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:
