Category Archives: Fabric

The first of many.

This is the first of the wrap skirts. I sampled it up last week while Collingwood was in the afterglow of success and now I’m posting it in the aftermath of a complete thumping. Aah well there’s always next year … Continue reading

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Get a load of this would you?

This piece of fabric has been hanging in my friend Sue’s window for the last thirty plus years. Not a fade mark, not a moth hole. Its the sort of thing that fabric-wise makes my heart swell with joy. I … Continue reading

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Summer Love

I’ve made the first wrap skirt sample. I think there will be two wrap skirt styles because some of the fabric I have has a pattern which goes in a particular direction so it can only be cut in one … Continue reading

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where oh where?

I made 4 of these skirts with Japanese owl fabric on the front and have sold them all! Now I am searching for some more of this fabric and naturally can’t find any! Drat it all. If anyone out there … Continue reading

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Its a bit predictable maybe…..but I like them too

I have made a serious stash of fabrics for spring summer skirts and I think they will be wrap skirts…..yes I know they are a bit predictable, but I think they are a summer must. It must be just the … Continue reading

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Its spring in my heart….

Even though its not yet the end of winter I have left it completely behind. I can’t even look at corduroy for $4 at Spotlight because I don’t want to think about cold weather. I feel terribly selfish because my … Continue reading

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The Princess and the Pea

My friend Cath went ape over this fabric at the amitie textiles sale last week. She sat in the passenger seat of the car on the way home stroking it and declaring that it was the perfect fabric, and that … Continue reading

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Its coming along…..

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Fabric Shopping

The other day I watered the horses and packed a hearty lunch for the trip across town to the famous Amitie Textiles in Bentleigh a southern suburb of Melbourne. The shop inside was in total disarray, not at all what … Continue reading

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