oliver & s

Some lovely sewing patterns for children, Oliver & S, have recently been added to the Volksfaden pattern category. Oliver & S is the brainchild of Liesl Gibson. Liesl trained at the reknowned Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC and worked for many years for various international fashion labels. She teaches sewing classes in NYC, authors the blog disdressed and now designs lovely and unique sewing patterns for children's clothing. The samples you see above are via the oliver & s blog.
The patterns can be found here.

make your green statement

On the Mod Green Pod blog I read about a "Make Your Own Green Statement" upholstery class
held by Spruce Austin. Students learned basic upholstery techniques and left the workshop with some beautiful chairs covered in Mod Green Pod fabrics. You can see some the results above!
On MGP blog you can also find a downloadable file on how to make these cute storage boxes from Urban Nest and these sturdy drawstring bags. go green.

MoMo "Wonderland"

As a child growing up in Japan, MoMo often found herself retreating into the caverns of her imagination where she wandered through landscapes filled with colorful, fantastical places. Now this young graphic artist has set out to redecorate the world with her patterns, colorful fantasies and childhood musings! MoMo’s designs are bold and colorful with a flare for the surreal. You can check out her first collection "Wonderland" here.

prints charming

Prints Charming is the combined talents of Cath Derksema and Kirsten Junor. They met and worked together in the 80's at John Kaldor Fabricmaker , they went their seperate ways, hooked up again by chance and founded their beautiful printmaking company "Prints Charming".
Their style is described as fresh and modern and they also think of it as being very Australian as well.
Here are two fabrics from the newest collection for Marcus Fabrics, "Rainbow Garden". I am crazy for their bold graphics and fearless use of color!

far far away & wildwood

Erin McMorris
Erin McMorris
Erin McMorris
Heather Ross
Heather Ross
Heather Ross

I have been swamped with new fabric and have been busy photographing it and putting it online so I do realize this blog has been sadly neglected...SORRY! Yesterday more fabric arrived (Momo "Wonderland" & Urban Chiks "Sweet" so there is no end in sight....)
Today I wanted to show fabric from two collections that are just in, Heather Ross's "Far Far Away" and Erin McMorris's "Wildwood".
I am a fan of both of these ladies! "Wildwood" is Erin McMorris's third collection for Free Spirit and each of her collections has been quite unique. This collection has some great retro prints, (the leaf and button prints) but there is nothing retro really about her colorways, full of fuchsia, gold and lime tones!
"Far Far Away" will be, for the moment and hopefully not forever, Heather Ross's last fabric collection. Dreamy princess and the pea prints and unicorns are to be found in this collection in startingly bold colors.
So if you have a minute stop by and check out the newest from Ms. McMorris and Ms. Ross here.

museum brandhorst

On May 21, 2009 a museum housing the amazing private collection of 20th and 21st century art from Udo and Anette Brandhorst, will be opening it's doors in Münich. Being a Cy Twombly fan, this museum has a priority spot on my places to see list if only to see his series of "Rose" paintings. The museum itself(designed by Sauerbruch Hutton) looks like a huge strip quilt. The facade has 36,000 ceramic strips in varying shades of 23 different colors. There is a great flickr group on the museum's facade (where the images above were taken from) that can be seen here. More info on the museum and it's collection can be found here.

miss buttons and friends

miss buttons
mr. electron
miss allsorts
Meet Miss Buttons and her pals, Miss Allsorts and Mr. Electron. These little peeps can be made by hand or machine and by young and old. Theses softie patterns were designed by Angela White of "Sew Your Own" and the photos above are from the album on her website that happy crafters willingly have on display. You can see more here.
These patterns can be found by volksfaden here.