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One day a week to break my lazy digital consumption habits and get hands-on creative.
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#30 Mini picture book
#30 Mini picture book
This mini picture book was made for one of my quirkier colleagues who has an awful lot of funny sayings.
Rachel Knight
Oct 23, 2016
#29 Little white tiger
#29 Little white tiger
My second attempt at a soft toy went a little off-plan (/lacked a proper plan at all), but I tell myself that the weirdness just adds to…
Rachel Knight
Sep 17, 2016
#28 All the birthdays
#28 All the birthdays
After having fun doing Amy’s portrait, I thought I’d do the same for three of my friend’s birthdays which totally crept up on me (as they…
Rachel Knight
Sep 3, 2016
Slowing down Crafty Sundays
Slowing down Crafty Sundays
I started Crafty Sundays to quit my bad habit of pointless scrolling and to be more productive. Weirdly, six and a half months later, I…
Rachel Knight
Aug 13, 2016
#27 Collage for Amy
#27 Collage for Amy
I’ve always adored collage. It’s such a therapeutic process because nothing is ever perfect — it’s about making do with what you have. I…
Rachel Knight
Aug 13, 2016
#26 Croissants
#26 Croissants
Brendan agreed to help me make a batch of croissants since I’d never made them before. It was such a compartmentalised process that I lost…
Rachel Knight
Aug 6, 2016
#25 Shift Jam 2.0
#25 Shift Jam 2.0
With the bones of the programme laid out from the first jam, this second Shift jam was more about testing what still worked with a…
Rachel Knight
Jul 30, 2016
#24 Design for Social Innovation Symposium
#24 Design for Social Innovation Symposium
The 2016 Design for Social Innovation Symposium was held in Wellington this year, and I was lucky enough to be part of the organising team…
Rachel Knight
Jul 23, 2016
#23 Tomato relish
#23 Tomato relish
I definitely have a thing for crackers and cheese. Back in my student days, cheese was rare — to be looked after and savoured. Now, a few…
Rachel Knight
Jul 16, 2016
#22 Tushion
#22 Tushion
Brendan’s been complaining for a while that his tush gets cold on our metal breakfast-bar stools; he clearly wasn’t gifted with extra…
Rachel Knight
Jul 7, 2016
#21 Bits & Bobs
#21 Bits & Bobs
Today was a wee bit miserable. Although I was completely unmotivated to create anything beautiful for this Crafty Sunday, I felt that it…
Rachel Knight
Jun 25, 2016
#20 Seamless reflections
#20 Seamless reflections
When I started Crafty Sundays 5 months ago to get off-screen more often, I had no idea if I’d even get past the first one. So I’m pretty…
Rachel Knight
Jun 23, 2016
#19 Winter Owl
#19 Winter Owl
If you can remember, it was the Autumn Fox who started Crafty Sundays. I was thinking about finishing him off, but Brendan pointed out that…
Rachel Knight
Jun 16, 2016
#18 Pointless postcards
#18 Pointless postcards
I’m pretty happy with how this week’s Crafty Sunday turned out, seeing as I was sick and had no plan whatsoever. At about 2pm on Sunday I…
Rachel Knight
Jun 8, 2016
#17 Stolen-cat bed
#17 Stolen-cat bed
This one comes with a bit of a back story.
Rachel Knight
Jun 3, 2016
#16: Shift Jam
#16: Shift Jam
If you’ve somehow managed to miss my spamming about Shift, it’s a project run by a fantastical team at Wellington City Council who are…
Rachel Knight
May 26, 2016
#15 Spice rack
#15 Spice rack
After nagging Brendan to make me a spice rack for months, he cheekily (but fairly) asked why I didn’t do it for a Crafty Sunday project…
Rachel Knight
May 14, 2016
#14: Worm palace
#14: Worm palace
Way-finding, pebble ethics and the worm-housing market were a few of the things I pondered while renovating my compost bin into a…
Rachel Knight
May 12, 2016
#13: Pot Heads with Holly
#13: Pot Heads with Holly
Holly gave me two of her original pot-heads* a few years back and I’ve loved them ever since. Their name aptly sums up their quirky…
Rachel Knight
May 11, 2016
#12: Island Bay Postcard
#12: Island Bay Postcard
The other day I got a postcard from my mum in the mail, and it made my week. Postcards are so sweet in that they’re an unexpected, personal…
Rachel Knight
May 11, 2016
#11: Flax kete.
#11: Flax kete.
I absolutely adore living somewhere that is surrounded by native bush, and it’s one of the reasons Brendan and I instantly fell in love…
Rachel Knight
May 11, 2016
#10: Ode to Autumn
#10: Ode to Autumn
This week I had a whole crafternoon set aside and a couple of specific goals in mind. I wanted to: a. paint outside, b. paint only from…
Rachel Knight
May 11, 2016
#9: Malt Lab Beer Labels
#9: Malt Lab Beer Labels
I’d been intermittently working on a beer label design for Brendan’s home brew for a while, and hadn’t come to any conclusions. I decided…
Rachel Knight
May 11, 2016
#8: Fox & Cat
#8: Fox & Cat
To make up for my Newtown Newsletter struggle, I wanted to make something completely off-screen. This post-card portrait is of my big…
Rachel Knight
May 11, 2016
#7: Newtown Newsletter
#7: Newtown Newsletter
This project was a real challenge. I should have known it was doomed from the start, because a. I thought it was going to be easy and b. it…
Rachel Knight
May 11, 2016
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