From Thursday to Saturday, cloth fabric is having its first ever garage sale out the back of its William Street store. Owner Julie Paterson says you can expect “big fat bargains all over the place” as they make room in their store for a cafe. What a fab idea!
There’ll be all sorts on sale, some at less than half price, including old chairs that need doing up, piles of fabric remnants, odd lamps, mix & match cushions, a handful of rugs, artwork, Julie’s drawings, lino prints, painted frames and even a few clothes. Sounds like a wonderful place for a rummage!
Well doesn’t this sound, well, LOVELY? A workshop to help you create a lovely home! It’s run by those nice people at cloth fabric and there’s only six spaces per class so get in QUICK.
Was your new year’s resolution to get your craft on or to add more personality to your home? This could be just the thing!
cloth fabric has just moved into the ex-Ferrari showroom in Darlinghurst and owner Julie Paterson is putting on a crafty show for its opening by Lord Mayor Clover Moore.
With wraparound floor to ceiling windows and a leafy, accessible courtyard out the front, the new space is perfect for the community projects cloth has planned for Spring. Upcycling workshops with the City of Sydney, a guerrilla style public knit-punk project and craft hangouts with Google+ are all on the agenda.
The new cloth shop will be officially opened on Wednesday 29 August at 6pm by Clover Moore and Steve Pozel from Object Gallery. Julie is looking for helpers to help make the area look as crafty and colourful as possible and has been very busy herself, painting the RTA box for one thing!
But she’d love more crafty goodness to hang from the trees at the opening and really put on a show. Bring your knitted squares to dress the trees, your crocheted scarves to accessorise bike racks, your bunting to garland the lamp posts and your pom poms for street jewellery
If you can help, please take along old scarves, pom poms or pieces of knitting to the shop between 11am and 4pm tomorrow! For more information and an invitation to the event, email [email protected].
Pom poms made from cloth fabric ready to decorate!
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Textile designer extraordinaire Julie Paterson of cloth fabric is selling last season’s fabrics at a bargain price and is even providing the creative inspiration for what to do with them!
“Lately we’ve been getting some lovely surprise parcels in the mail. It’s because we’ve been updating our swatch books and our retailers have been kindly sending our old fabric samples back. Forgotten designs, discontinued colours, early prints, are all flowing back into the shop, much to our delight,” she says.
Julie’s bundled them all up according to colour and they’re available for sale on her online shop. If you’re craftily-inclined, check them out before they all get snapped up!
And look what clever Julie has already whipped up herself! This funky shoulder bag is called a ‘Swatchel’. Love it! Why don’t you try making one of your own?
A bundle of premium fabric goodness! Think of the possibilities! I’m thinking cushions and patchwork quilts!
You all loved the pictures of Julie Paterson’s latest collection for Designer Rugs in her Blue Mountains cottage earlier this week. Now she’s giving you the chance to win a little bit of the design process in the form of an original painting for your own home.
Julie has taken four of her best rug designs and overlaid them with four of her key fabric designs, playing about with composition and colour to create Remixed, a new collection of eight rugs that respectfully riffs on the popular cloth originals.
To illustrate this process, the artist and textile designer has created an edition of screen prints inspired by the rugs, reflecting the next stage in the back and forth of her process. She’s showing them at Global Gallery in Paddington but you can win one of the pieces of art that didn’t make the final cut.
To be in with a chance of winning simply pop over to cloth fabric’s Facebook page, tell her Interiors Addict sent you and why you’d love one of her pieces in your home. A winner will be chosen on Wednesday.
“The artwork is one of the pieces that didn’t make the final hang for the show,” says Julie. “These pieces form part of the process and I want to increase awareness of the process where so much more work gets created than ever gets to see the light of day. This work in its own right has merit.”
She’ll eventually be selling some of the other pieces that didn’t make the exhibition in her Surry Hills shop for up to $500 each.
