Hi! I am new to the fabric world and I was looking for some good tips on what is the best sheer or gauze fabric. I keep seeing the term voile used and organza. I want something that is really sheer and with a great color print. Any ideas where I can get this or [...]
{ photograph by Robert Rausch } Natalie Chanin is the chief designer and owner of Alabama Chanin, a fashion and lifestyle company focused on sustainable materials and practices. I’m very pleased to host her today as part of her blog tour to promote her new book, Alabama Studio Style: More Projects, Recipes, & Stories Celebrating [...]
Jan Dicintio, aka Daisy Janie, last week unveiled her February 2010 collection, Geo Grand. It’s “six large-scale, bold, sleek+& dynamic+designs,+presented in a rich palette of espresso brown, smoky aqua, sky blue and a sweet apple chartreuse.” I’m loving the retro motifs and fresh, cool colors. Like her current organic cotton canvas and sateen collections, Geo [...]
My fabric order from Bolt 44 (previous post). Love! It feels like very good quality fabric. I’m thinking PJ pants for me, toddler clothes, and quilt backs.
Bolt 44 is a new fabric shop selling overruns from the owner’s childen’s clothing label, Wonderboy, as well as other hand-selected, hard-to-find fabrics. The 100% cotton Bolt 44 Exclusives are utterly perfect for boy projects, but are versatile enough for anyone — and they’re very affordable at $5.95-7.95/yard. Umm, yeah, I just blew my fabric [...]
Nearly all cotton is grown with petrochemical fertilizers, and sprayed with toxic chemical insecticides. The spray kills thousands of people in third world countries. I have not read anything so blunt and horrifying regarding conventionally grown cotton. Wow. Organiccotton.biz is the web version of Fabrics Ltd., a small family-run business out of Wales that sells [...]
My first quilt guild sale two years ago was a bonanza. My second (last year), it was about three weeks after giving birth and the first significant time out of the house by myself. It was pouring rain, I was still delerious, so my memories of it are weird but good. No fabric, but I [...]
About two years ago I went to The Quilt Store in Austin to cobble together a starter kit for my mom, who was just getting interested in quilting. I picked a bundle of solids and a fat quarter pack with some nice prints. A store employee surveyed my choices and I explained my mission. She [...]
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