The last two weeks have brought many changes- both to the landscape and to Brick House Fabrics!
Last week the maple leaves were tiny. This week they are mid-sized, a lime green curtain that moves in the slightest breeze.
The magnolias are beginning to fade, and other shrubs and trees are in full bloom. Daffodils vie with forsythia and dandelions in a competition for the loudest yellow! Flowering quince, crab apples, and cherries add more delicate tones to landscape.
Every farm house is festooned with color!
Brick House Fabrics has also had many changes. With the coming of Christine to help out, the whole infra structure has had to change. Not only, in the last month have there been major printer issues (Two died untimely deaths, causing havoc.), but a new computer was needed. I ordered a new one, and was faced with Windows 8. Hours after it arrived, with call after call placed to support, I threw in the towel, and shipped it back. So, a new computer from a different company is being built.
Christine needing her own work space, the shop, as the area in the barn where the fabric is kept, cut, and packed, is known, needed to be reorganized. Finding places for all of the fabric samples, shipping supplies, and files was not easy! But, organization reigns! This was a major achievement!
Inside the Brick House Fabric website are also some changes. Changes to Maine Musings, under Sewing Notions, are coming. We are adding several sub-categories to make it easier to find what one wants to find. That should be up and working within the next two days.
As all of you know every little change is time. There has, for the last two weeks, been literally no time for writing- either for the blog, or for getting fabrics listed. And, after the new computer arrives, and is set up, hopefully there will be more time for it!
TUESDAY- May 14, 2013
DESTASH PIECES LISTED
Seven destash pieces have been listed.
There are several seashells,
a piece of the copper embroidered seahorse,
a piece of the green French toile,
and one of the Provence Tea Bee Fabric.
For more information,
see the
WEDNESDAY- May 15.2013
As we roll toward June I was thinking about what makes for a summery feel. I decided table cloths! Bright and pretty, inside or out, for dinner or pic-nics, at the beach or the mountain, or on a city apartment balcony, nothing says summer like a table cloth!
Last year Sabina sent pictures of one she had made.
The fern table cloth
lends a note of coolness in the evening!
Some consideration must be given to the table shape. A fabric on a long table with benches along the edges will have a very different effect on a square table. And while some fabric is multi-directional, much is not. And while that matters less on a long table cloth, for a square one the direction of the pattern might.
For a bright summery feel,
with a pattern that has visual interest from all angles, the color bright shell fabrics are perfect!
The blue color bright shell,
with its streamers of watercolored aqua,
would make a wonderful table cloth or topper.
It is also available in an orange colorway
for orange lovers!
The last colorway is for those who want something a bit different-
violet on a yellow lime tone.
For those in the mountains the
Alpine Heart Stripe fabric is perfect!
Stripes of printed gingham alternate with other stripes that have hearts and edelweiss!
For those who love the heat of the
south of France
think about the Provence Olive Fabrics.
These are actually perfect in any situation,
as they are multi-directional.
There is the large pattern
with bottles of olive oil.
There is a companion fabric
with small olive branches.
This is available in blue or beige.
Wine lovers might like either the
French wine label fabric,
with its pattern of over-lapping labels.
There is also the French wine fabric
with its pattern of things having to do with wine!
So, think about making a table cloth for your next sewing project,
and add it to your summer!