Maude Asbury may or may not be a real person, but she can make a mean fabric collection or three. Calypso, out now, is an exciting mix of graphic florals and geometrics. By the way, I love Anna Griffin/Blend‘s fabric ladder displays. Kitchy Kitchen is also out now. Tinsel is for Christmas 2012 [...]
I’m not sure what Yuwa’s Live Life collection is about, since we have a kitchen print, a kid’s print, and a Christmas print here. They’re all retro and they’re all sort of large scale, and all super cute. I couldn’t stop flipping through the Christmas print, each colorway was irresistible.
It’s Michael Miller time! They introduced their color stories at the Spring Quilt Market, and this time around there are more groups and more fabrics in each group. The Michael Miller Studios collections are still organized by theme — the color stories provide another way to group prints (and their new Cotton Couture solids) together [...]
In the Kitchen is Alexander Henry’s ongoing retro-domestic collection. This year’s popular Farmdale was part of it, and I think these two upcoming collections will be just as coveted. Both are very 60s mod and cheery. The first group with the snails brings in the popular and versatile Heath fabric weave print to their quilting-weight [...]
Oh boy, am I ever crazy about this retro Scandinavian (?) kitchen print. It’s a cotton-linen blend from Yuwa, spotted at Retrosaria in Portugal. I haven’t seen it in any other shops in the U.S. or abroad, but if I do, I’ll let you know.
Last week’s Kawaii design challenge on Spoonflower was one of my favorites — I voted for more entries than I ever have before! The winner, Tea Time! by Deborah van de Leijgraaf (bora), would be perfectly at home in Japan. Check out van de Leijgraaf’s Etsy shop and website for lots of great T-shirts and [...]
Japanese shop Cotton Crayon has lots of retro/repro goodness I haven’t seen elsewhere. (Most of these fabrics can be found on the fourth link down in the left-hand navigation, then click the button at the very bottom of the page to navigate forward.) I’m not sure if they ship internationally, but I found this shop [...]
Here are two rare out-of-print Japanese kitchen themed prints, found at Reprodepot. Notice the charming Jinglish in the Kitchen World fabric. I spaced on joining Sew, Mama, Sew!‘s big giveaway day this time around, but I’m enjoying seeing what’s out there. Ms. Pink Penguin is giving away some awesome Japanese and vintage fabric, including the [...]
I’m running low on motif-based theme ideas for the Daily Swatch, so I thought I’d take a breather for a while and turn my attention pattern types. You might remember this post on directionality that I wrote with the help of Michelle of Cicada Studio and now Cloud9 Fabrics. I’ll be devoting a week to [...]
Vintage kitchen fabric, c.1930s-50s with vegetables, from eBay seller littleveggie (how appropriate!). 36″x36″ piece, buy it now for $22.99
Noel Tea Towel designed by Luther Travis, from – julia – on Flickr. I see some echoes of Tammis Keefe’s Noel hankie designs — I wonder which came first?
I hope you’ve been enjoying The Daily Swatch kitchen theme these past two weeks. In my search for vintage kitchen prints I got sucked into these great Flickr groups that have lots of kitchen textile goodness, both new and vintage. From Kitchens Past — The Vintage Kitchen Pictured – Pennsylvania Dutch Folksy Tablecloth from Pardon [...]
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