RELOVED Magazine & Dreamy Cashmere

Excited to have a little snippet about REVERIE Textiles in the UK Print magazine RELOVED the Creative Guide to Upcycling Your Home.

I love this magazine, it's packed with classy DIY projects of all sorts for making style statements with upcycled decor. My hope for REVERIE Textiles has been that my cashmere designs inspire a "wow" factor for kids' decor.

Thank you Sinead for contacting me for this spotlight and for spreading the love of upcycling!

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: