At this year’s Festival of Quilts on 7-10 August you can stock up on your Oakshott Fabrics at either Stand G21, Pinwheels, or Stand N4, The Bramble Patch.
See more about this year’s Festival of Quilts on their website.
2014 Festival of Quilts
Lipari Totes
Look what happened through Sew Mama Sew
Match the who’s who of the Oakshott Lipari Patchwork Tote Challengers (and follow how to make them):
Teresa of Dandelion Drift; Anjeanette Klinder; Jennifer of Sewplicity; Megan of Monkey Beans; Erin of Seamstress Erin; Michelle of Falafel and the Bee
Lipari and Lakes Patched Up
Laurence le Dain of Le Chas Colore near Paris included fabrics from the Lipari and Lakes collections in this glorious patchwork:
LE CHAS COLORE, 86, Boulevard de Créteil, 94100 Saint Maur Des Fosses
Lipari Free Motion Magic
See how Krista’s Lipari Cosmic Star was transformed by Janet’s free motion skills:
Krista called her blog Luminescence Defined and emailed us with:
‘thank you for sharing your incredibly beautiful fabric’
Sharing colour since 2010
We first met Fiona across a crowded exhibition aisle in February 2010 and have been having fun with her approach to sewing ever since!
Fiona Pullen runs the online sewing directory as a central UK online platform for sewing businesses to promote themselves and as a one stop site for people who love sewing so they can find details of suppliers, sewing workshops, free projects, sewing techniques, industry news, competitions, events etc.
She gets 60-70,000 visitors a month so she gets plenty of offers to contribute content, particularly if it involves free fabric 
since they get to keep and enjoy what they make. For instance there’s a husband wearing this tie to work now and loving it.
It was designed by keen crafter Miriam Faulkner. You can find Miriam blogging at moremiriam. Instructions are on the sewing directory site.
This was one of two projects The Sewing Directory ran as a fabric challenge with Oakshott. Fiona shared the details of the fabrics on her site and invited people to submit ideas of what they would make with them. She then chose her two favourite ideas and sent them the fabric to make up their items and write the tutorials (go to her original post here).
The second project was a perfect little evening bag (instructions here) by Anna Wilson (you can find more projects from her on her blog www.awilson.co.uk or find her handmade products on Etsy.
Blog Alert 5
OAKSHOTT LIPARI & AN AUTUMNAL CANBERRA
Some creative activity going on ‘down under’. Thanks Gnome Angel
Full of Beans
Victoria Findlay Wolfe used Lipari (on the left) and Italy (on the right)
Teaching is great fun, but I get so many ideas watching everyone else that it kills me that I don’t get to sew! So! I came home and HAD TO MAKE SOMETHING with these pretties.”
See more on her blog www.bumblebeansinc.blogspot.co.uk
Blog Alert 3
Victoria Findlay Wolfe loves Lipari! See bumblebeansinc.blogspot.co.uk