Yes I'm still here!

If any of you are still reading this blog, thank you and a big sorry for being so slow at posting.

What have I been doing? well I have been busy :)

The shop has been very busy over the summer months and manning the counter and keeping the shop well stocked has kept me busy but lately this little man has kept me very busy:

Alfie was born early September and not much crafting, sewing or designing has been done since. However today I have managed to update my Etsy fabric shop with the full range of PhatSheep Fabrics.

Those of you in the UK and especially Scotland will be able to purchase Phatsheep products and fabric packs at the Country Living Fair Scotland 19-22nd November at the SECC.

I will be exhibiting as part of the textile collective I am a member of, we call ourselves Text-Isles, we are a group of Shetland based textile designers who sometimes work together and collaborate on projects. To find out more about us all have a look at our lovely new website Text-Isles.

Unfortunately I am not going to be at the Country Living Fair - I didn't think I'd be much good at sales and stand preperation with a tiny baby strapped to my front! but please go and say hello to the other Text-Isles girls, we are on stand G35.

News...

Once again its been a long time between posts, I've been busy with the shop, which is going well I'm pleased to say, and we spent the last week of June at the Flavour of Shetland Event on Victoria Pier, a great event this year, especially with the lovely hot weather.

I've managed to get meterage of cotton satin (upholstery weight fabric) in both the Croft House print and the Fair Isle Jumper print available for sale in the North Rock Gallery Shop and soon to be in the Etsy shop which has been sadly neglected over the past few weeks.

I'm looking forward to seeing what people make with the fabric I've sold so far and I'm aiming to make a blind for the new nursery in the next few weeks.....thats some more news I've not shared on the blog yet. Baby no2 is due to make an appearance at the end of August.

I'm desperately trying to build up stock now as I know there will be no time for sewing in the months after baby arrives, but its been hard to sit indoors when the sun has been shining and we've had a bit of a heatwave ( in Shetland terms), however the weather is back to normal again so back to the workshop for me...

North Rock Gallery shop inside

North Rock Gallery shop insidehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/phatsheeptextiles/3589184491/, originally uploaded by Phatsheep Textiles.

Heres the inside of the shop, we opened last weekend and things have been going good so far, its been busy and lovely after all our efforts over the past 6 weeks to have so many people stop by and tell us how nice its looking :)

Serious lack of blogging..

Hello, sorry for the lack of posting, its been busy around here. To see what I've been up to check out this

North Rock Gallery Blog

Spring has Sprung!

Well at least I hope it has, after what seems like an endless winter of dark nights and dark mornings it can be hard to imagine that spring will ever arrive.......





But it did, it was still jacket, hat and welly boot weather but it was sunny and not a gale force wind. So we spent a happy Sunday flying a kite and splashing in the sea. Fingers crossed we have many more days like this ahead of us in 2009. Its a good distraction from the hectic redecoration and shop planning and order fulfilling thats going on round here at the moment

Way to long between posts again.....

Oops where has time gone!? again its been far to long between blogging posts.

I have some exciting news, my partner and have signed the lease on a property on our local high street, we got the keys last week.... we are going to open our own little gallery and shop!!!! very exciting and a bit scary, seems like a very grown up thing to do.
During the last month there has been a lot of planning and now we've got the keys its re-decoration time, with all family members helping to fix up the property ready for our proposed opening in a few weeks time.
We've started a little blog about the gallery and shop, which we're going to call North Rock Gallery, you can check it our here.

So apologies if I've been a very absent blogger but I have been busy!

Also there are more fabrics listed in the Etsy shop and some more to follow shortly.

Lastly Happy Easter everyone :)

Newish Flickr Group - Phatsheep Fabric Creations

I started up this Flickr group a while back and have been a bit shy about publicising it (mainly for fear that nobody would ever join it!!), but now that fabric sales have been going well I'd love to see what everybody makes with the fabrics they buy.

So if any of you reading this have made something with my fabrics I'd love to see it, and I'm sure there are a lot of other out there who would like to see it too. So please join and post your pics to the phatsheep fabric creations flickr group .

Also heres a print idea I'm working on at the moment, did the drawing ages ago but only just got round to making it into a potential print design over the weekend, I'm liking the retro colours lots.