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In memory of Kathreen

You may have heard of the tragic loss of Kathreen Ricketson and her partner Rob last week. Kathreen was a pioneer of the crafty and blogging communities here in Australia, and around the world. I was so shocked and deeply saddened by the news of lives and an amazing family adventure cut short by a tragic accident. Something that’s still difficult to comprehend.

I had the pleasure of contributing to Kathreen’s four Kids’ Crafternoon books and her magazine Action Pack. Kathreen was always lovely, enthusiastic and a joy to work with. The founder of Whip Up, author, and blogger will be sadly missed by many, but none so much as her two beautiful children. My heart breaks for them experiencing such unimaginable loss. Whip Up have started a fund for the future of Kathreen and Rob’s children and I am doing what I can to spread the word. I know that our online community will gather together to help.

Image via Whip Up.

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Posted on May 21, 2013

Hello Tokyo :: the red thread new fabric range

My first fabric range, called Hello Tokyo!, for Robert Kaufman was launched over the weekend at the International Quilt Market in Portland. Exciting! Together with the fabric there’s also a range of haby items: beautiful grosgrain ribbons, iron on motifs and buttons. My designs incorporate kawaii (Japanese for cute) girls, cats and birds in a bright colour palette and I’m so happy to at last be able to show it to you.

Click on the link below for the full reveal, lots of photos and free projects…

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Posted on May 20, 2013

A few craft tutorials in the works

I have a few tutorials planned for the next week or two, so I thought I’d give you a little peek at what’s in the works. I was hoping to get the rope coil vessel tutorial photos edited yesterday, but didn’t quite make it. I had one of those incredibly frustrating moments when all the images were open, cropped and colour corrected – but not saved – when I had to restart my computer. So now I have to muster the enthusiasm to start from scratch.

Also coming up are a couple of mini patchwork projects and some origami. If you follow me on Instagram (@theredthread) you would have seen some of these photos in my feed over the past few weeks… in fact I may of started the rope coil bowls a month or two ago!

I hope you have a lovely weekend. Do you have any crafty things on the agenda?

Rope coil bowls and mini patchwork tutorials will be on the red thread blog soon… promise!

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Posted on May 4, 2013

FEATURED :: the red thread in Living & More magazine

My blog and geo paper decorations have been featured in the Kreativ & gunstig special issue of German magazine Living & More.

It’s always exciting and lovely being included in magazines, thank you Living & More!

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Posted on April 29, 2013

FEATURED :: the red thread in crafty magazine

I’m just a little bit excited to have my string art tutorial featured in the pre-launch issue of new UK mag crafty. They sent me a copy of both the pre-launch issue and issue one. It’s cool craft. I think you’ll like it.

You can find my ombre word string art tutorial here.

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Posted on April 18, 2013

My Easter in Black and White

How was your Easter break? We got up to quite a lot over the four days and there was chocolate involved. When I looked back at my photos from the weekend there was a strong sense of black and white. In colour.

I made some rope coil vessels and started a tutorial which I’ll post here in the next week or so.

Roxy and I spent a long day at the Easter Show on Sunday. We visited all the animals, went on rides, saw the craft and art exhibits, watched the wood chopping and equestrian events, and generally exhausted ourselves. The chicken below was a blue ribbon winner and I loved her graphic lacy feathers.

Yesterday morning I was mucking around on Instagram taking photos of white flowers on a black background. All it involved was a sheet of black paper, the light from a window and my iPhone camera – no fancy set ups, lights or camera needed!