Jennie Maizels Clothes Plasters
January 27, 2010 by Kat · 6 Comments
Jennie Maizels is a local artist who has illustrated a whole host of children’s books with Kate Petty, written the very useful Finger Food for Babies and Toddlers Cookbook and who has now designed these revolutionary Clothes Plasters.
Clothes Plasters are Jennie’s distinctive drawings beautifully reproduced as embroidered clothes patches. Now if the thought of sewing patches onto clothes has you rolling your eyes then fret not for these patches iron on. They patch holes and tears giving a whole new lease of life to well worn clothes. If you can’t wait to get them on your kids’ clothes don’t reach for the scissors simply use them to customise clothing for a unique look. I am really impressed with the picture selection as they have managed to incorporate trends whilst being childlike not twee. You can get them in two collections of ten plasters: blue tin (above) and pink tin (below) for £9.99 each from Little Sunflowers. I think these would make really great party bag fillers.
Love the retro look of the illustrations. I think my favourites are the robot and the cupcake.
I’m impressed by the fact that the “pink” one is a little bit girly, but not overly so.
We bought them and we love them – the flying fairy looks v. funky on my six yo’s denim jeans and has been through the wash loads w/o coming off. Tempted to iron the cupcake onto my own jacket…
I’m very lucky to have now received both sets and they are divine! Completely agree that the pink set is not excessively girly and could easily iron them on my own clothes :0)
I bought the boys ones. They are gorgeous but they are small. In fact most are tiny, the pirate is smaller than a 2 pence.
Yes, it’s because they are for repairing holes in clothes rather than being decorative or overpowering.