Liberty Arrival

We are always glad to see Gordon coming through the door, especially when he has the latest seasonals in his arms.
Sixty two new fabrics in fact! Winter seasonals and gorgeous new Liberty classics including a few of our sold out favourites.

Effie's embroidery

Effie has been on holidays (welcome back) and has been busy embroidering her baby blanket that her mum had kept for her. Isn't it beautiful. It is so nice I had to show and tell.
The design is from the promotion books for Liberty of London's new summer seasonals due in Jan11. This design is by Lucy Boden. Effie's favourite childhood story was the owl and the pussycat so this was perfect.
Liberty has commissioned artist/illustrators for many designs in this coming crop.

Liberty Of London Huge shipment just arrived!

I have eagerly awaiting the delivery of the current Liberty of London Seasonals, 107 bolts arrived today and they are gorgeous. Included in the delivery are perennial Classics that we have been out of.
Liberty fans be quick as i am sure many will walk out very quickly.
Narelle will put them on the website next week.

Liberty Quilt

As anyone who comes into Patchwork knows, we have the largest range of Liberty of London fabrics in Australia. I have always been a huge fan, since I discovered the fabrics when I was first working in the 70's and would go and buy small pieces at to just have. Later I made dresses for my youngest in it. (I get told now how disgustingly I dressed her)
The colours in the fabric have always been so subtle and it is just beautiful to work with.
It is nice to see that it is being re discovered at the moment and loved the post on it on an US blog truup.
Lucky me now I have a shop full, so dress regularly in the fabric. We have a wonderful dressmaker that will make up my favourite dresses and blouses for me. This is also a service that we offer to our customers and there has been some lovely clothing made in the past.
The photo's are of a quilt Mum made many years ago using scraps saved. The pattern is available at the shop free for anyone who buys any Liberty fabric in April, in the shop or online.
Enjoy your week.

Liberty Circle Scarf

Liberty fabrics are one of my favourite fabrics and the wonderful thing about them is, that it's
hard to get a bad result when using them.
It is nice to see the young designers going back to using the fabric in fashion.
This is a quick project that I have made using a half metre pack (8x16th's from the shop) You will get quite a few scarves from this pack.
Cut all the fabric into circles (I used a glass bottom to trace circle onto template plastic)
Sit at machine and feed through and sew, joining all together across fabric. As per photo.
I made mine about 1.8 long.
These scarves are a good addition to brighten up any outfit.