Archive for the ‘What’s new’ Category

New Liberty Fabrics

We’ve just uploaded these new Liberty fabrics. These are printed on the standard tana lawn, so they’re very light weight and drape beautifully. Perfect for summer/autumn tops and dresses! They are part of the seasonal Liberty fashion range, rather than the classic range and are larger scale than the usual which makes them ideal for women’s clothing.

New Denim Fabric

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

Denim fabric 140gsm

Denim blue 140gsm – this is a beautiful soft, very light weight denim suitable for clothing, especially children’s clothing.

Denim fabric

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 fabric

Denim Blue 320gsm

Denim Blue 320gsm – This is a heavier weight blue denim suitable for cushions and upholstery projects (or very structured clothing).

Denim fabric

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.

Denim fabric project

New Ty Pennington Home Decorating Fabric

Ty Pennington Curtain fabric

Ty Pennington Curtain Fabric

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.

Ty Pennington Bamboo Stripe SpiceTy Pennington Kimono Taupe

See the full fabric collection – Ty Pennington Impressions.

New Hemp and Organic Cotton Fabric

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.

New Nani IRO 2010

We’ve recently uploaded the new Nani IRO 2010 collection to the store. It’s mostly double gauze except for the Poster Fleur prints which are a lovely soft cotton and linen canvas.
Generally in the southern hemisphere we get summer collections in winter and winter collections in summer, but this particular collection has a couple of nice moody, winterish colourways (below).

Embroidered Linen

We recently had these gorgeous linen designs embroidered in India to our specifications. These are really large scale prints, so they’re perfect for blinds, curtains, cushions or table linen. The branches design in particular would look amazing slightly offset so the branches run down one side of the cushion rather than in the centre.

Laminated Linen

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.

New Organic Cotton

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.

New Organic Cotton and Hemp

We’ve recently added some new beautifully textured hemp and organic cottons to the store. These ones above are:
Hemp and organic cotton stripe indigo

The canvas is quite heavy at 350gsm and could be used for upholstery or other projects where you need a tough, textured natural fibre. The other two are lighter and very versatile. I particularly love the mottled colouring in the indigo denim. It’s a nice soft one with a beautiful texture and would be lovely in clothing.

Also new are these gorgeous Ink & Spindle fabrics on hemp and organic cotton. Birch red on cream hemp, Wrens red on natural hemp cotton, and Ginkgo lime and fuchsia on cream hemp.

La Dolce Vita


A little bit art deco, a little bit asian, maybe even a little bit Florence, but beautifully feminine. Dolce is the latest collection by Tanya Whelan. It’s printed on a light weight cotton and would be fabulous made into clothing, quilts or cushions. Sweet!