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Dream Pillows #2

Posted in cotton, embroidery, healing plants, home-made healing, lavender, tagged chamomile flowers, dried herbs, hops, lavender, Mountain Rose Herbs, rose petals on November 28, 2012 | 2 Comments »

The second batch of little pillows is filled with dried organic herbs (from Mountain Rose Herbs) that are traditionally used to help relaxation and sleep: hops, lavender, chamomile and rose petals. Unfortunately one cannot see the herbs inside the pillow, because I think the mix is quite beautiful to look at, too.

There is a rainstorm passing through our region and for the first time it feels like winter (the Californian kind). It is very cozy indoors and this is what my day has in store for me:

Can’t think of anything I’d rather do just now!

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Dream Pillows #1

Posted in cotton, embroidery, home-made healing, tagged organic wool stuffing, pillow on November 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Still producing items for our school event this week-end. I made these small dream pillows for children to keep in their bed or bring wherever they go. Soflty filled with organic sheep’s wool for its healing and soothing properties. The pillows are hand-embroidered on cotton fabric, but have no buttons or velcro, to make sure they are as cuddly as possible. The wool filling is in a separate pillow case, so the outer one can be taken off and washed.

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Little grey duck

Posted in cotton, healing plants, home-made healing, lavender, tagged cough relief, lavender, spelt berries, thyme on November 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

The Little Grey Duck has an organic cotton terrycloth cover with a velcro closing. Its inside is filled with organic spelt berries. When gently heated in the oven (or microwave) they produce a wonderful moist warmth that is particularly helpful for the respiratory system, as it relaxes and opens passageways and helps your child (or you) sleep better. But is also a cuddly comforting kind of hot water bottle to snuggle up with on a cold evening. I added two little pillows, one filled with lavender and one filled with dried thyme. Stick them into the cover when the inside is warm and the lavender scent will aid in even more relaxation, while the thyme is a great traditional support for the lungs. Little Grey Duck also brought lots of his friends in different colors.

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Om

Posted in cotton, embroidery, felting, lavender, linen, sewing, yoga, tagged cotton, embroidery, eye pillows, felt luminary, felting, flaxseed, lavender sachet, luminary, meditation, millet, sewing, wool felt, yoga props on May 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »

The owner of a local yoga studio asked me to come up with some yoga-related items she would like sell in her boutique. I made samples of eye pillows in different shapes, with various outer and inner materials. I used linen and cotton for the exteriors and flaxseed, millet and sand (with or without lavender) for the filling material. Some of them are kept simple, some are minimally embellished.

Furthermore I suggested a felted luminary, which produces a very soft and peaceful light when you light a candle in the glass insert. I wet-felt these luminaries around a resist pattern that fits the glass.

The yoga studio owner is going to “test-drive” the eye pillows and luminary for a few days and will let me know what she would like to order. I hope she likes my offerings.

(Do you out there have any ideas what you would like to purchase in a yoga boutique?)

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Lavender sachets

Posted in cotton, embroidery, lavender, linen, sewing, spring, vintage fabric, woven ribbon, tagged Easter, embroidery, lavender sachet, Mother's Day, plant dyeing, sewing, shop, spring, vintage cotton, vintage linen on March 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I have been working on these lavender sachets, using my recently plant-dyed fabrics . The woven ribbon and the fabric I used for the cross-stitch embellishments are from a trunk show with Anna Maria Horner I went to not long ago. She talked about her textile design process, her career and her children. It was most entertaining and especially some of her quilts were just fabulous.

Back to the sachets that have my studio smell delicious - here are some pictures I took along the way. Feel free to visit my Etsy store to look at a few of them in more detail (think of Mother’s Day, Easter Baskets, spring decoration…).

I cut the fabric into strips of various widths and sewed them together again to use as the front fabric. The back is some vintage linen (laundered, of course!).

The cross-stitch motifs are embroidered, then cut out and hand-appliqued onto the front of the sachet, before putting it all together with the woven ribbon and tag and backing fabric.

They are filled with lavender buds, imported from France. I didn’t add anything else for a filler, because I wanted them to be light.

Don’t these colors make you happy? They certainly delight ME…

Do you want to see my photo studio? Here it is! The Californian sunshine is my perfect lighting (except for the occasional shadow), a piece of white linen gets attached to my son’s chalkboard with clothes pegs and after adding some other props I’m good to go. Not quite professional, I guess, but it works for me for now!

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Dye Day Results

Posted in cotton, dyeing, linen, sewing, vintage fabric, wool felt, tagged plant dyeing, sewing, shop, vintage cotton, vintage linen, wool felt on March 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

As promised here is my lovely stash after having been laundered and dried. A lot of color washed out, as I first rinsed them in a hand basin and then put them on a gentle cycle in the washer. But at least now I know that that’s it and they will not bleed color after this treatment. Apparently plant-dyed cellulose fibers, which is what my linen and cotton fabrics are, do tend to bleach a lot in direct sunlight…