Japanese Fabric to Show Off!

We have some wonderful new Japanese Fabric to tell you about.  These are some really interesting selections, so I’d love to know what you think.

Part of the Echino Chelsea range by Etsuko Furuya 

Retro style (think Liberty) Hortensia by Kokka

Gorgeous fabric features zebras, deer and birds in shades of chocolate, coral, turquoise and lemon by Etsuko Furuya.

Silhoette scenes from your favourite fairy tales by Kokka

Cotton / linen base featuring forest mushrooms, Barvarian birdies, nordic horses and tulips from Amsterdam, by Kokka

Reproduction Quilt Fabric

Here are some lovely “new” fabric ranges especially for the quilters out there. These are reproduction fabrics from Judie Rothermel.

Here is a sample… you can find many more in the fabric store.

Indigo, Pewter and Honey

Charleston V

Aunt Grace Backgrounds

I’m interested to know what people think about these collections. Drop me a comment.

New Fabric Range

We’ve got a fabulous new fabric range to tell you about. Its called Red Letter Day by talented designer Lizzy House.

What do you think? The Red Letter Day fabric collection is some of the cutest, most vibrant fabric I’ve seen in a long while. Its perfect for quilting and kids clothing (duck pajamas anyone?).

If you want to see how crafty peeps are using this fabulous fabric range, visit the Red Letter Day flickr pool. There are some amazingly talented people out there!

Lastly there is a FREE pattern using the Red Letter Day Fabric here.

New Melly & Me book

Here it is… Melanie Hurlston of Melly and Me’s first book, Kaleidoscope.

Inside you’ll find a collection of 12 inspiring projects, complete with templates. The book features patterns for:

• bags;
• softies;
• quilts; and
• embroidery

Paula’s Weekender Bag.

Another clever customer. Paula has made this gorgeous Amy Butler Weekender Bag using pink and chocolate damask fabric.

Thanks for showing us Paula and good luck with your operation!!!

New Sukie Stationery

Thought I’d quickly mention that we’ve just added some new stationery sets by Sukie to the store.

Sukie Correspondence Cards

Sukie Animals on Parade

Sukie Mix & Match Stationery

Sukie Box of Labels

If you don’t know Sukie… they are Brighton (UK) based Darrell & Julia Gibbs.

For those of you that love Jenny Hart’s Sublime Stitching, we’ve also just received the following two items – a Baby Bib Embroidery Kit and Stitchable Stationery.

Sublime Stitching Baby Bib Embroidery Kit

Sublime Stitching Stitchable Stationery

My next job… 3 big boxes of fabric to add to the fabric store!

We’re biased for bias binding

Spent the last few days taking and manipulating photos of our bias binding for the fabric store.

For all you quilters you can find our Bias Binding here.

So what do you think? Digital camera course earlier this year and a whole lot of practice with GIMP… hopefully these pics are starting to represent just how nice this bias binding is!

Sisters’ Market.

Ok- my life is so mad that this is the first chance I’ve had to relay how the Sister’s Market went (almost 10 days after the fact). It’s been hard to keep on top of things with the wee one being settled into what I am from now on going to refer to as “Baby kinder” to help alleviate some mummy guilt. Settling him in and trying to find bits of my house under mounds of washing (both clean and dirty) have become consuming tasks, never mind a little thing called THE SHOP!

So here is the story of Sisters’ Market in pictures (it was fab, come and visit me in June!)

Let’s start with the day before- Elliott helped me get organised. Good boy!

A small selection.

Delicious Fat Quarters, waiting to be snapped up. And they’re fat free!

Handmade birdie brooches by Pia Handmade.

Handsome hanks of hand dyed knitting yarn made by USA girl, Knitty Dirty Girl.

Hand finished, oiled and painted (sustainable) Tassie oak knitting needles.

Hand knitted baby booties (made by my mum!)

Birdie key chains. Hand made by me!

An enticing selection of our goodies on display.

More boo-tee.

A small selection of our ace craft books. And some teeny weeny cheeky matryoshkas peeking out too.

A fun day was had by all.

… in store.

Just wait until you see what I’ve got in store for you! Lots of lovely stock coming in daily. Bias, fabric, patterns.

It’s all rather exciting!

Look what we’ve got!!!

Look what arrived on Wednesday this week! I have been eagerly anticipating it’s release.

Don’t you love it when you’re all excited about something and when it happens, it’s better than you thought it was going to be? Well that’s what the Meet me at Mike’s book is like. I want to make everything in it. I could look at the pictures all day!

Here is a quick look inside at some of the wonderful projects:

…and the lovely back cover!

Go on, pop over to the store and get yourself one. You won’t be sorry!

We’ve been busy adding New Fabric!!!

The last several weeks have seen a steady stream of new fabric arriving at our door. Thought you might like to see some of the exciting new bolts of fabric we now have instore.

Pink Circles from Valori Wells lovely Urban Flannels collection

Summer Bubble Flower by Kaffe Fassett

Fuchsia Park Fountains from Amy Butler’s new Midwest Modern 2 collection

Orange Starburst from the Rainbow Gardens collection designed by local talent Prints Charming

Sun Fortune from Anna Maria Horner’s Good Folks collection

More stock is arriving all the time (and I’m putting it onto the site as quick as possible) so keep checking the Fabric Store for updates.

Would love to hear what you think of the new ranges.

Katrina

Clever Customers

I am always so proud of my customers and so pleased when they share with me pics of their finished project.

Look how clever Kimberley and her daughter are. A family effort, Miss Blossom and Miss Buttons.

Yeay!