The Miz Mozelle Dress & The Mission Maxi

Two NEW stunning Jamie Christina dress patterns!

The Miz Mozelle Dress is a vintage inspired dress featuring a peter pan collar, elastic waist, and a keyhole neckline buttoned at the top.

The Mission Maxi is a soft, free flowing maxi dress sewing pattern with plenty of options to choose from: tank top maxi, halter top maxi, and godet back maxi. Can even be made into tank tops too!

Stretch fabrics with drape are recommended for both of these patterns; however, you can use woven fabrics too. Just go up one size for the Bodice, Collar, and Sleeves. For best results, choose a fabric with a lot of drape. e.g. jersey, silk and knit cotton blends.


Both patterns are in a booklet format including full size pattern pieces, glossary of terms, and illustrated instructions in color.

NEW Alexander Henry Fabrics

Lovely new selections of Alexander Henry fabrics now available in store. Four small collections of coordinating designs Griffith, Barclay, Larkspur and Harajuku. Our extensive range of Alexander Henry fabrics are becoming increasingly popular for curtains and decor, in particular childrens bedroom decor but many designs are also popular for clothing. The great thing about Alexander Henry fabrics is there is something for everyone and many fabrics will suit a wide array of projects.

Griffith Park Pink and Blue



Griffith Song Pink and Blue

Rolling Hills Pink

Griffith Floral Pink and Blue

There is a funky 70's vibe to the Griffith collection in two wonderful colour ways, pink and blue shown above and a red, blue and yellow also available in store.

Barclay Snail Pink and Mustard

Barclay Flower Pink and Mustard

Barclay Snail Latte, Mauve and Duckegg Blue

Barclay Flower Mauve and Grey

 We are loving the Barclay Snails... who would have thought a snail could be so adorable!!

Larkspur Birds Verbena

Larkspur Circles Verbena

Larkspur Meadown Verbena

Larkspur is a stunning collection of designs featuring beautiful watercolour birds, circles and florals. This one is the soft muted colour palette but a stunning multi-coloured brighter version is also available.

Harajuku Peony

Harajuku Lady

Harajuku Lady is a stunning, quite detailed, large-scale contemporary asian-inspired fabric with a lovely watercolour look. This fabric would make lovely wall art to compliment an asian-inspired interior.

What is your favourite design and what would you create with it? Leave your comment and we will select a winner to receive a 'surprise' Alexander Henry fat quarter pack.

Sherbet Pips Childrens Fabric

Sherbet Pips by Aneela Hoey for Moda is an irresistible children's fabric collection perfect for any number of projects from nursery and bedroom decor to sweet children's apparel and accessories. A clever collection  including whimsical designs of swinging girls and children scooting as well as the most delightful scarf stripe and fun play dot coordinate.

This is Aneela Hoey's first fabric collection for Moda and we suggest that if you love it as much as we do you purchase soon before it literally 'scoots out the door'! My girls are particularly taken with this sweet collection as their scooters and swing are the two things they enjoy the most and both have requested a scooter skirt to pair with their tights in winter, and a scarf of course!



Image courtesy of Aneela Hoey

Head over here for some wonderful inspiration and a free tutorial for a beautiful 'Girl on a Tree Swing Mini Quilt' tutorial shown above.



Echino Winter Collection 2011

                                                                               

Another superb echino collection by Etsuko Furuya. This time the Echino Winter Collection 2011 is printed on an extra wide width 'sheeting' making it ideal for quilt covers and bed linen. It is also a little lighter and softer than the usual echino cotton/linen blend as its composition is 85% cotton / 15% linen. This weight still works well for cushions and homewares and also has a beautiful drape for skirts. An extra wide spot makes a great coordinate or quilt backing to accompany these stunning designs.

One of the great things about echino is that the colourways between collections match back with each other making for some beautiful unique design combinations for your projects.

NEW Echino Fall 2010



Echino Perch

Echino Fall 2010 has just arrived and is available in store now! This collection has a large focus on birds along with a gorgeous animal themed design called 'Woodland' which is very similar to its echino predecessors Quiet Ground and Grassy Plains. In keeping with all the former Echino collections, this range has all the bold and striking colourways that we have come to love in Etsuko Furuya's designs.

Below and above are each of the designs along with fabulous 'Echino' inspiration! Visit our store for the full range of colourways available. Popular uses for this fabric range from clothing and bags to home decor pieces such as cushions, lampshades, quilts, tablecloths and napery, wall art, blinds, curtains and even upholstery.



Echino Flap


Echino Flap has a gorgeous larger scale bird in wreath design on one half of the fabric width and a smaller scale bird design on the other half of the fabric width. The spots on the solid colour run down the middle separating these two stunning designs. This fabric would look stunning made into a cushion or tablecloth or dress like Etsuko's above.

Echino Story

Echino Story features a beautiful 'cheater' print. This design would look magical made into a quilt cover or cot set for a child's bedroom or nursery.

Echino Woodland

Echino Bonbon

We look forward to adding many inspirational creations made up in these fabrics by our talented customers to our gallery in the coming months. Happy Sewing and Decorating! 

Sprout Design in New Colourways



A couple of weeks ago we received the full collection of the NEW Sprout Design fabrics in gorgeous new fresh and modern colourways. These have proven very popular in store and include many of the original Pamela Walker designs as well as a variety of talented Australian designer prints. Sprout Design fabrics in this category are printed on a wide width 'natural' 100% cotton drill. This new range would suit childrens' bedroom and nursery decor but are also widely used by many of our customers for children's clothing and bags.

Enjoy sewing with Sprout and please email us any of your creations for our inspiration gallery as we would love to see your fabulous handmade items.

Amy Butler Soul Blossoms

Introducing Amy Butler's NEW stunning fabric collection Soul Blossoms - In Store Now!

Amy Butler shares with us her personal travels to India with this exquisite collection. Dreamy jewel toned prints in multi-hued flowers and designs - uplifting and passionate - weave together Amy's ethnic inspired story. Three truly amazing saturated color collections; Passion, Joy and Bliss, work in a harmonious treasure box palette for endless exotic combinations. As with all of Amy's collections, these fabrics look fabulous made into both adult and children's clothing, bags and cushions.

And what better way to show off the Soul Blossoms designs in all its glory than with loads of inspiration from Amy Butler...

One of my personal favourites, this spectacular Sari Blossom design has a beautiful intricate border running along both selvedges and would look lovely at the base of a wrap skirt or kaftan or as a feaure on a bag. .

Soul Blossoms Disco Flower

Soul Blossoms Peacock Feathers

Soul Blossoms Temple Doors



The gorgeous Soul Blossoms Home Decorating fabrics will be available soon. Please pop over here for a visit this weekend to see all our inspiring new fabric arrivals!

Happy sewing & summer decorating!

Elissa x





Balloons Over Paris

If you can't visit Paris bring Paris to you with these NEW gorgeous whimsical Paris fabrics! 'Balloons over Paris' is a lovely collection of fabrics with beautiful Paris scenes and hot air balloons on a medium weight natural cotton/linen blend. The design is mirrored on both selvedges with the balloons floating in between.

  

Also a part of this lovely collection is French Balloons! Our house is set up high and we are fortunate enough to see hot air balloons floating in the distance always bringing much excitement from my daughters in the early hours of the morning! There is something about hot air balloons and the magic feeling of floating above the world!

                                                                         Enjoy xx