holiday gifts

This Saturday we were delighted to have so many of our local friends stop by to craft in celebration of our first year of classes and gatherings in the Greenhouse, our classroom and community space at our Durham, NC headquarters! It was so exciting to catch up with old friends and meet new faces as we enjoyed fully stocked crafting stations to dye, collage, and embellish wooden holiday ornaments and toured Spoonflower's printing operations.

New friends striking a pose in front of our "photobooth" created by hanging two rolls of matte gift wrap printed with our Greenhouse logo and affixed to the wall with washi tape!

I've said it once, and I'll say it again– time flies when you're having fun, and this past year of classes, workshops, sew-ins, and craft parties in the Greenhouse, our classroom and community space, has been a blast!

This week guest author Emma Jeffery from the blog Hello Beautiful shows us how she turned her grandmother’s handwritten recipes into tea towels for her own kitchen. Read the how-to below, or, jump to our up-to-date video tutorial from Spoonflower member Theresa at the bottom of the post. She’ll take you through each step from Emma’s tea towel concept, so you’ll learn how to edit your scanned recipe in Photoshop, all the way through to how to sew up the tea towel with a finished double-hem.

Emma: For a woman who keeps a newspaper from the day she was born, my mum has surprisingly few keepsakes or handwritten memorabilia from her own mother who passed away in 1999. When I asked her to trawl through her old papers and files, she managed to find three handwritten recipes from my grandmother. They appear to be the only remaining examples of her handwriting left in the world, and they are therefore as precious as they are priceless.