos.

Joining in today with "My Creative Space" over here.

Happy Thursday!

Lime and passionfruit

I've been trying to do some screen printing troubleshooting lately and I've been finding that putting a towel under the screen as one book suggested is helping the lines to come out a bit clearer.  I thought I'd treat myself to some cheery lime green ink and I've been printing up a storm - I think I'll turn these prints into brooches.  The lime's a pretty good match for the leaves of this passionfruit flower that's sitting on my desk, waiting to be drawn too!

My creative space: dots on sticks brooch

I've been playing round with the new fabric I've printed from this screen, and I decided to make one of the motifs from it into a brooch. 

 

Here it is on my coat - I think it'll be a good replacement for this brooch, which I lost in Dunedin earlier in the year.   Today I've also been stitching up some dinosaur patches and I've got plans for a pouch sewing bee.  Hope you're having a good Thursday!

To see more creative spaces head on over here...

Printed

 I tried out my new silk screen the other day and this is the fabric I printed - a piece of calico about the size of a sheet.  It was fun printing the repeating pattern, although I did have a bit of printing rage trying to print the repeat pattern in a small corner of my bedroom!  Now, what to make with it?  I'm thinking totes, pouches, and a few brooches?