Paper Fabric
These fabrics printed with basic paper patterns was kicking around Pinterest today. Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best, right? The cotton-linen blend fabric is sold by UniqueShiny on Etsy.
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Meet the Sponsors: Pam Denesyk of Mad About Patchwork
Mad About Patchwork is a longtime sponsor of True Up, and I was happy to get to know owner Pamela better via my Meet the Sponsors series. MAP is one of the few online shops based in Canada. BUT WAIT! Don’t tune out if you live outside of Canada — Pamela carries lots of stuff [...]
Knits and More at Kumquat
I posted about Kumquat a couple years ago — I just checked in again and found some new cute knits (including several sought-after stripes) and wovens for the wee ones, in addition to their adorable baby clothes.
Meet the Sponsors/Giveaway: Selkie’s Stash
Because I wrote some fightin’ words against Australia yesterday, here’s a Meet the Sponsors interview and giveaway JUST for my friends down under. (Is using that Northern-hemisphere-centric cliché worse than saying the U.S. is just as awesome in the hand-screenprinted fabric department?) Selkie’s Stash owner Melinda Smith is offering a a $20 gift voucher to [...]
Meet the Sponsors: Hyggeligt
{ Mer Shell Tana Lawn by Liberty of London } Hyggeligt stands out not only for its unusual name — which you’ll learn about below — but for its colorful, sophisticated, focused inventory. Chantal Lynch is the proprietress of this Canadian brick-and-mortar shop, which is located in the Richmond Row District in London, Ontario. The [...]
Spring Quilt Market 2011: Yara African Fabrics
Yara‘s traditional African fabrics really stood out from the crowd at Quilt Market. Although not traditional quilting fabric, many of these 100% cotton fabrics could be used to make really interesting and different quilts. Yara has a website, but all orders must be placed over the phone. Luckily, the owners are super friendly and will be [...]
Hilco Digital Prints
I’ve been wondering if/when this would happen — a major manufacturer offering digitally printed fabrics. German apparel fabrics company Hilco is the first I have known of. This print, Ink Rings, is on a viscose jersey knit and is sold through the Netherlands-based Jersey Fashion (who ships worldwide, for those of you looking for women’s [...]
Sponsor Giveaway: Mwendas
Mwendas is a shop based in Singapore that sells authentic Japanese fabric from Yuwa, Lecien, and other manufacturers — amongst owner Fridah’s inventory you’ll find difficult-to-find designers Suzuko Koseki, Fumika Oishi, Keiko Goke, and Kumiko Fujita, and characters like Miffy. I’ve included some of my own favorites here. She recently became a True Up sponsor [...]
Help Japan by Buying Japanese Fabric
If you’ve had your eye on any Japanese fabrics, now would be a great time to make a purchase … Matatabi has re-opened after relocating to Western Japan and is donating 15% of sales to Japan Red Cross through the end of April. She has the Nani Iro 10th Anniversary Collection (that’s the Fuccra Rakuen [...]
Gombar’s Fabrics
I’ve never been there, save passing through on a train ride from D.C. to New York, but I have a thing for Pennsylvania. If I had to take off and move somewhere, site unseen, it’d be there. I don’t know. I think it springs from my love of The Office and Penn Dutch … but [...]
True Up Follow Up!
{ Some nicely ripped fabric from my stash. } My post from a few weeks back Do You True Up? garnered lots of great feedback (both in the comments and via email), and I learned a thing or two, so I wanted to post a follow-up. One big surprise for me was that it sounds [...]
Do You True Up?
This blog will turn three years old in just a couple months, and I haven’t yet written a post about the sewing term after which this site is named — trueing up. For shame! Well, let’s make up for lost time. “True up” means means to make balanced, straight, square. In sewing, it means to [...]
Textile Stew: 9/30/10
Jessica’s roundup of people that have copied her Amusement Park fabrics made me kind of ill. I’m jealous of Blempgorf’s latest vintage fabric score. Makes me wish I could make it to Antique Weekend in Round Top, TX this week, but I’ll have to wait till the spring show. This quilt is just extraordinary, and [...]
Textile Stew: 9/8/10
Central Texans! Here’s something to look forward to after being soaked by Hermine. The Austin Area Quilt Guild Show is September 17-19. It has moved to the Palmer Events Center so you know it’s going to be the biggest and best one ever. And Malka is one of the vendors! If you’d like a pair [...]
Happy Labor Day Weekend!
We have a long holiday weekend here in the U.S. and Canada, so I’m signing off till Tuesday. Enjoy the many sales and have a restful three days! What are your plans? I leave you with these irresistible graph paper fabrics (plain linen/cotton, laminated) from Nothing Elegant on Etsy. (via the Crafts Dept.)
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