Hello everyone on a very mild Canberra day,
I hope your Christmas was as peaceful and happy as ours. It was lovely to have everyone together again finally, especially the first Christmas with the new grandchild who either slept or tried to eat the wrapping paper!
All set up for some relaxing summer sewing, whatever your style? Don't forget to help, we have a 10% discount on all fabric, notions, etc until 31 January. Just use the code HAPPY10. I know many of us are trying to be more careful just how much more "stuff" we add to our lives but a few careful choices here and there will definitely add to your sewing pleasure and success.
This week I've been looking at our batik fabrics.For a long time, I was ambivalent about batiks - the way they were mostly used often seemed a bit ho-hum and there didn't appear to be much variation between designs.However, over the last few years, I've rediscovered these gems, helped by a friend who has spent a lot of time in Bali, choosing wonderful local batiks for her personal use. Batiks fit in so many places - in backgrounds and foregrounds, amazing blenders and links between stronger fabrics and, of course, as great feature fabrics by themselves.They always seem particularly perfect for summer sewing to me, very evocative of long sumer days!
These are a few of our many batiks, all just waiting to be that right piece in someone's lovely quilt!
As well, we have some beautiful wide batiks (275cm):
Not only do they work equally well as quilt backings or as fabrics in your design, they also look fabulous in these great one fabric patterns, designed by Batik Australia just for this use. (Although it would be fun to try these patterns with other fabrics as well!)
Our lovely batiks can found on our website here and the patterns are available here. Don't forget to use your discount code HAPPY10.
Happy sewing,
Cheers
Meg