This past weekend, the Rossendale Art Trail for Spring 2026 took place. I took part with a painting series (acrylic on canvas) titled “Negative Creep”, shown at Ninja Coffee Bacup: During the weekend, I was present at my studio at Valley Artists Rossendale to facilitate the communal canvas painting activity. This is a large canvas… Continue reading Rossendale Art Trail 2026 (Spring)
Author: Alex
I have been crafting since early childhood and currently do mostly sewing and illustration. 'Almalauha' is the project I started to showcase my sewing/fashion hobby, at least that was the plan. But because I like a million different arts/crafts things, I'm just going to share most of the creative things I do on this blog.
Reduction printing: first try
I just tried reduction printing for the first time choosing lino as my medium. I used an artificial lino base: it’s some kind of plastic/rubber. I feel this is easier to cut than the traditional lino and it also lasts longer, although the latter is not a concern for reduction printing, because in reduction printing… Continue reading Reduction printing: first try
OL13 Bacup Zine edition 001
It’s finally done, the first edition of ‘OL13 Bacup Zine’! I started this community (maga)zine late 2025 and organised two workshops for it. People could also send me their contributions digitally so that I would get a good mix of arts/crafts as well as written contributions. Not only is the zine available for free online… Continue reading OL13 Bacup Zine edition 001
A5-square organiser
You will know if you’ve read some of my earlier blog posts that a few years ago I got really into rings organisers. You can read my first post HERE, and you can read my post about making my own Personal-size rings organiser HERE. For this first attempt I used tarpaulin (“tarp”), a kind of… Continue reading A5-square organiser
Bacup zine!
Later this month the first of two sessions will take place for Bacup Zine, a new workshop series I am organising for people in/around Bacup! A zine is a self-published magazine or booklet. The idea for these workshops is that we all make one or several contributions to the zine. If things go well, I’ll… Continue reading Bacup zine!
Rossendale Art Trail Autumn 2025
Autumn has started and that means the Rossendale Art Trail is back! I am taking part again, this time with 5 medium-sized paintings. I’ll exhibit them at The Circle in Bacup, where I have shown my work before, also as part of this art trail. I’m doing the final bit of work on the last… Continue reading Rossendale Art Trail Autumn 2025
Rossendale Art Trail – Spring 2025
From May 30 to June 1, 2025, the Rossendale Art Trail (RAT) took place. I was lucky I could take part by showing three of my smaller works at The Circle in Bacup: These paintings are for sale, please view my eBay shop or message me on Instagram. I saw lots of amazing artwork, and… Continue reading Rossendale Art Trail – Spring 2025
Alphabet Superset – Completed
In all my excitement of having completed the Alphabet Superset, I forgot to write about it here! I started this challenge around September 2023 and worked my way through every letter of the alphabet over the course of about a year. I chose textile collage/applique as the medium to create every letter. I know other… Continue reading Alphabet Superset – Completed
April 26 – Collage craft workshop in Lancashire
I finally committed to organising a collage craft workshop! I had been thinking about organising some kind of craft workshop for a while now but wasn’t sure yet what kind of craft I wanted to do. I initially wanted to do acrylic on canvas but that would cost quite a lot of money with regards… Continue reading April 26 – Collage craft workshop in Lancashire
Free-motion sewing
I’ve experimented a little with my free-motion foot for machine sewing. Using this foot whilst you have dropped the machine’s feed dogs allows you to move the fabric freely in any direction. In this way, you are essentially “drawing” with your stitches. It’s not super easy to control even if you try to go fairly… Continue reading Free-motion sewing