Like the Book? Buy the Fabric!

One day recently as I was idly browsing Amazon for crafty book inspiration, I spied some eye-candy in the form of this tome:

If pictures speak 1000 words... need I even go on? Needless to say, I bought it. Immediately.

Girl's World by Jennifer Paganelli offers some glorious sewers-porn in the form of patterns: girl's dresses, fairy skirts, hair accessories, cushions and all things girlie. All beautifully photographed and presented in a hard-cover complete with hot-pink ribbon tie. With the most divine fabrics to drool over on every page.

I mean.

Jennifer is American though, and I've never even seen this gorgeous book on local bookshelves. You can therefore imagine my excitement when I discovered today that new local online Fabric Emporium Fabric Traders stocks Jennifer Paganelli fabrics!!!

The best thing is you can mix and match from pretty much any in the range and you can't go wrong...

Pretty reasonably priced too at $14 a metre; and I'll be grabbing these ones to make some Summer dresses with for bm3... and for Fern too.

Do your eyes glaze over at the sight of fabric swatches? Or do you too look at colours and patterns like a big juicy hamburger?! Do tell!

Happy weekend.....

Eric Carle Fabric... Reviving my Sewing Mojo!

When you see this image, do you immediately recognise it as being synonymous with that gorgeously simple, educational and brilliantly illustrated world of Eric Carle?

We actually don't own the most famous of his books,  The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but Fern just might find it in her stocking this Christmas! We do own a couple of the others though, including a little miniature box-set of hard cover booklets that Fern quite literally carries around and stares at for hours. With just one image on each page, this book has gone a long way to assisting Fern to recognise scores of animals and I constantly find these little books all about the house... 

Then, yesterday I made an exciting fabric discovery... 

A quick google search revealed some very funky designs using these fabrics:

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Isn't that little girl's dress just the absolute sweetest?

... and I got to thinking - couldn't you design an awesome and gender neutral nursery from this range of fabrics? Covered lampshades... curtains... cot quilts... the ideas are endless! Well, the ideas are endless, but unfortunately the spare hours in my day are not. 

But with resolve for the new year, I'm off to Etsy (unless you know somewhere local I can source it inexpensively) to see if I can buy me some of this fabric, I really really want to make Elliott a little pair of nappy covers out of the spotted fabric and a little matching decorated singlet from the caterpillar cutout. Wouldn't that just be the cutest on little Eli? Surely I can manage that?!