Dear Stella brings Cute Novelty's to Materialise

This cute new range from Dear Stella featuring this cool owl print with a selection of great co-ordinating fabrics would make a great quilt for boys.... Match it with many others from our gorgeous selection fabrics of Japanese made fabrics.

In addition to these we also received a top quality brushed cotton in a great range of plain colours. This useful basic is often requested by many customers and finally we have it in stock for you in; light grey, white, cobalt blue, dark blue, black, cherry red and a great 1930's pink. Available at a great price too, this cloth would be perfect for pj's and pants or skirts for little ones and a pj pant for us big kids too! 

Don't forget we still have our sale on at Materialise 10% still off all our Japanese fabrics including new stock.

Liberty Shipment - Just Arrived! at Materialise

Capel is a true Liberty classic! Remember these golden oldies? I have had one 2 inch strip of this green Capel in my stash for a while now, too scared to use it in case I couldn't find more. The turquoise colourway is extremely popular amongst our customers and is now a discontinued colour. It won't last long on the bolt so if you want some you will need to be quick. 

The latest Liberty shipment includes these popular Liberty Classics. Tatum in the pink and the wedgewood blue, cornflower blue and rust red and Mauvey in these fresh colourful tones and the new aqua and watermelon colourway

 There are some beauties below including Rosa in a raspberry red and apricot tone, Elysian in the yellow, mauve and pink and the soft pink Glenjade and Toria. 

Marina Seaflower (shown below) is an absolute stunner! These giant floppy blousey florals are so expressive and the combination of colours used in this print is absolutely exquisite. This fabric would make a brilliant whole cloth quilt.....

 The sunflowers or "Susannah" was first released years ago in this larger more voluptuous size. Since then they scaled the print down and named it "Small Susannah" 

 I much prefer the larger print of this design because you can really see the detail in each sunflower which is made up of hand drawn hearts......

 I can't wait to get stuck in and start cutting hexies from these big floppy sunflowers

 Anna's Garden is another divine giant sized floral landscape made up of the most stunning selection of cottage garden florals; iris', lily's, poppy's, hydrangea's and delphinium's just to name a few

 Above is just a fabulous selection of colours that we have just received. Including this fresh bright blue Glenjade and one of my favourite's the black and magenta Glenjade.

Back in stock is Felix and Isabelle in the purple and orange colourway and the strawberry thief with the dark pink strawberry's. This selection also shows Umbria in a divine dark teal colourway and petal and bud in dark pink too. 

We also have heaps more in the store: including Mitsi in green that many have been asking for, Katie and Millie and many many more......

Japanese Indigo Jelly Rolls and Hexagons at Materialise

These gorgeous Jelly Rolls made using our Japanese indigo fabrics are now available in store. 

Each Jelly Roll contains 40 strips - featuring 20 different yet co-ordinating designs cut at 2.5 inches wide....

In addition I also put together this divine selection of Japanese prints in a purple and green colour.

Japanese Jelly Rolls are available on our website - to view the full range of fabrics in each J.R. 

Take the link to Japanese Pre-cut Packs

Materialise also has pre-cut hexagons in our Japanese Indigo's. 

21 different Hexagons come in each pack  - click here to view on the website

This week I used the hexagons and paper pieced this indigo quilt to show you how amazing these Japanese fabrics all look combined with the lovely textural yarn dyed fabric that I have used for the background of each block. It looks a bit grey in this pic but it is a soft blue tone shot with an oatmeal colour.

I have used a soft celery green yarn dyed fabric for the sashings. This quilt top isn't finished yet. I have one more row to attach and then will do a border too. 

Summer Sale on Now at Materialise

This week we have 20% off all cut lengths of our superb fabrics that are made in Japan. 

We also have a selection of Liberty Tana Lawn bolts on sale for $44 per metre......

Sale starts Monday 19th January.....

More Spring/Summer 2015 Seasonal Liberty Tana Lawn also arrive this week

 We have also been cutting Liberty Jelly Rolls with the new season Liberty fabrics

 There are 16 strips per Jelly Roll

Cut at 2.5 inch per strip

We are also co-ordinating precut hexagon packs for ease and grace for all those a bit additcted to hexagons at the moment with papers to match...

We look forward to seeing you soon

Liberty Spring Summer 2015 now at Materialise

The latest collection of Liberty tana lawn is now available at Materialise

Alice in Wonderland - Spring / Summer 2015 Liberty Jelly Rolls

Many are eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new Spring/Summer Seasonal Liberty 2015. Especially this Alice in Wonderland themed Liberty Tana Lawn print. Our new stock is due to arrive in early January. 

To celebrate and wet some appetites I have hand selected and beautifully co-ordinated Liberty's in a range of palettes and made Jelly Rolls using our new Sizzix Cutting Machine.....

Incorporating many of Liberty's latest designs from the Spring/Summer 2015 Collection: Alice Wonderland, Theo, Gally Moggers, Garden Wonderland, Patsy and Laura will all be names of pretty prints that you'll grow to love more and more as you use each one.....

"Blue and White" is a palette made famous by Liberty so as a tribute to the man Arthur Liberty himself..... who dedicated a whole room to it!

 Materialise has an abundant supply of Liberty sticky tape in a wide range of prints designs and widths in store at the moment. It looks perfect with simple brown paper as the wrapping with just the Liberty tape for that exciting and stylish splash of colour. Plus we have a nice Christmas price!

With Lots of Christmas colours too!

It suddenly occurred to me that I really needed to make a Large Liberty Christmas Bow for a fancy and fabulous front door....!
Merry Christmas.....

Christmas Flavours cooking at Materialise

So... I've been a bit slow to start this Christmas, even by my tardy standards! If I'm honest, it just comes around way too quickly for my liking (plus I really just want to sit and hand piece one inch Liberty hexagons...... They are so addictive, I'm completely hooked!) Once I get into the swing of things, I'm brimming with ideas for decor and gifts, however I never seem to have enough time to make them all. 

This year we have loads of Liberty tana lawn to mix with all the Japanese linens....... Heaven!!!!!

I'm a fan of choosing traditional Christmas colours, like green, red, gold and silver, and then adding a highlight colour or two to freshen things up. My highlight colour is usually one that I've been vibing all year, that also looks smashing with my chrissy colours. I think Chrissy colours can be any shade of the classics- such as green and red- which often translate to yellow and grey.

Essentially my colour scope is only limited by my imaginaton. Which means no colour is cast aside. Just the way I like it...

This Christmas the choice has been made for me by my beautiful my two and a half year old daughter Liberty. Yes, you guessed it, it's "Pink"! So I'm embracing the pink challenge, and adding some purples in too. A glorious example of this is the Little linen heart above, with whimsical hand stitching and a uber cute 1/2 inch hexagon....

Stars are always big on my christmas decoration list....

My Hoya flowered for the first time today.... I just adore these little perfect waxy star shaped flowers. These flowers were also a favourite of Mum's too..... I'll be adding more ideas as they come to fruition. Simple, quick, fun and festive.......

 Last year I made Liberty a Hobby Horse for Christmas, I had the best fun making it. The bit I enjoyed the most was the hair! This will never go out of date!

A while ago I started piecing together these hexagons to make a pull on cover for an old foot stool. I finally finished piecing together the top. I am now happy with the colours and will not be unpicking anymore. 

Here is a new selection I started piecing together the other day after a friend generously returned from Japan with an amazing selection of Japanese Liberty in a soft selection of blues, mauves and mossy greens. Christmas is not just about decorating or rushing around the shops... Who doesn't love something handmade!