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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When Celina Bailey and me started brainstorming about the book, we first talked about all the cool techniques and skills we wanted to teach you. We felt this book should be a huge celebration of collaborating, just the way we like it. After careful selection we asked 14 international illustrators to design a print for
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The gorgeous floral print by Fotini Tikkou is one of the 14 print templates that comes with our book. We used Fotini’s print to teach y’all about color theory, it was perfect for that. When I printed this for the maxi dress hack of our Bobbinhood pattern so many of you asked how to align
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Mara Piccione is one of the 14 artists featured in our book. With her work we explain the basics of screen printing, the bold shapes she uses are perfect for this. She designed every layer carefully to teach you more with every step. So cool! So when you are done printing this art piece you can
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It has been quite some time since we did a collab so when my IG friend Nora from @lafete_nora introduced me to Olya Tsikhanchuk’s work I knew right away it was time for one! Lucky us (and you because her work will be available for y’all!) Olya loved the idea of working together. Let’s introduce
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Working with Caroline Corrigan is always a dream. Her work is just beautiful and so darn printable! I had in my mind for a while now to print a tablecloth filled with an awesome breakfast and Caroline’s work is just perfect for that. I was over the moon when she wanted to work with us
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Caroline is an Albany, NY based illustrator. She describes her work as simple, human and imperfect. I just love that so! Just like Betsy (another artist from our book), Caroline is one of these artist where you just have to print when you see her work. It is almost contagious if you get my drift!
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In this blogpost I will take you through the entire process of printing the fun snake by Olya Tsikhanchuk! Before you start make sure you download your work chart here and have your freeeeee stencil template printed out. You can find your free download here. I love how every time screen printing teaches me more
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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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