REVERIE is a 2015 ACADEMY OF HANDMADE AWARDS nominee

I was honored & thrilled to learn that REVERIE Textiles has been nominated for a 2015 "ACADEMY OF HANDMADE AWARD" in the Home and Garden Accessories category. 

I love the Academy's mission: to celebrate and recognize those who are making significant contributions to the handmade economy. To strengthen beginning and existing handmade businesses, and to connect the handmade business community through meaningful relationships.

Thank you for the nomination Academy of Handmade!

KNEE-DEEP IN APPLIQUES

My new line of Cashmere Homewares is in the making for 2015: pillows, throws, table runners, placemats, coasters, accessories, and kids' rooms wall decor ~ all designed with handcut cashmere appliques: friendly graphic shapes with bold pops of color! All new cashmere homewares will be available from my website mid-March.

Here's a sampling of some new cashmere appliqués (in process):

 

And some close-ups of the applique work, all made with upcycled 100% cashmere sweaters :

 

 

 

LOVE TRIANGLES

A fun pun on triangles. Yes, they've been around (there's three sides to everything), but my dream is for triangles to keep thriving in home decor and fashion! Here's a sampling of my favorites (see source links). And a few of my REVERIE Triangle Cashmere Blankets and Pillows to follow.

Long Live Loving Triangles!

 

sensational colored wooden rugs by elisa strozyk

 mad about inaluxe art prints:

some sweet triangle accessories (color-tipped-scarf pattern: the purl bee:

triangles & Ferm Living, a perfect marriage:

ooooo - this awesome gig poster, we love Gotye!

a sampling of Upcycled 100% Cashmere Pillows, Baby Blankets & Throws by reverie textiles:

 

 

 

                

Whimsical Doll Cradle DIY ~ a Lena Corwin design

For their birthdays my husband and I gave our two daughters a doll bed that I refurbished from an old baby cradle. I painted it with a Scandinavian/mythical animals pattern from textiles designer Lena Corwin's book Printing by Hand. For a piece of furniture that was clunky, brown and rather ugly to start with, we were thrilled with its new look!

With 4 layers of over-painting, and oodles of stencil cutting (first from photocopies, and then from contact paper), making this was a labor of love! Our daughters were over-the-moon on birthday morning!

 

                              

                        

   

The mythical animal stencils were patterns I gratefully copied from the book Printing by Hand: A Modern Guide to Printing with Handmade Stamps, Stencils, and Silk Screens, by textile designer Lena Corwin. This project below, from Corwin's book, was the inspiration: