When Robin Seyfert, the founder of Basha, saw two teenage girls making their bed in the Dhaka trainstation to prepare for the night, she was told they would be in prostitution soon. Women at the railway station, often with kids, had to sell their bodies at night to survive. Having experience in youth work and […]
My dear friend Yvet contacted me a couple of weeks ago if I would help with sharing the amazing work of Basha as they are having hard times due to Corona. Basha is an amazing safe house for exploited women and children in Bangladesh (read more about their amazing work here). We donate part of
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You’ve might noticed our brand new template library on our, also brand new, website! We loooove to offer you these free printing templates. With these templates you can easily cut your stencils and print away! Let me show you how they work. Let’s have a look at our template library. Might seem a bit scary
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Making the Couch aka my biggest project ever. I have always wanted a couch in my studio, printed by yours truly of course 😉 So when I got this old Ikea couch I loved the idea of upgrading it with a printed cover. It has been the biggest project I ever printed and I loved
Oh my, oh my…. it is finally here: our first pattern! As a designer I have always drafted my own patterns, it was a big dream of mine to make them available for a wide size range (in this case: XS-5XL/34-54). With Bobbinhood we want to empower and create a happy resilience against the dark
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Here we go! The Bobbinhood Suit kids version is here. After the launch of our Bobbinhood Suit earlier this year, we now present a version for 2y-13y olds! With both a long and a short sleeve. Woohoooo! When I made my suit last spring, my daughter very much wanted one as well. And since I believe
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Time to introduce our lovely testers and the beautiful Bobbinhood Kids Suits they made. We had a great variation of testers, everything from beginner to experienced, we even had an 8 year old making her own suit. Sarah made the suit for her boys without the darts and went for short sleeves. She made a super
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Free fries for everybody! We are celebrating our brand new website! All orders until Tuesday the 17th of March will receive our famous Belgium fries stencils! Read more below 🙂 It was quite the process, to say the least. We built an entire website, that in the testing fase wasn’t solving all our (mostly behind the
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This print has been on my ‘making wish list’ for quite a while, but I couldn’t figure out how to make the stencil and how to align the print. One day after dropping the girls at school and biking to Bobbinhood’s HQ it came to me (all my revelations happen on that bike ride ;))
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Our Bobbinhood Suit has a pretty awesome fly 🙂 In this blogpost I’ll explain why and how to make it. It is pretty easy and fun to do, but because it is not a regular fly it might seem a bit intimidating at first. I have to say though, I have noticed ones you have
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