tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24630236382183520462024-03-08T21:16:50.745+10:00Craft LaboratoryCraft Laboratory likes to experiment with Australian hand printed textiles and Australian drafted patterns, resulting in limited edition ranges.Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-41376381360746226692010-09-19T17:30:00.004+10:002010-09-23T09:21:45.086+10:00Screen printing: team shirts
I play a sport called Ultimate Disc (aka that game with a frisbee). I won't talk about that here, however we had a 2 day tournament and being the 'creative' type, I was chosen (well ok, volunteered and took over) to organise the player shirts.
Team Barrel of Monkeys 2010
Sublimating, iron-on transferring and professional printing were all talked about but in the end, hand screen printing Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-30265933992343047872010-08-03T22:49:00.000+10:002010-08-03T22:49:07.005+10:00Late night emails that delight!Hi Chicky!
Last Saturday I was going to campos coffee to get myself a decaf coffee in newtown! And just outside the cafe there was a knitted pole that caught my eye! I know you would appreciate the photo and it was executed by some Guerrilla knitter group! They knit things for the urban environment. I'm sure you have heard of them! With all the cold weather in Sydney at Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com7Sydney NSW, Australia-33.867139 151.207114-33.884956 151.1779315 -33.849322 151.23629649999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-39529515069781439652010-06-19T16:30:00.003+10:002010-06-20T11:33:30.258+10:00Button Beanie BloopersThink back to around December 2008 - can you remember what you were doing? I was in Philadelphia (US), starting this cute beanie (ie woolen hat) from a Blue Sky Alpacas pattern.
It's the use of buttons that attracted me to it, as I had bought the perfect ones about three years prior in a London wool shop called Loop. Interestingly, I bought this pattern from a Philadelphian wool storeDaniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-88686231003738087252010-06-06T22:54:00.000+10:002010-06-06T22:54:52.223+10:00Sunday Suitcase RummageWinter in Brisbane has begun - and so have the markets! They seem to be multiplying like rabbits as there must be at least two every weekend for the next few months. Today I took myself off to the Suitcase Rummage in King George Square. As I'm making a city relocation this year I've decided to purge my life, so today I was offloading books and some much loved (but no longer worn) clothes.
I Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-65029912668423278232010-05-27T18:59:00.000+10:002010-05-27T18:59:06.099+10:00Psssst - Hey Brisbane peeps!Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-87610688181964980282010-04-26T14:34:00.001+10:002010-04-27T10:12:00.977+10:00My Beautiful Laundrette
Do you hate washing? I don't - which is weird as we don't even have a washing machine at our house (*) which means you have to actually factor in washing time - not just shove stuff in while you're cooking dinner or something. Maybe it's my utter delight at slipping into freshly laundered sheets that makes me like the process.
(*) long story involving one that broke and nobody being fussedDaniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-24024867575971642712010-04-19T17:34:00.015+10:002010-05-03T16:57:50.372+10:00Prints Charming book launch!The lovely ladies of Prints Charming (Cath and Kirsten) are holding a book launch of their new printing and sewing book at their Sydney studio on May 8, from 10am-12pm! So, if you're in Sydney put the date in your diaries and check it out:
Email at info@printscharming.com.au to let them know you're coming.
Studio address is 2 Young Street, Annandale.
Pre-order book here or go to your Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-16516155557254590392010-04-04T14:13:00.002+10:002010-04-05T13:36:53.280+10:00What is frogging?I have been clearing out my life a bit of late - and that included my crafting stash. Originally, I thought this piece of knitting was going to be a scarf of some type - but that was when I first started back into knitting, and as I knitted along I realised that basically it was... bloody horrible...the wrong colours, stitch, needle size - just look at it - argh!Anyhoo, I've hung onto this - not Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-37005570292215136812010-04-03T15:35:00.000+10:002010-04-03T15:35:15.996+10:00Tying the knotToday my friends Amanda and Steve are throwing a garden party to celebrate their recent engagement. This calls for a crafty card!
