Pre-sales are now open for coasters! You can order individuals, matching or mixed sets. Just add the ones you want to your cart, and it will magically check for sets and adjust the pricing for you!
Pre-order closes on Sunday evening - so get in quick - https://www.thesewphist.com/product/coasters/ 🦜

#PreOrders #PreSales #NZNative #BirdsOfNewZealand #Coasters #Homewares #Aotearoa #NewZealand

Did you know that I design a lot of the fabrics I use myself? And that those fabric designs start as illustrations? Which means that if you like the art, but don't need a lampshade, or wallet, you could just get it for your wall? How about the kākāriki?🦜

https://www.thesewphist.com/product-category/homeware/prints/

#Art #Illustration #NZNative #Aotearoa #BuyNZMade #Handmade #Kakariki #Parrot #Bird

Just a few coin purses fused and cut.
Next up: fuse the labels then overlock the edges, then sew them up, and finally, trim, turn and press.
How many do you reckon are here?
And how many did you reckon I’ll get stitched in the next 24 hours (I’ll run out of zips for some…)?

#Handmade #BuyNZMade #MadeInAotearoa #Sewing #Purses #NZNative #Birds #kereru #kea #weka #tui #ruru #tauhou #kakariki #kaka

Not to sound like an awful embittered art critic, lol, they're beautiful pieces and obv take lots of time. The feather detail and general mien of each manu is lovely.

But... The heads. The heads and beaks are practically identical, and maybe the scale is off onscreen but the smaller bird figures don't seem distinct enough from one another, apart from the kōtare.

And if I personally was gonna splurge on a glass figure of a #nznative, I'd want truly painstaking detail.

*so* many mokarakara caterpillars monching on the groundsel in our overgrown courtyard thing. I counted 20 just in the plants near our door.

#NZNative #Caterpillar #Moth