Snapdragon's garden

Tea towels - back for a short period

One of the most popular things that I have ever made was a linen tea towel embroidered with poppy seed heads

 

They were elegant, washed brilliantly and sold out pretty quickly.  When I went back to buy more linen I found that the price had rocketed and the search for alternative European made, reasonably priced linen proved very depressing.  Do you know that most "Irish linen" is in fact made in China and then packed in Ireland?

In the end I bit the bullet, accepted that I can't afford to sell these to shops, and bought some more from my original supplier.  They are beautiful quality, wash like a dream and I think are a super Christmas present.  I haven't that many left and they aren't going to go on the website - but here is a "Buy it now" button for anyone who fancies doing their Christmas washing up in style.

1 tea towel £9.50 3 tea towels £25.00 5 tea towels £40.00

Using up the stash.

I love to use vintage and recycled fabrics in my designs and find that they work particularly well in the pocket mirrors.
One thing that is particularly intriguing is how many of the fabrics work very unexpectedly when cut up and put into a different context.
This week I have been using up scraps of a pony curtain fabric from 1960s.
Any pieces with recognizable ponies had long ago been used and I was left with strips and scraps of rumps, gates, tails and grass.
This week I decided to use pieces up on an order for caravan mirrors that was going to Wiltshire. 

I am so chuffed with them - some bits look like sand dunes, some like grass, others as though people have strung up their bunting and gone camping on the beach.  The colours work really well.  I find it so amazing that something so figurative works so well as an abstract.
The ones in this box are headed out to a stockist but I have made some more up in the same colours this afternoon.  Choose between blue, green or beige backgrounds with either a cream or a silver airstream caravan.
They are £4.95 including postage within Europe and come in a cream wool pouch to protect the mirror in your handbag.

What colour background?

blue green beige

What colour caravan?

cream silver Option 3