Fave fabric Friday

It appears that a few Fridays have slipped past since I last did this! 

This Friday's fave fabric is a beautiful vintage cotton kimono piece. In my last post I mentioned about a customer coming to my studio to choose some fabrics for her friends' bags. We had a great time choosing, but it was also a good chance for me to remember what I have. Things were unearthed that I didn't even know were there!

One of them was this beautiful cotton kimono piece. I love the layout of the design and the use of soft blues and pinks with the vibrant red, made even lovelier by the fact that the cotton is so fine. I'm thinking of making it into a clutch bag and using a mustard yellow cotton as the lining fabric. It would make a pretty summer clutch.

Fave fabric Friday

 It's that time of week again and this Friday I've decided to highlight a Japanese obi fabric that has been in my collection for a while. I am so scared to cut it up, but I know that it would make a stunning clutch bag or two. It is a dramatic piece in red and black with a stylised image of flying storks on it - an iconic Japanese image. I'm thinking of making it into an envelope clutch with a stunning red lining.

Watch this space!

My own migration

My last post mentioned Bokja who have recently created a collection called Migration which included beautifully embroidered storks on patchworked fabric. I appear to have also created my own migration piece, using a Japanese furoshiki fabric (wrapping fabric) with a stunning graphic image of flying storks in blue and white. It has a fab red and white graphic lining and makes the perfect summer bag, teamed with a cotton dress and sunnies.

You can find it on my Etsy store here.