Festival of Quilts 2013

A few snaps of some of our favourites from this years Festival of Quilts. Excuse the rubbish lighting!

Summer Sale

UK Fabric. Really?

So, just over a week ago we took a little trip down South and came home with the new collection Enchanted - Forest by Phyllida Coroneo for Dashwood Studio - a new UK based textile design company, based in the UK, yes, that's right, UK BASED! Very exciting. And it's a double winner that the first collection is absolutely gorgeous!

The company's Creative Director, David Sweet has bundles of experience and knowledge around this field, most recently, he was the Creative Director of P&B Textiles in the US. But now he's showing what the UK can do. And boy, looks like they can do it rather well!

Enchanted Forest is inspired by 'Phyllida’s colour palettes and bohemian florals are influenced by her love of interiors and fashion styling, photography, culture and the British Landscape.‘The Enchanted Forest’ Collection was inspired by childhood memories of the Somerset Countryside and the magical series of ‘The Faraway Tree’ books by Enid Blyton'

 

 

 

We have completely fallen in love with this collection and couldn't resist a little make of our own. So here's Jo's mini quilt. And if you check out Phyllida's blog, you can see some other gorgeous makes using this collection.

The next collection is Petite Street by Wendy Kendall, which, guess what, is utterly stunning too. This collection is due in August and we cannot wait to get out hand on them!

 

 

 

It's brilliant that Dashwood Studio has offered a platform so the talent of British designers can be shared across the quilting and home-sewing communities. 

We cannot wait to see what comes next from Dashwood Studio, I have an inkling its going to be good.

Festive Forest Giveaway

Head over to our Facebook page to enter our giveaway :)

 

 

 

 

 

The dates for our Kids Summer Holiday Workshops are as followed:

Friday 26th July - Cupcake/Robot Cushion. Ages 7-11. 1:30-3:00. £6.50

Using felt as a base along with buttons, ribbons, embellishments, hand and machine sewing to make a shaped cushion.

Tuesday 30th July - Owl Beanies. Ages 7-11. 10:30-12:00. £5.00

Make a small owl using fabrics with hand and machine sewing.

Thursday 1st August - Fabric Collage Pictures. Ages 9-13. 1:00-3:00. £6.50

Create pictures using fabrics, stitching and lots of embellishments.

Tuesday 6th August - Hanging Charms. Ages 7-11. 10:30-12:00. £5.00

With different shapes such as birds, stars, hearts ect, with beads and ribbons to make a charm to hang.

Thursday 8th August - Pencil Cases/Make-up Purses. Ages 11-16. 1:00-3:00. £8.50

Chose your own fabric to make an individual pencil-case/make-up purse with a zip.

Tuesday 13th August - Pencil Cases. Ages 7-11. 10:30-12:00. £5.00

Stitch and then embellish your own individual pencil-case with a zip.

Friday 16th August - PJ Shorts. Ages 11-16. 1:00-3:30. £12.00

With fabrics of your choice make a pair of pyjama shorts. Using a pattern and machine sewing

Wednesday 21st August - Drawstring Bag. Ages 9-13. 10:30-12:00. £6.50

Make a drawstring bag to keep all of your sewing supplies. Embellish with buttons, ribbons and machine sewing.

Friday 23rd August - Tote Bag. Ages 11-16. 1:00-3:00. £8.50

Pick your own fabrics to make an individual tote bag with an applique design.

Tuesday 27th August - Animal Softies. Ages 7-11. 10:30-12:00. £6.50

Create your own animal friend with different fabrics and embellishments to personalise your creature.

Places are limited to 6, so booking is essential. All materials are included in the price.

Moustache Cushion Tutorial

As you can probably guess, us and blogging hasn't happened for the past 2 years. But things are about to change. So we thought our first blog post should be a tutorial! And here it is our Moustache Cushion, made from Riley Blake - Geekly Chic and Super Jumbo Ric Rac.

 

 

This is a totally simple make, but if you want to make it a bit easier just take out the trim.

 

Materials you need:

1 Fat Quarter (I used Riley Blake - Geekly Chic Moustaches)

1.5metres-2metre of a trimming (I used Magenta Super Jumbo Ric Rac)

Toy stuffing

Moustache template (you can find it here. Print out on A4)
 

So, first of all you need to cut out 2 moustaches (make sure that if you are using a one-way print, not to fold it in half and cut both out at once else you might have upside down tashes!)

 

 

Take you ric rac and pin to the edge of one of the moustaches. Make sure your pins are on the fabric side, so when you sew, you are still able to see the moustache shape. If you are using any other trim for example pom poms, pin the edge of the trim to the edge of the fabric.

 

 

Manipulate the ric rac round the curves so it will lay flat and pin the centre of the ric rac to the edge of the moustache

 

Sew the ric rac onto the moustache. Making sure that you stitch in the centre of the ric rac.

 

 

Take your other fabric moustache place and pin on top of the other, right sides together and stitch round the shape, leaving a gap for the toy stuffing.

Clip all of your curves so it will lay flat and snip away any bulk so the points will be pointy.

 

Fill your moustache so it is nice a squidgy and stitch up the gap.

 

Et voila! Your finished!

 

 

Please share any of your own makes on our Facebook page or drop us an email!

 

 

Thanks for reading
Jenni x

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