taking a break

woodland friends II

Fabrics from Ellen Crimi-Trents Woodland Friends II have just been put in the shop. Ellen's first collection , Woodland Friends, was quite a hit , so for all the woodland themed fans, here are fabrics from the newest collection of deers, moose and hedgehogs.....

carolyn gavin "wild thyme"

new fabrics from Carolyn Gavin's collection "Wild Thyme" for P&B Textiles can be found here......I am a big fan of her company Ecojot 100% recycled fab paper products and love her fabric designs....

Pamela Mostek

Pamela Mostek is a well known quilt artist and author of several books on the art of quilting. Here are fabrics from one of her fabric collections for Clothworks, "Avalon" that I just finished putting online. I thought volksfaden could use a little more purple....pictured above is also a quilt using the Avalon fabrics and here is a link to the pdf for the quilt...

keiki "wee woodland"

Another very fun collection from Keiki for Moda has arrived...this collection is full of cute graphics and wonderful fall colors.....volksfaden keiki collection

kleinformat 2

Hot off the press....the second issue of kleinformat has just been unpacked and put online...in this issue...back to school, make a baby kimono or mei tai, travel tips for Münich, interview with Liesl Gibson and Jane Foster and much more....

organic cotton info evening 2

The kids clothes pictured above are some of the samples I made for our organic cotton info evening...the fabrics used can be found in the volksfaden organic category or in the category Aura Herbal. I don't often find the time to sew so I did really enjoy taking the time to actually make something out of these fabrics! This was the first of what I hope will be many organic cotton info evenings with lebenskleidung, revoluzzza and siebenblau .....