Younghusband Love - our fav new neighbours!!

As you know there is endless talent crammed between the walls of our fantastic, rickety, leaky old Woolstore & this time I want to introduce to you Revolt Melbourne!

Ryan, Tim & Steve are the geniusii (I made that word up) behind Revolt & they, along with a team of extremely awesome & talented people, have created a mind-blowingly amazing, multi-purpose arts venue.

It has to be seen to be believed & lucky for you, me & all the other regular folk, they are inviting us all to their Grand Opening!!

It's happening very soon - Saturday Nov 6th, in fact, so if you're in ye olde Melbourne town you really ought to come along!

We're all gonna be there az! And I will even be in costume, coz it's also my birthday (woooots!) & I need very little excuse to a) make stuff & b) dress up! Yaysies!

So go get your ticket & look forward to seeing all you cool* kids there!

xx Teegs

*by 'cool' I actually mean 'fellow geeks'. Whatever! :)

New bundles!

Hellloooo, just a quick note to let you know that there are a couple of new "3 fabric bundles" up in our shop! Thanks to Lou and Miki for their hard work this morn putting them together all pretty like.


Three fabric bundle in Pink & Red (yup, still loving that dusty pink!)


Three fabric bundle in blue

Yay new (ish) stuff!

Our second ever birthday!!

A-hoy hoy!! I am return'ed from my lengthy blogging absence. Long time, no typey-typey, eh?How are we all..? Good? Aces, glad to hear it.

Oh, me? Yes, I'm good, too - thanks for asking..

Things have been rather on the busy side since we last spoke - I've got sooo much to tell you, but we all know that Lara will yell "a good post's a short post! With photo's!!' at me if I begin on a rambling stream of consciousness.

SO! No rambling stream of consciousness. Instead, check out some of our party pics:

(Lara got a spanky new camera for her birthday a few weeks back & my, my, does it take a pretty picture, even in very low, yellow light)

Me, Luz & Lou

We were running late, & still prepping the nibblies when our guests started to arrive.. of course. So typical Teegs & Lara. Thankfully we had the wonderful Jonathan to help us out julienning carrots & celery! Thanks, Jon!! :)

A bunch of awesome folks come to our party.. including NONE OTHER than Louie's wonderful mum Lorraine & gorgeous sister Cleo, who came all the way from New Zealand!!

A trio of lovelies: Dana, Cleo & Lorraine!

Massive thank you to Dana (the lady behind Twiglet) who gave Lara & I a wonderfully beautiful Bride & Wolfe wall hanging each!

AND Lorraine made us a giant birthday cake. We do mean giant. We're still working our way through it...

Another big ol' thank you to Natalie (on the right) from Bunni, who gave Lara & I lovely hand cross-stitched rings!

My bestie Tim, came for a while - then left with my other bestie Kat to go see The Melodics gig (withooooout meeeee... yep, so gutted I had to throw a party instead) (tough life.. no, really..)

Sharing the birthday love: Luz & Shanny - so cute!!

Lara eventually started to fall asleep, so I released her from duty on the proviso that I'd stay & host party things if she came back & cleaned up the next day. She was so happy to do that, you shoulda seen her face. Ha! Sucker ;) S'if I was gonna go home anyway..

Miki, our lovely Swedish intern (you haven't really met her yet, but I'll make her write a post soon...) brought another few Swedish friends and her hilarious Kiwi housie, Heather along & we ended up watching YouTube clips down at Lettuce at 3am of Flight of the Conchords with the last remaining troopers (Thanks Gus! Thanks Renae!). I think most of the hilarity was lost on the Swedes... the rest of us had fun tho!

Then the besties came back, (hooray!) so we took the Swedes next door & hung out with our rad Younghusband neighbours at the very-soon-to-open Revolt Melbourne, til the morning birds sang at us.

xx Teegs

(p.s, Lara just proof read this post & her comment was: "well, it's not tooooo random & ramble-y.." think I passed!)

Anyone for a bit of Dusty Pink?

I hope some of you saw our previous post about the Allsorts Quilt and thought "ohhhh yeah I gotta get me some of them dusty pink fabrics" (or perhaps something more eloquent). Because they're also now available in our shop as yardage too!

It's been a long time since we've printed pink as we're not usually pink type ladies, but as the wonderful Suzie Fry said to us "that is the only shade of pink that I'll tolerate" (or something along those lines) and we tend to agree. Pink, but not too pink.

