Shop Update: Hand Painted Wood

Shop Update: Hand Painted Wood {an Art School Dropout's life}

I have been trying to mix things up and have a theme for each shop update! This month’s theme was hand painted laser cut wood (with one or two exceptions)

Shop Update: Hand Painted Wood {an Art School Dropout's life}

Shop Update: Hand Painted Wood {an Art School Dropout's life}

I went through my old sketchbooks and picked several designs that I thought would make neat brooches. They are all based off my own taste, but I will be open to suggestions in the coming months.

Shop Update: Hand Painted Wood {an Art School Dropout's life} Shop Update: Hand Painted Wood {an Art School Dropout's life}

I also went through some of my fabric designs and took out a few elements here and there as tests.

All in all I’m very proud of all the new pieces and love seeing them up in the shop.

Shop Update: Hand Painted Wood {an Art School Dropout's life}

Oh and I also threw in some new XL Wall Scissors to mix things up a bit! These are made from 1/4″ MDF with Designer Fabric fused to the surface before laser cutting. They are a great addition to any sewing room (or any space really).

You can find all of these pieces plus more in the shop!

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Awkward Animal Portraits Quilt Series: October’s Release

Awkward Animal Portraits Quilt Series: October's Release {an Art School Dropout's life}It’s not the first of the month, but it’s close! It’s time for another Awkward Animal Portraits Quilt Series release. Samarra and I like to be respectful, and our Animal friends like their down time and don’t like to talk business on weekends. So we agreed to wait until today to share our newest pattern! Continue reading

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Announcing the Awkward Animal Portrait Quilt Series

Announcing the Awkward Animal Portrait Quilt Series {an Art School Dropout's life}I have been scheming and collaborating with the talented Samarra Khaja behind the scenes for months now on a HUGE project! Let me introduce the Awkward Animals Portrait Quilt Series.

Samarra came up with a bunch of fantastically awkward pixelated animal illustrations and I took them and transformed them in to quilt patterns. There was a lot of back and forth about things like colors, placement, which animals to release when, etc etc. So you know your getting the best product we could think of.

This will be a monthly PDF pattern release with each set going live the 1st of the month in Samarra’s shop. Each quilt will have its own personality and story, some even have bonus content (hint hint: short videos).
This month we have TWO quilt patterns to share, so it’s double awkward… Continue reading