eat your greens

Some great fabrics in fresh springy greens...yummy! From Tonic Living.

create your own fabric

Flipping through the pages of the latest Canadian House & Home magazine, I came across this website - SpoonFlower.com - that allows you to create your own custom fabric! Wow...this sounds like fun! Apparently you can create a design or drawing, upload your images, play with layout options, and then place your order for $18/yard. Perfect for crafty sewing projects when you just can't find the right fabric...I think I might give this a go!

tonic living

Some fabrics I am coveting from Tonic Living, a wonderful online fabric store based in Toronto. Their prices are amazing and they have a great selection. I've ordered samples to see if they will work for some projects I am thinking of. Stay tuned!

The fabrics are:
1. Garden Trellis, Black
{this apparently a knock-off of Kelly Wearstler's Imperial Trellis which is usually $180/yard! Thanks to the Little Green Notebook for this key piece of information!}
2. Garden Trellis, Lime
3. Chelsea, Maize
4. Norma, Orangina

pillow talk

On a bit of a cheerier note, my Amy Butler fabric pillow cases have arrived! A longtime fan of Amy Butler, I have been meaning to buy some of her fabric to create cushions for my couch. So you can imagine how excited I was to find LindyLou's Etsy shop, where she sells all sorts of colourful ready-to-be-stuffed pillow cases, starting at $10 each. Soooo worth it for a pathetic sewer like me! These would make some great Christmas presents too.