Check out the new Spoonflower-printed Flock series from My Aunt June! I love that crazy little bird. Medallions, too — I’ve been working on this post for twenty minutes and I just realized there are feathers in those medallions. It’s like seeing the secret picture in those, um, secret picture things. Moving on. Flock is [...]
I just love it when they all coordinate, don’t you? A stack of Rosalie Quinlan‘s Grandmother’s Flower Garden, from Penelope Waits (blogged here). A stack of Denyse Schmidt’s Katie Jump Rope from Badlands Quilts‘ blog, destined to become a Single Girl quilt. (Total parenthetical: I’ve wanted to make one of those for ages.) A nicely [...]
Welcome to Part Two of the Felt Craft Book Roundup: the cute, the zakka, the Japanese. (Part One is here.) Kata Golda’s Hand-Stitched Felt: 25 Whimsical Sewing Projects, by Kata Golda, STC Craft, 2009. Cute simple sweet projects, for kids, home and self. Get the full True Up review here. Did someone say cute? I [...]
What to do with all that felt, you ask? Make something! (Or, if you’re like me, READ about making something! That is almost as good.) These selections feature sweet and sophisticated projects for home and accessories. Stay tuned for our recommendations on cute, zakka, Japanese and softies. Fabricate: 17 Innovative Sewing Projects that Make Fabric [...]
Bonjour! Has Felt Week whetted your apetite for the softer, fuzzier side of fabric? Are you ready to experience wool you could sink your teeth into, if the thought of chewing on this weren’t so weird? Are you wondering why my metaphors always seem to veer off into the culinary? Me too. Never mind that, [...]
Kata Golda’s Hand-Stitched Felt: 25 Whimsical Sewing Projects, by Kata Golda, with photography by Frank White, published by STC Craft, October 2009, 128 pages. Some people have comfort food. Me, I have comfort reading. So Kata Goldman’s Hand-Stitched Felt is like mashed potatoes in craft book form, a book I’d like to crawl into on [...]
Let’s call this … Part One Of What Will Most Likely Be Many, Many Parts. There are many ways to store fabric (and we’ll get to those another day) but for me, you can’t beat the Nicely Folded, Stacked On A Shelf method. Simple. Beautiful. Easy. Beautiful. Did I mention beautiful. Let’s nose around, shall [...]
Just as her Flower Bucket collection hits shops this month, Genevieve Gail is already hard at work polishing her next one: Gypsy Garden. (You+ know, I’m not entirely certain that fabric designers sleep.) Her second collection for Windham, Gypsy Garden is just so … Genevieve. Very bohemian, lots of florals, very rich colors. Things are [...]
Here’s a selection of fabrics from the “studio hovel” of Colleen MacDonald, sewer, crafter and owner of BCharmer Designs. (If this is a hovel, then my sewing room is … whatever’s messier than a hovel.) How I love that Pacific Northwest light. She had a few words to share with us on her obsession: My [...]
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 [...]
Bring on the falling leaves and the pumpkins and the cocoa. A great stack of autumn colors from Ashley of Filminthefridge on Flickr. She writes on her blog about the fall quilt it’s becoming — boy, what a perfect combination. A nice pair of vintage prints in autumn colors from Kimmymade on Flickr. Her thoughts [...]
Twine Fabrics is a textile design company based in Cape Town, South Africa, putting out an assortment of designs on a blended basecloth of 55% hemp and 45% certified organic cotton. Twine is run by old friends Cara Rosa and Chloe Townsend, designers who share a love of “all things natural, quirky, and fresh.” Their [...]
Sometimes I’m just so grateful for the invention of custom digital fabric printing, you know? Just like I’m grateful for the invention of television. It’s quite the age we live in. Today I found Liz Scott‘s wonderful Wonderfluff fabrics via Wise Craft, where Blair Peter writes: “Just when you think fabric can’t get any prettier, [...]
Jayne Stewardson’s Butter Creative offers “quirky, vintage-inspired fabric prints” in her Etsy shop, featuring storybook-inspired ideas and motifs hand-screenprinted onto mid-weight cotton in her studio in Melbourne, Australia. Above is depicted a windy day in her Quirky Trees and Birds print, and below is a retro inspired flower print. That rake up there just kills [...]
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