Valley View by Saffron Craig

Valley View has arrived! The color combinations possible with this collection are so bright and cheery. Here are some solid pairing suggestions that match nearly perfectly with the colors in these prints (nearly is the key word here - as these fabrics were printed on different basecloths by different manufacturers you'll never get a perfect match, but these are darn close!)

Clothworks Organic Elements solids pair really nicely with Saffron Craig's fabric as both have similar hand and feel - super soft and smooth 100% GOTS certified organic cotton. The combination is Purple, Pink, and Bright Yellow with Flower on the Lattice. These solids would work well with all of the prints in this line.

Organic Elements Solid Pink and Light Lime with the Valley Views print.

If you don't mind combining the smooth sheeting of Valley Views with a slightly rougher muslin, Robert Kaufman's Organic Kona Solids make a great color match. Berry and Kelly Green with Valley Views.

Enjoy!

Color Play : Mixteca

Mixteca designed by Eleanor Grosch for Cloud9 is making us dream of far-off and exotic destinations. Here are a few options for color pairing. This line works especially well with solids which help balance the energy in the prints.

Kona Pure Organic in Natural makes a nice neutral companion to Textila Rosa. A splash of bright pink and black would round everything out.

Lechuza pairs well with Pure Organic Chartreuse. A blue to complement, although not an exact match, is Lagoon

Tucana, Natural and Bright Pink. You can always turn up the heat with a little Marigold

Chevron Azul and a thin border of Pure Organic Grey with Sparo

Nursery Flannel Giveaway

Nursery Flannel takes from some of Cloud9 Fabrics' most popular prints - playful elephants and the perfect little dot complemented by a solid white flannel. This soft and supple flannel fabric is perfect for all things baby, especially as the weather starts to turn cooler.

Enter to win a fat quarter bundle of 7 fabrics from the collection. We'll select at random two lucky winners on August 31, 2012. 

International entries welcome :-)

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The drawing is open until midnight August 30, 2012. We'll announce the winners on August 31.

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Weekend Project (or what to do with a huge expanse of brick wall)

This summer I'm not feeling very motivated to start a big quilt project. The combination of Georgia heat and quilt batting just isn't very appealing to me. But the drive to create things hasn't abated - not one tiny bit!

Our shop is located in an old cotton warehouse at the renovated Porterdale Cotton Mill. The walls are wonderfully rustic brick, 16 feet high, punctuated by the original longleaf pine¹ pillars and beams. We adore this space and the tiny town of Porterdale, replete with it's unattended library and honor-system book borrowing. But what to do with the walls? 

The answer came in the form of a few pieces of 2x2x8 pine lumber from the local hardware store and a couple of yards of fabric. In an afternoon we had three 18" square 'works of art' ready to adorn the walls. This project is wonderfully simple -

For one frame, you will need:

• 1 - 2x2x8 pine board 
• 4 - 2" nails or corner reinforcing brackets with screws
• 1 - 24" x 24" fabric, whole or pieced
• staple gun and staples or upholstery tacks and hammer
• your choice of hanging hardware, if hanging on a wall, or display on a shelf.

 Assembly:

Et, voila! I hung two in our dining room before bringing them to the shop. Not too shabby, eh?

 Whatever you choose to do this weekend, Enjoy!

1 Longleaf pine is a slow-growing, hardwood pine native to the southeast USA. It was a very popular building timber as it is hard wood and long lasting (the beams in this building are over 100 years old). The large-scale timber industry here in the south between 1880 - 1920 devasted the longleaf pine forests. Today they are among the most endangered ecosystems in North America. There are a few virgin stands that remain. I've not visited yet, but understand they are unlike any other ecosystem. If you're interested in learning more this is a good place to start