i’m always excited to discover independent homeware brands that are giving a global platform to small artisan makers, so was delighted to come across kalinko earlier this week, which proclaims itself as the first online homeware brand from burma (myanmar). founded by sophie garnier, who moved from london to burma two years ago, the premise of kalinko is to shine a light ...
making the magic happen
last week i was invited along to a lovely little letterpress workshop by notebook experts tada and my favourite online stationer, quill london. hosted in tada's craft central studio in clerkenwell, the very lovely elisa and fabio taught us how to letterpress one of their beautiful new you're awesome prints, as well as how to print and stitch from scratch one of their fabulous little ...
knit to tell
i've said for the past umpteen years that my new year's resolution is to take up knitting, but try as i might, every year the goal evades me. i've dutifully picked up my needles every year but after a few sorry attempts at casting on and stitching a few rows of knit and purl, i always manage to find myself ...