Well Crafted Threats with Tamara Maynes - Use It Or Lose It
16th May, 2011
A big welcome and hello to this week's Guest Blogger, Tamara Maynes! Tamara is a creative wonder woman and this week has launched a new range of cross-stitch kits titled 'Well Crafted Threats'. Not only will she be inspiring us all week, she is also offering a Starter Kit giveaway EVERY DAY - comment by 10pm tonight to be in the draw! - Jenny x
Hello lovely Design Files readers, I’m so excited to be contributing to my fave Australian blog! Big love to Lucy and Jenny for being super supportive as always. To coincide I’m launching a new kit Well Crafted Threats Starter Kit - Cross Stitch To Inspire & Motivate. One kit is also up for grabs each day so get your comments in fast!
As a craft designer focusing on decorative arts, I have many different projects on the go at once. When I'm not designing for my online store The Six Week Boutique, I’m crafting custom pieces for individuals, interiors, events and publications. I can also be found holding workshops or producing project pages as the craft editor of SoHi Magazine.
Although naturally driven and a big believer in consequence, my perfectionistic tendencies sometimes leave me needing a slight push in the project department. Not exclusive to wicked behaviour, I find a good old fashioned constructive threat works a treat! Check in each day to see the recent warnings I’ve crafted and pinned to my wall, holding my actions to ransom for all causes creative. They work... not to mention looking pretty fab in the process!
The personal warning that inspired me to design Well Crafted Threats!
Developing this new offering has been a long time coming. Being in fear of letting my loyal craft loving comrades down I found the menacing term USE IT OR LOSE IT got this project done!
Stitch your very own threats using the Well Crafted Threats Starter Kit available at The Six Week Boutique and you can subscribe to be informed about more new pieces on the way! Big thanks to my lovely Mum - #1 cross stitch chart maker and walking craft library who worked behind the scenes on this project.
* UPDATE – thanks so much for all your entries! Congratulations to comment #52 – Wendy! Don't forget, Tamara is giving away a kit each day so you still have 4 more chances to win!
A sense of things coming soon to The Six Week Boutique! My #1 assistant and designer for Little Elki Georgina Kaveney is painstakingly unravelling hundreds of metres of freshly dyed cord for new macrame owls as we speak! Don't forget to Subscribe to our mailout so we can keep you in the loop with all out new projects!
- Tamara x
WOW! I love that kit!
That is cool!
Typography+sewing=my idea of heaven! Lovely stuff xx
Great looking stuff.
I’m not sure if Lucy is a mind reader but I was looking at your cross stitch letters for my daughter’s room, April just a few days ago! Just gorgeous!
never disappoints… di
have been a fan of Tamara maynes for a long time, lovely to see her on TDF :)
I LOVE you craft style, always inspiring.
I’m working on an ‘F’ and an ‘O’ at the moment…. if I only they looked like tamara’s!!
Bring it on! Cold nights stitching…the macrame owl, OMG, form 3 craft circa 1980
The Darling of Australian Craft Design!
I have always wanted to learn! What a great starter kit that joins my passion for type and craft!
love your work tamara. i look forward to seeing whats to come!!
Just what I need to get me going. Love it
A great way to spend forthcoming wintery nights….. that! and an open fire, with a glass of red.
oh! so lovely! i havent spent much time cross stitching, but i am very inspired to have a go after seeing your lovely letters! looking forward to more posts about your work.
Such perfect timing with winter well on its way – very very cute!
So good to see that my cross stitching abilities that started in the red cross rooms in my home town many many years ago is finally cool!
Love it! I’ve been wanting to cross-stitch a ‘cage sweet cage’ piece to hang above our rescue dog’s crate/ cage. We never encouraged him to use it thinking dog-crates look too creepily cages, but his fierce love of his crate/ nest/ cage cracks us up.
What a wonderful celebration of women’s traditional craft skills, revitalized in a contemporary context. Beautiful.
Well . . . I do have a few threats I feel I need to make!
i feel like i could be quite scarily good at these threats
Love the cross stitches! It’s been years since I’ve even attempted one :)
Lovely! I’d love to learn.
Thank you for the lovely photos toO!
Delicious! I need some inspiration to finish a cross stitch I started a while ago…!
I remember doing my very first cross stitch, a very sweet christmas card that my mother still has. I’d love to try my hand at this again.
Such beautiful things! My sister would love it too.
My grandma would be so proud!
I heart cross stitch!
Great, haven’t done cross stitch for a while, and I’m sure my daughter would love it also..
A new twist on an ancient artform ~ Smart. smart woman!!
Just lovely
An oldie but a goodie the art of X stitch.Have been a fan of xstitch for 20 yrs.Keep up the good work!
what a beautiful and modern take> and my mum is such a fan of this saying I would love to stitch it up for her!!
How original, makes me want to start stitching
absolutely delightful! keep up the good work! :)
Gorgeous and clever. I love it.
…would love to learn to ‘use’ it!!
Inspiring and original work. Looking forward to what’s to come.
I’m the least-crafty person I know … but I would love to try my hand at this!
I absolutely love ‘letters’. And cross-stitched into something so beautiful. Unbelievable. I could do that!!
Delicious, looking up the kits, can’t wait to send a few ‘threatening letters’
I love white on black – I have a project like this on my ‘to do’ list!
I have even got some glow in the dark thread!
That’s my motto for 2011! This is the year of Use It or Lose It.
Inspiring crafts :-)
I’d love to win a kit!
Ah brilliant. Makes such a nice (and comic) change from those dowdy cross-stitches you see around the place!
Gorgeous…love a bit of cross stitch especially when it is done as beautifully as this :)
They look great.. love the black & white!
Wonderful craft, wonderful lady.
I seriously need a kick up the craft butt and this could be just the thing!
WOW … what a great kit … haven’t done cross stitch for years … what a come back that would be to do it again …Thank you for your great free offer …
Would be a lovely way to spend one of these wintery nights
Gorgeous … more crafting please!
Cool words, fonts and cross stitch.
Really nice blend of ideas.