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Showing posts with label Robert Kaufman. Show all posts
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Friday, November 24, 2017

Modern Robe in Blueberry Park fabrics

We love the look of the Modern Robe in fabrics from the Blueberry Park Collection by Karen Lewis for Robert Kaufman Fabrics.  This robe was stitched upon request of Stone Mountain and Daughter Fabrics in Berkeley, California, where it is displayed as a store model.


Here are the Indigo and Coral fabrics from the Blueberry Park collection :

AWI-15747-62 INDIGO by Karen Lewis -Blueberry Park 

AWI-15751-143  CORAL by Karen Lewis - Blueberry Park

Karen was born and brought up in Leeds, West Yorkshire in the UK where she learned to sew and knit with her grandmother. Karen always had a passion for textiles, pattern and color and after a brief silkscreen printing course in 2011, she set about teaching herself more about this technique in order to design her own fabric.  Blueberry Park is her first collection for Robert Kaufman.

Karen is also the author of the acclaimed book, Screen Printing at Home: Print Your Own Fabric to Make Simple Sewn Projects  (2014).

Screen Printing at Home by Karen Lewis

Karen Lewis is also a prolific quilter and her work is regularly seen in Love Patchwork and Quilting as well as Quilt Now magazines. As well as running workshops in her home in Leeds, she has taught at the Fat Quarterly Retreat and around the UK.  You can read a fascinating interview with Karen Lewis at Wicked Printing Stuff.


Stonemountain & Daughter is one of the last great full-service fabric stores in the country. There are less than 50 such stores in the country – there used to be at least one in every city and town! We're honored to have the Modern Robe pattern featured at Stonemountain & Daughter.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Modern Robe in Valley of the Kings

We were asked to make a sample robe in this beautiful Robert Kaufman fabric.  Instead of cutting the collar from the same fabric, the customer wanted a contrasting collar along that would match the belt belt.  We think this turned out beautifully, and it gives the robe an entirely different look. The contrasting collar took an addition 1/2 yard of gold fabric; so, for the collar and belt, we used a total of one yard of gold fabric.  We've now added this as an option in the Modern Robe Pattern.


 


Both fabrics are a dream to sew with: heavy, luxurious cotton with a wonderful hand.


Fabrics:  Valley of the Kings Jewel by Robert Kaufman Fabrics ETJM-10933-201 and Timeless Treasures GM-c1334 Tan.