Fabric Love!

Certainly one of my favourite japanese fabrics this year! I have already cut into a couple of colourways for some new barcelona skirts. Forest is a batik-style scattering of trees & apples with the odd bird perched in a tree, in flight or standing beneath these gorgeous trees. Printed on a 100% light weight cotton makes it the perfect dress fabric but any of these colourways would look fabulous made into anything really.

Stylish NEW Sewing Patterns by Jamie Christina

So many of us sew for our children and forget about ourselves and how good it feels to make something for yourself that is a little different to the stock-standard me-too clothing available from many department and chain stores.

I have great pleasure in introducing to our store and Australia the beautiful stylish contemporary sewing patterns by Jamie Christina. I continue to search for ladies patterns that allow the beautiful unique fabrics available today to 'shine' and Jamie Christina sewing patterns certainly 'fit the bill'!

Jamie's latest pattern above, the 'Sunny Day Dress & Skirt' looks divine made up in Nani Iro as on the cover but would look fabulous in any unique light - medium weight fabric for summer. If you are looking for a lovely fabric for a dress or top why not shop our newly created 'dress category'.

The 'Honey Girl Sundress & Top' would make another fabulous addition to the summer wardrobe and there are some great variations with this pattern like sleeveless or adding shoulder straps, with or without ruffle, big buttons or small buttons, and of course your choice of either a dress or top.

Take a look at some of the gorgeous pieces Jamie Christina has sewn from her exquisite patterns using Echino & Nani Iro fabrics below for a little more summer inspiration!

Jamie also has a beautiful 'Pretty Ditty Apron' pattern that you may just want to wear to pick the kids up from school!

not to mention an awesome hooded scarf to brave those cold mornings...

Jamie's patterns present great value for money as they are beautifully presented and written with concise instructions as well as detailed illustrations for you to easily follow.

I hope that you are inspired to create something for yourself very soon and I await the next addition to Jamie Christina's sewing patterns in anticipation.

November Books Childrens Fabrics

November Books is a quaint and charming NEW Japanese collection of fabrics with german writing and is available in a lovely range of muted colourways. The word 'Geschichte' featured within these fabrics is german for 'story' or 'history', making November Books a gorgeous fable on fabric. The popular Red Riding Hood, Little Boy Blue & Thumbelina characters appear on some of these. This versatile collection would be lovely for children's bedroom & nursery decor, clothing and general craft. Please check our new arrivals for other recent additons to our store.

Boys Fabrics!

Last week I uploaded a lovely new girly fabric collection 'Hopscotch'. This week I would like to highlight some of the fantastic boys fabrics we have on offer. We have many requests to stock more boys fabrics and to be honest it is a little more difficult finding 'great' boys fabrics - why is that?

I hope there are some fabrics here that some mums will enjoy for their boys, be it for a backpack, pencil case, belt, clothing, bedroom or nursery decor....

Hoffman Beep Bots and A is for Alligator

Truck Stop

Fabrics above are a mix of some of the amazing Japanese fabric collections, Trefle, Kiyohara and Nani Iro.

Alexander Henry 2D Zoo and Bauhas.

Of course, there are more and they can be found here. There are also some fabulous spots and stripes for boys here and here.

Hopscotch!

Hopscotch is a fabulous NEW collection for the little girls and cetainly makes me reminisce my carefree childhood days with special friends! Printed on a light weight 100% cotton and each design available in four fantastic colourways these would look gorgeous in a child's bedroom or for applique, book/library bags, chair bags, quilts, clothing or even sweet gift cards... the possibilities are endless!

Yes, I do remember the skipping song games we used to play, hopping on our bikes and meeting at the park, catching tadpoles in our nets at the creek.. oh to be a kid again... what fun!

Small Scale Japanese FQ Competition Winners!

Congratulations to the winners of our FQ Japanese Fabric Competition... Kelly, Melinda, Kate, Yvonne, Kim, Sarah, Kris & Brianna. Please email your fabric choice from those listed on the below post and an address you would like your FQ mailed to.

Lovely NEW Small Scale Japanese Fabric Arrivals

A selection of some of our NEW small-scale Japanese fabrics perfect for that 'little' project! I can see some lovely hair accessories, buttons, wee shoes, jewellery and bag linings made from a few of these.

Leave us a weee comment with what you would like to make using just one fat quarter of one of your favourites here and we will select eight responses and mail one fat quarter of their choice of the above Japanese fabrics to play with! If you are a mum like me you may just find a wee amount of time these school holidays to make something from it!