Studio Life

Every now and then, funny thoughts and little ideas from posts on the blog turn into something else we do in the studio.  Here are the summer squash sketches from the Bewildered Gardener back in August materialized – literally – into the Gourd Family Gathering on some fabric for Spoonflower.

Here are the beginnings of the newest quilt project.  Once it is finished, we’ll be sure to post a free pattern, but right now it is just a Jenga stack of promising 4″x4″ squares… In an effort to keep the fabric stash reasonably under control, I only allow myself to buy either yellows or greens.  Hence a future quilt that

Here is a little eye-candy montage from October’s Alameda Antique Market.  It’s amazingly close to our home, nestled on the edge of what I overheard a gentleman kindly refer to as the “Oakland Riviera” – right under the noses of the huge cargo ship cranes that look like a fleet of Trojan horses when you fly out of OAK. We

It was a low moment during our August deadline when I found myself, closer to 30 than 20, licking a square of blue ink off of the surface of a red fruit roll up, only to reveal yet another layer of ink embedded in sugar with the “Double Dare” suggestion that I wear a chicken suit to school. But there

Several of our favorite blogs have recently posted odes to summer 2010, making me nostalgic for lingering afternoons, lemonade slushies, and cherry-vanilla L’Oréal Kids shampoo.  Here are two of my photo-crushes on other people’s summers: a hotel pool scene from Hyena in Petticoats, and a child with balloons walking into the sunset from Valori Wells.  (I guess you can’t really