If you haven't visited the shop lately, you might not have noticed that there are new tea towels there. I will be trying very hard this month to have more items. 

I had posted this on Facebook a few days ago. You can find more of these wonderful microscopic designs here. They remind me very much of Margie's crochet works of art.

Hope your week is going well.

Wednesday's Work

Working away on a wack of wonderful whale (and other animal)baby bibs  that are in the shop starting today! O, and these too.

As well, I have been working on new drawings. I know the last batch of bird drawings I did never amounted to much. I have higher hopes for these: 

copyright Barbara Di Lella 2012

They are only pencil sketches now but I hope to make some kind of patterning with them; not so much a compositional group but more of a repeat.

As well, I wanted to show you what I picked up  when I visited the Do design show this past weekend. Aren't they beautiful?

tumblers by Bookhou

Tuesday's Treasures

There has been some time to work on a few  of the new ideas I had spoken about earlier. These are a couple of proto-types for baby bibs (which have changed since this image was taken) and I decided to use flannel; it is so so soft! 

This is the first time I've printed on flannel and I've learned that it's great to print on. Even the finest lines of the Balloon Ship came out. Well, at least those that came through in the exposure: you can see I had a bit of trouble with this one. But the porcupine printed beautifully! Even on cotton fleece (shown below) which I'll be using for more baby stuff to come.

And by the way: this is the last day for the set sale in the shop.

Mosaic Monday

How was your weekend? Here in Toronto  most of the winter has had  little or no snow.  It is quite unusual as January has always provided sub-zero temperatures and enough snow (even though the rest of Canada would scoff).

This mosaic has images, not only of some of my recent drawings, but some of the little treasures I have around the house (except for the door knobs which are from a photograph I took in Montreal). The bird house is by April Gregory. She uses up-cycled materials and  I love the textures and colours in her work.

Sparrow Perch

It would seem like a perfect vehicle for a perching sparrow: ya think? I'll give it some thought.
I'm looking forward to checking out some of the work for the DoDesign show tomorrow. Here are just a few of the things I might see:

Bookhou

Alexx Boisjoli

Reed Hansuld

Here's wishing you 

a great weekend

The Studio

In light of all the talk about January clean-up and organization, I thought I'd take a rare photo of the work table at it's neatest. You can see my little Featherweight and the piles of work slowly building. I have so many ideas in my head, I feel like there's not enough time. 

 Just thought I'd remind you that the sales in the shop will be finished on the 31st of January.

Wednesday's Work

 It's still pretty dreary here but I suppose that's to be expected for mid-winter. I'm thrilled to pieces the temperatures aren't sub-zero.
This is my screen for the porcupine drawing I did last year that you may have seen in my 2012 Calendar (which, by the way, is on sale in the shop, if you still need a calendar). If you look closely you can see the "ghost" images of previous screen burns.

I have been printing on this tea towel linen/cotton blend material now. And the cut is very generous. They will be in the shop later this week.

Hope your week is going well.