Newsletter April 2023

Time for an update on the new fabrics in the shop!

We have received a few new fabrics into the shop. Look for Amazing Poppies which is a poppy panel with a square of poppies set on point and several allover fabrics to match including more poppies, some paisleys in matching colours and other tone on tone fabrics.

I have also designed a Block Of The Month which we also sell as a complete kit if you want to purchase it all at once. This is called Flower Festival and uses large poppy fabrics as well as a lot of coordinating fabrics. It has nine pieced blocks which form a large star when they are all sewn together. A couple of wide borders frame the whole quilt. I have done it in burgundies and yellows with green but we also have the poppy fabric with a blue background which you can choose if you wish. We’d change the border to blue in that case.

I have also made a couple of quilts using the African Animal Panels. One is very simple, just using the large panel and framing it with a couple of gold and black borders to suit. Looks very effective though. The other one uses the large individual pictures of the animals. I’ve framed these with very narrow sashing and then put lots of half square triangles around them all, using the animal skin fabrics from the range. It highlights the picture panels nicely and makes a good size quilt.

The fabric prices keep on going up. We have had two price rises just from Benartex in the last year, so our favourite Fossil Fern fabric is getting a little dearer. The next lot is due in a month or so and this will be at the new price. There are only a few shops stocking this range in Australia now stock up to beat the price rise!

A lot of the prices have risen in the past year, I have had no choice but to pass them on to the customers. There have been so many price rises and freight charges since this pandemic began.

Even Australia Post has had a price rise. I have kept the postage prices on the website the same despite this. You may have noticed we have a flat rate of postage when you order fabric. It remains the same whether you buy 2 metres or 10! We do have different rates for wadding and backing and other things though, but even they are a flat rate also.

Until next time,
happy stitching
Jennifer