Yesterday morning, I awoke under a new feedsack quilt of my Granny’s creation. And it dawned on me that I left off about a year ago tweeting a Feedsack a Day. Today, I will pick up where I left off – May 31st, 2010 #151 of 365 where I featured a favorite as the last of a series from the {kimmymade} Flickr photostream – a tiny sugar sack with red and pink geometric pattern and atomic starbursts.
Daily Feedsack feature No. 151 of 365 for 2010 http://ow.ly/1OQEw ending this kimmymade month on a SUPER high note.
I may even go double or nothing as I went this spring to bdp south and came back with a mountain of new feedsacks!
ps. I am newly addicted to instagram for the iPhone!
Filed under: Craft Biz, Design, Feedsacks, Green, Handmade Revolution, inspire . spark, letter . press, Life | Tags: 2011, calendar, chicken, Chocolocateria, farm, Kathya Ethington, march
I love to open a Google Analytics Alert to find a sweet blog post on something I hold dear to my heart. Thank you Kathya of CHOCOLOCATERIA! March is my month too! And you reminded me that I wanted to write an in depth post about each month explaining the inspiration behind each composition this year. I guess I need to get started.
Filed under: Craft Biz, Design, Feedsacks, Green, Handmade Revolution, inspire . spark, letter . press | Tags: 2011 Calendar, breed, handmade, heritage, illustration, seed, Wonderbound Press, woodcut
Barely off the press and into the package, almost half of these 2011 Limited Edition Calendars have found a happy home and a prominent space on the wall! Theresa illustrated and carved a woodcut for each animal in the calendar and I added color, layout and of course feedsack-inspired patterns to each one. It tops the list as one of my favorite and most rewarding collaborative experiences to date! We are so proud of the work that went into them and are so happy to see how well they’ve been received. They are flying out of my vintage market suitcase! Last chance to get them in person and talk to the artists is this weekend at the Firefly Handmade Holiday Market on Pearl Street in Boulder. Or you can order one in my online shoppe and we will ship it to you.
This calendar features 12 months of woodcut heritage breeds {and a few other farm friends for fun}, feedsack-inspired patterns, heirloom crops and moon phases. It is letterpress printed on sustainable bamboo paper and tied with authentic vintage feedsack. Each page becomes 5×7 art print to keep.
Filed under: Craft Biz, Design, Feedsacks, Green, Handmade Revolution, inspire . spark, letter . press, Life | Tags: 2011 Calendar, handmade, heirloom seeds, heritage breeds, homestead
We are beyond thrilled on this fantastic feedsack friday to announce our 2011 Calendar project. A collaboration between Allison of BirdDog Press and Theresa of WonderBound Press. This calendar features woodcuts of heritage breed farm animals, a showcase of heirloom seeds and patterns inspired by vintage feedsacks cultivating 12 beautiful scenes to see you through 2011. The calendar was designed with the intent of paying respect to the current homesteading movement, permaculture and bringing awareness to the healthy diversity that is critical for saving American farms today. Each month will bring to life a combination of function and beauty – a month of days, the phases of the moon, a heritage breed, an heirloom crop, a feedsack inspired pattern – handprinted on an antique letterpress on sustainable bamboo paper. With each turn of the page, the illustration becomes a frame-worthy 5×7 letterpress print to keep.
The calendars will be $40 and will be ready by December 1st. Due to the high interest in this work, we will gladly take pre-orders. Contact us for more information or go HERE to pre-order online.
