Little Red Riding Hood

I fell in love with this fabric the second i saw it and have tried to collect all the colourways. I'm creating a collection including this great lampshade and several cushions in all the colours i have - green, red, pink and purple.

Christmas Decorations

My favourite time of year is here at last! I love the lights, the music, the food and especially the tree decorations. Here's some of the little cuties i will have for the 3 great christmas markets i will be doing in december. Allie's Attic at Paddington Town Hall is the first one next Saturday 12th December, so get in early as i only have a limited number made up. My hands and poor little machine are looking forward to a rest....

Little drummer boys will be available too. Remember the Matryoshka and Drummer Boy Softie Dolls, beautiful fabric designed by Sydney's own Kristen Doran? Well, these are their baby brothers and sisters.

Also at Kirribilli Art&Design sunday 13th dec + Fox Studios EQ Market sunday 20th dec

Handmade Christmas Cards - new ones being created all the time!

New Softie Owl and Koala

Talented Sydney Designer Saffron Craig has just launched a new range of Owl and Koala softie doll fabric. It was such a pleasure to make these little cuties up. Great to work with beautiful local designed textiles.

So soft and cuddly, perfect to fall asleep with and make a great pillow for little heads to rest on.

The back design is just as gorgeous as the front.

More New Fabric From Melbourne and Afar

People ask me for red cushions so much i just had to get some - so here's the start of the Red Series

New fabric from the Ink and Spindle studio in Melbourne was great to work with and so exciting to have more local product in my range.

But the Classic Animal collection from Japan is such a winner and mix and match is fun.

I've got the ladybugs in green too, so cute!

Time for Christmas Cards

I love fabric so much i just have to use it on cards too. Just made these great christmas cards from some cute japanese fabric, they come in all sorts of festive colours and designs.

October Fabric Fest!

Amazing new cotton linen fabrics have arrived on my door step and just waiting to be made into new cushions and lampshades!

Snow White fabric from Japan becomes a quilt

I fell in love with this cute pink Snow White fabric and i just finished making it into a quilt. It's joined by a garden of flowers, chocolaty ladybirds and dots galore. Can't wait to make up it's purple sister fabric.

That's the last of my cherry fabric for the back, but the sunny yellow suits it so well.

With the organic bamboo wadding inside, it has a lovely drape. It's going to be difficult to let someone buy this one.

Getting Festive

The Matryoshka Dolls are looking decidedly festive in their new red and green colourway. Come see them this weekend at Fox Studios EQ Market at Moore Park on Sunday.

Caring for Textiles

Thingk Baby products are made with quality fabrics, style, care and love. Made to last and be handed down or hung onto for years to come. So caring for your cushion and quilt will help them last the distance. All Thingk Baby products have a care label attached, but I thought I'd include some care instructions here for future reference -

Caring for your Cushion
(cotton, cotton/hemp & cotton/linen fabric with quilted bamboo wadding)

Cold water, gentle wash cover with mild detergent 
& line dry.

Insert can be hand washed, squeeze excess water & line dry

Caring for your Quilt
(cotton fabric with bamboo wadding)
Cold water, gentle machine wash with mild detergent &
line dry.

Drying in shade will preserve colours.

Warm iron if needed. 

New Cushion Designs For The Nature Lover!

Just got in a few meters of this beautiful cotton/linen fabric from local designer Kristen Doran, loving the humming birds and little rabbits.

The peacock garden cotton/linen also makes up a great new cushion, and really fun to quilt with hand embroidery detailing; my favourite bit of the cushion making process. There is a layer of soft organic bamboo wadding quilted in every cushion which creates an extra soft place to rest your weary bones.

Boys in Blue

The blue robots are here, and in limited supply for now. So check out my next market so you don't miss out! My daughter has her eye on these if they don't go soon.

A Real Hoot!

Here's some new owl softy toys from the Saffron Craig range, i'll have a couple for the Kirribilli Art and Design Market tomorrow and will get busy making up the rest i have in stock.

The Robots Are Here!

