Coming in April 2010: Art Journal, the second line for Windham Fabrics by Bari J. Ackerman. Her first, In Full Bloom, premiered at Market in the Spring, full of hand-painted florals and soft romantic colors. Art Journal continues in the same vein, with more hand-drawn designs, flowers, and now delicate nests of sparrows. Beautiful and [...]
What’s that I spy? Let’s take a closer look. OH MY LANDS IT’S A FABRIC STASH. The lovely and talented Jennifer Casa of JCasa Handmade gives us a quick tour of her stash. Look+ at those colors! I want to just take a bite of those reds and oranges! That’s … weird, isn’t it. I [...]
Aaah! I always forget about showing examples from my own collection. Here is a good leaf barkcloth of mine — I was drawn to the combination of chartreuse and green, bright red and burgundy. With gold running through the veins.
Erin Kennedy‘s debut collection for Andover Fabrics hit the stores last month. It’s called Painted Posies and I love its Penn Dutch Modern feel. Here’s how she describes the collection on her blog: I love painting, and over the last few years I’ve gravitated more and more to decorative and repetitive imagery. While fabric has [...]
Fibers from the sometimes-invasive water hyacinth are being developed into sustainable fabric. The plant is sometimes invasive, but it just sounds lovely, doesn’t it? A new discovery for me, the Fiber Organics shop, also has a blog, and I’ll definitely be spending some time browsing the archives. These posts caught my eye: Zero-waste pattern layout [...]
I’ve never seen a print like this — like a ceiling fan viewed from below. One yard of Blue Leaves and Calico, c.1950s, available from Antique Fabric.
Deborah Moebes is the owner of Whipstitch (a longtime True Up sponsor) and the new Whipstitch Lounge, a modern stitch lounge in the heart of Atlanta. Her house, especially her basement studio where she stores Whipstitch’s inventory, was flooded in last week’s torrential rains. Read her harrowing story here. We’re all grateful that she and [...]
These two fabrics are from Lecien’s Home Styling collection of heavyweight 80% cotton 20% linen blends. Found at Cotton Blue.
I featured the Liberty Art Collection on Friday, now here are some of my favorites of Liberty of London’s most recent season of Tana Lawn prints. I’m just about finished up sewing my first-ever dress so I’m paying a lot more attention to garment fabrics. I tend to wear darker colors so the predominance of [...]
Pink leaf barkcloth at Revival Fabrics. One 46 inch wide x 2 yard remnant is $69.
Flair for Fabric (Canada): 20% off Heather Bailey fabric and sewing patterns. (through 9/30/09) Fabric Deli (vintage fabric, Australia-based): 10% off everything. (through 10/16/09) Modern Retro Textiles (Australia) is having a progressive sale of 10-20% off all Japanese textiles. Each week, different Japanese products will be on sale, changing regularly through 10/31/09. Right now, there’s [...]
Vintage 50s-60s graphic squares, fruit, and leaves fabric in cocoa, pink, and aqua from Etsy seller violetsandgrace. 1.75 yards, $20.
Above All Fabric: Sale section has been updated and all sale items earn bonus points this week. Banberry Place: European fabric 10-25% off, quilting cottons 15-25% off, Japanese fabric 25% off. (through 9/30/09) Blackberry Quilts: 10% off your entire order with the code ACORN. (through 10/31/09) Denver Fabrics: Fabric inventory reduction sale: cotton jersey, moleskin, [...]
Here’s something to chew on through the weekend. If you watched last night’s Project Runway, you probably caught Heidi lobbing something along the lines of “it’s home-sewn mess” to Ra’Mon about his design (above). And in last week’s newspaper challenge, the phrase “arts & crafts” was thrown around with disdain. This has been a running [...]
Mod Green Pod’s new Luxury Solids Collection has arrived, and is in the shop. Ooh boy … another wave of Ed Emberley licensed textiles! via print & pattern Tanya Whelan is giving away a fat quarter pack of her new line Dolce, courtesy of the Fat Quarter Shop. Ink & Spindle is having another Open [...]
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