Photoshoot

Yesterday was spent doing a photoshoot of new products, I'm currently working on an update and re-design of the phatsheep website, its nearly there now I have new photos so I hope to be able to launch the new site within the next fortnight - I've set myself a public deadline now so I'll have to finish it!

Can you spot the little hand reaching for the orange campervan, somebody got a bit fed up I was using his toys for props!

p.s Swatch packs of the new fabrics available for sale in the phatsheep fabrics etsy shop, I think they'd be great for small craft projects.

New Purse Design New Fabric Design Too

Clutch purse using new spoonflower Fabrichttp://www.flickr.com/photos/phatsheeptextiles/2825666234/, originally uploaded by Phatsheep Textiles.

Heres a new purse idea, looks quite cute I think, but I'm especially pleased with the new printed fabric.
Its one of a series of new designs I've been working on and this is made using the first fabric swatch I received from Spoonflower.

I'm really pleased with how the designs have printed on the fabric and so I will soon be able to do something I've been working towards for a few months, Offer my fabrics for sale - very exciting!!

I've ordered up some meterage and hope to be able to sell Fat Quarters via my new etsy shop in a few weeks. I decided it would be best to keep my existing products seperate from my fabric sales so the existing shop doesn't get in a muddle, I can't wait to start selling these fabrics and see what people make with them.

News Update

Ooops another long time between posts,hope everybody had a lovely Easter, its been busy here again but thats no excuse!

I've been busy working on some new bag and purse designs:

Linen Coin Purse made with some lovely new linen I've managed to buy and some Fabric Scraps, I like the shape and wil try it again with some PhatSheep Fabric soon.

Completely new bag design again using the new linen and some cute Alexander Henry Fabric I bought from America, I've put this for sale in the Etsy shop, was very tempted to keep it for myself though:)

New shape and size of Linen tote with PhatSheep Fair Isle Jumper Print Fabric panel, the bag is squarer than the previous shopper bag design with longer handles and an inside pocket to fit a mobile phone. I've put this one up in the Etsy shop today and I'll be making more of them in both this Fair Isle Jumper design and the Croft design over the next few weeks.

Also I've been playing around on the sewing machine and these are some of the new applique designs I've been experimenting with:

For a pencil case


Mug of Tea

Boat


Seagull and Oyster Catcher


Thats all for just now but I promise I won't leave it a month before I post again!

Handmade Loveliness

I can spend quite a lot of time browsing through Etsy and the Treasury is such a great feature, the combinations people put together would make great posters and its an excellent advert for peoples work. Its such a popular part of the site that in order to make your own treasury you have to be on the site at the treasury page at just the right minute when space becomes available. Now I've tried to do this on several occasions and for one reason or another never quite managed it. So this weekend I was very pleased with myself when I did happen to be in the right place at the right time and managed to create my own little treasury full of only a tiny fraction of the items on my list of favourites. Its only up for another day but if you want to check out some of the products and who sells them - and I really think you should! then click here

Latest Idea - Fabric Badges

I've been wondering what to do with all the lovely scraps of material I have stored in my cupboards and i've also been really interested in trying out badge making as I think little badges are such a cute accessory. So I bought a badge maker and after a great afternoon experimenting I came up with these which are now for sale in the PhatSheep Etsy Shop, hope they sell as I can't wait to make some more!

One of my bags is was chosen by Etsy User Gekkokamen to feature in their Treasury and its made it onto the front page of Etsy..Yay!!

Its one of my Leaf Print Bags, Its a print I did a while ago and I'd pretty much decided to discontinue it......now I'm not so sure, this print has had a lot of interest on Etsy so maybe I should look into using it on some of my other homware products what do you think?

Etsy Inspiration

I've got my mobile swap partner and I'm ready to get started on making something red for her, it was her favourite colour choice - very seasonal I thought with Valentines day coming soon:)

In order to get inspiration for my mobile creation I had a look through Etsy, always full of so many great crafters/designers, lots of very talented people making amazing things. Anyway here are a few items that caught my eye:

Items Top - bottom: Heart Beads by Josephyns , Happy Heart day card by TheCraftpantry, , Bird Mobile Thankyou Card by Magnolia Moonlight, Red and Black Funky Mobile by Leah Pellegrini

I'm not sure what to make my mobile from , maybe felt but I'm thinking working in paper might be an interesting change/challenge, and of course whatever I make has to be able to make it to its destination in the mail so nothing to big and bulky! will post with my work in progress:)

I've also been busy working on some new items for an exhibition I've been asked to take part in at our local Gallery, the theme is Fresh so I've got to come up with 4 fresh and new ideas by the 6th February, not long is it!!!. I'll post up some pics of my finished pieces once I've made them.