Fabric Friday

The sun is out, the sky is blue and I fancy a bit of bling for this Friday's fabric choice. You can't get much blingier than this beauty. It's a fabulous gold woven Japanese obi fabric with touches of green, blue and burnt orange.

I've already made a custom handbag order from some of this fabric, but am now thinking of using the fabric to make a zipper clutch. I recently learnt how to sew a zipper and am so excited to have learnt something new! I can't wait to try it out on some of my obi fabrics, which would be perfect. I intend to add a bright tassel to the zipper pull for some extra bling and am heading into London today to visit some tassel shops.

Hopefully I will have some zipper clutches to sell at the International Bazaar in Tokyo in November.
Watch this space….

In celebration of autumn

Autumn is not quite here yet, but after a hot and humid summer, the cooler air of autumn will be greatly appreciated. In anticipation of this, I recently created a clutch bag made from a beautiful woven obi fabric with silver maple leaves woven onto a vibrant orange ground. I added a mustard yellow lining to add to that fall feeling.

You can find it on my Etsy store here.