Hand Quilted With Love
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about “collections” as applied to designing things like fabric and projects for books — why we make them and how consumers respond to them. Having a theme can serve as a much-needed constraint and help you filter and edit when you are bombarded with ideas and need to
Knit Sampler and Cable Knit are the newest from Aunty Cookie (Shannon Lamden) in Australia, in yellows, greys, and blacks and hand printed on a (woven, not knit!) linen cotton. Read more about them on her blog and buy them on Etsy!
Tags: aunty cookie, australia, shannon lamden | Category: Fabrics 2013
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{ Through Streets }
Maria in Sydney, Australia handprints fabrics under the name Blueberry Ash. The linen and cotton fabrics are printed with water-based inks and sold on Etsy to a worldwide audience. Maria is also involved with the company Digital Fabrics, which I will have to add to the list of digital print bureaus!
{ Apples }
{ Huts }
{ Shazka }
Valley View is Saffron Craig’s newest organic cotton collection for Fern Textiles in Australia. It is composed of eight prints in a bright spring/summer palette of pink, yellow, purple, and black, with elements of mod 1960s, cross stitch, and (as always!) the Australian landscape. There is a cheater print and a signature Saffron border print too.They are available directly from the Saffron Craig website, and coming very soon from Honey Be Good in the U.S.
Prints Charming has been designing collections for Australian craft & fabric store chain Spotlight. It’s their signature happy, bright, hand-screenprinting-inspired look, only on fashion fabrics! Their next collection (bottommost photo) will be on pinwale corduroy.
Tags: australia, Cotton Corduroy, pinwale, prints charming, voile
Shannon Lamden aka Aunty Cooky is one of the original Australian Fabric Mafia members, and now she will have some of her sewing- and needlework-inspired designs printed in the upcoming Hipster quilting cotton fabric collection from Riley Blake. Each print will come in three colorways — see them all here. They’ll be out in May and are available for wholesale order now! And her hand-screenprinted fabrics and goods are still available here on Etsy.
Sarah Fielke‘s newest collection is for Spotlight, a fabric store chain with locations in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. There she joins the ranks of Denyse Schmidt’s DS Quilts collection, Prints Charming, and Reprodepot. The colors are perfectly spring for us (though they’re deep into summer there) and I like how subtle the water theme is. Sarah has these fabrics for sale on her website for customers in the non-Spotlighted countries of the world.
And only a month until Sarah’s new book comes out, too!
In the recent post on Banksia Bloom by Saffron Craig, Rebecca mentioned Utopia Goods as another textile producer featuring Australian flora and fauna in their designs. Flowering Gum, above, “features Bruce [Slorach]’s illustrated honeyeater birds feasting on the nectar of a feathered flowering gum nut. If you look closely, there are different varieties of honeyeaters on the backdrop of a subtle organic polka dot.” Waratah, below, is based on a bush found in New South Wales. “Its unusual and beautiful form has been the inspiration for the decorative arts and it’s been found on pressed metal ceilings, carved
Banksia Bloom is the newest GOTS certified 100% organic cotton collection by Saffron Craig for Fern Textiles. I know I’ve heard of these “kookaburras” and knew they were Australia-related but had no idea what they were, now thanks to Saffron I know they are birds that frequent rivers. The collection is also populated with Australian exotica like gum flowers and banksia trees. It’s an education, beautiful design, and sustainability all in one! The fabrics are available now directly from the Saffron Craig shop, and stateside by Honeybegood.
