Sunday, 3 August 2008

LIFE inSTYLE

Today we visited the LIFE inSTYLE show at the Flemington Racecourse. It's great to see so many inspiring people and it was lovely to speak to some of them. Thanks so much for your help.

Of course we visited the lovely stand of Sprout Design. Rebekah and Tim have a fantastic looking stand, very cosy with beautiful products. I took some pictures of their stand...


Sprout Design fabrics and products


The new Designers for Sprout Design range (the orange cars are mine)


Lara, Rebekah and her little one, and me :)

Saturday, 2 August 2008

bye bye floating...

With ink & spindle on it's way, I decided to do one last run of floating...yes...the last run ever! Once we start printing at ink & spindle I want to start with a clean slate...it's time for something new :)

I got a small quantity printed in three beautiful colours. The first is a deep red on cream, the second a sand on cream and the third a black on cream. I'm planning to use this creamy base cloth more in the future, it's a light weight cotton/linen and it's just beautiful to sew with.


floating in red



floating in sand



floating in black

The shop has been stocked with a small quantity of each colour for the time being...if you'd like a different quantity, please contact me at info@hollabee.com

Thursday, 31 July 2008

therapeutic sewing...

I've been absent from blogland for a while now and of course it's all to do with ink & spindle...which is coming along great :)
It's a lot of hard work, but it's oh so worth it. Our floor looks just stunning and with that done, we're onto the horrid blue window sills and doors. We'll be painting them a beautiful green (we've already done one door).

Coming home after many exhausting days and nights of DIY has left me with little energy to do anything else, so it has been very quiet on the design side of things. I've managed to do some sewing...therapeutic sewing so to speak. I just love sitting in front of the tv making things...at my pace that is.



I made some fabric baskets of the new fabric that arrived last week...my last ever run of floating :( The colours I've printed are a beautiful warm red, a sand and a black on creamy linen. I haven't had the time to take any photos of it yet as it's always dark when I get home from work and DIY but I'm planning to take some pictures this weekend.



Till then...take care and keep an eye on the ink & spindle blog...that's where I seem to be spending lots of time now ;)

Saturday, 26 July 2008

stocked up...

The shop has been stocked with hottie covers and scarves...



Tuesday, 22 July 2008

the big reveal...



After keeping my lips tightly sealed for months, I am very excited to finally share what the three of us (Lara, Tegan & I) have been working on.



It all started in April, when I talked to Tegan (my neighbour and a high school arts teacher) about setting up a screen printing studio. Lara and I had talked about it many times before...we've always dreamed about being able to have full control over the printing process. Mixing our own colours, printing quantities we want, experiment with multiple colours and multiple screens. They were just dreams then...

Both Lara and I found it extremely hard to find a screen printer who prints by the metre on a larger scale, but still not too large, and although we are quite happy with our printer we had a desire for more...and from the many enquiries we know we were not the only ones.

Soon after that chat in April we all met and Ink & Spindle was born...



Ink & Spindle will offer screen printing by the metre to Australian pattern designers and everyone who's interested in having their own designs printed on textiles. So for all of you who have always wanted to print their own fabric…we will be able to do it for you.

We aim to be a studio that focuses on customers needs and we want to constantly improve our services by listening to and acting on your feedback. Our first step will be a website that makes it easy for you to order and design your fabric…




The hunt for properties was fun. Lara and Tegan found our lovely Kensington studio, set in the old Younghusband wool store building, while I was overseas. On my return I visited the space and loved it...it's so cosy. We signed the lease only weeks ago and are very busy to make the space ours.

We're inviting you to follow us on our journey and hope you'll enjoy it as much as we do.

Sunday, 20 July 2008

Melbourne Design Market...

The lovely Bamakko stall @ the Melbourne Design Market









Thanks everyone for visiting!

If you saw one of my products at the market and somehow missed out...check my shop for stock...or drop me an email at info[at]hollabee[dot]com and I might be able to custom make it for you!

Friday, 18 July 2008

new goodies...

available in my shop now...


white floating reversible bag


icy blue swirl reversible bag


chocolate autumn leaves pencil case


orange clay bricks pencil case