Strawberry Thief: Best of Morris

Strawberry Thief from Best of Morris for Moda

#8176 in Black

Very few fabric patterns merit their own Wikipedia page. William Morris's Strawberry Thief  is one.

We've included three colorways in our Best of Morris for Moda.

I see the yardage is in shops now.

Sage Colorway

Morris designed the pattern in 1883

Indigo Colorway

The print also has it's own iPad game. A link to the Victoria and Albert Museum's site:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/artists-residence-va/the-strawberry-thief-ipad-game

The Victoria and Albert has a great collection

of Morris prints, including this upholstered adjustable chair (Morris chair),

which gives you an idea of the size of the print sold by Morris & Company.

The chair is from about 1910. The fabric is velvet.

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O9236/morris-adjustable-back-chair-bird-adjustable-back-chair-webb-philip/

The cotton print we've done for quilters at Moda is

smaller scale. You can see it in the black colorway

on top of the stack here.

Here it is on a chair seat I covered.

The thief in question is a song thrush.

Block from Stitching with Schnauzer and Siamese

http://stitchingwithschnauzerandsiamese.blogspot.com/2013_01_01_archive.html

Mimicking the Cherry Thief, 2009

Inspired by the Strawberry Thief, Australian Emma at SampaguitaQuilts made a Cherry Thief quilt.

The perpetrator is a lyre bird.

http://sampaguitaquilts.blogspot.com/2009/04/easter-quilting-1-mimicking-cherry.html

Decoupage by Nova &Lorsten

The Strawberry Thief design is in the pubic domain which means artists can go off in any direction they choose with it. Entertain yourself by doing a web search for the words:

strawberry thief decoupage

or 

strawberry thief jewelry

Silver brooch by Xuella Arnold