Remember Clothkits....

Any of you 70's/80's children remember Clothkits? I can remember the girls dresses but I especially remember the cloth dolls. I was searching through google for something or other and was super excited when I came across the Clothkits website. Go and have a look they have some great skirts, I might just have to go and buy the skirt kit designed by Rob Ryan, click here to see it (I would post pics but I'm bit scared by the copyright/using pics off peoples website thing).

I've also been buy working on some new product designs:

I'm really pleased how the grey shoulder bag has turned out, still a little bit of the Croft house pattern fabric featured but quite subtle. I'm thinking the Fair Isle Jumper fabric pouch would make a great make-up bag

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!

Fresh Exhibition Items

Well after far too many late nights and some moderate amounts of panic I have managed to produce 4 new items for the FRESH exhibition at our local gallery. The remit was to produce items that had not been seen or sold before, initially I thought I would produce a new print, i've been working on one over the Christmas break but it was going to be too much of a rush and I didn't want to send something to print that I wasn't happy with. So I decided on 4 new items using my Croft house and Fair isle jumper prints and here they are, doorstop, teacosy, bag and purse :

The doorstop is linen as is the pocket on the bag, the rest of the bag is cordrouy,the tea cosy and the purse are cotton. Now that I'm looking at the finished items all professionally photographed I'm really pleased with how they all turned out, phew!

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?