Patchwork pillows

I had so much fun over the weekend putting together some patchwork cushions for a lovely new customer. It was just the best thing playing around to see which fabrics worked together. I covered some buttons for the back with trusty Little A. For the front I added some cotton crochet trim in a colour that seemed to pull things together. What do you think?

Rose



Blooming



Cornflower



Chocolate

They were so fun to do I've added one of each to the shop.



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Inspiring reads

I had a lovely suprise in my inbox yesterday. A note from Tif aka Dottie Angel to say she'd spotted a Folly&Glee Danish Mod Lamp on the  fab sfgirlbybay blog. Well I've never seen N.E.E.T magazine before but looks like a truly inspiring read.

N.E.E.T Magazine

Thank you very much to who ever included my lamp in Issue #24!

FollyandGlee

 Now talking of inspiring reads and miss Tif you MUST if you have not already done so order your copy of her book. 

Dottie Angel's Book

 I am hoping that those killjoys at HM Customs don't delay my parcel too much longer and that I will soon have my paws on its handstitched cover. You can get your copy here .

If that wasn't enough the Liberty Book of Home Sewing is out in October and its worth checking out the Liberty Blog for allsorts of nice projects in the run up to publication.You can watch a video or dowload a pdf pattern for a super simple Liberty oven glove.

Even better there's a sneaky peak inside  the book with preview patterns for a round patchwork cushion 

Liberty Book of Home Sewing

 

and the lovely frilly pinny.

Liberty Book of Home Sewing

Happy days x

Vintage Fabric Sale at Donna Flower

Did I mention that Folly&Glee shades were at Vintage on the Southbank.....oh yes so I did (yawn). Well someone else who was spotted there....looking absolutely gorgeous....was my cyber buddy Donna Flower.



Donna Flower at Vintage

Donna's been kind enough to help me source some vintage children's or nursery barkcloths for a new line of shades coming soon.

nursery barkcloth shades coming soon at FollyandGlee

If you are quick you can find the perfect vintage fabric for your project over on Donna's shop where she's having a back to school sale - genius.

15% off all stock until 20th September - just use the code BTS11 in the coupon code at checkout.

Holiday Memories

Definately got that " back to normal" feeling this morning.

Kettleys in Mallorca 2011

Reminding myself of some of the holiday memories has done the trick!

Hope you and yours and all having some summer fun wherever you are.

Showstopping Lampshades at the Vintage Festival on the Southbank

Its been a fabulous few weeks. Funny how life is like that .....you spend forever running on what feels like a giant hamsters wheel, the wheel speeds up and you're feeling decidedly dizzy and then just as you think you're going to fall off the wheel stops and you get to escape the cage and nibble on a big pile of nuts for a bit! When you return the cage feels much more like a nest. No I haven't turned into a hamster.....but maybe you know what I mean.

My wheel was sent spinning into a frenzy immediately before our hols with a particularly lovely request from a very glamerous stylist from BBC Homes and Antiques Magazine. Would I be willing to let them showcase Folly and Glee by exhibiting 20 lamp shades in there Vintage Bazaar at the Vintage by Hemingway Festival on the Southbank. Kiera Buckley Jones had styled the fabulour 1950s room for the ‘Museum of ’51’ as part of the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the Festival of Britain at the Southbank Centre earlier in the year so really knows her stuff.



Museum of 51 at the Southbank Centre

 Well of course it was a big YES. I'd been a tad dissapointed that I couldn't visit due to the event falling slap bang in the middle of our hols but at least this way Folly and Glee got to go! And in such great company cos also sharing the Homes and Antiques maequee was Something Fine, In the Parlour and Jane Foster.

gorgeous Vintage sewing box from Something Fine



 In the Parlour revamp from that clever Casper James





Jane Fosters amazing cushions




I had 5 days amidst finishing existing orders and packing to get them done - all of them a mix of 1950s cotton barkcloths in floral and atomic/graphic patterns plus a couple of pictorial scenes. Here they are sitting on the Ercol waiting to be boxed.

I was so excited to find out what the reception from the Southbank had been and I must admit to checking my email just a hour after arriving home at 4am from a night flight. Through bleary eyes imagine my delight to see everything seems to have worked out spiffingly. The Bazaar in its mini marquee looked spiffing - well done gals!



Kiera Buckley Jones and Natasha Goodfellow from Homes and Antiques



And oh my can it be or is it jet lag? Is that the great man himself standing under Folly and Glee shades?

It got even better when I hoped on to the Vintage by Hemingway Blog and read the following " Isn't the bon-bon themed Homes and Antiques magazine mini marquee just adorable. I'm a real sucker for candy coloured stripes! The gals are bringing the pages of the magazine to life and have been hand picking vintage treasures from flea markets across the land especially for Vintage including the show stopping vintage fabric lampshades with colour pop flex by Folly and Glee."

Showstopping! Let me just say that again Wayne Hemingway referred to FollyandGlee's lampshades as "showstopping."

I tell you...never has eight loads of holiday washing (mainly teenage boy socks and sandy towels - euch) been done in such a state of contentment with a smile upon face.




Rie Elise Larsen Shades in NotontheHighstreet.com SALE

You may or may not know that Folly&Glee has been a partner on Notonthehighstreet.com pretty much since the beginning 4 years ago. Tomorrow sees the start of the Notonthehighstreet.com sale and we've made a few major price slashes.

One of the best bargains with more the 50% off has to be the last of the gorgeous Rie Elise Larsen pleated paper lampshades in a choice of two sizes and four colours.

I've only just learnt that the fabulous new craft magazine Mollie Makes featured them in Issue 2. More on this amazing mag next time... happy bargain hunting.

Shady trio from a vintage sheet

In between showers I have been laundering a stash from the back of the airing cupboard. A stash of bed linen from the 60s and 70s. As is seems that we have settled on our colour combos for our bedroom it feels greedy to keep those I will never use.

So in love am I with barkcloth that its been quite some time since I made a lamp shade in anything else. The crisp cottony loveliness of one particular piece kept on nagging away to be given a go.

Finding that I had just the right shade of teal blue crochet trim and a length of my favourite Wrights vintage cotton pom poms I gave in. Here are the results.

A trio of shady lovelies.

I am thinking that I should like to make all 3 sizes available in a variety of different retro cottons from "the stash". I'm hoping to have them in the shop by Monday.

Have a lovely week end

x

PS. I got distracted whilst posting by the puzzle feature on Picnik. Family photos are being transformed into jigsaw puzzles as we speak! You've got to have a go.