Minus Sun

06 02 2014

Valentine’s hair slides and rings

Here are the limited edition resin hair slides and rings for this year’s Valentine’s day. Red hearts and dots are embroidered on pink fabric encased in resin.

18 01 2014

the Controlling Girl’s shirt dress calico ver.

This is the Controlling Girl’s shirt dress of “It rained into her room.” collection in calico. The collar, cuffs, and the flap pocket on the lower right have hand drawn dots and lines pattern representing rain. The breast pocket has bubbles in water drawn. The layered pockets on the lower left shows rain dripping into the smaller pocket. The hand stitched elbow patches are teardrop shape and there is an umbrella symbol drawn on the sleeve plackets. Short lines are drawn along the curved hem representing blanket stitch to be used in the final version. Buttons are my handmade trapped resin embroidery buttons.

09 01 2014

the Suicidal Girl’s dress calico ver.

This is from my 3rd collection “It rained into her room.” It looks like a blouse and a skirt but it is actually connected at the waist line. The front opening has button loops and navy covered buttons, the collar is pointy at the back with cotton ribbon trimmings to represent a handkerchief, the small breast pocket forms a teardrop shape with the hand drawn dots.

24 12 2013

Christmas cards 2013

Merry Christmas everyone. These two are my newly designed Christmas cards this year, “These are all mine” and “Not that bothered” with pen and colour pencil illustrations on a navy background. They both have “but Merry Christmas.” printed inside. I’ve been making 2 designs every year for 3 years now so there is a set of 6 different illustrations now. You can see the past designs here. I may continue the same series next year or start a new series, I have a year to think!

16 12 2013

Commissioned Controlling Girl’s shirt dress

This is a commissioned piece of the Controlling Girl’s shirt dress calico version from “minus the sun, night all day” collection. The marks and lines are drawn by hand and not actual embroidery, only the elbow patches are hand stitched. It is almost the same as the original but the resin buttons have embroidery inside instead of sequins. Also, it has a different mood because the calico I use is not always the same and I often combine different ones.

11 12 2013

“minus the sun, night all day” character postcards

Here are the character postcards of my 2nd collection. The postcards of my 1st collection had a white background with pencil & watercolour illustrations with text describing each character. These have black backgrounds with handwritten design notes in white with digital illustrations. The back side has a girl silhouette stamp logo and address lines made of tiny crosses. Hope you like them. I’m keeping a set for myself and looking forward to growing my collection with each collection!

26 11 2013

“You’re all mine. (You’re all in me.)” paperback edition

As you may know, I make a story and a story book for each collection. I always display the embroidered fabric books at events and I enjoy people enjoying them. Now, there is a paperback edition of “You’re all mine. (You’re all in me.)” which you can buy. It is 56 pages long and contains pictures of the original fabric book and the text printed in a typical paperback style. The glossy cover has the logo, the title, and the line-up of characters (front style on front cover, back style on back cover). It’s imitating vintage books with the sun tanned look but it’s part of the design printed on thick silky paper. Hope you like it.

19 11 2013

beaded silk crocheted earrings in white

I’ve made one of my popular items in white this time. There is a gold beads & hooks version and a silver beads & hooks version. Aren’t they pretty? There are red, navy, and grey earrings as well.

10 10 2013

“You’re all mine. (You’re all in me.)” T-shirt

Here’s Minus Sun’s first T-shirt featuring the first collection “You’re all mine. (You’re all in me.)”. Illustrations are printed on both sides of black cotton T-shirts. The front has outlines and names of the characters in white and the back has line drawings of the characters wearing their clothes from the collection. No.0 the Controlling Girl, the main character, stands in front of the rest of the girls in distinctive poses with hidden faces.

It will be sold at Selvedge Winter Fair, 29-30 Nov 2013, Chelsea Old Town Hall for £20.
I am a size 6-8 and wearing a mens size S here. There are sizes S and M.

29 09 2013

stitched bracelets

I’ve made a new design for my stitched bracelet range with the title of my 2nd collection.
It’s reversible with “MINUS THE SUN” and “NIGHT ALL DAY” stitched on each side.