Oakshot Blog
The gorgeously sophisticated, jewel-like Oakshott Lipari collection is shown to great advantage in Anne William‘s design called Magic Carpet which first appeared in Popular Patchwork
We have reproduced the pattern in one of our free booklets, so download away and fly off on your own magic carpet. Here’s the link to the Lipari Fat Eighths pack you’ll need to create it.
The free pattern booklets can be found on the Instant Colour page of this blog and on the shop website.
Thank you to all our customers for making 2014 such an enjoyable and positive year. Your support is valued and greatly appreciated. Welcome to our end of year sale where we offer you all
The offer applies to orders received by Monday 5th January 0900 hrs (UK time)
And there’s more…
FREE Shipping Promotional Codes
Visit Oakshott Fabrics/Latest News for details.
Then you can really have fun with the FREE pattern books
… full of colour?
Congratulations to the versatile Anne Williams on her new eponymous website. You may well already have read her words on quilting, textiles and crafts given her involvement with The Quilter and … (but why spoil your visit to her site, where you can read so much more?)
Of particular relevance to Oakshott is her blog on the 1718 Patchwork we talked about in September.
Anne is a quilt designer, on top of being an editor and writer, so look out for future blogs on her work.
Here’s another little present just for you – and for free! We linked up with Sew Mama Sew (www.sewmamasew.com) and some talented quilter/bloggers to bring you six wildly different looks all based on a Ruby Reds Fat 8ths pack.
The free patterns for these festive mini quilts will cheer you up all year round so download the PDF booklet now by clicking on this line, then you can decide which one you’ll start with (there might even be just enough time to produce one as a present for somebody!)
Do you want to give somebody some Oakshott luxury for Christmas but have no idea what colour, fabric or size they want?
Or perhaps you just want to post them a little light something?
Or maybe you just know how much they will love browsing through all our fabric collections (and picking up a free pattern or two along the way) to tickle their inspiration?
Then we’d like to suggest an Oakshott gift voucher (or two). They come in six different denominations to suit your purse. Go on, solve that tricky gift problem right now by clicking here to buy online
That’s the name of this quilt Valerie designed for a guild challenge to use at least three sizes of flying geese. We love the story behind the inspiration; every memory can be an inspiration one day!
“Oakshott reminds me of the suit fabric my dad wore, and back when it wasn’t popular for men to wear pink daddy did. Mama would buy his clothes to wear to church, and he’d always get compliments.”
What do you do for special birthday when you have six sisters? A quilt of course. Valerie made the following for one of the 50th birthdays and called it Bountiful Bouquet of Blessings:
Valerie buys her Oakshott from Maria Tamaoka of www.pinwheels.com
Sometimes you need a little warm colour, sometimes you need a little helpful inspiration; we know you’ll find both in our FREE New Autumn Fat 8th booklet. It’s available to download from the Instant Colour page, on the Oakshott Fabrics shop website, and here if you click on the booklet cover:
Have a look at the New Autumn collection in the Oakshott Fabrics online shop.
Thank you Lesley for forwarding the picture of your latest challenge:
I thought you might be interested to see what I made from some fabric I bought from you last year. My Group was set a challenge to produce a piece of work using only 3 colours and 3 shapes. I thought it was appropriate to call my piece Shott Oak. I loved the fact that I was able to get different shading on the leaves when using your fabric and although there were no prize winners I loved the finished article and I hope you do too.
We are mega-excited by the prospect of a new bloghop using Oakshott’s New Autumn Fat Eighths Packs that Lily’s Quilts is running:
