Little birdie secrets has two tutorial perfect for your little princess. A sweet wand and an adorable ruffle skirt.
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June 2009
For more kids craft, creative ideas and activities go to the Action Pack website
love these tea lanterns for summer evenings or just to light up a dark space – tutorial from a field journal.
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I am very excited to be a stop on Kristen Rengren’s blog tour for her new book – vintage baby knits. Kristen will be stopping by here on 10 July to discuss the history of knitting from the 1920′s to the 1950′s. She will be talking about the styles and techniques and how these have or have not changed over time. I am really looking forward to it. In the meantime enjoy some lovely photos from the book – by the very talented Thayer Allyson Gowdy. More photography and more about the book at Melanie Falick Books website.
Vintage Baby Knits: More Than 40 Heirloom Patterns from the 1920s to the 1950s
Here is the book tour schedule starts today (1 July) at the Panopticon Dolores the Sheep gets real w/ Kristen Rengren Most of these stops on the tour will be doing giveaways of the book as well.
July 6 – Yarn talk at Go knit your hat
July 8 – A book review at Sheep in the city
July 10 – Knitting in the 1930s-50s here at whipup
July 14 – Show and tell: projects from the book! at Grumperina
July 16 – Book review at Knit Smiths
July 17 – Book review at Hand made news
July 20 – Something interesting at Heather Ross’s blog
July 22- House at Hill Road will be hosting
July 24 – To finish off a Knitting Q and A at Hand made news
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Fridah Mwenda has a Fabric shop on etsy specialising in cute Japanese Fabric.
She is offering 2 Whipup readers a $50 gift certificate to spend in her shop.
I love this shop and wanted to find out more about it.
Fridah where are you located?
I moved to Singapore, the fabulous Red Dot with my family 5 years ago. I was a little apprehensive at first about the move to such a ‘faraway’ place… but this dynamic little city state is truly rich in color, diversity and culture.
How long have your been interested in Japanese crafts
I started out selling handmade jewelry in 2006 but realised that the market was too saturated. In my search for a new venture I stumbled the most adorable fabric I’d ever seen. I knew I had to get some. When I destashed the extra fabric I had purchased. When that sold in a matter of minutes I realised there was a huge market for Japanese fabric and crafts that I could fill.
What is your favourite Japanese crafts
The numerous unique craft supplies and tools are my favourite crafts items. Japanese have a way of making everything so simple to make or create. If you need to twist, fold, bend, carve, roll, whatever… there is probably a simple neat… and adorable tool somewhere for it. It doesn’t matter if you can’t read Japanese, the instructions are visual.
What is your most popular line
The Kokka and Lecien Cotton Linen collections have always had a good market. Recently however with the explosion of the Matryoshka trend, the collection of Matryoshka dolls from Cosmo Textiles have been highly popular.
What fabrics do you specialise in and what will you be stocking in the near future
I specialise in Japanese print fabric of the kawaii (cute/adorable in Japanese) kind, mainly in cotton and cotton/linen blends from Kokka, Cosmo-Textiles and Lecien. Mainly character prints that depict animals, anime characters, people, vegetables, etc.
In future I plan to bring in more traditional Japanese patterns, flowers and motifs. I am also thinking of dabbling in a bit of chirimen, kimono pattern prints and other Japanese designers like Shinzo Katoh, Mico Ogura’s Ecrulat and Puti De Pome, Etsuko Furaya and Naomi Ito
Thank you Fridah – to win one of these $50 vouchers please leave a comment with your favourite Japanese tool or fabric that you have used or are dying to try out. Comments open for 48 hours. Comments are now closed – winners will be contacted in the next few days – thank you everyone for entering.
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Maria Peagler, author of Color Mastery, has created two new videos about color in quilting. The first is 20 Hot New Colors for Quilters and the second (above) Using Print Fabrics in a Color Palette Read more about them here.
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Rockpool candy – Let me ease your day new intervention launching on 6 July. Let me ease your day is a new movement, taking yarn bombing, and repurposing it for the good of all, by providing knitted, crocheted and sewn textiles to the people in our society who might just need a random act of kindness to ease their day.
In times of financial worry, charities suffer. The public pull in their purse strings and stop giving. When the living is easy, our money is often given to charity to ease our consciences, to allow us to carry on our day to day lives without having to interact with needy causes and to feel like we’re doing something. But I want society to be different. As crafters we have skills that we can put to use and make a difference that is not dependent on the free change we have in our pockets.
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Love this simple yet effective way of keeping open your book - while reading – while cooking – while crafting.
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