Invite only

My husband designed all our invites/menu/order of service etc for our wedding, including the tea towels we had printed as invites.  The idea for doing the invite as a tea towel came because we wanted something a bit tongue in cheek.  Chris saw a lot of the tacky memorabilia that was bought out to celebrate the wedding of  Prince WIlliam and Kate.  We  came across old tea towel designs from previous royal weddings and decided to do our own which Chris designed and then got digitally printed.

We had a rough colour scheme of yellow/white/grey and pink which we used in the printed materials.  The little bird pegs I made by cutting out bird images from an old bird book and gluing them onto wooden pegs.  I made lots of them for the wedding so guests could pin up their messages and pictures to us at the reception (we had a table with an old fashioned typewriter and an easel with pens and paints for people to type, write or draw messages for us.

Isle be seeing you

in all the old familiar places!!....Why not use an old vintage tea-towel to re-cover an old chair pad, like this one I made last summer, using one of my Grandma's tea towels featuring the Isle of Wight. I just liefted of the seat pad, drew around it directly onto the tea towel adding an extra 1 1/2 " all the way round, cut it out and used a staple gun to attach the new fabric to the underside and then put the pad back.

Leanne Graeff

Pretty prints from Leanne Graeff.

Heather Dewick

We had a stall at the Craft Candy Spring Fling Fair in Sheffield this weekend and it was great fun, we met lots of lovely talented people and it was busy all day long, despite the bad weather!  I'm planning to showcase some of the maker's work I saw on Saturday, so here is the first one - Heather Dewick, a bookbinder and restorer based in Sheffield who makes these fantastic books using vintage tea towel material and handmade fabrics as covers.

Lush Designs

I'm in love with Lush Designs!! We are in the process of making our house a bit nicer this summer and so have been trawling through the 'net in search of lovely bits for our house. During one of my recent trawls, I came across Lush Designs who make these amazing lampshades, I would love one of each design as they are all wonderful. Lush also design tea-towels, cushions aprons and more and for those of you lucky enough to live in/or near London, they also have a shop based in Greenwich Market.

PataPri

I first found PataPri on Etsy last year where she has had much success and for good reason as you can see above her designs are so colorful and fun.  I love the simplicity of her designs and the colors work so well together.  

Third Drawer Down

Continuing the tea-towel theme, Third Drawer Down.  As they say on their website 'By placing art into the most domestic of circumstances, Third Drawer Down products promote an ongoing dialogue between art and everyday life, whilst promoting the work of International Artists and Designers.  They reproduce artwork by contemporary Australian and International artists as Limited Edition screen prints onto finest 100% finest quality materials.  This lovely design is by illustrator Zara Wood.

Pintuck

Continuing the theme of British designers, Pintuck is another small company whose work I love.  Especially the the puppy love tea-towel which can be transformed into a cute stuffed toy too.