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

Updated Open Studio

Hey lovelies!

Just in case you were planning to pop in to the next Open Studio, we've had a change of date!

In a fit of absent-minded-ness, we had it booked in for Oct 2nd, BUT that's a) Lara's birthday weekend (woots) & b) Parklife party weekend! So we've decided to bring the Open Studio forward a couple of weeks.

New date is September 18th (first weekend of the school hols, I believe) at the usual time of 10am -1pm, at our lovely premises at 10 Elizabeth St, Kensington!

You should totally come :)

xx Teegs

Youse got talent

I love love love it when people email us sexy photos of things they've made with our fabric. Especially when they've taken time to do some styling. I'd love to post pics from all the things people send us but I'm just going to post the prettiest photos today:

Birch Curtain in Dylan's Woodland Nursery

Baby bag by the expecting Ainslie Heffernan

Upholstered copper chair by Floery Mahoney

Lamp shade and Canvas by Studio Eco, one of our stockists in Adelaide :)

Canvasses by Studio Eco, one of our stockists in Adelaide :)

Keep the photo's coming guys - we love seeing your creations. Makes it all worthwhile :)

Photoshoot, Article & Design Market!

Hello all! I'm not officially back from my holidays yet, but I thought I should pop in & let you know a couple of neat-o things that have been going on around ol' I&S HQ!

A little while back we were nominated for the Energise Enterprise Small Business Heroes - The Designers exhibition & we were lucky enough to be among the chosen few! Hooray!

As finalists, part of the prize was a pro photoshoot:

Lara, Teegs & Lou

Lara & Teegs - with the honorary I&S member relaxing on the sofa..

Teegs, Lara & Lou

The exhibition is currently on in the Atruim at Fed Square, for those of you who are Melbs-based & is on until the 14th August. (I know, I really should have told y'all about it earlier.. but I am on holidays...)

It's pretty cool, there are 18 businesses profiled, with lots of photo's of each of us in our work spaces! It opened last Friday by the Minister for Small Business Joe Helper, with a luncheon & ribbon cutting ceremony. It was all a bit fancypants! ...a little tooooo fancypants for us, we kept giggling to each other "Are you sure they meant to invite us to this..?" and trying to keep straight, professional, businesslike faces on.

It was great seeing some of our friends there too, we got to hang out with Emily of Nancybird, Tina & Glenistair of Saltmarsh and I just happened to sit next to Jamie from Keep Cup over lunch! He was really lovely :) we do love our Keep Cups!

Anyhoo, as part of the exhibition there is going to be the Business by Design Market held in the Atrium THIS FRIDAY from 10-4, where all the finalists (and some extra lovelies!) will exhibit their wares. You should totally come along & say hi to us!!

And as part of the promo for the exhibition the Herald Sun put us in their paper:

August 5th, 2010.

That was pretty cool!

xx Teegs

P.S. Umm, the photographer made me climb on the table, btw - it's not common practice. And it certainly wasn't our idea! xt

New fabrics!!!

Possibly the most exciting reason to return from holidays - we've printed some new fabrics!!

It's so exciting to see something from your head turn into something real, which is particularly the case with this new two colour version of our Kangaroo Paw print. Being a print of such a large scale, I wanted to come up with a texture to print in the background so it would work well in smaller pieces. And then Harvest came along, with Lara Davies' gorgeous dashes print, and we worked together to adapt it for yardage. Yay!

Here's the first couple of colourways we've done, each with the Dashes print available on it's own as a complimentary. All available in the shop right now :)




Kangaroo Paw in Red Orange and Snow


'Dashes' in Snow


Kangaroo Paw in Charcoal and Teal


'Dashes' in Teal

And then last but not least... we recently got some of our GOTS certified organic cotton dyed in a gorgeous charcoal colour, and so we present Rooftops in Black on Charcoal. Yay! We love how this turned out, and figure maybe it might even be deemed suitable for the man in your life ;)


Rooftops in Black on Charcoal

We'd love to hear what you think, and if there's any other colourways you'd like to see :)

xx

We're back!!!

...well kinda. I'm back, Teegs is still away for another week (we did a bit of tag-teaming).

Lots of new stuff to share, but I'll get onto that soon! Meanwhile, you should see the amazing stuff that the Harvest girls (our studio buddies) have been doing the last month. Making gorgeous softies kits and kids clothing and teatowels and all sorts of awesome things. Here's some pics!


Harvest Textiles teatowels


Harvest Textiles softies kit


Harvest Textiles at the Melbourne Design Market - screen printing demo!


Harvest Textiles yardage printing classes at the Ink & Spindle studio


Harvest Textiles yardage printing classes at the Ink & Spindle studio

And, super excitingly, check out this video that our studio neighbour Gus from Lettuce made about one of their yardage screen printing classes!! Is there a shortage of talent in this building?? Methinks not.

The Harvest Class from Angus Booker on Vimeo.