Prints Charming

Prints Charming @ Koskela

Prints Charming workshops @ Koskela.   Koskela, crafters of beautiful locally made furniture and purveyors of all things good taste, have just opened the doors to their new space in Roseberry. And space is the word, so much so that they have created a purely creative  workshop area, and we are excited  to have been asked to host our screen printing and embroidery workshops here, over the next couple of months.  You must plan your worshop around a visit to Kitchen by Mike, in the same space. Enjoy the freshest of fresh dishes and wonderful coffee either before or after your class, or both! Book early as places are limited ring Koskela on 9280 0999 or email info@koskela.com.au Paper Cut Screen Printing Workshops At Prints Charming we develop most of our original designs using a paper cut method of screen printing. We love this method as it allows you great freedom and gives immediate satisfying results. In this class we explore the possibilities of this useful method of printing. The classes will cover: Learning how to set up your own print table at home. Motif design in relation to this technique of screen printing. ie positive and negative designs, as well as floating piece designs. Applying motif to screen and printing using the over lapping of colours and screens. By the end of the class you will have an understanding of this technique and will be able to further develop at home on a small or large scale. You will print on white “prepared for print” fabric with up to four colours. Cost of each three hour class is $140.00 and includes all that you will need to create your fabric. Please wear clothing you won’t mind getting inky! Bring along some simple motif ideas of your own or we can help with ideas on the day. No experience necessary, prepared to become hooked! Dates and times for screen printing Thursday 17th May 10am - 1pm Saturday 26th May 1pm - 4pm Saturday 9th June 1pm - 4pm Thursday 14th June 10am - 1pm Saturday 30th June 1pm - 4pm  Book early as places are limited ring Koskela on 92800999 or email info@koskela.com.au Embroidery Sampler Workshops   Thread a needle and start stitching! We love embroidery and the way it adds so much colour and texture to fabric, it is the most creative way to paint with thread. The “sampler” has long been the method of learning  your embroidery stitches, we’ve updated the look but the stitches are still the same. Come along to these two workshops, learn the stitches and you’ never look at fabric the same again! Cost of Class $90 for the two classes, hand printed linen sampler panel and threads for class. Extra threads can be purchased to suit your colour choices. Dates Thursday 31st May, 10am -12pm, and Thursday 21st June, 10am - 12pm Book early as places are limited ring Koskela on 92800999 or email info@koskela.com.au   Kids Class! - Screen Printed Bag It's the kids turn to screen print! Come along to this class and print your own calico bag with your own one colour paper cut design . After printing we’ll get you embellishing your bag with some simple stitching, buttons and braids.  Ages 8-12. Cost of class  $50.00 includes all that you’ll need.  You may not get the bag decorated completely, but you’ll have everything you need to carry on at home, impressing all who see!  Hurry - only ten  per class!  Just bring your imagination. Date: Saturday 9th June 10am-12pm Book early as places are limited ring Koskela on 92800999 or email info@koskela.com.au  Prints Charming PO Box 48 Westgate NSW, 2048 AUSTRALIA Ph: 02 9564 0207                Fax: 02 8246 6330 Int'l: +61 2 9564 0207 info@printscharming.com.au This email has been sent by permission. To be removed from this mailing list, please click on the link below, or reply to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. Unsubscribe me from this list

 

 

Be inspired with Addicted to Fabric.

Those clever girls at Addicted To Fabric, in Canberra,are already into their second shipment of our Daisy Chain range of fabric.  Kerry was so inspired by our samples when she was at Quilt Market in Houston, she began stitching immediately. Love those little felt flowers embroidered onto our spots.

A great combo of the spot and stripe, embroidered to the max to make a cushion. The stripes are just the perfect way to practise your stitches and create a sampler.

Love the hexagongs made into this bag, the light weight canvas being perfect for any bag.

A wonderful combination of crafty techniques to make a unique necklace. You can pop into Addicted To Fabric to see the samples in the "flesh" and be inspired. We made a similar necklace that came on tour to The States with us, always drawing comments. A great way to use up all those little pieces you just can't bear to throw away. They do come in use one day!

Cath and Kirsten

 

Daisy Chain Quilt in Better Homes and Gardens

Well how did it get to being February soo quickly! We haven't posted for a while as summer with family and friends has kept us wonderfully busy...but not so busy we haven't had time for a bit of stitching and creating new ideas for 2012. Planning for the new class schedule is underway, newsletter next week! Emails have already been coming in asking when classes will begin so we know you're all keen! Get in early they book out quickly.

Who has got their latest copy of Australian Better Homes and Gardens, out yesterday? This time skip the wonderful recipes and go straight to page 27 to see Prints Charming's Daisy Chain quilt. By using large blocks of fabric this quilt design goes together really quickly, and is another of our contemporary quilt designs. Our Daisy Chain range is now available at good quilt shops, and kits for the quilt are available at Calico and Ivy The pattern for this quilt is in the back of the magazine.

Newsletter on way, Thanks and Happy 2012

Cath and Kirsten

Daisy Chain launch in Sydney

Come and join us at Calico and Ivy for a glass of champagne to celebrate the arrival of Daisy Chain in Australia. 

On Saturday 10^th December 3-5pm, 10 Birchgrove Rd, Balmain.  The first 10 to pop in and say hello, will receive a little Prints Charming gift.

