Archive for the ‘Australian fabric’ Category

Lampshade in Cloth Boardwalk

I love this little scene in the May issue of Home Beautiful magazine. The lampshade is covered in Cloth’s Boardwalk Charcoal fabric and embellished with some crochet flowers. Love the Megan Park cushions too! In fact, I love everything by Megan Park.

Before Birch. After Birch.

I love a before and after photo. Of anything really. Renovations, botox, weight loss….

So, here’s a little chair that’s actually gained weight and style. I picked this up ages ago on eBay for $3.50 and had it reupholstered in Lara Cameron’s Birch print in Dusty Pink fabric. I’m really pleased with it!

It looks great in my baby daughter’s bedroom, especially matched with these gorgeous fabric wall stickers from Love Mae (I used the tree with the birds and positioned it so the longest branch stretches over her cot).

Mae: I DO love you!

New Ink & Spindle Fabrics

I’ve recently added these new Ink & Spindle colourways to the store. The Lace Fans at the top is a lovely new design in black on a natural hemp and organic cotton blend. We’ve had the ginkgo and birch designs printed in these new colourways: a gorgeous contemporary dusty pink and very deep inky blue. I’m really pleased with how they’ve turned out.

I particularly love the dusty pink colourway (and I’m not a particuarly ‘pink’ person). I’m having a chair for my daughter’s room covered in the Birch Dusty Pink and will post photos when it’s done.

Kristen Doran Hummingbird Fabric

Apparently, a hummingbird’s brain makes up 4.2% of its total weight (the largest proportion of any bird). Of course, that would explain why this hummingbird skirt looks so smart!

It’s made from this Hummingbird fabric by Kristen Doran. Also available in olive and blue (below). Both are printed on a nice versatile cotton/linen base cloth.

It’s Easy Being Green

We also received this new(ish) Pippijoe design called Tussock. Simple, stylish and in these two colourways, very sophisticated!

New Shannon Lamden Fabric and Pattern

I’ve recently uploaded this new apron pattern by Shannon Lamden into the shop. It works really nicely with the new colourways (above) in Shannon’s Letterhead fabric. The Letterhead print would also be fabulous in a skirt or a panel in a skirt for a spot of industrial chic! Mmm, very Melbourne.

Dan300: Love your work

So much style with so little fabric! Dan300 sell fabric (much of it vintage) covered button accessories including hair pins, hair bands, brooches, rings, and some very sharp cuff links. Their range is beautifully distilled into four mini-collections: Mod, Retro, Vintage Chic and Kiji. If you haven’t seen their web site, I urge you to take a peek. It’s just gorgeous.

Why ‘Dan300′? It’s the number plate from owner, Daniella Rosen’s old 1981 model car. Heh!

Dan300 – love your products, love your packaging, love your web site, love your style!

Kristen Doran Cuckoo Clock Panels

These new Cuckoo Clock fabric panels from Kristen Doran are just gorgeous. You could turn them into many different things, but I think they are perfect for a statement cushion to sit on an armchair.

The ideal backing fabric would be the organic cotton canvas in red (above). Red is hard to match but this one is pretty close. Some other options are this beautiful textured grey linen to go with the grey/blue colourway. The organic cotton canvas in chocolate or leaf green both match the green colourway really nicely.

Yesterday’s Fibre, Today’s Fashion

We have these gorgeous new fabrics from the Ink & Spindle studio now available in the store. They are hand-printed in Melbourne on either a linen/cotton blend or a hemp/organic cotton blend. These natural fibres work so well with hand-printing and really add to its textural appeal.

I’m going to use the red Wrens print and red Bloem print to cover three canvases to hang in our hallway (wrens in the middle and a bloem on either side). I’ll show the results when they’re done.

New Designs from Thea & Sami

New from Brisbane designers, Thea & Sami (who write a great blog here), these gorgeous floral hand prints. The black is printed on cream hemp/organic cotton and the red is printed on the most beautiful soft, textured natural linen (image doesn’t really do it justice).

These are home decorating weight fabrics, so cushions, slip covers, tablecloths, lamp shades etc would all work really well. The red on linen would also work well in a simple a-line skirt (see Thea’s blog for a fabulous picture of a wrap dress in this print).