I used a little bit of 'Laundry Birds' fabric from Pippijoe...
Did a bit of free stitching...
and then used some ink and stamps...
Lucky their names started with letters in the word 'congrats'!Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-84271147473571386782010-03-29T17:19:00.002+10:002010-03-31T12:34:55.238+10:00Really wild tea cosiesI was walking past my local independent book store last week (Avid Reader), and saw that they were hosting a book launch for Loani Prior' s second knitting book about lovely, sculptural tea cosies - Really Wild Tea Cosies (available now).Loani resides on the Sunshine Coast (Queensland, Australia): a beachy, resort-wear kind of place - not somewhere you'd expect to find a tea cosy creator. Loani, Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-24866503977755049682010-02-13T11:29:00.008+10:002010-02-13T12:36:23.748+10:00A peek at the details...My life of late has been a jumble. It almost feels like I'm running on one of those treadmills at the gym; you run for miles, you work really hard, it's taken a lot of mental and physical energy...and you have gone nowhere...oh sure, you may have benefitted somewhere, somehow - but sometimes you want the answers right now - and they're just not there! So today, I'm not thinking of the big pictureDaniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-43299201010874590042010-01-25T22:43:00.012+10:002010-01-26T10:45:06.187+10:00Walk down a random alleyway...I love it when you're wandering along, caught up in your own thoughts, when something catches your eye and you double-take. I'm in Melbourne, so this kind of thing is likely to happen (love those laneways).Today it happened twice. The first time was in a building that housed some interesting boutiques - a massive retro store (more polyester dresses than you can poke a stick at), and a dark but Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-45536609061094391022010-01-22T10:35:00.003+10:002010-01-23T09:53:12.516+10:00I TouchyIt's Friday, it's hot, I'm a tad grumpy. My craft table is a mess of papers, bills, receipts, notes and scraps of fabric, needles and pins. I was a very lucky girl over christmas, and was gifted an I-Touch, which sits in it's box amongst the mess as I need a case for it.After sifting through, grouping things into piles, I came across a piece of fabric cut from one of Kristen Doran's craft panels.Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-89347574475106382002010-01-18T01:00:00.000+10:002010-01-18T18:05:34.869+10:00Contemporary India - Soma and Ratan TextilesFor those just tuning in, I was in India for a couple of weeks and thought I'd give a bit of a 'craft rundown' and what I saw, along with a bit of a cultural tour.Next on the textile shop tour is Soma, which is similar in styling to Anohki but slightly cheaper. It sells a HUGE range of hand block printed tablecloths, napery, light quilts, bedspreads, and lots of quilted items (little bags, tea Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-37954249508957673702010-01-16T13:10:00.000+10:002010-01-17T12:22:30.901+10:00Contemporary India: Anokhi and RasaAfter a disappointing day of being driven around and deposited at one horrible 'textile emporium' after another - seriously, learn from my mistakes and don't go to these - I decided to get tough and just gave our driver addresses and wouldn't take 'no' for an answer. Needless to say, he wasn't too happy and tried to tell us that it's too expensive or it might be closed or that they're not sure Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-22345301547386634772010-01-15T10:38:00.008+10:002010-01-15T12:19:26.404+10:00Made in IndiaPart of my excitement about traveling to India (apart from an attending a fabulous wedding), was going to the region where most of the country's hand block printing is done.Put simply, block printing is performed using carved wooden blocks of various sizes. Some fabric is printed using just one colour, one design. Others are made up of a series of intricate patterns, which don't look like a Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-59542306422463413242010-01-14T23:46:00.015+10:002010-01-15T12:10:35.288+10:00Not the EurostarI caught a few long distance trains to travel around India, and if you travel in AC class, you usually get bedding supplied, sheets, a rock hard pillow and a dusty blanket.lesson number 2:First Class travel on an Indian train is NOT like being on the eurostar - and that your traveling companion will never let you live that down!My compartment sharers (a mother and daughter from Mumbai going for aDaniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-29559238204934684212010-01-10T03:27:00.001+10:002010-01-15T12:10:10.243+10:00NamasteThings have been pretty quite over here in the Craft Lab...a lot has been happening peeps. For the past 2 weeks I've been in India! Some friends were getting married in Mumbai and since I'd never really thought much about travelling to India (but secretly have always wanted to go to an Indian wedding!!), I decided to take the plunge. Besides, check out the fortune cookie message - now I just needDaniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-29523723900620184772009-12-01T21:52:00.002+10:002009-12-01T22:14:05.505+10:00Pssst: giveaway timeI'm participating in the Sew Mama Sew Giveaway Day along with my partner in craft crime, Ellie. If you pop on over to our Selvedge House blog you'll discover:a) what else I've been up to, andb) how you can win super sweet handmade by us stuff. We're going to do two draws, so more chances for you to win. Oh and we're willing and able to ship internationally - so don't be shy peeps from the USA...Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-12837610407697445092009-11-12T22:41:00.008+10:002009-11-13T09:27:43.625+10:00Materials and Methods - doorstopIt's amazing how time gets away from you and suddenly it's mid-November and you have heaps of stuff to do before the end of the year...less than two months of my job left (deep breaths, deep breaths)...a two week trip to India to plan and organise (more deep breaths) - finding time to be creative can be a bitch! I've been meaning to sit myself down and get a couple of doorstops made - might seem Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-40325560081647426942009-11-03T23:10:00.011+10:002009-11-13T00:32:28.556+10:00Finding and KeepingLast weekend Brisbane held it's first Finders Keepers design market in the old museum. I love the old museum, I work near it and so get to gaze at it every day. This building is rather gothic looking and I remember being taken there as a very small child - it was like a junk shop of grand proportions, dusty cabinets displaying stuffed animals, collections of insects and, what looked to my young Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-59006388856308163692009-10-23T18:54:00.010+10:002009-10-24T09:50:57.611+10:00On the wrong sideThere used to be a very sweet retail store in the Valley called Super Fun 5 that stocked all sorts of indi-hip and random assortments of clothing, bits and pieces, and bric-a-brac (must find out where that term comes from). I saw this very cute bookbag in the window.The clever designer had used her zigzag stitch to create a great piece of art.Apparently it was a young girl from the Sunshine CoastDaniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-560486982047511652009-10-21T23:27:00.007+10:002009-10-22T23:50:33.745+10:00Speed QueenOne of the features of my new abode is that we don't really have a washing machine...well, we do, but it apparently has, let's say, electrical issues. So this afternoon I made my way to the laundromat - it's at the end of the street, so I didn't have to drag my bag of dirty wares too far.Why are these places so eerie? Is it the lighting? The lack of decent reading material? The plastic seating? Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-36841182246127079132009-10-19T19:21:00.008+10:002009-10-20T12:34:37.046+10:00Results - Kristen Doran KittyThe newest edition to the family is from Kristen Doran's Kitty pattern. It's also the first thing I've made since moving into my new abode! I like my new place, it's an old cottage in West End, lots of character with its wooden floorboards, high ceilings and friendly flatmates! But back to my moggy friend - I used some of Kristen's hand printed fabrics this time and like the effect embroidering Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2463023638218352046.post-9506981431196907492009-10-06T18:59:00.006+10:002009-10-06T21:19:05.184+10:00Craft Crush 3: Megan GuiseMegan Guise is only 22, super talented and lives all the way over in Western Australia in Perth. She loves drawing, Frankie mag, tea and homemade baked goods and basically everything we do. She's also got many projects on the go it seems and did her first solo exhibition earlier this year!I first saw Megan's sweet paper doll illustrations in our favourite mag Frankie. For a limited time, you Daniellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14820425934727421653noreply@blogger.com5