Anyway I do waffle on, here's some pics of some new colourways! (note: not just pink)

Wrens in Dusty Pink

Ginkgo in Dusty Pink & Deep Red

Wrens in Deep Red

Kangaroo Paw in Charcoal and Sage

You might have seen the above print before but slightly different - we originally printed it with Teal Dashes in the background but decided they were a bit too strong and that there needed to be more contrast with the charcoal Kangaroo Paw. So we invented a new, softer colour called Sage and it is gorgeous! We like this much better :)

Rooftops in Deep Sea

Yay for new colourways! Now... to get around to designing some new prints (pah! with all our free time! not.)

xx Lara.

The Allsorts Quilt Kit

The Allsorts Quilt Kit - Dusty Pink, Red & Charcoal

The Allsorts Quilt - Dusty Pink, Red & Charcoal

Hey guess what! The Allsorts Quilt Kit is finally available for purchase online! Yay!! Here's some more pretty photographs to make you go "mmmmm" and think about worthy xmas recipients.

The Allsorts Quilt Kit - Blue, Green and Charcoal

The Allsorts Quilt - Blue, Green and Charcoal

The Allsorts Quilt - Blue, Green and Charcoal

The Allsorts Quilt - Dusty Pink, Red & Charcoal

Some practical info - The finished quilt measures 120 x 150cm and is 100% organic. The kit includes everything you need to make the quilt top, but you can buy binding and backing fabric from us too. You'll need to supply your own batting.

Hope you like it!!

xx

You Are Invited

Photography and styling by Gabriella Moxey

Who would have thought that it was over two years ago now that our beloved Ink & Spindle was born. Time has absolutely flown by and we've loved (almost) every minute of it!

We'd love, love LOVE you to come by and help us celebrate our 2nd birthday NEXT SATURDAY!

Everyone is invited, even if we've never met you before! Just rock up and enjoy the company of some lovely ladies and gentlemen, and we'll have plenty of drinks and snacks on hand.

RSVP to info@inkandspindle.com.au or leave a comment on this post.

Hope to see you there!!

xx Lara & Teegs

Twiglet!!

Oh. My. God. How gorgeous are these little dresses by Twiglet! The gorgeous Dana from Twiglet has a studio space in our building and we were lucky enough to take some of her dresses with us to Adelaide. But if you couldn't make it to the market they're also available online now in her Etsy Shop. Yay!

Twiglet's Eartha Dress in Acacia

Twiglet's Eartha Dress in Wrens

Twiglet's Eartha Dress in Acacia

Twiglet's Eartha Dress in Wrens

The dresses are available in sizes ranging from 1-5. Nice work Dana!!

xx!

Whew

Finders Keepers

Needless to say, we're pretty exhausted after tackling two huge design markets on the same weekend. Teegs and Lou are still in Radelaide but I can say that Finders Keepers was great and if you didn't make it - look forward to the next one!!

There's a great recap and photos over at the The Design Files, and here's some random ones from me (more about playing with my new camera than anything particularly informative!)


The Ink & Spindle stall - Finders Keepers


The Ink & Spindle stall - Finders Keepers


Native flora for the stall - a last minute idea that worked really well


Native flora for the stall - preeeetty

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the stall and said hi! It was great to finally put some faces to names and squeeze in a quick bit of shopping in the last 30 minutes.

Yay!

Allsorts of goodness

The Allsorts Quilt - red/pink colourway and blue/green colourway

Okay so, we're usually not into the whole gender specific thing - pink for girls, blue for boys, yadda yadda yadda. BUT! A few weeks ago we were printing Ginkgo in Dusty Pink for a custom order and decided it looked really, really good. And then we decided the Dusty Pink colour would look great beside our Deep Red colour. and Almond. And Charcoal. Oooh!

We got very excited. And thus the idea for a quilt was born.


Miki and Teegs work on the new quilt

Of course, we're not in the business of making quilts. We're in the business of encouraging YOU to make a quilt. So we came up with a kit! One that uses our 47 x 47 "fat quarter" pieces, is super easy to put together, is modern in design and a bit random.


The Allsorts quilt in red, pink and charcoal

We couldn't just do a pink version though, so we also came up with this more gender neutral/boy friendly blue & green version which we also love!


The Allsorts quilt in blue, green and charcoal


The Allsorts quilt in blue, green and charcoal

So we'll be launching the quilt kits this weekend at Bowerbird and Finders Keepers, yay! The finished size measures 120cm x 150cm (so perfect for a cot or single bed) and the quilt top kit will be available for $125. Backing and binding and batting available separately.

