Skinny LaMinx has a new collection out called Rough Cuts. The designs are all based on papercuts and are “inspired by Scandinavian style, but perfectly at home in Africa.” You can get fabrics by the meter and finished goods through Etsy, through these stockists, or if you’re in South Africa, through the web shop or [...]
Skinny LaMinx just released a beautiful new self-produced collection. Flower Dreams is all about florals, of course, and features her signature papercut motifs. The fabrics are screenprinted in South Africa onto an approximately 7 oz/square yard (that’s a medium-heavy weight), 55″ wide cotton-linen blend. The fabrics (along with her other fabrics and textile products) are [...]
Admin note: The site is still experiencing outages and significant slowness, but I have a professional on the case now … we should be better-than-normal by this weekend. We’ll be posting whenever we can access WordPress ourselves. Thanks for sticking with us! { photo by Melissa Frantz } Cloud9 Fabrics has so much goodness going [...]
New Release Tuesday is my periodic roundup of new fabric sightings (mostly quilting cotton) . These fresh arrivals have started to arrive in fabric shops and are ready to buy. Retailers, as always, if you carry any of these collections, let us know in the comments. Seems like it’s either feast or famine with new [...]
Cut Out & Keep by textile designer extraordinaire Heather Moore (Skinny LaMinx) is the first Designer Series collection for Cloud9 Fabrics. It’s based on her papercut designs, and as you can see, the collection is composed of four pairings of two prints using the same colors. I really like this approach — not that I [...]
Oh, Michelle and Gina, my camera must have been weeping tears of joy after learning of the artists of your upcoming Designer Series (Heather Moore of Skinny LaMinx, Julia Rothman, and Geninne D. Slatkis) because just about all my pictures turned out super blurry. I managed a few nice shots of your new Forest Friends [...]
I’m utterly captivated by Skinny LaMinx (Heather Moore)’s new print Cloud Birds. Keep an eye on her Etsy shop for yardage and products in seafoam and granny smith. Related posts: Preview: Cut Out & Keep by Skinny LaMinx Skinny Laminx: Flower Dreams Skinny laMinx: New Design Skinny LaMinx: Rough Cuts Show Us Your Stash: Skinny [...]
{ Linked Birds in gold by Heather Moore } German fabric shop Volksfaden has released its own collection of organic cotton prints, designed by an impressive roster of international design stars: Heather Moore (Skinny Laminx), Jane Foster, Hitomi Kimura (Kalla Textile Design) and Ellen Giggenbach, Sandra Monat, and Volksfaden owner Linda Gaylord. The fabrics are [...]
Here’s some icing on the cake for this momentous day: Heather Moore [Skinny La Minx]‘s Obama Commemmorative Cloth from a while back has been produced! It’s designed by Heidi Chisholm, and produced by Cape Town company Shine-shine (no website). Orders can be placed with Tracy Rushmere at tracy@shineshine.co.za. (I’ll post the specs and cost here [...]
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