by Rebecca Angela | 29 Aug, 2020 | Printing, Tutorial
Setting yourself up to screen print can be an expensive business but you can make cheap and easy silk screens. I used this method to make a batch of small silk screens to use in some screen printing workshops I ran a while ago. I needed small screens that could be...
by Rebecca Angela | 24 Aug, 2020 | Creativity
Sizing ourselves up against others is natural but I believe comparison is creative poison. It doesn’t serve the vulnerable creative inside us well to measure our art against another’s. It will never be a fair assessment and likely to lead do being...
by Rebecca Angela | 22 Aug, 2020 | Creativity
I’ve been thinking about breaking through creative block lately. For quite a while, between deciding to close Blue Radish and starting Rebecca Angela, I couldn’t bring myself to create. Maybe it was burn-out. It might just have been I’d lost my...
by Rebecca Angela | 20 Aug, 2020 | Sewing, Tutorial
This square-based fabric bucket is great for extra storage. It is very quick and easy. This pattern will make a bucket with a base that is about 14cm square and approximately 20cm tall (although the height is variable by folding down the top a greater or lesser...
by Rebecca Angela | 19 Aug, 2020 | Creativity, Sewing
Recovering from creative mistakes is an important skill. Not developing strategies to cope with mistakes can lead to a lot of extra heartache. Mishaps happen to us all when we are making things and they can dampen our enthusiasm for the activity which is a shame. Even...