Fabric Friday

It's beginning to feel a lot like christmas here at Cheeky Leopard and I thought I'd get into the mood by creating these festive stockings. I had some christmasy cottons in my extensive fabric stash, and decided to mix them with some of the fabric that I designed for Makower UK. Each stocking has been lined with a contrasting fabric (much like my Cheeky Leopard bags!) and has a ribbon loop to hang it up with. I think they will look very jolly, especially once filled with presents from Mr Claus....

The stocking below is made from a red tree fabric that I designed for Makower UK. It has a green and white diamond lining that has a nice contrast to the outside design.

The fabric below is a slightly untraditional christmas colour - brown. But it works well and I added a snowflake lining, also designed by me for Makower UK.

The stocking below is made from a pretty green and white decorative snowflake design and the lining is made of a decorative scandi-inspired reindeer design, also designed by me for Makower UK!

Happy Monday

Happy Monday! I hope a good weekend was enjoyed by all. Ours was lovely, spent in the pretty town of Bruges in Belgium. We headed off early on Friday morning on the Eurostar, and spent the weekend eating fabulous fries, drinking beautiful beer and generally having a great time. The weather was lovely and bright, if a tad cold, and on Saturday we rented bikes for the day and headed out along the canal (past a string of windmills) to a small town called Damme, where we consumed more beer and fries! Not a bad way to spend a weekend.

On Sunday we meandered around Bruges and I happened to pop into a small fabric shop (which is something I often do) and I was excited to find some fabrics I had designed for Makower in there! One was a cat group and one was a Scandi xmas group. It was all rather exciting! You can see a small sample of them below or you can see the full collections on my portfolio website here.