July One-color block print on a linen-cotton blend Garment pattern: Tilly and the Buttons’ Miette pattern Fabric: Robert Kaufman’s Essex linen-cotton blend Ink: Blick The other day, a teenaged girl walked past me, wearing high-waisted acid-wash jeans and a crop top, and I felt the way I imagine my mom felt when bell-bottomed jeans briefly […]
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June One-color block print on cotton chambray Garment pattern: Self-drafted (loosely based on April Rhodes Staple Dress) Fabric: 100% cotton (brand unknown) Ink: Blick There is so much I want to tell you – about leaving another consulting client and inching that much closer to being a full-time working artist, about all the
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After a very hectic year, I decided at the end of 2014 to take at least the first half of 2015 off from production printing. I love the printmaking process, but as an artist who craves new challenges, I was starting to find printing a zillion of the same thing tedious. I wanted to give
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May Two-color block print on linen Garment pattern: Self-drafted (top based on Grainline Studio’s Tiny Pocket Tee) Fabric: 100% linen (brand unknown; from my wholesale linen supplier) Ink: Blick I’d originally planned to make this dress with more of a blouson top (and had drafted the pattern and created a muslin to reflect that). But
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