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The Rejects-Bird Talk

Hello all, I know its been awhile since my last post, but I have been busy working, and traveling. I just came back from a weekend in NYC to see old college friends which was nice but very exhausting at the same time. I wanted to continue to show the rejects of the fabric lines I create for Clothworks. I am sure that many of you never realize how many prints are actually created for a fabric line. I always shoot to create about 6-8 different actual prints and then do the colorways for them. Here are a few that did not make it into my Spring 10' group Bird Talk.

I am very excited about this collection since it has some of my favorite bird characters. You can find many prints of these fun birds in my shop.

I cannot tell you why I became obsessed with birds this year, maybe its because we have so many here on my property or maybe its just because they are fun to create. I have some more fun birds coming up in my next Fall collection Woodland Friends II and who knows maybe even some more in Spring 11'. Sometimes I just get stuck on a particular character and go with it until I become bored with it, and so far the bird is not boring me.. so you will be seeing more of them! I can tell you I have moved on to creating some other fun animals but that will all be revealed later! Until then enjoy the birds!!

Ellen

Midwinter Garden

Look what I received the other day!! My Midwinter Garden fabric collection! What a great welcome home surprise. I had been on vacation in LA last week and came home to this. I have so many ideas for these fabrics one of which would be a great summer dress. I am not the best sewer so I will have to source that one out.. but I do have some other fun projects I will be making and will be sure to post them!

You can find the collection here at the Clothworks website. I am sure they can tell you what stores near you are carrying it.

Its almost Halloween and I am busy making goodies for the kids school parties and have to still carve out some pumpkins for the actual day.. I hope everyone has a great Halloween!!

xoxox

Ellen

Woodland Friends is in the house!

Look what I got last Friday!!! Yes my Woodland Friends collection finally came in and I was soo excited to get it, it was almost like Christmas here. I opened the box in front of my boys and they already started shouting out things they wanted me to make with it. I was laughing because as much as I would love to sit and sew some fabulous critters for them I am in way over my head with work these days, I can barely clean my house!

I am so happy at the way the collection came out, the feel of the fabric is so soft and lush and the colors much more vibrant that I thought. The fabric is printed in Japan so the quality is top notch. I think Clothworks did a fantastic job, so much so that today on Twitter I hear that some people can't get it! Wow! I had no idea, but glad to hear it.

I am currently working on the Woodland Friends II collection and let me tell you this is even more adorable than the last!! I spent an entire week on one design and I am in love with it! A week for me on one design is allot, I am so used to pumping out work and for me to work day and night on one is not usual, but in this case necessary. I am not sure if the Woodland Friends is sold out so go here and see.

Okay time to get back to work and finish the Woodland Friends II collection! Have a great weekend everyone.

xoxox

Ellen

Woodland Friends

Well folks I finally got around to showing you one of my new fabric collections due out this October, Woodland Friends!

I had allot of fun creating this cute small collection and some of the other patterns I designed for this were not put in but in the next upcoming Fall collection they will be brought out- can't tell you what they are just yet, but I know you will love them!!

I also created a kit that will be in Quilts and More magazine to promote Woodland Friends, this is a childs chef apron and oven mitt. I had so many other ideas but with my regular designing job its hard to do everything.

Many of you would I am sure would like some other elements to go with the cute Hedgehog so I created a print that I am selling in my shop, and some other items will be coming soon!

Here is the print!

You can get it here!

I hope everyone likes this collection as much as I do, and be sure to check back to the shop again for some more exciting things to go with it. Its been a whirlwind around here working after coming back from NYC and all my meetings, hopefully I will get caught up soon to bring you some more goodies.

Have a great weekend everyone!! Hopefully you have better weather than we do here in New England- we are sick of this rainy/dreary weather.

Ellen