But the fabrics are so pretty that it's silly to be snobbish. It's tempting to make decorative items for the home and wardrobe: the Arts & Crafts Home and the aesthetic wardrobe.
Recently I spent a week in a room with eight fellow seamstresses and a Layer Cake package of Morris & Company prints. As the week wore on the ideas got better.
Annette Chavez Fountain brought her hot glue gun and made quite a few pins using the Kafflower pattern by Julie Creus of LaTodera. Note the tiny tomato pincushion in the center---not of Morris fabric but a nice contrast to the medium and dark prints. See the pattern here:
Helen Hodak surprised me with a Scottie pillow from 2-1/2" cut squares. Willy probably would have preferred dark brown rick-rack for the collar but we were miles from a notions store.
It looks good in the Arts & Crafts Home, here dropped into an Original Morris Chair in Photoshop.
And I figured out how to make tomato pincushions, which I will explain with pattern in the next post.
And I have created a Pinterest Board with quilts made from William Morris reproduction prints, like the quilt above. Check it out here:
http://pinterest.com/materialculture/quilt-william-morris/
Morning Star
Georgann Eglinski, 2009
Made from A Morris Garden reproduction collection.
http://pinterest.com/materialculture/quilt-william-morris/
One chair: Two dogs
Willy be Pleased, probably!
ReplyDeleteThis post is great, a tad different, playful and gets the mind brewing on a what I can do with a Layer Cake.... The pinerest pictures made me wish I had finished more of the Morris quilts that I have started in recent years with YOUR Morris fabrics. You know they play nicely from collection to collect.
Sounds like a fun week. Methinks Willy would be well pleased.as he is reputed to have said "have nothing in your home that is neither useful nor beautiful" I am three blocks off finishing my Farmers wife quilt which i have called "William meets the Farmers Wife" because it is made of a collection of Morris reproduction fabrics. The collection began when i made a pattern of Michelle Hills and grew when i did a workshop with her.
ReplyDeleteMe encantan donde podré comprar ese precortado me chiflán sus colores, muchos besos.
ReplyDeleteMe referiero al layer cake de Morris Company,mi e-mail es sa_sandra_redonda_72@hotmail.com.
ReplyDeleteThe Morning Star quilt is beautiful. My untrained eyes had to look at it for quite a while before I figured out what was going on (positive/negative space).
ReplyDeleteLOVE the Scottie Dog!
You all made such lovely things out of
ReplyDeleteMorris&Company! Right now I am making
the Camelot-quilt, only using this
series! But when I have some left-
overs, I will surely add a lovely
pincushion or two..
Just love the fabric-line to work
with! Greetings from Ageeth, from
Holland.
I love making patchwork animals, great way to use up scraps.
ReplyDeleteDebbie
Love the pin cushion! What a neat idea.
ReplyDeletelove the picture of the 2 dogs one chair, too cute.
ReplyDeletehmm would be fun to make something with the layer cake not sure I would please Willy but I am sure I would please the quilter :)
Kathie
That Dog! I have a 30yr old pattern for him and I made him up only a few weeks ago - twice, as I made 2 sides the same so I made their opposites and got 2 dogs. I gave one to a friends little girl and kept 1. Visitors comment on how cute he is - very retro trendy!
ReplyDeleteSo glad these designs are being reproduced. Love his "Blackthorn."
ReplyDeleteHi,
ReplyDeleteThis is Julie Creus from La Todera Patterns!
I was so excited when somebody pointed me to this blog post. I was thrilled to see my Kafflower pattern done up (so skillfully!!) in your fabrics!! What a treat!!!
If you are going to be at Spring Market, make sure to stop by my booth- I would love to meet you!!
Julie
Hi,
ReplyDeleteThis is Julie Creus from La Todera Patterns!
I was so excited when somebody pointed me to this blog post. I was thrilled to see my Kafflower pattern done up (so skillfully!!) in your fabrics!! What a treat!!!
If you are going to be at Spring Market, make sure to stop by my booth- I would love to meet you!!
Julie