The Pixie Life
Meet the Maker- Sew Sofia
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Happy Friday! It is just 9 days to go until The Big Pixie Collab opens and it's time to meet another maker. This time we have the fabulous Louise Ambrosi of Sew Sofa. Louise has taken some of my colourfully stitches and worked total magic on them for the big event. Tell us a bit about you! I’m Louise, mum to Sofia and Aurelio and I’m a self-taught bag designer, making all sorts of bag styles for children and grown ups from simple pencil cases to professionally finished handbags. I’ve been running Sew Sofia for 8 years now after being...
Meet The Maker- Slumbermonkey Designs
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Good evening lovely people! We are back for a third installment of The Big Pixie Collab and this year is looking even better and bigger than ever. Tonight we are saying hello to the lovely Lindsay of Slumbermonkey Designs who is joining the event for the first time. Tell us a bit about you! I’m Lindsay, the person behind Slumbermonkey Designs. I live in North Dorset, although originally I come from Norfolk where I relocated from three years ago. My background is in printed textiles but I love experimenting with lots of different techniques. My creative ambitions were put on the...
Meet the Collab Maker- Louise Dyer Paperlace
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AHHH! It's tomorrow. The Big Pixie Collab event has rocked up fast with just over 24 hours to go I am busy putting the final touches everything. However we still have more incredible makers to meet. This time we are saying hello to Louise Dyer Paperlace. Louise creates stunning, intricate pieces of papercut art and I had the pleasure of stitching her floral 'you got this' design which pushed all of my usual stitching boundaries! Tell us a bit about you! I am a papercut artist and have been cutting pretty holes in paper for about 6 years now, I...
Meet the Collab Maker- Little Sugar Plums
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Afternoon lovely people,The Big Pixie Collab is now just 2 days away, I am still stitching hard but we are so close now to this crazy dream of an event coming true. It is time to meet another maker and this time we have the adorable Aimie from Little Sugar Plums. Tell us a bit about you! My name’s Aimie. I’m 37 and I live with my Husband, teenage son, and 8 year old Daughter, Amelia. I have been running Little Sugar Plums, for six years from my little basement sewing room in Northamptonshire where I design and make CE...
Meet the Collab Maker- By Charlies Hand
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Good evening,The Big Pixie Collab is growing closer and I am excited and terrified in equal measure! Next up in our Meet the Maker blog series is the incredible By Charlie's Hand. Charlotte has more collaborative pieces than any other maker in this event purely because her work is perfection to stitch. Everything about her style lends itself well to embroidery and so each piece has been a pleasure to sew (although my fingertips may not agree with that after many hours on that seahorse). Tell us a bit about you! Hello! I’m Charlotte the hand behind By Charlie’s Hand!...