This truly is a versatile skirt! The Make It Perfect Versatile Skirt is by far our best selling skirt pattern. It’s a simple wrap skirt that is super-easy to make: no zips, no buttons, no clips, no hooks and eyes, no fuss. It’s great for both summer and winter skirts.
We’ve made this one from the Echino Birdsong fabric in green. You could tone it down a bit for winter with long boots and a cardi, or liven it up in summer with a t-shirt and flat sandals. There’s a lot going in this and most of the Echino fabric prints, so I like to tone the rest of the outfit down with plain colours and shapes.
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How fabulous is this retro couch? Ana, one of our lovely customers sent in this photo. She found the couch for $10 at the local tip and had the cushions covered in
Echino Scooter fabric. The couch works brilliantly as part of their playroom. Thanks for sharing these Ana!
Well it’s officially Autumn and the leaves are beginning to turn. Which of course is a nice little segway into these new leafy prints from Etsuko Furuya.
I’ve recently uploaded the new Echino collection to the store. These ones above are some of my favourites. This whole collection is printed on the linen/cotton basecloth which makes it very versatile.
The Birdsong print, in particular is really lovely. The fun part is deciding which part of the print you’re going to use for which bit of your project. I’m currently making a versatile skirt out of the Birdsong green. I’ll post a photo when it’s done.
These Echino fabrics were really popular when we first had them in stock. I think the combination of great ‘boy’ colours printed on a beautiful cotton/linen base cloth made them winners. Fortunately, we’ve been able to reorder them this time (which is unusual as Kokka will often only do one print run) and they’re available here.
One of our incredibly talented customers, Maria, sent me these photos of an amazing jacket she designed and made using Echino Bird to Hang fabric in gold. I love the shape of the jacket and I particularly love the way she has quilted the fabric following the grey lines in the print.
Maria has just finished studying fashion design at TAFE in Brisbane and this jacket was part of her last collection. The collection was so successful that she won a scholarship to study fashion design in Paris! Congratulations Maria, and thank you for sharing these gorgeous photos.
The current Echino colleciton is still dribbling in. We’ve added a few more of these fabrics here. I wore this skirt to a trade show recently, and I had about 10 different people ask me where I got it from. It was amazing!
This range is a good all-round fabric which can be used for so many different things, big or small…
This fabric works well in clothing as the linen content makes it drape nicely. It’s a particularly good weight for a skirt and irons up nicely. There’s a lot going on in the pattern so I tend to tone it down a bit with a black cardi and black boots.
I’ve finally got around to photographing this skirt that I made last year. This Echino bird print was so popular that we reordered it a few times, but unfortunately it’s since been discontinued.
Stay tuned for the new Echino collection though! We’ll be uploading some of this brilliant collection to the web site in the next few days and have the balance of it on backorder to be delivered in the next couple of months.
Happiness is…a couple of spare hours on a Saturday afternoon, a staple gun and some Echino fabric! I whipped up these little babies and hung them in our hallway (sorry bad lighting when I took the hallway photo).
These great prints were a hit the first time around, so they’re back! Check them out here.
