Posts tagged ‘red’

Daily Swatch: Dekoplus

1970s Dekoplus floral, from Something Fine on Flickr. Vicky has the largest collection of Dekoplus fabrics I’ve seen — check out this Flickr gallery for more.

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types — Diamond

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

Daily Swatch: Pattern Types — Half-Drop

Vintage Red Flower Fabric from marjieww on Flickr. Can you find the repeat? More or less.

Daily Swatch: Cross Stitch/Pixel

This is the most retro-video-game-like of them all. Again, from Antiquefabric.com (they must have a special place in their hearts for this style). One yard of 35″ wide fabric, c.1950s, $16.

Daily Swatch: Pennsylvania Dutch

Red Pennsylvania Dutch-y fabric from Japanese shop Pindot. I’m hosting my first Thanksgiving dinner this year so I’m going to sign off till Friday, when I’ll post a holiday edition of the sale alerts. Happy Thanksgiving and long holiday weekend, everyone!

Daily Swatch: Cats

Kitty detail from a vintage nursery fabric, from Niesz Vintage Fabric (shop) on Flickr.

Daily Swatch: Gingham

This wacky border print with coquettish ostriches accented by black and white gingham is from Make Me! Vintage. It’s 45″ cotton canvas c.1970′s, priced at $14/yard. Updated to add: here’s another print from the same collection — an allover print in brown — for auction on eBay.

Daily Swatch: Houses

Sheep in Sheep Houses, from the collection of vasiliisa on Flickr. I didn’t notice at first, but houses have sheep head and sheep feet. Isn’t that the oddest/coolest thing? In case you want to add a dose of surrealism to your kid’s bedroom …

My Fabric on COLOURlovers

My vintage red fabric collection got the COLOURlovers treatment — thanks evad! I knew about this site previously, and thought they just pulled palettes out of inspiring images, but the inspiration and usefulness doesn’t end there. First, you can click on the palette, rank it, favorite it if you’re a member, download the palette image [...]

Holiday Fabric Roundup and Show Us Your Stash Collide!

This dreamy Christmas color story is from Brooke, whose new blog Inchmark should be on your must-read list. When I asked for permission to post she not only said yes but offered to ID the fabrics for us! So this is a value-added post. All fabrics are from Purl Patchwork; not all are currently available. [...]

Daily Swatch: Roy G. Biv With Guest Curator Jenny, From Blempgorf

This week it’s a Roy G. Biv theme with guest curator Jenny from the blog Blempgorf. I’ve long been an admirer of Jenny’s quilting and vintage fabric collection … we’ve remarked more than once that we seem to have the same exact tastes. She’s been writing Blempgorf since May 2005. You can also find her [...]