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Garden Party Cotton Linen Canvas Fabric

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Today is fabric laundry day and one of the fabrics waiting to be washed is a yard of this Garden Party cotton/linen canvas.

It needs to be washed because I'm ready to make another tote bag like the one above. This one sold in my etsy shop and I'd like to make another.  

I've made a bunch of things with this fabric and most have shown up here on the blog and are also shown as examples in the fabric listing. Instead of rehashing the past, let me show you what I'd like to make with this fabric in the future:

The Jess Apron by Bouquet Clothing 

This apron is very cute in this fabric!  I also like that it is a traditional style apron that ties in the back. Sometime in the last year I made a cross back apron and you know what?  I'm not a fan of the cross back!  The apron looks good in photos, but it's shapeless and feels very frumpy to wear.  It's also real wrestling match to get out of it so the next apron I sew will be one that ties in the back.

Alfie & Rufus by Este MacLeod for Windham Fabrics

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This fabric from the Alfie collection by Este MacLeod for Windham Fabrics has been on my radar for a few months and last week I noticed the supply seems to be getting smaller, which means it's time to order!  Now I'm patiently waiting for it to arrive in my mailbox and that should happen today.  I'm super excited to see it in person! 

The fabrics in this collection are digitally printed, and if you look at my etsy favorites list for this fabric you might notice some sellers highlight this in the title and description.

I'm not 100% sure why they point this out, but maybe it has something to do with the base cloth?  In my own stash, the digitally printed fabrics tend to have slightly thinner base cloth than most (but not all) of the ones made through the traditional flat bed screen printing process used to make most quilting cotton.

Summer Roses in Fushsia

Or maybe they are highlighting the fact that digitally printed fabrics can have many, many more colors than screen printed fabric?  

Whatever it is, this digitally printed quilting cotton sewing fabric is beautiful and unique and I'm looking forward to having it in my stash!

There are a few others in the collection, like the ones above and below, that I'm interested in adding to my stash at some point. Thought I'd better get the cat print one ASAP since it might be the first to sell out.

Jolly Robins in Turquoise

If you'd like to see some of the places this fabric is available on etsy, check out my Alfie & Rufus favorites list here.  

if you like this fabric, but maybe don't have use for it in a sewing project, this illustration is also available as a 300 piece puzzle right here, or a limited edition print is available directly from Este MacLeod here.

Lots of Fat Quarters (and Some Remnants Too)

Cassandra by Skipping Stone Studio

In the last few weeks a number of fat quarters and remnants have been added the fabric section of my etsy shop. 

These are mostly from my personal stash so for many there is just the one FQ.  There are a few where I do have yardage available and there is a link in the listing description to where yardage can be found.  

Come take a look at what's available!

 

Lily Pads from the Orangerie Collection

Cotton Linen Fabric with Striped Cats

 

 

Dashwood Studio Garden Menagerie

Garden Menagerie

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Are you familiar with Dashwood Studio fabric?  I started noticing some lovely prints from this UK company a year or two back, and so far have managed to acquire just one. But I'm ready for more!  Haha...can't stop buying fabric. Good thing it's useful.

This one pictured here is called Garden Menagerie and it's from the Hedgerow collection by Bee Brown.  I'm always partial to a dark blue background and this one has a few of my other favorite things--a packed print, birds, butterflies, moths, and flowers.  So good!

Another thing I'm also loving is these etsy favorites lists and I started one for Dashwood Studio fabric. Click here to take a look at some of the Dashwood Studio fabrics I'm coveting for my stash.  

Tilda Clara from the Woodland Collection

Clara in Plum

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Some of the plum colorway of Clara from Tilda's Woodland Collection arrived at my house the other day and it is really sweet! 

This is my first Tilda print and I'm super pleased to have it in my stash.

Clara in Teal

The print is smaller than I thought it would be, which isn't a problem.  Most of the listings don't show a ruler and sometimes even with the ruler, my perception of the print size is still off some. If you are considering this print, the flowers are just under 1/2" wide.  

Clara in Red

This fabric is so darling that now I want the other three colorways too.  Be still my greedy fabric hoarding heart! 

Clara in Blue

Click any of the images or links to go to a collection of etsy listings for this print.

Dear Stella Lily Pads from the Orangerie Collection

Lily Pads

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This summer I've made two pillowcases while working out how to make them using the burrito (aka: magic) pillowcase method and use directional print fabric. There are existing tutorials for this, but I fell down the rabbit hole looking for one that summarized what needed to be done--rather than having to go step-by-step through the instructions--and eventually decided it was going to be faster to figure it out myself. 

There will be a blog post about how to do this soon. In the meantime, appropriate prints for pillowcases for my bed have been on my fabric radar and here is one that would work well. 

This quilting cotton fabric is called Lily Pads and it's from the Orangerie collection by Caitlin Wallace Rowland for Dear Stella. Water plants are fascinating and wouldn't it be nice to wake up to this dreamy print?

I've been using the pillowcase made from Elsie's Cat from the Glory collection and while it's super cute, and pretty delightful to wake up and see this cute cat print fabric, the colors don't match my bedroom. Since I need to make a set, might as well get something that will work better with the decor!  

This fabric also fits my pillowcase fabric criteria of having a light colored background and not many really dark colors. These two qualities are perfect for pillowcases since they get washed a lot and will fade. They'll look better longer since the fading will be less noticeable.  

If you'd like to see some other prints for pillowcases, check out my etsy Pillowcase Fabric favorite list for these fabrics. The list also has other shops where you can find this Lily Pad sewing fabric.