Patchwork Tote Bags

It's been a long time since I posted anything on this blog. No time and not much energy.
Lately I've started making a few things again, mainly recycling remnants of my fabrics and turning them into useful items like tote bags.

Merry Christmas 2015

 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all my family and friends.

New Tea Cosies

New tea cosies on my Etsy shop.

New Holland Honey Eaters side1

New Holland Honey eaters side2

Melaleuca

Rooster side1

Roster side 2

Red/Blue Bird

1st Fireplace done

We live in an old house, over 100 years old which is very old for Australia when you consider that white settlement happened only 226 years ago.
It's a Victorian house and each room has a fireplace, or to be more accurate each room has a large hole in the wall where the fireplace used to be.
A while ago I started fixing the problems caused by the holes, namely and most important the amount of rubbish that descended down the chimneys everyday.
This is the one in my bedroom, blocked and tiled over and just completed.

New Tea Cosies

Recently I've sold nearly all of my tea cosies, which greatly surprised me!
I'm not the best saleswoman in the world!
The first ones I made were simply cut from some of my fabrics and the pattern just had to fit.
Now that my computer skills are so much better, I've learned how to fit the pattern the way I want.
My new tea cosies are as a result much better designed.

Black Swans

Rainbow Lorikeets

Green Wattle Bird

Yellow Garden

All tea cosies for sale on my Etsy shop.

New Husta dress

It's already mid January 2015 and I've been too busy doing renovations in our house and very little time for designing or blogging.
So it's nice to start  this year with another little girl's dress made by Huguette using one of my Spoonflower fabrics.

Merry Christmas 2014

It's that time of the year again, and this year I traveled a bit, had visitors staying over, and ended up not having a lot of time to draw and paint.
Luckily I have a folder of half baked ideas on my computer, and I went looking for something I could use as my Christmas card.
Voila!!!

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So, to all my friends in our galaxy Merry Christmas and Happy New year!

Etsy Christmas market

Some pics of the Etsy Christmas market I did a week ago.

My stall before opening

Getting busy

Winnie helping out

Me

An over view

Husta dress

One of my Spoonflower clients, Huguette Stachewitsch who goes by the web name Husta, made this beautiful little girl's dress with my fabric Hakea.
I love to see what other people make with my fabrics. Thank you Huguette!

Husta dress made with fabric Hakea

Old design, new products

I've been revisiting some of my earlier patterns in order to design new products for my shop on Society6.
New Holland Honey Eaters and Showy Honey Mirtle design is now available on Society6.

Stationery card

Tote bag

Cushion cover

Mug

Iphone case

Laptop skins

Wall clock

Shower curtain

Duvet cover

I'm published in a Pattern Book

Earlier this year PATTERNPEOPLE called out for pattern designers to submit their work to feature in one of their print design books.
I submitted some of my designs, and 2 days ago got a wonderful email telling me I'd been selected.
Here it is!

Etsy Pop Up Event

Etsy WA is having a pop up Christmas market in Leederville in November.
All the WA people who have an online shop on Etsy are encouraged to apply for a place in the market and also to contribute with a promotional poster.
This is my entry.

The orange colour and the gingham are Etsy requirements. The rest is up to you.

New Fabric and Wall Paper

My new fabric and wall paper is about herbs and I've named it Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. Ha ha!
For sale on my Spoonflower shop.

Detail

Wall Paper

All New Products

New products for sale on my Society6 shop.

Laptop skins and cases

Iphone skins and cases

Wall clocks

Mugs

Cushion covers

Tote bags

Rugs

Stationery cards

Shower curtains

Garden decorations

Still on the subject of my garden, and for those of you who haven't seen them, some garden decorations I made a while ago with some found and some bought objects.

Mosaic cat

Duck pond

Duck pond near my studio

The old cistern I used for the pond was dug out from underneath Audrey's house. It is full of styro foam from packaging and the ducks come from Vietnam.