(Welcome to Leah, one of the finalists in our Blogger search. She's writing from Oakland. Comment away!)

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Oakland’s Evo Noche makes screenprinted products that manage to combine a spare winsomeness with a hint of punk attitude.

Founded by artist Erin Brookey and husband Jason Roeder, who operates the press and moonlights as the drummer in legendary epic-metal band Neurosis, Evo Noche handprints “cute but strange drawings of things you aren't used to seeing on fabric.” The subjects of Brookey’s simple, almost childlike illustrations include wrenches, utility knives, screwdrivers, and weeds. Somehow, though, the designs come off more sweetly melancholy than menacing -- especially when they’re reproduced on such symbols of domesticity as tea towels, aprons, napkins, and pillowcases (the company has a line of screenprinted clothing designs as well).

Among our favorites:

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Evo Noche’s goods are available online as well as at the Seventh Heart in San Francisco, Industrielle and Rock Paper Scissors in Oakland, and Moxie in Santa Rosa.

-leah