True Up | All Fabric, All the Time » 2010

Dogs!

{ Fifi’s Frolic from Michael Miller Fabrics } { Hush Puppies from Alexander Henry — also in Brown } And retro dogs at that. Curse you, No-More-Buying-Novelty-Prints-on-White rule!

Sandra Betzina on working with linen, on the CRAFT blog. Not Martha visits Fabric Crush in Seattle. Cloud9 Fabrics has a new BigCartel shop and is offering pre-release swatch sets of Beyond the Sea. Hey look, an ogee! New from BKH Design (Australia). Josephine Kimberling shares her print inspiration and research process on her blog. [...]

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types – Ogee

An asymmetrical ogee design — barkcloth maybe? This one has been hanging out on my hard drive and I don’t know the source — sorry! If you recognize it, let me know.

David Walker: Hopscotch

{ Pinks } Illustrator David Walker‘s latest collection for FreeSpirit is called Hopscotch. Definitely a fabric upon which you and your little girl can agree. Don’t worry, parents of boys (and tomboys), you’ll get the David Walker treatment in May. { Blues & Whites } { Golds & Greens }

Japanese Fabric of the Week

This Sunday Stash entry from Red Pepper Quilts caught my eye. She writes that the flowers are from Cosmo and the dots are from Kiyohara’s Puti de Pom line, bought from Keliani in Australia. Thanks Red Pepper!

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types – Ogee

The Daily Swatch features a piece of vintage fabric (almost) every day. Themes change periodically — right now we’re in the midst of a series on pattern types — so far we’ve covered block and half-drop, diamonds, and bricks. Please add your own fabrics relating to the theme to the True Up and/or Vintage Fabric [...]

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types — Brick Repeats

Well folks, change of plans! I found only a few good brick repeats to show you — I added a few to this Flickr gallery but none of them are strong, textbook examples. So unless you guys find a treasure trove of them (and perhaps add them to the True Up Flickr Pool), I’ll move [...]

Sale Alert Sunday: International Edition

EarthgirlFabrics (Australia): All oliver + s patterns reduced to AU $22. Also Heather Ross Far Far Away reduced to AU $23/metre. (through 3/31/10) Free shipping within Australia on all orders and international customers welcome. Mad About Patchwork (Canada): Amy Butler Love and Midwest Modern 2, including kits for both collections are on sale. (through 3/26/10) [...]

Sale Alert Sunday: North American Edition

Spiceberry Cottage: Alice in Wonderland fabrics, Amy Schimler’s Animal Party, misc. Michael Miller (including the vintage cat print above), and tons more on clearance. (while supplies last) Aunt Bea’s Fabric: 17%+ off on all green fabrics. (through 3/28/10) Banberry Place: All domestic fabrics on sale. (through tomorrow only, 3/22/10) Contemporary Cloth: All Home Dec fabrics [...]

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types — Diamond

Now here’s something you don’t see often — a diamond brick repeat. They are two colorways of the same feedsack, from the collection of kimmymade (shop) on Flickr. I should have covered brick repeats right after half-drops, since they are so similar. If you imagine a perfect grid, in a half-drop alternating columns are staggered [...]

Digital Fabric of the Week

Crying Lightning by totallysevere, sold via the Spoonflower Marketplace. The Totally Severe website also offers a ton of crazy, free patterns for your computer desktop or phone. In other digital fabric news, did you see that Project Runway is having a digital printing challenge next week? At least, that’s what it looked like to me. [...]

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types — Diamond

Red and White feedsack, from the collection of Just-a-Mere on Flickr.

Textile Stew: 3/17/10

Gorgeous new ribbon designed by Camilla Engman, produced by Rosa Pomar for sale in her shop Retrosaria. Anna Maria Horner writes about her Little Folks voile fabrics — including detailed information on sewing with them. And speaking of fabric types, here’s a post about the proper feeding and care of oilcloth. Picclick has been a [...]

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types — Diamond

Feedsack print from the collection of Primrose Design (blog | shop) on Flickr.

Rumba by Hoodie

{ The Ballroom Tweet } I always like to see what Japanese designer Hoodie is doing over at Blank Quilting. Her latest is Rumba, and it’s sure to please all you bird lovers. Plus it’s a manageable little collection. There are only five fabrics on the Blank Quilting site but the shops are selling them [...]