Beautiful bees

This beautiful bee print is available in my Spoonflower shop on a variety of pleasing products for the home. Each bee print comes on a different coloured honeycomb-effect background. 

At the moment I think the pink bee print is my favourite.

It would look great as a bee duvet cover in a child's bedroom.

The blue bee print is clean and fresh.

It would look great as bee placemats for a summer party.

The yellow bee print is bright and fresh.

It looks great on this circular tablecloth and is perfect for making the kitchen feel sunny and bright.

The grey bee print is more muted and great as a subtle interiors shade.

It looks good on this bee throw blanket which comes in a soft minky fabric.

Shop all bees here

Khaadi

On Saturday I braved a trip to Westfield in West London with my friend Audrey. I got there early and had a quick mooch around, and I came across a shop called Khaadi which stuck out from the crowd of high street names. My first reaction was to the blast of colour on show. They had beautiful chairs upholstered in stunningly bright embroideries and this drew me in. The rest of the shop was a blaze of colour, print and texture.

Khaadi, which means "hand woven", started in Karachi, Pakistan where its chairman and founder, Shamoon Sultan, wanted to revive the ancient art of the handloom. It creates a fusion of styles which complement both the East and the West and each garment incorporates pattern and embroidery to stunning effect.

Which came first?

A while ago I designed a group of fabric prints for Makower UK, called Chicken and Egg. 

My mum has just given me a lovely present, made from some of that fabric. It uses the blue chicken design and is beautifully edged with some of the striped fabric from the same group. It's designed to be used to line a bread basket, which is exactly what we will be doing with it tonight. It will be keeping the pitta bread warm that will accompany our Middle Eastern-inspired meal. Thanks mum!

You can see the full range of Chicken and Egg designs on my portfolio website here.

Patternity

I recently discovered this fab website and wanted to share it. It's called Patternity and they describe themselves as being born from a unique vision: to redefine pattern and shape. They have images of pattern found from all over the place and there is an amazing selection of delightful items on show and much foraging to do. I especially like their tights, which are on sale through their website. These ones are their Trademark design, but you can check out others inspired by totem poles, amongst others, here.