Fox tea towel

Tea towels are a great way of brightening up the kitchen and I have a wide selection of tea towels to choose from in my Etsy shop. This fox print tea towel is a lot of fun and makes a great gift for a fox lover. 

It's made from a good quality linen cotton canvas fabric which is machine washable.

Use this tea towel for drying up in the kitchen or for mopping up spills. Alternatively you could hang it on the wall and use it as a piece of art.

Little ones

I recently created this cute collection for Makower UK. It's called Little Ones and consists of woodland animals in a soft colour palette.

This design is called 'Hugs' and includes mother and baby foxes, bunnies, hedgehogs and squirrels in a soft peach colour. I used a sketchy style for these animals.

This design is called 'Bunnies' and includes rabbits in several poses with foliage and tiny hearts on a coral stripe background.

This coral 'Ducks' design is so cute and includes pretty daisies amongst the ducks.

'Foliage' is a really versatile print and can be used for a number of fabric projects, Pair it with designs from this collection or use it for bag making or dressmaking.

Cute baby 'Deer' are silhouetted against a soft brown background and surrounded by stylised foliage.

This 'Etched' design is created in a sketchy style and includes deer, foxes and bunnies.

These 'Stars' are on a grey/brown background and are a great print for decorating a child's bedroom.

The 'Hugs' design on cream is a great neutral colour and could work for both baby boys and baby girls.

The 'Bunnies' on the yellow and cream stripe are lovely and fresh and gender neutral.

The 'Ducks' work well on a yellow background.

The 'Foliage' looks lovely and fresh on a cream background and includes ferns, florals and tiny butterflies.

The 'Etched' design also comes in a green outline on a cream background.

The 'Stars' design also comes in a teal version.

The 'Hugs' design looks so pretty on this teal background.

'Ducks' on a teal background.

And beautiful 'Bunnies' on a teal and cream background.

 

Woodland paths

 I work as a textile designer/illustrator for a living so I'm often working to clients’ briefs. This is why I really enjoy doing drawing challenges in my spare time as I get to draw whatever I want. This repeat pattern was created for a drawing challenge called 'woodland paths' from @ellolovey on Instagram. I used an existing design but recoloured it in earthy tones and am loving the result!

Look up close and you will see that the design includes stylised trees, decorative houses and the odd fox here and there.

Feeling foxy

 We are feeling foxy today with this rather fabulous cotton pouch. It's made from a fabric I designed for my Spoonflower shop and is the perfect size for makeup or toiletries.

The foxes are surrounded by a variety of woodland foliage in shades of green and teal.

This purse is a great size for a handbag organiser or travel bag.

The bag is fully lined and has a zipper closure to keep eveything secure inside.

Foxy loxy

I just had to mention this fabulous foxy fabric I bought recently from Creative Quilter. It's such a simple design and I love the regimented feel of it. Foxes are still a popular design motif and I'm looking forward to making this fabric up into a coin purse, glasses case and cosmetic bag.

I have a prefect yellow and cream polka dot fabric to use as the lining.

From a distance the fox heads look like a little geometric design,

but up close you can see their cheeky faces.

Foxy items will be in store soon.....

Fabric Friday

It's Fabric Friday time and today I decided to make a trip to the Knitting and Stitching Show at Olympia as I needed a bit of a fabric fix! It's a great show for getting inspiration for new designs and seeing what's out there, and I also saw a lot of designs that I had worked on for Makower. Of course, the main reason for going to the show was to stock up on fabrics, and that's what I did! I'd obviously had a bit of a barren phase fabric-wise as I ended up coming home with a rather large selection. Here's a little taster.

My favourite stall there is The Eternal Maker, a mother and daughter run store based on the South coast of England. They specialise in unique and quirky fabrics as well as stocking haberdashery, notions, paper crafts and buttons.

 I loved their selection of animal prints, especially the birds and foxes.

 Yellows are very popular right now and these ones are lovely and fresh.

  I couldn't resist the quirky cat heads and will make it up into a cosmetic bag with the yellow geo as a contrasting lining. A little project for the weekend perhaps?

 Elephants are popular and these ones are really sweet, with a matching polka dot for the lining.

I really liked the subtle gold on these three geometric designs and may incorporate them into a clutch bag design.