{"id":359,"date":"2016-10-08T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2016-11-22T04:29:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T04:29:32","slug":"its-the-bees-knees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/its-the-bees-knees\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s the Bee’s Knees"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week’s Spoonflower theme was Prohibition Cocktails – it turns out that America’s ban on alcohol in the 1920s gave rise to some clever mixed drinks, most of them designed to conceal the less-than-ideal flavor of bathtub gin.<\/p>\n

After considering the Whiskey Sour (with fun-to-draw cherry garnish), the Sidecar (with its whiff of Jazz Age elegance) and the Gin Rickey (F. Scott Fitzgerald’s drink of choice), I settled on the Bee’s Knees, because it sounded good (gin, honey and lemon juice), and because I like to draw bees. (Nobody said artists were entirely logical creatures.)<\/p>\n

I studied up on Art Deco style, picked the honey-est yellows and dug out some vintage-looking fonts, then ran the whole thing through the excellent Mister Retro Permanent Press filter<\/a> to give it a vintage printed look. <\/p>\n

The end result was The Bee’s Knees Tea Towel, available now at Spoonflower<\/a> and Roostery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My design just squeaked into the top 25 in Spoonflower’s contest<\/a>, coming in at #24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week’s Spoonflower theme was Prohibition Cocktails – it turns out that America’s ban on alcohol in the 1920s gave rise to some clever mixed drinks, most of them designed to conceal the less-than-ideal flavor of bathtub gin. After considering the Whiskey Sour (with fun-to-draw cherry garnish), the Sidecar (with its whiff of Jazz Age […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[13,16,15],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-design","tag-fabric","tag-spoonflower","tag-tea-towel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lellobird.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}