Felt Aid for our friends in Christchurch

Last night I came across Felt Aid, thanks to Jenny from A Little Vintage. Felt is the New Zealand equivalent of Made It, and they have set up a store called Felt Aid with donated handmade items to raise money for the clean-up and rebuilding of Christchurch. Pop over for a squizz - I picked up some gorgeous hand bound notebooks during my visit! They also have a blog - felt like helping out, and a facebook page.

new ARTichoke tea towel colours

White on natural ...

Deep green on off white ....

Both in the shop (listed together).

Happy Sunday!

playing catchup

Hello! It's been a while between decent blog posts, so I thought I should catch you up on some news. First off, I was lucky enough to be accepted to be a stallholder at the Melbourne Finders Keepers Market! It's on the weekend of 9-10 October. Check out the list of other stallholders - it's going to be a treasure trove! Christmas shopping ... check!

I can't wait - I am madly preparing a whole lot of new products including a new fabric design. More on that in a couple of weeks. Speaking of fabric, Annabel from Earthgirl Fabrics sent me this pic of a Kristen Doran sling bag pattern made with my Agapanthus fabric (purple on white linen) ... love it! I have added it to the "Things people have made with Yardage Design fabric" page too, here.

My Black Vintage Tram Roll Menu Tea Towel was featured on a lovely Etsy Treasury this week - loving the monochrome theme ... here. Have a lovely weekend!

new tea towel design ... TASTY

A slight variation on the tram roll theme - this time with a theme of TASTE. There were so many excellent taste words to choose from, but I stuck to the basics and added something a bit different for fun ... umami ... a Japanese word describing the fifth primary taste, savoury. Who'd have thought you could learn something from a tea towel! I've printed this design in black ink on a natural linen tea towel, and teal blue on off white linen tea towel.

Both are in the shop now (listed together). Vintage Tram Roll Menu Market Bags are now back in the shop too. Hope you're having a good Wednesday - it's a beautiful Spring day here in Melbourne ... bliss!

second one down

I have finally finished my second (and final) entry for the Royal Melbourne Show. This one is for the machine embroidery category. I have really procrastinated about this entry - mainly because I couldn't decide what to embroider. In the end I went with a small art nouveau design I've been working on for a while ...

The embroidery is in peacock blue thread, on beige linen, with some accent from a small geometric print I got at Patchwork on Central Park this morning (love that store!). I think I'l print this design too - I'm quite happy with how it turned out. Hope you're having a good Saturday!

vintage ice coupons

It's Spring at last ... sadly, you would never know it today in Melbourne as it is raining quite heavily. Nevermind, it's technically Spring, and I'm going with that! To celebrate, I'm launching a new market bag design, with a warmer weather theme, based on some vintage ice coupons I found a while ago ...

I have printed these in a lovely teal blue, and they are in the shop now. 

In other news, the vintage tram roll menu market bags have sold out (amazing response - thanks everyone!), but I will be printing more today, so they should be back in the shop next week.

I hope the first day of Spring (or Autumn) is lovely where-ever you are.