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We’ve recently restocked the hemp and organic cotton muslin. This is a lovely light weight muslin which is a great multi-purpose fabric. Because it’s organic, it’s lovely and soft, and it’s also 150cm wide which is a bonus!
More organic fabric here.
We’ve just introduced a new range of basic denim fabrics to our online fabric store. These a really nice fashion quality denims that we’ll continue to restock. There are four new fabrics in the range:
Denim fabric 140gsm
Denim blue 140gsm – this is a beautiful soft, very light weight denim suitable for clothing, especially children’s clothing.
Denim Blue 260gsm
Denim Blue 260gsm – This is a fairly standard jeans-weight denim in a darkish blue. It’s suitable for structured clothing of all sorts.
Denim Blue 320gsm
Denim Blue 320gsm – This is a heavier weight blue denim suitable for cushions and upholstery projects (or very structured clothing).
Denim Charcoal 340gsm
Denim Charcoal 340gsm – This is a nice darkish charcoal coloured heavy weight denim. It’s suitable for cushions and upholstery.
All of these denims will fade with washing and wearing. They may also appear slightly darker online than they actually are (the 140gsm denim is is the lightest in colour). We’re happy to send customers swatches of these. Just request them via our Swatch request form.
I was recently flicking through my copy of the Prints Charming book above (which I absolutely love) and I found this inspiring little footstool upholstered in denim, very cleverly screen printed on the reverse side and embellished with embroidery. Love it! A beautiful example of what you can do with classic denim.
We often get asked if we stock upholstery fabric. It’s a tricky question to answer as upholstery fabric is traditionally very heavy and 100% synthetic. But we find that many customers are specifically not looking for this type of fabric. They’re after something natural, more earthy looking and textured to suit a contemporary interior. So we’ve created a new category in our online fabric store for Upholstery Fabric. We’ll continue to add fabrics to this ranged as they come along.
One of our lovely customers, Marcia, sent us these photos of a beautiful cot quilt that her mother made. It’s made from a Cloud 9 organic cotton fabric.
Marcia’s mother said that she absolutely loved sewing with it. We often hear this about sewing with organic fabrics as they are softer than normal cotton and have a beautiful silky hand.
A big thank you to Marcia for sending these beautiful photos!
So, who is the handsome man? And, what does he have to do with fabric?
Ahhh, well let me tell you…
Ty Pennington hosts loads of home renovation and DIY television shows in North America and the UK. He also designs furniture and home products for Sears and Howard Miller Furnishings. And in his spare time, he whips up a couple of fabric collections under the Ty Pennington Impressions label.
The collection we are stocking is the home decorating one (the other range is a lighter weight quilting collection). It’s printed on 138cm wide curtain weight fabric. I really love this collection. Many of the home decorating fabric designs that come out of the US don’t really suit the Australian colour palette, lifestye or general aesthetic. But this one does. It’s really relaxed and contemporary and includes neutral colours at it’s core, peppered with punchy spice and cool ice.
See the full fabric collection – Ty Pennington Impressions.
I’ve just added two new hemp and organic cotton fabrics to the fabric shop. The Hemp and organic cotton textured birch has lovely variegated natural colours and is ideal for all sorts of home decorating, such as curtains, blinds, cushions, lampshades, slip covers and light upholstery. The Hemp and organic cotton stripe brown co-ordinates nicely with the textured one and is also a great home decorating all-rounder.
Laminated linen? Ok, so it doesn’t make for a very exciting picture, but how practical is this? This morning’s breakfast, last night’s dinner, simply wipe it clean. Mess sorted.
It looks like a garden variety natural linen, until you touch it and realise it’s coated. The coating is a thin matte laminate. Not too shiny. Not too stiff. Just right.
Laminated linen – available from our online fabric store.
We’ve recently added the latest release Cloud 9 organic cotton prints to the Cloud 9 category. The ones above are my favourites.
We’ve also added this new collection of organic cotton fabrics called Circa 50 by Birch Fabrics. They are printed on light weight base cloth which is so lusciously soft. Perfect for childrens quilts, quilt covers and clothing.
I love a before and after photo. Of anything really. Renovations, botox, weight loss….
