The Latest Fabrics for 2016

I hope everyone had a wonderful start to their New Year. The weather here was fabulous New Year's Day and the day after and then turned a little since then, although still reasonably warm.
Here's to a very creative year in 2016.
I am listing below some of the fabrics that arrived in just before Christmas -
McKenna Ryan is designing for a new firm and has produced her first range there called Enduring Pines. These fabrics are lovely and shaded across the width of the fabric.

They are lovely shaded skies which are fabulous for landscapes and then a couple which feature the pines, I chose one which is the everyday green and the other is more of a wintery colouring.
The shaded fabrics make for very interesting sashing and borders as they change colour and shading.

This next range is called Dot Dot Dash - very fresh and springlike. Spots and stripes are always useful.

And still more landscape styles - this is a lovely blue sky and the green grass will be very useful for landscapes

All of these are available in store. If you want anything let me know.
Dianne

New Patchwork Fabrics in over Christmas/New Year

Opening the boxes of fabric that arrive in is like having Christmas prezzies regularly. It is always a surprise to see what is in them because generally we are ordering up to 3 months in advance, and you do tend to forget what you have ordered. Here are some of the fabulous fabrics we have had in over the last month.

These 2 fabrics are from the new Tim Holtz range NZ$27.90 per metre. Tim is more well known for his stamp and mixed media supplies but has now branched out into patchwork fabrics. I love these 2 for the design and the colour - that grey is very popular at present.

This range is from the Country Caboodle and is called In Cahoots. Deep rich golden colours with black set them off nicely. NZ$29.10 per metre

Landscape fabrics are always popular. I really love the stone work which could be used for walls, paths, buildings. The top 3 are NZ$27.90 per metre and the Sea fabric is NZ$26.50 per metre.
Then something for the men in your life -

BBQ items, ideal to make a variety of things, including aprons, BBQ mits, placemats etc NZ$25 per metre
And for the kids (including big kids)

Spiderman fabrics. Both of these are NZ$27.50 per metre.Cushions, quilts, backpacks, notebook covers etc etc, so much you can make using this fabric range.

I really love the fresh colours in this range by Pat Sloan - Bobbins and Bits. NZ$27.20 per metre
Team them with watermelon reds, golden yellow, orange and lime green - wow what a combination.
Let me know if I can help you with any of the above fabrics either by mail order or call in and see them in the studio.Your drive in will now be much smoother.
Happy New Year everyone
Dianne

Landscape & novelty fabrics

A few more fabrics that have arrived in store are these lovely landscape fabrics. The sky fabric (NZ$27.50 pm) is really nice, a lovely shade of blue and has great cloud patterns without being cartoony. The stones (NZ$26.05pm) are small and very useful size for many applique landscape projects..

There is also a lovely blue fabric (NZ$26.05pm) which I think looks like a stylised version of water reflections. Hope this isn't too dark to see well.

For the children there is a cute new Nursery Rhyme fabric NZ$27.50pm. It was easy to pick out several different Nursery Rhymes from the pictures. What a lovely feature fabric for a quilt or if you run out of time, buy an artists canvas (anything from $2 up) cover it with this beautiful fabric and staple at the back.

Hey Presto! instant gift.

I look forward to seeing you in store or ordering online.

We will be open over the CHristmas Holiday, closing only the statutory days (Dec 25 - 28 & Jan 1 - 4). Call in and see me. Hopefully you can have some time to yourself and create over this time. I hope to make a few new class samples and finish an entry for the Queenstown Symposium over this time. Here's crossing my fingers (and legs & toes) that I get them finished.

Dianne