Housey Hideaway

Our new housey blankets are multifunctional! Designed to be used on a bed or sofa, they can also transform into a wee housey. great fun for all the family!

215cm x 150cm, made from lovely soft lambswool, with a heavy cosy feel.

I think they are my new favourite product!

xxx

PS. a big thanks to Gareth Hacker, Albert and Bukka for the fab photo of them using the house blanket, and Willa Coode Robins for the inspiration, as I designed this blanket after seeing Willa making a den with her rainy day blanket.

fancy some birds nest soup?

 

Here's a sneak preview of a new design for a melamine tray, which will be part of our range. Stock coming in middle of may.I seem to be getting obsessed with birds in nests and birds in beards.

this one is a lavender bag.

Also, the weather is so nice and bright I'm feeling all leafy! here's a couple of designs to give you a spring in your step!

spot the ant, cotton tea towel, screen printed in the UK

larger size cushion 48cm x 48cm soft lambswool knitted in Scotland

screen printed cotton cushion, also available in peacock colour.

ok, that's all the leafiness for now.

have a nice weekend all. x

Happy comb-over Easter!

Having some fun with our new egg cups- we made a comb-over!

some more suggestions!-bunny ears?

hats?

Thanks Erin, Rob and Jon for your artistic talents!

Hope you all have a nice holiday.

xx

Clara's drawing

A couple of weeks ago, we got an email from Clara, who lives in Copenhagen, Denmark. She sent us this drawing she's done of me, and some of the products, it's so fantastic, I had to show it off!  she has made all the products come to life! the fox cushion and the bunny cushion have bodies, so does Meg!  I'm  amazed by her imagination and the detail, and she's only 9 years old.  Thanks Clara, we love your drawing!!

Monster making madness at SCP

This weekend we launched our new spring collection at SCP, in their fantastic east and west London shops. on top of that we held a monster making workshop, where kids and adults could make their very own amazing monsters from the monster kits we sell.  I think the kids enjoyed it, and quite a few adults too!

Here are a few pictures of monsters and their makers!

As you can see we had some fantastic monsters!

And I would like to thank Sheridan at SCP for hosting the fun, and also supporting me so much, SCP have bought my collections since the beginning and always have a huge selection of my products in both shops.

go to SCP.co.uk for more details.

knit the world better!

Escape to the woods was a show I did last year at the Lighthouse Gallery in Glasgow. I came accross some photos of it that I wanted to share, especially some of the comments!

It was a kind of theatre set of knitted trees, clouds, creatures and blankets.

some people liked to hug the trees!

here are some of the comments ... and drawings, I love them.

there are too many to show you.

... some people never made it out of the forest, but they lived happily ever after! xx

Meg, Mog and a birds nest.

Meg cushion

Megs back

Painting my pooches!

I have just come back from Stoke on Trent, where I painted my second batch of ceramic Staffordshire dogs.  It was great fun, the processes are facinating.  I thought you'd like to see some of the work in progress.

These are the naked dogs!, first step was to paint their eyes and mouths, each one has a slightly different expression, and some have eyebrows or whiskers. Some look male, some look female, and some I'm not sure which!

This was the first batch to have their fairisle jumpers painted on.

once all the sweaters are painted, it was time to add the gold on their ears and clawa, this is real gold which turns shiney when it's fired.

Finished! sweaters, ears, claws. phew! I had to to very carefully transport them to the kiln. where they were heated up to 1000's of degrees, to make the gold and colour sink into the original glaze.

Finally they are loaded into the kiln, and I had to say good bye!

Got news this morning that they all fired ok, and are ready to go to their new homes next week. What a relief!

link to them on my site:

http://www.donnawilson.com/product.php?id_product=137

New Catalogue available to download

Hi, just a wee note to say we have a new updated catalogue that you can down load from our site, (click on the button on the right hand side of the site http://www.donnawilson.com/)  It's 13 pages long, so you might not want to print out the whole lot,  but it has little images of the complete range and some nice images.... Hope you like it.

Spring is in sight!

The sun was shining into the studio today reminding us what spring is like... can't wait! so I thought I's show you my first ever 'spring/summer' range of cushions. They are printed in cotton, so no wool, which is new for me too! they come with a duck feather cushion pad and are made in the UK.

Folk Flower above, has a stalk on the back.

Happy Spring time ahead!!