Fabric Basket

There are lots of patterns for fabric baskets on the internet, some people have gathered boards solely devoted to the theme on Pinterest. I wanted to use some of the scraps from my block printed fabric and I followed this tutorial which is nice and clear. It makes a small basket ideal for holding pens on my desk.

It hard to cut up a precious piece of dyed fabric but sometimes it just has to be done.

I made a larger one, it was easy to enlarge the pattern.
Once again using scraps of block printed fabric.

Amazing!

My very much surprising Mother’s Day gift, I was told that I would never work out what it was, and that was true. A box of marshmallows with images from my blog digitally added. I don’t know how I will bring myself to eat them, but fortunately they last 

until September, so no doubt there will be a day when I have any urgent need for a sugary snack before then.

Tale of a Tree

I was excited to receive my first digitally printed fabric last week. I had thought of using ‘Fingerprint’, Laura Kempshall’s business for some time, but could never find the template to upload a photo, when I did the process was straight forward. It only took a week to arrive and was nicely wrapped with tissue using their fingerprint logo.

I have made two cushions with the fat quarters and another with a fabric which I block printed.

The tree image started with doodles of Klimt’s patterns, progressed to a journal, a print block and then to a basic repeat design. 

I have to thank Margaret Applin for getting me started; if you take a look at her blog you will see how she successfully develops her design work into digital patterns.

More Trees

More block printing, there are some amazing examples on the Facebook page for the class, this is a closed group but I think Jen is going to post a selection on her blog at some point as she is planning a new class to start soon. Some people are obviously experts at making clothes and smart bags and are combining their new skills with those they already have to produce great results.

Lined and quilted.

I pursued the tree theme and also made a block inspired by some African patterns to try an all over print, which almost joined up! I used MooCarve which I would recommend.

 The pouch bag I have just made is probably my favourite, I should have planned out the print placement first but I just printed the fabric and then thought what to do with it. I used felt as a backing and lined it. It has a nice squashy feel now that it is free machined around some of the trees.

 I’m also trying out pattern making on the computer so here I made a repeat pattern on paper.

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