See you there, Cath and Kirsten

Embroidered Artwork

We were thrilled to hear from Maryanne about a project her daughter Madeline's class worked on using our hand printed designs. Madeline is at Inner Sydney Montessori School and her class, Athanor, is for children aged between 6 and 9 years old.

Maryanne explained, "Sewing and handicraft are a big part of a Montessori education - children are shown how to make very simple sewing cards at 2, sew on buttons at 3 and by 5 are making embroidered cushions and doing huckaback.

Every year the school has a fundraising ball and each class creates an artwork that is auctioned at the ball to raise funds for the school. This year Athanor used your screen printed linens as the basis for their work.

Every child was given one of your pieces to work with. They chose the colours and embroidery techniques they wanted to use. Some children liked to follow the lines, some liked to cover them completely, others liked to make beautiful patterns outlining the lines. Each pieces is different, each piece is beautiful."

Didn't the children do a wonderful job? We love how each child has used their own style for their piece. And it proves that embroidery doesn't have to be fiddly or complicated, it's just a beautiful way to be creative with thread and fabric.

Print and Pattern

Can you guess what we've spotted?

That's right - some of our prints are featured in the new Print & Pattern book. The book has a wonderful, eclectic mix of different kinds of prints and designs for fabric, paper and digital use. Lots to look at for anyone who loves colour and design. If you see a copy, check out page 258!

We found our copy locally, so before you order online check in your local bookstore.

Slide Show

What a trip down memory lane we've been having, happily trawling through 100's of photos we have taken over the years that Cath and I have been Prints Charming. The slides we've been putting together are to show at our workshops we are about to hold at Purl Soho, The Urban Craft Center and Sew Modern. Hope you enjoy the reminisce with us. 

    Our first shop in Lilyfield. Tiny but wonderful. circa 2005

 Same little shop, Piper Street. It was while at Piper St that we designed and launched our first range, Birds Of a Feather for Free Spirit.

 

 

The two family's in our fab old printing shed, with the first delivery of Birds of a Feather, surely we both still look that young!

More photos from the archives over the next week or so.

 

Prints Charming On Tour

Hints have been appearing on our blog, glimpses of new designs and maybe travel destinations?

 Prints Charming is releasing a new fabric line and PC is going on tour!

Daisy Chain is the name of our new line and we are thrilled to be releasing this new line with Kokka Fabrics. “Starting with the notion of ‘70’s summers, love birds nesting in fields of daisy’s, spots and stripes decorating their world. Layers of colour create hexagon lakes, and strung form tree to tree chains of daisies brighten up the rose tinted skyline.”

Embroidery has become a distinct part of the Prints Charming look over the last few years, it is the most creative way to paint with thread, and while designing this new range we were always excitedly thinking of the different stitches we could use here and there.

Our classes are the perfect way for us to share our love of screen printing and embroidery and we are excited packing up our trunks and taking a little bit of Prints Charming and Daisy Chain to The States in October.  So for all of you in America that have patiently read our newsletters about our classes in Sydney you now have the chance! Bookings can be made directly with each of these fabulous stores.

Purl Soho in New York is our first stop for The Daisy Chain launch and an embroidery workshop. We are so excited about spending an evening in this wonderful NY store.  If this is your local or you are close we’d love to meet you, we will be stitching up a storm on October the 11^th.

After a few days exploring NY (the to-do list is long) we are taking Daisy Chain to Los Angeles.

The wonderful thing about the internet is the way we can all travel and be inspired by fellow crafters. We have been “visiting” these stores on-line for a while and now we are visiting for real!

The Urban Craft Center in LA, what a resource if you’re in the neighborhood?  We will be at UCC October 14^th for chat and trunk show. Then on Sunday and Monday we get the screen printing gear out for workshops.

Sew Modern we love their fresh contemporary take on quilting and sewing, so if you’re lucky enough that this is your local fabric shop, again we’d love to meet you. October the 15^th is the date for your diary. We will be holding an embroidery workshop and all the samples we’ve made with Daisy Chain will be on display.

The PC blog and web have been given a new “Daisy Chain“ look. We will be blogging our tour so please drop on by and check it out.  Any handy hints on wonderful places to visit??

Our shop will be off line from the 23^rd September till the 28^th October. We apologize for any delay in answering emails whilst we are away during these dates.

Looking forward to meeting fellow crafters!

Cath and Kirsten 

 

A hint....

 

of things to come......

Move Complete.

This time last week we handed in the keys to our studio home at Young Street! Packing up after three years of fabric printing, quilt making, stitching and lessons has led to some hidden surprises. Like the tub of printing ink that we've had since well... check out the date! We bought that with us from Piper Street!

We had long suspected we may have had "house guests" in our studio, suspicions were confirmed as after moving our larger dresser we found this. They had indeed made themselves at home. Conveniently next to this "door" was a nest that was made up of a tube of oil paint, dragged through from the artists studio next door, mixed in with scrap fabric. Must have been cosy, and stylish!

 

Thanks so much for all your well wishes over the phone, email, or popping in to the studio. It has meant a great deal to us. For those who were able to make it to our moving sale thankyou , it was so great to see so many familiar faces.

But it certainly isn't good bye. We are making plans to hold pop up classes and news of these will be sent out via our newsletter soon. There will be more crafting and fabric and inspiration, and well.. we just can't stop the craft!

A few champagnes helped with the packing and moving.

Our beautiful table top on the move.

We'll be in touch soon, thanks again Kirsten and Cath