Filed under: Craft Biz, Design, Feedsacks, Handmade Revolution | Tags: Design Sponge, Design*Sponge, fabric, Formspring, Grace Bonney, Kokka, Spoonflower, Textiles, True Up
I was surprised a couple of weeks ago to read on Formspring that Grace Bonney {design*sponge} is wondering where all the great new fabric designs are, comparing textiles to the recent boom of wallpaper. I guess she would be in the know as far as the design world goes, so maybe the fabric I have been discovering a lot of lately are actually old, but new to me? Anywhoo, I thought I would render a shortlist here of some textile designers I am a fan of:
- Repeat Studio
- Daisy Janie
- Cicada Studio & Cloud9 Fabrics
- Heather Moore/Skinny Laminx
- Etsuko Furuya
- Anna Maria Horner
- Kokka
- Jessica Levitt
And some great online shops to find get such fabric:
- The Fabric Bar
- Sew Mama Sew
- Fabricworm
- Pink Chalk
- Fabric Shoppe
- Purl Soho
- and of course Etsy
I personally love reading True Up – Kim can keep us all informed of all things fabric. There are also several services, including Spoonflower that will allow you to upload your own designs for print on fabric, which is quite exciting. There are many designs from experienced Spoonflowers for sale as well, I am amassing a list of favorites over there as well. At any rate, I think there are a lot of really great textiles out there to be had and wanted to share my sources. At the end of the day, my all time favorite fabric will always be vintage feedsacks!
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Bozeman Collaborative, Craft Biz, Design, Feedsacks, Handmade Revolution, Letterpress | Tags: Depression, Julia Vandenoever Photography, media kit, press kit, Recession
After two photoshoots at the end of last summer, a pow wow or three with my wonderfully smart entrepreneurial woman-friends, a test-market run to my marvelously smart media professional friends, and countless hours the think tank, at the sewing machine, glued to the computer, among piles of crafty ephemera, on the press, … I am finally ready to send out my first batch of press/media kits – Recession got you down? Let the Depression cheer you up! These feedsack inspired bags of goodness are far from gloomy even though the vintage fabric comes from that era. They are pattern filled, colorful, overflowing with flattering photography {by Julia Vandenoever} and best of all they tell a story, the tale of my greatest inspiration and what makes the BirdDog Press tick.
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Friends, Handmade Revolution, Letterpress | Tags: custom framing, Letterpress, Mon Atelier, Valerie Combs, vintage, Wedding invitation, wood type
Speaking of weddings, we have collaborated our way to a unique wedding keepsake with our studio neighbor, Valerie Combs of Mon Atelier, who is a brilliant bespoke framing artist. Letterpress matting, french line details and handmade frames are her specialty and preserve wedding stationery suites with heirloom quality. The paper goods are mounted in a shadow box style and the border hand painted on an archival rag mat to set off the typography-heavy design. Then, using vintage wood type, we pressed the wedding date into the mat and finally the frame was custom constructed with a distressed finish to complete the ensemble.
This has been such a successful collaboration, we have begun crafting a line of photography-ready frames with letterpress patterned mats. Stay tuned for more on these designs soon.
Filed under: Feedsacks, Handmade Revolution, Life | Tags: hand me down, jeans, sewing
Do I even have to say that anymore? I guess I could have worse addictions. Here are some recent feedsack knee patches that I sewed on a pair of C’s hand-me-down jeans. He loves hand-me-downs! Good boy. And I’m observing that it stems from the story behind it … “Mom! Keenan gave me these!”
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Feedsacks, Handmade Revolution, Inspirations | Tags: Feedsacks
Realizing that many folks have questions regarding my vintage feedsack fabric obsession, … Who gave you feedsack fever? What is the Daily Feedsack all about? Where can I join the Feedsack of the Month Club? When were feedsacks used? Why did they make them out of patterned fabric? and many more. I decided to put a lot of the answers in one place. Once and for all. Available for all to read anytime with a link –What is a Feedsack?– in the upper lefthand corner of my blog. If you have a question that is not answered, please let me know!
Filed under: Craft Biz, Handmade Revolution, Mama Monday | Tags: Soule Mama, The Creative Family
Got this book for myself quite a while back and haven’t made the time for the ideas that line it’s pages yet. That is not reflective of my enthusiasm for it. I have read the SouleMama blog for quite some time and just made a pact with my neighbor/mama friend to do some projects out of this book with our boys. Maybe I’ll get lucky and receive her other book, Handmade Home for my birthday this spring, hint. hint.
Filed under: Feedsacks, Handmade Revolution, Life, Tangents | Tags: eBay, feedsack
one little, two little, three little feedsack auctions on eBay. yippee! and sadly, the above isn’t one of them. I want it really badly, but the seller {whom i’ve bought from before, paid promptly & gave positive feedback to} says that she won’t sell to me b/c I somehow lowered her “DSR ratings” – what does that even mean? She actually said I “punished” her. Why would I do that? I just want to buy an old piece of fabric! Bizarre. Anyway, If someone wants to buy this and then turn around and sell it to me, I’m a guaranteed customer.
… and that’s all i have to say today. MUST get caught up on design and custom projects … the year is off to a dynamic start!!
Filed under: Craft Biz, Feedsacks, Handmade Revolution | Tags: Hop Skip Jump, Wee Wonderfuls
Some feedsack scraps are soon to be used on two patterns I found online. Check out Olive & Archie from Wee Wonderfuls – they even have backpacks! and I’ve mentioned Hop Skip Jump’s giraffes before, but I cannot resist a call out to little Jack Rabbit and Poppy Doll. Happy sewing!
Filed under: Handmade Revolution, Inspirations | Tags: Anthropologie, Monsters of the Household Variety, Ruth Ashton
while we’re on the subject of sewing. this book is a.maz.ing, which i ran across at none other than, Anthropologie. Monsters of the Household Variety by Ruth Ashton. there are hardly words. not sure if i had one if i would let my child touch it though!
