Chanee from {me}longings studio posted up a brilliant and fun video on her website. In one minute and forty seconds, she captures her whole block printing and sewing process!
You can find it on her design story page. Enjoy!
(One funny detail that I noticed is the band-aid that appears on one of her fingers sometime during the block cutting process. Accident prone as I am, it’s one reason that I use foam instead of lino!)
So happy to have made it up to the Biggs Museum today in Dover to drop off some of my work to sell in their gift shop! It’s been over a year since the Biggs became the home to Delaware By Hand. Part of that collaboration was to offer space to DBH artists and artisans to display and sell their work!
I’ve been excited to be a part of that- I started with pillows, table runners and kitchen towels. Today, I dropped off some new table lamps. I love these. Simple design. Beautiful, solid wood bases. The same sustainable materials that I use in all my work. Perfectly inspired to sit on a desk, and just the right amount of light to sit on a nightstand.
I love making lighting as much as I love the finished product. I do a lot of these on a custom basis, because of how personal and specific lighting can be to someone’s individual space.
I didn’t take everything that I have to the Biggs Museum today though. Here are a few lamps that I still have here in the studio, with more to come!
Those yellow lamps were a new thing for me. I dyed the fabric myself, and then printed on it. I’d love for there to be more choices for solid colors in sustainable fabrics, but then again, I love an excuse to dye fabric too…
The white on white is a subtle and unique look. It’s a lot about the texture of the print and the fabric itself. The lamp lit up is a different story- the print takes on the focus.
Do you give much thought to the lighting in your home? What’s your favorite lamp or light fixture and why?
It’s always a fun exercise to me to take a simple shape and see how many different patterns I can make with it. I first noticed in quilting books and magazines how one simple block could turn into an amazing quilt when repeated many times, and how drastically you could change the look of the entire project by changing the color scheme, or resizing the individual pieces.
This evening, I took about half an hour to play with a shape that popped into my head earlier today. I think that one of these might make a new lamp! Here’s the basic shape:
Here’s what I imagined on our car trip this afternoon:
The look kind of reminds me of Peruvian Shipibo textiles. My mom had a piece framed in our house when I was growing up, and I always loved it. They often look a lot like this:
Hmm. So many possibilities… Here I am, back the next morning, with a few pencil sketches:
