Mollie Makes #64

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PLUS: PAPERS TO CUT & COLLAGE

EASY-SEW

FLORAL PYJAMA SET EMBROIDERED

PURSE

WOVEN HANGERS

TILDA KIDS' WHALE

CUSTOMISE AN ENAMEL MUG

PAPER FLOWER ART COLLAGE SEQUIN T-SHIRT HACK

QUICK BEANBAG BOOK ENDS

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DOODLE, FOIL & CROCHET!

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CONTENTS

issue number sixty four

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Colour trend 16 cushions 18

ON THE COVER PHOTOGRAPHY: PHILIP SOWELS, STYLING: HELENA TRACEY, MODEL: LEANNE MEGSON

EGG DECORATING

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INTRODUCING... LIVING

The latest news from the world of handmade

Fill your life and home with crafted goodness

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49 LIVING

Handpicked crafty happenings

Our top picks of the most lovely buys for a hand-crafted, creative home

14 TRENDS Rose Quartz and Serenity

52 HOME TOUR

18 DECORATED EGGS

French designer Emilie Rousseaux’s home is a monochrome masterpiece

Pick from doodled, foiled or crocheted

26 TEA AND A CHAT Designer and painter Helen Dealtry

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Smarten up your shelves with beanbag-style book ends in sharp black and gold

32 SEWING HACK

62 WOVEN HANGERS

Add some sparkle to a T-shirt

Make your wardrobe extra-jazzy with colourful plastic-wrapped hangers

36 GOOD READ

@MollieMakes

59 FABRIC BOOKENDS

The joy of crafting with children

67 PULL-OUT PAPERS EXCLUSIVE!

39 PYJAMA SET

Flower and leaf designs to cut, stick, collage or simply pull out and admire

Plus retro slumber party invites pinterest.com/MollieMakes

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44 FLOWER ART Cut and paste unique art for your walls

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100 TEMPLATES Everything you need to make all the issue’s projects

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Woven hangers

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Beanbag book ends

39 Flirty

pyjamas

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NEW BEGINNINGS

Welcome to issue 64 of Mollie Makes – my first as Editor. I’m so excited to be working with this incredibly talented team (including our new Designer, Becki!), and to be part of the inspiring Mollie tribe of crafters, designers, makers and creators.

On the theme of new beginnings, this issue is full of ideas for a spring refresh. Update your home with our colour-pop crocheted cushions on page 96, and add some sparkle to your wardrobe with our (seriously easy) sequin T shirt sewing hack on page 32.

If you’re in need of yet more new season inspiration, flick through our gorgeous Spring Homestyle booklet. I’ll also be decorating my new desk with this month’s cute Mr Fox & Pals cover gift – don’t forget to share your versions using #molliemakers.

Treats and treasures to fall in love with 77 LOVING

Cath Dean Editor

Beautiful things to adore and make

79 COLLECTOR Folk art-style West German pottery

80 PAINTED MUGS An easy way to customise enamelware

84 WHALE PLUSHIES Friendly new pals for the nursery, exclusive-to-us from Tilda’s new book

92 UMBRELLA PURSE

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Crochet cushion

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Customised enamelware

Keep your rainy day stash safe in this playful embroidered purse

96 CROCHET CUSHION Brighten your space with circular cushions in colour-pop spring palettes

106 BACK PAGE PROJECT How Annie Sloan chooses new colours Subscribe at molliemakes.com

Turn the page to SEE INSIDE your Mr fox & pals cover gift!

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THIS MONTH WE’RE OBSESSING ABOUT...

ROSE QUARTZ & SERENITY

We’ve fallen in love with Pantone’s Colours of the Year

Crushed linen makes soft pastels look totally grown up. www.loaf.com

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For extra-luxe and

on-trend gifting. www. notonthehighstreet. com/abigailwarner 02

You can’t go wrong

with a mini pompom. www.maypoledesign. etsy.com 03

A slouchy wool dress PHOTOGRAPH: HELEN KIRKBRIGHT, MODEL: LYDIA @D1

for lazy days. www. thewhitepepper.com 04

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Who’s ever owned

too many bags? www. lacerisesurlegateau.fr 05

‘Louis Blue’ and

‘Antoinette’ are Annie’s interpretations. www.

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anniesloan.com 06

Upcycled treats for

your bathroom shelf. www.aimeebollu.co.uk 07

Bake up a feast

in pretty dishes. www. formahouse.co.uk 08

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An easy way to

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never misplace your pen. www.hay.dk 09

Capture that ideas

stream. www.michelle carlslundshop.com

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PHOTOGRAPHY: PHILIP SOWELS, STYLING: HELENA TRACEY, BOWLS: WWW.HOWKAPOW.COM

WEEKEND CRAFTERN00N Gather your clan and rediscover the old tradition of painting easter eggs with our doodled, foiled and crochet versions by Clare Buswell and Hannah Cross

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Moving on up with...

HELEN DEALTRY The textile designer extraordinaire tells us all about her journey from rural England to the top of New York’s creative scene Words: SOPHIE BROWN Photographs: TARA DONNE

Growing up surrounded by the beautiful botanicals of the British countryside spurred on Helen Dealtry’s love of nature, which has inspired an extraordinary career in hand-painted floral prints with a quirky edge.

After earning a BA in Textile and Fashion Design from Winchester School of Art, Helen landed a job as a trainee textile designer at a New Yorkbased studio where she worked her way up to creative director, generating an astonishing portfolio of over 4000 designs along the way.

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Having honed her craft working with several major interiors and fashion brands, Helen co-founded her own business in 2008 from a studio in Brooklyn, New York, that she shares with her dog, Dudley.

When not working on projects for some of the biggest brands around, Helen designs her own range of bold, bright and beautiful scarves, as well as teaching floral painting classes.

We sat down for a chat all about her style, making New York her home, and turning her passion into a business.

How did you kick off your career in textile design?

After I graduated in 2000, I exhibited at the New Designers Show in London and this really great studio from New York offered me a textile design placement. I never had any intention of leaving the UK, and I thought ‘I’ll do it for three months, then I can always come back.’ But I did three months, then decided to do another three, and it just went on from there.

While I loved it in New York, I decided that I wanted to go back and work in London just to see which city I fancied settling in. So I came back to the UK and designed in an amazing textile studio, but then I got offered a full-time job at the same place in New York.

I went back and worked my way through that company to become Creative Director.

I was there for eight years in-house before the opportunity to grow my own business arose, and I made the leap.

What does a typical working day for you look like?

I wake up at around 6.30am and check the fun stuff like Instagram and Facebook while I’m still sitting in bed. Then I get up

INTRODUCING tea & a chat

‘It’s always been my dream to have a dog and take it to work with me.’

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at around 8am, get ready, put the kettle on, make my tea, feed Dudley, and check my list of to-dos that I normally make sure to prepare the night before.

Then I walk to the studio with Dudley, which really is an absolute pleasure. It’s always been my dream to have a dog and be able to take it to work.

From then on my day is really just getting checklist things done. I’m usually at the studio until about 7pm, then I head home, write my to-do list for the next day, and then relax as much as possible.

How do you organise your time effectively in order to run a business?

Dividing and conquering the week is what works best for me. It’s taken me a while to work this out, because organisation wasn’t a skill that came naturally to me. If I’m working on a project then I’ll set aside, say, four hours just to get it done – it has to be in chunks of time.

I split my week into days. So Monday and Tuesday are about organisation, outreach and prep – getting all of the groundwork done. If I don’t do that, then

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Helen in her

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The bright and

Brooklyn studio,

bold prints that

painting her

Helen is known for

watercolour florals

work perfectly on

by hand. Her paints

large scarves.

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A cosy corner in

are the two items

Helen’s apartment is

she could never

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live without.

colourful cushion.

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PHOTOGRAPHY: PHILIP SOWELS, STYLING: HELENA TRACEY, MODEL: LEANNE MEGSON

Sewing

hack

The Sequin T-shirt

Update a plain tee with a pinch of geometric and a sprinkle of shimmer – Sachiyo Namegawa shows us how

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Closet PHOTOGRAPHY: PHILIP SOWELS, STYLING: HELENA TRACEY

colour Add a touch of fun to your wardrobe with Jesse MacKenzie’s colourful plastic-wrapped clothes hangers

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LIVING home tour

Black and white is injected with warmth in Emilie Rousseaux’s character home Words: HELEN SELF Photography: CORINNE SCHANTÉ-ANGELÉ Styling: MARIE LACIRE

Getting the keys to her new house in Amiens, France, on her birthday four years ago was the best present that designer Emilie Rousseaux has ever had. It’s been a highly significant one too, not only offering a huge renovation project for Emilie and her partner, Greg, but also turning into the inspiration and launch pad for her home décor and accessories brand, MilieO. The house is a typical old ‘Amiènoise’ home – narrow and long – and before Emilie and Greg

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LIVING home tour

This page: Gold is the accent colour that Emilie and Greg chose for their dramatic renovated attic bedroom.

The triangles over the bed are MilieO wall art stickers.

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