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Heading into the second week of half-term over here and things will slow a little at the Studio as Heidi also heads off with her littlest for a week in the west country.

For me it's seeming that we are at a stage when life is SO much easier hanging out with only one of my baes at a time 💔. It's been somewhat exhausting managing them so far this holiday, a few moments of happiness but lots of bickering and damn I do hate bickering 😂 I somehow find myself right in the middle of it whining away with them.🫣 It's such a bore! Luckily we have the cousins coming to visit us later in the week and that will be just the best!

So far we have visited @bristolzooproject which is such a brilliant Zoo, I highly recommend
We have climbed @yonder.community
We've baked, watched a tonne of Tele, played some footy

Coming up there's
@morrisgallery for the Liberty exhibition
And pumpkin carving
I want to try out the pool tables in the new @flukes_e17

Anyone got any other free London activities to share?

Hope you enjoy your days xx

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Turns out our Bermuda shorts make the best swim shorts too ☀️✨

The feedback we've received; 'much better than the ones with that horrible netting inside that rubs and is really uncomfortable' Joel 8, beach bum.

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Hanging out with more gorgeous little people this afternoon shooting the @molly_meg_ Meg mini edit. Babies were the beginning of all this, my baby Edie. They are so so big now 😭 really enjoyed the rambling toddler chat and the cutest of smiles. Thanks Beau and Cerys ( and your mamas and sibs )

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Lots going om at Om HQ! I'm prepping a little shoot for our stockist @molly_meg_ , we're making garms for our new Om fams, we are so close to launching our November retreat and ITS MA BIRTHDAY 🎈🎂 ( on Saturday) subscribers look out for birthday treats inboxing soon.

Love

Oh and F#£K Trump!!

Shout outs to Amanda for her brilliant artwork for our retreat, if you need branding help look no further @headandhands_

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Did you feel the sun on your cheeks yesterday? More please !!

Love this photo so much ❤️

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Missing team Om. 🧘🏼🧡🧘🏼

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Daddy Cool 😎

Sunrise easy shorts , Holiday essentials ☀️☀️☀️

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Back with our Boos but still out of the studio so apologies for any delays in getting back to you.

Mika is in the studio making up some orders and I'll do a post run Monday.

Hope you're doing ok wherever you are. The news from Palestine is a lot, no matter what has happened, no one can accept what is happening right now. Those poor families. Loom out for a fundraiser from some of us small businesses coming later this week ❤️

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If you're lucky enough to get a little bit of this print, Patchwork in your wardrobe I feel like you might like to know the process of it's creation. Thank you Yash for running through this with me💓

1. Designing the print. This actually came about pre COVID and hysterectomy when I was obsessed with all the patchwork that had come into fashion. I used rubber to make a stamp and play with this is small scale before sending the design to India as separate blocks to carve

2. Carving the blocks, by hand in hard wood
3. Scouring the fabric to remove impurities and get it ready for the natural colours
4. Treating the fabric with Harda/Haritaki/Myrobalan/Terminalia chebula. If we do not do this the natural dyes will not fix to the fabric and colours would be totally different ( see pic 6 )
5. Putting on the cotton voile fabric layer on the blocks. This improved their printing quality
6. Making inks; the fermented iron and jaggery fluid was mixed with tamarind seeds' flour and then was also mixed with some potassium dichromate to bring out the yellow/ Mustardy brown.
Aluminium sulphate and guar gum or Acacia gum are mixed together with a little amount of alizarin/madder roots powder to print red.
7. Sampling with Alice, looking at how to do the random repeat, playing with colour ways.
8. Carve more blocks so that the meterage is easier to print (still not easy !)
9. Final printing involved using 3 primary blocks and 2 square fillers. The red was always the first block and then the one that had the sun and then the one that had two triangles. Once the whole base was ready, the square fillers were printed in the spaces. Every 6m sheet took almost one hour.
6. Drying and washing
7. Boiling the fabric with alizarin, water, and dhavda (woodfordia fruticosa) in the copper pots.
8. Washing again and then drying.

Et voila!

I feel very lucky that V & Yash printed this for me. It was a pain as traditionally prints are uniform so much quicker to print. To this point IF there is ever a re-run it's because I've gone to Bargu to print it myself! I'm not not up for this but it's taking this labour of love thing to a whole new level

Love you Patchwork, you're so special

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New jumpsuit

Edie's request

Mika's suggestion

My creation

Coming soon !!

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Rise and shine 🌞

It's school photo day round here so all up and at it early. Let's hope they all smile like Remi 🙂

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