Hope you like it as much as we do!

P.S. - please excuse my hurried photography :)

Save the date!

Hey everyone! Okay so we've been madly preparing for Finders Keepers and Bowerbird the last two weeks so we haven't had a chance yet to make a proper invite, buuuuut....

Ink & Spindle is turning...


Artwork by Gabriella Moxey

!!!!

We'll be hosting a party on Saturday the 23rd October and we'd love you to join us! So save the date, and we'll send out more info soon. If it's anything like last year's party it's going to be an aaaaaaaawesome night.

Hope you can make it!

Finders Keepers & Bowerbird Bazaar

Kia Ora All!!!

So it's been an entire year since I walked into the wonderful world of Ink & Spindle and Teegs has insisted I try my hand at this blogging thing......Choice! You may have seen me on the blog I'm Lou the Kiwi and I've been having a ball stretching across the printing table and gossiping up a storm with these lovely ladies in the legendary Younghusband Building & surrounds.

I have to introduce to you another beautiful gal who has also joined the team, Mikaela. She is here all the way from Sweden!!! Lucky us having an intern from the other side of the world for 10 whole months!! Her pretty face along with the wonderful boss-lady Lara will be at the Finders Keepers market at Shed 4 Docklands next weekend the 9th & 10th of October. So head down, Melbournians and check out the new goodies we have waiting for you to snap up!

On the very same weekend Teegs and I will be heading to RADelaide for the Bowerbird Bazaar! It will be my first visit to the City of Churches and Teegs & I have been rather excited about it for weeks now!!

Hehehe... We are a little bit of a troublesome pair and Lara is often seen rolling her eyes at us. So No doubt there will be lots of fun and giggles, so if you'd like to join in, come visit us!!! We'd love to meet you, after all chatting is what we do best - espically over the print table... and at morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea, after work, on weekends... in fact, pretty much constantly.

Hope to see you there!

Laters!
Louie xox

Gold Birch Goodness

Wow. Tracey from Knicky Knacks just sent us these pictures of her recently renovated living/kitchen area, featuring our Gold Birch drum shades.

Tracey's renovation featuring Gold Birch drum shades

Tracey's renovation featuring Gold Birch drum shades

They look AMAZING! Seriously, this sort of thing is why we do what we do. So chuffed!

If you love the shades then pop over to Wilkins & Kent who are stocking them (and can take custom lamp orders!).

Reminder - Open Studio this Saturday

Hey people, just a reminder that our open studio is on this Saturday 18th!! Hope to see you there!! (or should I say 'here'). Yay!

Christchurch visit and talk - this Thursday!

Hey Christchurch people! Lara here. I know it isn't the best time given the recent earthquakey-ness that has rocked your city (hope you and your loved ones are all okay!)... but, I'm coming to visit on Thursday!!

I'll be passing through Christchurch on a short holiday so the lovely Suzannah from Bolt of Cloth invited me to visit her store and give a talk about Ink & Spindle and our textiles! I'll be there from 3:30 on Thursday 9th Sept (so long as our flight isn't late) and it would be awesome if you live nearby and can come along!

Here's some pics of the gorgeous Bolt of Cloth store & workroom which looks AMAZING and I can't wait to visit it.


Bolt of Cloth, Christchurch


Bolt of Cloth, Christchurch


Bolt of Cloth, Christchurch

Hope to see you there!

xx Lara.

Open Studio September 18th!

Oh my gosh. A miracle has happened. We are letting you know about our open studio a whole 2+ weeks in advance! I know, you're very impressed with our organisational skills.



I really have Fiona from Onabee to thank, because she requested a poster for her shop window. So we had to get our ass into gear and make one.

Anyway, hope to see you there!!!!

Bundles!!!!!

Despite having a list as long as my arm of other things to blog about, I have to tell you about these now now NOW because it's just so darn exciting.

We just put some three fabric bundles in the shop!!!


Three fabric bundle - Red Orange

How did it take us so long to get around to doing this? Good question! It's not exactly rocket science.


Three fabric bundle - Green

They're all cute and colour co-ordinated and everything. Each piece measures 47cm x 47cm - perfect for cushion covers, small craft projects or even quilts. Go snap one up :)


Three fabric bundle - Blue

Yay :)

xx