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Seed Book
“The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she was familiar with the way of ideas, and she let it shimmer, looking...
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The thing with feathers
“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops – at all - —excerpt from “Hope” is the thing with feathers - by Emily Dickinson It...
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Spirit Cloth
I am doing Jude Hill’s “What If?” textile workshop this year. If you aren’t familiar with Jude Hill, she is the author and maker behind the blog Spirit Cloth. I have followed Jude’s blog for years and...
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über embroiderers : : Maricor/Maricar
I’m trying to keep up a sort of regular ‘feature’ on über embroiderers on The Smallest Forest: These are the big kids, the crème de la crème, the leet of needle and thread…that runts like me long to...
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Tea with Lady Lavender
Hello, sorry It’s been so quiet on here. I’ve been quite busy making stuff…just didn’t remember to take pictures of anything I was doing, hence nothing to show you or blog about. Yesterday I started...
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Get thee to a bindery…
Got my bookbinding groove on last weekend and put together a diverse bunch of journals (some orders, some for the ETSY shop, and some for the shelves at Jackson’s). There are two things I am excited...
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More Jazmin Berakha brilliance!
New work on her blog! Jazmin Berakha’s style is slowly evolving over time…there’s a lot of her signature style in these embroideries, but she’s also introducing new things, like the use of black...
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Maciek Janicki’s Paper City
Spent a lot of last week making large paper cut designs for our shop window…so paper’s the flavour of my week. Filed under: craftiness, Inspirations, music + film
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To your craft, be true…
Sharing this, because it cheered me up just now. I needed cheering up because I just watched a few (TV?) episodes of Martha Stewart “learning bookbinding” from some poor little intimidated...
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The thousandth book
One of the books in this photograph is going to be my thousandth* handmade book, by the time I am done with my bookbinding today. I started numbering my journals in 2001, when I looked back on the...
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Questions the clay has asked
You work with what you are given, the red clay of grief, the black clay of stubbornness going on after. Clay that tastes of care or carelessness, clay that smells of the bottoms of rivers or dust....
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Oh, wait, what? Woohoo!
Holy crap, cocoaeyesthestitcher works fast! She asked me a handful of questions for the Mr X Stitch blog last month, and I think I only sent her my answers to the last couple of questions on Saturday...
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vot I did at verk…
In order to get some pictures for our shop’s monthly demonstration (the goal is to work on a simple project in-store that uses Jacksons’ products and gives kids and adults some easy, accessible art and...
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Throwing stones
Kris has been marbling all day. The clotheslines crisscrossing our deck are hung with drying pieces of rainbow. The prints are a long way from perfect, and professional marblers would reject most of...
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Catch of the Day
Working on “Stage 2″ of my marbled and stuffed Flying Banana fish. (Musa volatilis of the Exocoetidae family, as a matter of fact, and not related to J.D. Salinger’s Banana Fish (spp. A Perfect Day...
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über embroiderer : : Takashi Iwasaki (again)
Filed under: craftiness, Inspirations, uber embroiderers
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a peek at my work
A quick look at some of the things I’ll be taking to the gallery tomorrow: A dozen Flying Bananafish…not at all like the drab, digitally altered photo above of a whole fish, but brightly colored, with...
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painting makeover, part 2
Hmm, so there isn’t really all that much left to show for this Part 2 except what I did with the finished painting/embroidery: a simple handbound coptic journal. A quick shlip-shlop of blue-green...
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Spirograph journals are out (after a little spell of self-doubt)
I showed you this fabric I designed and printed with Spoonflower aaaages ago, right? Well, I was chuffed when it first arrived, but then I got cold feet about actually making journals from the fabric...
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Released in the morning
This small handful of journals and watercolour books that I put together yesterday spent the night tightly clamped between smooth, hard boards…like unruly winos locked up for their own safety. A...
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