This is part II of Hillary Lang’s blog tour. See here for part I, the giveaway! — Kim K. Wee Wonderfuls: 24 Dolls to Sew and Love by Hillary Lang STC Craft, 2010 If, like me, you’re one of the legions of longtime fans of crafting blogger/goddess Hillary Lang and her influential work at Wee [...]
Today we’re thrilled to feature Hillary Lang‘s new book, Wee Wonderfuls: 24 Dolls to Sew and Love as part of the blog tour organized by Hillary and her publisher STC Craft. I don’t think you can find group of bigger vintage fabric freaks than Hillary, me, and Kim Steckler (who wrote the book review today). [...]
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 [...]
Hoffman lavender and white daisy vintage chenille bedspread cutter (sold) from classytrashgirls on Etsy.
Here’s another unusual find — a vintage chenille rug with a cowboy design, c.1940s-50s, from hbgordon on Etsy.
Ummm, WOW, right? This vintage peacock themed chenille bedspread (c.1950s-60s) was sold by Atomic Space Junk. See more examples of crazy insane chenille peacock bedspreads here on eBay.
Variegated plaid chenille from a vintage French-made bedspread, again from Chenille Bliss on Etsy.
I’ve been really into texture lately, so I thought I’d make vintage chenille the next Daily Swatch theme. Chenille has its own set of fans, there’s a huge market for it, and they just don’t make it like they used to, so I’m really looking forward to showing you my picks. Above: Cabin Crafts bedspread [...]
Elephants from the collection of janssendesigns on Flickr. ( vintage shop | blog — hey, she went to the Weekend Sewing Workshop in Vermont! )
I usually don’t feature finished products on the Daily Swatch, but this elephant fabric was too good. This super-sweet (and underpriced!) wallet made from c.1970s fabric is from the Naples, Italy-based manekiara on Etsy. She has a stand-alone shop too with more cool bags and accessories.
Craft Challenge: Dozens of Ways to Repurpose a Tea Towel by Nathalie Mornu, Lark Books, 2010 With so many sewing books currently on the market, and even more free tutorials available online, it is getting increasingly difficult for authors to distinguish themselves and earn some coveted space on your (or my) bookshelf. But Nathalie Mornu [...]
The Daily Swatch features a piece of vintage fabric (almost) every day. Themes change periodically. Please add your own examples of the theme to the True Up and/or Vintage Fabric Flickr pools. Reproductions of Pamela Walker’s 1970s fabric designs, including “Elephant Walk” from 1973, are available from sproutdesign in Australia. True to the originals, sproutdesigns’s [...]
We’ll wrap up the tribute to Horrockses Fashions today with three green dresses featured in the book. The signature Horrockses’ look was a full-skirted dress with simple but interesting bodices in fabulous cotton prints. Image credits: Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, by Norwyn Ltd. (top); collection of Christine Boydell, photograph by Nigel Essex (middle); [...]
Floral stripe in three colorways by Joyce Badrocke for Horrockses Fashions (date unknown). Badrocke created the o’s with a manual typewriter. Image credit: Archive of Art & Design at the V&A. Book review of Horrockses Fashions: Off-the-Peg Style in the ’40s and ’50s by Christine Boydell here.
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