Flood Relief - thank you!

Hi everyone, just a quick note to say a huge thank you to everyone who bid in our Flood Relief Auction, we were blown away by your generosity. And an extra big THANK YOU to Sheryl from One for a wish who placed the winning bid of $360!

And of course another big thank you to Toni from Make It Perfect for co-ordinating a whopping 300+ auctions/raffles/sales across blogland. It's not too late to enter one of the raffles if you still feel like donating :)

xx

Inspiration

Yet again you guys never fail to blow us away with the gorgeous photos that land in our inbox. We're always so very inspired by the things you make with our textiles. Here are some of the most recent submissions:

This amazing reupholstered armchair blew us away when it landed in our inbox.
Reupholstered by Flourish and Blume for Elissa at Evoke Yarn and Fabric.

Gorgeous skirts by Elissa at Evoke Yarn and Fabric

Birch bag by Leanne at Belyn Design

Ginkgo yoga bag by Leanne at Belyn Design

Another amazing roman blind handmade by Adele, plus an ottoman made from the leftovers of her two blinds.

Open Studio Dates

Thanks to everyone who has been bidding in the Allsorts Quilt Kit Flood Relief Auction! Don't forget to keep bidding until next Monday :)

It's been Organisation Central over here at I&S HQ of late & that means we've got our Open Studio dates set for the entire year!! Impressive, no? ;)

The Open Studio's are all on Saturday's from 10am til 1pm.

You are welcome to come in & chat to us, see our space, watch a printing demo, discuss the process, ask a zillion questions, stroke some fabric! Now there's a drawcard :)

So come along!

19th February

9th April

11th June

13th August

8th October

10th December

Come visit us!

xx Teegs

More flood relief :)

Hey everyone,

My god we are so impressed with your generous bidding on the Quilt Kit! Thank you so much! The bidding is open till next Monday :)

For those who can't afford to donate quite so much, don't worry there are some slightly more affordable options! We've just donated some goodies to the Craft Relief online shop - all proceeds will go to the QLD Flood Appeal or the RSPCA Flood Appeal.

So please head over to Craft Relief and snap up some gorgeous handmade goodies (keep checking back as more things will be added daily!!!) and know that you're supporting great causes at the same time. How awesome is that.

Thank you to Therese from Ena & Albert for setting up the Craft Relief shop!

xx Lara & Teegs

It's the FUTURE!

Guess what?! We made a Facebook Page for Ink & Spindle!

So exciting, right? Our thoughts exactly... Wanna give us some FB lovin'? Look to the top left err, right of your screen!

Thanks a million, you guys :)

xx Teegs

(Lara & I still don't know our left from our right. We both missed that one.)

Flood Relief Auction!

I don't think there's a single person out there who hasn't been affected or moved by the devastation going on up north. I'm personally such a homebody and love my housey 'things', plus we love our local community so very much, so can only imagine how heartbreaking it must be.

To help out we've decided to participate in the QLD Flood Appeal Auctions organised by Toni from Make it Perfect with the auction below:

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FLOOD RELIEF AUCTION!
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Allsorts Quilt Kit - Blue/Green





Valued at $125 this Allsorts Quilt Kit (details here) is up for auction with 100% of proceeds going to The Queensland Government Flood Relief Appeal.

How it works:
1) Leave your bid in the comments of this post - please supply contact details!
2) Bidding starts at $50!
3) The highest bidder will be asked to send a donation equivalent to their bid here and provide a receipt of doing so. We'll then post the Quilt Kit to the winner!
4) Bidding ends Monday 24th at 9am

ALSO - a list of all the other actions will be posted on the Make it Perfect blog on Monday.

Thank you everyone and happy bidding!!

xx Lara & Teegs

Hello 2011!

Hi everyone! Happy New Year! Hope you all had a great holiday break :)

We're back in the studio this week getting all our ducks in a row for the year ahead. Lots of tidying and planning and designing going on - it's all very exciting after spending a lot of the last year just fueling the machine that is I&S. There a times when it's felt very draining and not creative at all.

But one of our goals for 2011 is to "be creatively fulfilled", so we're going to make it our mission to allow more creative time into our schedules. Hand in hand with that is improving our creative space and sprucing it up a little, and where better to start than our website:

Some nice pretty pictures on the home page and an updated about page that sounds a bit more like us :)

Stay tuned for lots more developments!

xx