Renovated Etsy shop - Online

Life gets in the way, but blogging must go on!

I have another baby on the way, so i'm taking an extended rest

from the markets and concentrating more Online

with a renovated Etsy.com shop. 

www.etsy.com/shop/thingkbaby

So come check out all the quilts, cushions, dolls & cards.

Christmas Shopping @ Art & Design Market Wollongong

Really looking forward to meeting the locals in Wollongong for the Christmas Market and  checking out the other designers too.  Sunday Dec 5th should be an exciting day out. Check out the market Facebook page

In the Press! Shop 4 Kids

This is my first time in a magazine and i'm so happy with the layout i'm part of. 

Fingers crossed this leads to bigger and better things. xx

They chose one of my favourites; Purple Cinderella fabric from Japan mixed with stripes, dots and gorgeous roses. 

 

New Lampshades for Winterland Finders Keepers

Here's some new shades that i've been working on

and I'll have them at Winterland Finders Keepers Market

this Thursday 29th July, Friday & Saturday

at Carriage Works, Eveleigh 

Rainy Weather Prompts Expansion into the wild yonder

Well, that's two Fox Studio markets i've missed because of the rainy weather.....

So i'm putting into action something i've been putting off, and that's the expansion of my Online Shop!

Bigger, better and you can shop in any weather.

What could be better than a little online shop while the rain pours, so keep tuned new quilts, cushions and more are in production especially for the online shop. Stuff that you can't see at the market!

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.

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.

1st market in july

I've got my first market coming up on Sunday 5th july, from 9am to 1pm at Mathilda's Market, St Ignatius College Riverview, Tambourine Bay Rd, Lane Cove. Here's some photos of what i'll be selling - handmade kid's quilts, cushions in super cute fabrics from Japan, handsewn lampshades with gorgeous felt applique from Germany, lovely softie dolls from Saffron Craig and Kristen Doran designs and handprinted gift cards. 

The hand stitching detail is small, but a fun addition to a cute design.