2009 was a year of discovery for me. Before this year, I had no idea about different fabric designers really. Most of my fabric purchases were from Spotlight as that was all that I thought was really available to me. As I began to shop online for my fabric, I made new discoveries and here are some of my favourite fabric discoveries of 2009...
FAVOURITE AUSTRALIAN FABRIC DESIGNER
Saffron Craig
(please excuse my blurry, work in progress....!)
FAVOURITE NEW FABRIC DESIGNER
Laura Gunn
FAVOURITE KIDS FABRIC DESIGNER
Amy Schimler for Robert Kaufman
FAVOURITE FABRIC COLLECTION
Flora and Fauna - Patty Young
Hummingbirds in Lime
(image courtesy of True-up)
FAVOURITE JUVENILE RANGE (GIRLS)
Minny Muu - Lecien
FAVOURITE JUVENILE RANGE (BOYS)
Cogsmo, by Cosmo Cricket
FAVOURITE NOVELTY PRINT
Musical Animals - Kokka
FAVOURITE JAPANESE PRINT
Trefle - Kokka
FAVOURITE NEW FABRIC TYPE I TRIED IN 2009
Far, Far Away - Heather Ross (double gauze)
FAVOURITE AUSTRALIAN FABRIC SHOP
Retromummy
FAVOURITE US FABRIC SHOP
The Quilter's Studio
To see other people's favourite fabrics of 2009, visit True Up
Great fabrics. Love your choices.
ReplyDeleteYou have some great choices here. I especially love the Hummingbirds in Lime. I don't remember seeing it before.
ReplyDeleteNice fabrics. I was just wondering if you know where in Australia I can buy nice cotton fabric (t-shirt fabrics etc) for childrens' wear?? I've looked everywhere, but can't find anything. I've bought some from the US and some from Sweden, but postage is just sooo expensive.... Nice blog!!
ReplyDeleteLove your list! And really, really love the Lantern Bloom bag. That's your sewing work, right? Just found out that Laura Gunn has a new fabric line coming out, Poppies (saw a preview on the Michael Miller website). It's another gorgeous line based on her paintings. I may love Popplies more than Lantern Bloom!
ReplyDeleteJust ran across Cogsmo the other day--love it! And hadn't seen the Hummingbirds in Lime print either. Great choices!
ReplyDeleteLillaBarn, if only I knew. When I see really nice stretch fabrics in shops, I grab it. My mum has actually bought some lovely stretch fabrics for me as well. It is so hard to know what you are getting on-line. If I ever do find a good supplier of this sort of thing I will be sure to blog it.
ReplyDeleteMicmacker - When I saw your comment, I had to go and check it out. It's beautiful! I think I might need to get some of that.
I can't believe so many people missed Hummingbirds in Lime. It was the banner fabric of the Flora and Fauna collection!
What wonderful discoveries you have made Carmel. Like you, the world of fabric beyond Spotlight opened up to me too this year and what a wonderful world it is... although it can be hard to say no!
ReplyDeleteYour summary is great and gorgeous.
Such gorgeous fabrics! Lots of ones I love in there too.
ReplyDeleteThat's an amazing wrap up of yummy fabrics - aren't you glad you found them!
ReplyDeleteawwwwww thank you!!!! I'm touched!!!!! and just wait to see how many cute japanese fabrics are arriving next month....over 3 pages full of new fabrics and so many lovely things!
ReplyDeletethanks for being such a lovely customer!
Corrie:)
Oh I love the Heather Ross top.
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