I've just made up some new cotton softie dolls - really cute robots from Kristen Doran. They come in blue too, but i just had to take a quick snap of the red ones first. Come see them at Kirribilli Art & Design Market this Sunday.

thingk baby on Flickr

How did i ever live without flickr? Now that i've finally got my flickr account up and running, i just love it. I'm going to attempt to snap a shot of everything i make and new and exciting fabric as it comes in. Fun to keep a record of things, and if you see something you like - let me know and you can buy it!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thingkbaby/

New Fabric Just Arrived from Japan

I'm working overtime in production for great new stock, and here's a sneak peek at just a small sample of the new fabric that just arrived on my front door step from Japan. There's more expected in the next few weeks, so check back to see what's going to be on my stall in the lead up to Christmas!

Kirribili Art & Design

What a great atmosphere Kirribilli Art & Design Market had!

I'm looking forward to doing more stalls there. A great range of

beautiful jewellery, organic beauty products (Wild Nature Australia),

clothes, artwork, home wares, kids ware and much more.

It now includes a huge new Fashion Market of pre-loved and

new clothes. Wish i'd had the chance to go shopping!

2009 International Year of Natural Fibres

I'm new to blogging, but i can now see how people spend hours reading other people's blogs. I did a pretty simple search for "Felt" and came up with this amazing blog about Wool Felt and Textiles, which have been a growing passion for me over the past few years.

http://wool-felt.blogspot.com/

Check it out to see some of the most amazing felt creations from necklaces, hats, rugs to amazing wall art which is functional as well as beautiful, possessing acoustic and sound proofing qualities.

http://www.annekyyroquinn.com/

This london based designer anne kyyro quinn, makes me want to experiment with felt and create some sculptural pieces for my own home.

2009 has been declared the Year of Natural Fibres and to help celebrate, in May there was a Felt Festival in Felletin (where else could you have it?!), France which was to demonstrate the beauty and versatility of felt with lots of workshops, displays and some serious felt networking for industry types from all over europe.

I first fell in love with felt on a visit to Munich in 2006, where i stumbled upon the amazing Daimer Filze shop. Wall to wall felt like a rainbow. I bought some beautiful animal shapes and flowers which went into my first lampshade creation for my daughter Remi.

I like to hand stitch the felt shapes on to avoid unnecessary glueing.

This adds to the hand made design and gives me great creative satisfaction too. To top it off the fabric i covered the shade in is a blend of Yak Hair and Hemp, so soft and great texture.

These shades are from the range i sell at the markets, and even just little details like the small dots; only 8mm in diameter, create a great effect! They are so cute, and i love to utilise the small details in the fabric too, the natural edging often goes unseen. But why not make it into a feature?

The fabric on this forest shade is great, when the light is off it's a subtle shade of yellow/cream but once it's illuminated the colour totally changes to a fantastic celery colour creating a magical green backdrop for a flowery forest.

These sweet ducks get a lot of attention. Love mixing the textures of rough cotton and soft wool felt. I enjoy a lot of colour, but sometimes you just can't go past simple white on white.

First Time At Fox Markets

My first time at Fox Studios was a lovely sunny day with a great space to set up in. I'm finding each market a different experience with the best product sales of the day being different every time. Cushions and dolls have always been popular, but selling my first lampshade was definitely a thrill - beautiful japanese print of french style Alice in Wonderland, a favourite of mine.

Fox best product of the day was my new range of felt cards with hand stitching details.

Doody St Market, Alexandria

My first time at Doody St was a good learning experience. The weather didn't bring too many people out, but i met a lot of lovely stall holders who had great advice for me. Lots of interest and more names for my mailing list.

Apologies to anyone who feels they have been left off the mailing list, there were a couple of email addresses that were a little difficult to read and didn't make it through, sorry.

Vintage Find in Binda

On a relaxing weekend in the country i found a hidden treasure at a garage sale in Binda, which is near Crookwell, which is half an hour from Goulburn NSW. Great cotton Bias Binding from the 60's, 70's and 80's if i had to guess. Made in Australia too! Can't wait to use these, probably on lampshades.

Fell in love with the cotton Ric Rac too, made in Japan and was labelled at the bargain price of 12cents. Originally bought at Downes Department store.

Most of it was still in it's original wrapping!

Mathilda's Market a Success

Sunday 5th July at Mathilda's Market in Lane Cove was a great first market experience. It was very reassuring to have some other first timers around me. Once the doors opened it wasn't long before i made my first sale of a Softy Toy Owl and it kept steadily going from there.

The Softy Toys were a big success. I'll definitely need more for next time

The old wooden ladder i found worked out perfectly for displaying the quilts