sewing with pattern

We have just met Melbourne based The Makers Journal- Jo and Pamela! The Makers Journal create wonderful sassy sewing patterns which are available to purchase here; they also license designs and like to work with other creative people like us :-)

Here are some photographs show casing their new sewing pattern for a cute skirt called the MINNIE MINI and the Ichigo bag; using Umbrella Prints fabric designs StoneFlowers and Rock Dots both from our latest cotton range RockGarden.

Thank you to the lovely Kelani Fabrics who stock our cotton fabrics for match-making Umbrella Prints and The Makers Journal.  We hope to have one of those lovely creative chats over coffee and wine soon.

Umbrella Prints X Oliver + S looks like this!

The Village Haberdashery in London stocks our quilter's cotton and have just launched their beautiful new website. This is an Oliver + S dress pattern made in our Little StoneFlowers fabric and coming across this lovely pic on Annie's blog was a sweet surprise at the end of a long day :)

new modern

Have a look at Jenny's latest quilt it is so cute; it features Umbrella Print's fabrics, The Heated and Liberty fabrics. It was made for her friend's gorgeous new baby boy I couldn't thing of a sweeter gift.

sew and tell us!!!

Silly Duffa's red dress made with Raindrops (Oasis sewing fabric/by Umbrella Prints)

Toni Coward's Bloom tunic and shorts in Umbrella Prints Oasis sewing fabrics

pretty dress by Curly Pops

As Carly and I prepare to launch Umbrella Prints 2nd quilters cotton range RockGarden into shops world-wide and online we find more of what talented people have been sewing with our first range Oasis.....but most of you are pretty shy about emailing us to show off and we end up googling ourselves to find out what you have been creating!

Don't be shy! We love to see what you make or sew from all of our fabrics :-)
email us at amyprior@hotmail.com

Our Oasis range is available online here and here.

new patterns in one fabric

Flashback! September 2008 we brought out our Umbrella Prints Patchwork fabric 1;
now it is 2011 and well overdue for Umbrella Prints Patchwork fabric II which Carly and I have been enjoying working on for a while now.
We would like to show you the new designs within the Patchwork, each design a pattern in its own right and possibly meterage in its own right soon too.
  
Patchwork II will be available to purchase online next Friday in 6 beautiful colours.

In the meantime meet some of our new designs within Umbrella Prints Patchwork 2 .

Clover in Static

PS The Clover design comes from the central shape in our Umbrella Prints logo :-)

today is a happy day

Kate Conklin X Umbrella Prints

Quilter Kate Conklin has designed a clever quilt pattern where you can use just the smallest pieces of your favourite fabrics. Kate has designed this quilt with Oasis fabrics by Umbrella Prints and visited us in the studio today so we could see the sweet quilt in all its quilty goodness. We played swapsies and showed Kate and her sister a sneak peak of our next quilter's cotton collection coming late 2011.

You can buy Kate's pretty and clever pattern 'Scattered Showers' over here and packs of Umbrella Prints fabric to suit all her different size options here.  Thanks Kate!

Enoki new product design with Umbrella Prints and Marrimeko

Our friends at Enoki design firm specialise in visual branding and interior architecture amongst many other amazing things and they design a range of unique furniture and product. On Friday night they will be launching their new range of product at Bowerbird Bazaar 2-9pm.

Puzzle (see in white form above) is a table and bench set which fits together to form a cube and can be adapted and moved to multi-purpose as blocks, stage, puppet stage and beyond.

From Friday Puzzle will be available to order in Umbrella Prints organic hand screen printed fabric and in Marimekko fabrics! to see our new swatchbooks and latest fabrics on Enoki's Puzzle head on over and say hi!

Umbrella Prints Colour Wheel

beautiful colour circle!
yes... back to packing trimmings ok ok

Umbrella Prints trimmings competition update!

So many trimmings orders coming in!  We cannot wait to see more of what you have all been cooking up :-) There is still plenty of time to enter our Trimmings competition 2011.

taking flight

Umbrella Prints first brought out Bird in Paradise in 2008.  With an impossibly intricate repeat, an allover lace-like pattern, imaginary birds in an illustrated leafy wilderness we could not find anything like it on the market.  

Nearly two years later we have started getting emails, phone calls, a publisher and magazine photo shoot requests for Bird in Paradise.  We are so glad we kept faith in this design.

A new short run has just arrived in colours Bambi, Flamingo and Olive hand screen printed onto our custom made natural organic hemp/cotton. It is available as meterage and in 50cm x 60cm pieces in both our online shops and at Nest Studio now.

colour wheel

 

Umbrella Prints Trimmings in warm, neutral, greens and blues and mixed- your choice. 

Available now here and online in Australia when I get a chance.

Soon to be announcing Trimmings competition #2!