Fabric Swatches- Shirting and Novelty

These three swatches are more from the lot of quilters remnants. In fact, these three pieces appear to have been pulled from various sources. The purple pinstripe fabric is a woven plain weave shirting fabric that I believe was at one time indeed a shirt that was torn up for scraps. Because of the checkerboard white patterning I was excited thinking that was part of the woven structure until I started picking that fabric apart with my pick glass in hand and realized, that they actually PRINTED the darker purple lines and the white checkerboard pattern on top of the plain weave light purple fabric. The fabric swatch with florals in light pink and purple actually originated as a nightgown and appears to be some form of non-woven material that has a felted feeling to it. The Third Fabric swatch shown above has a very cool sketchy feel to the floral pattern placed on an alternating line pattern in the background that reminds me very much of hand knitting knit and purl sections in a checkerboard pattern.  And what is the single connecting color of all three fabrics? Why yes, Purple it is indeed. Since they all three had purple in them I decided I would post them as a trio.

Fabric Swatches- Raggedy Ann and Andy Vintage with Apples

Recently, I acquired a bunch of fabric left over odds and ends from a person who was an avid quilter. To a quilter these gemstones would be great used in a project of many varieties but to myself, a textile designer, these fabrics score untold inspirations! This Fabric is a fine example.  A small scratch piece of fabric is posted here with cute Raggedy Ann and Andy pictorials of wagon play, apple picking, and sitting on a fence. I am sure, at some point this lovely fabric was made into ascents for childrenswear or decor in a childs room, but I think its very cute and i love the color palette of lime green, aqua blue and orange!

Creative Doors in the Sky, Opened and flying

This afternoon after work I decided it was time to purchase some inspirational tunes and set out to the music shop to buy a stack of music. Of course, this isn't really remotely related to textiles, but it is indeed inspirational towards the end goal. I started this blog and then had so much going on in Life that I pretty much didn't get very far with blogging. I did however gather together a pile of things that I found amazing, and inspirtional that I could blog about, and so hopefully over the course of the next few weeks with the inspiration of the music in the background I will be able to rant and rave about textile related goodies. One of the compact discs in my new stack of purchases was the Cd from the Band BLUESTONE. I had never heard of them before but the cover art was incredible, and so I told myself I must buy it on the merit of cover art alone, and then low and behold  love the music and just as much the lyrical content.

One of my favorite lines is this:

‎"Wait, you will find the doors hidden in the sky, Just when you think you'll never find them there, Open your eyes, They've been closed for many moons. Time to Start, Re-align you." ~Bluestone: Messages CD

So much of my time since the turn of the year to 2011 has been consumed with works relating to my job and not related to the creative side of my brain, and I feel it is time to return back to the creative and start execute some of these ideas that have been bouncing around in my mind, demanding an outlet of artistic response. So here is to great new tunes and the opportunity to create and be inspired by textile related goodies!