Wicket Press Fabric Collection

Below is a selection of designs from my new fabric collection: Wicket Press

Organic "hand stamped" lines repeat on linen textured backgrounds in fresh contemporary colour palettes

Happy New Year!

Sorry for the lateness of this post (I mean really ... can you believe it's the 1st of February already) ... but I am so excited to-day to be back in the studio, and I just wanted to shout out a great BIG .... 

☆¸.•°*”˜˜”*°• Happy New Year •°*”˜˜”*°•.¸☆

and 

Thank-you, to you all :)

 

Your wonderful support and continued encouragement has made 2011 a totally amazing year for me!

I am still over the moon, to have discovered I have once again made it onto the list of Top Indie Fabric Designers @Spoonflower (Making the grade for 2011 at number 14 - Wow :)

Wishing you all my very best for a Fabulous, Happy and Healthy, 2012!

❤ Kris

Image above (via Spoonflower's new create fabric web page) includes our designs: Lucky Four (pictured top) and Paper Daisy - Provence Blue (pictured lowest) ~ So cool to be featured ... thank-you Spoonflower :)

Merry Christmas :)

Wishing you and your loved ones, a very 
Merry Christmas 

and a fabulous fun and festive holiday season!

Thank-you all so much for your wonderful support and encouragement throughout 2011 :)

See you all in 2012!

Cheers, Love Kris 

xxx

(Designs above from my new collection: Faded French :)

"No Sew" Christmas Ornament Tutorial

... seeing all the Christmas Decorations starting to appear in the stores earlier this week, I decided today to make some new fabric ornaments for the tree! ...
(I know ... I know ... where has the year gone?)

So using fabric swatches of my design "Linen Look Stars" in Cinnamon and Mint (as above) I made these - So Simple! - So easy! - No Sew Ornaments :)
Below is a little Tutorial, incase your wanting to make some too :)

"No Sew" Christmas Ornament Tutorial

Materials:
1 x 65mm Polystyrene Ball (per ornament)
1 x 8" square of fabric (per ornament)
Pins
Twine

Instructions:
- Tear 8 even strips of fabric
- Place 2 strips of fabric together at right angles
- Continue to add strips of fabric (as shown)
- Place Polystyrene Ball in the center of the fabric strips
- Wrap the fabric strips around the polystyrene ball
- Fasten fabric in place, with a pin (and add a loop of twine under pin if hanging ornament)
- Enjoy :)

French Linen Fabric Collection

How was everyones Halloween?
.... lots of scary fun, lollies and candies I hope! 

I was very excited to get some yummy candy myself this Halloween, when my latest Spoonflower order arrived, full of freshly printed crisp cotton fabrics :)
The following designs are all from my new collection "French Linen - Antique White" ~ I do hope you like them :)

Finally, speaking of all things French did you see the Melbourne Cup yesterday? (otherwise known as the race that stops a Nation)

What a race by the French horse Dunaden!

What a result - Dunaden by a nose hair

~ Hope you backed the winner :)

NEW: 'Faded French' - Fabric Collection

Hello Friends,
Thank-you all so much for your thoughtful comments on my recent Spoonflower Blog Post - I really enjoyed reading your comments (and it was very reassuring to know my photography tips made some sense - lol :)

To-day I thought I'd share a sneak peek of my newly designed Fabric Collection: 'Faded French' : featuring simple 'mix and match' palettes in Blue, Green and Brown :)

I'm also expecting a fabric delivery from Spoonflower (any day now - fingers crossed) so I hope to post some fresh fabric photos, featuring my latest 'Linen Look' designs very soon - Yay :)

WIN - Free 'Kristopher K' Fabric

Would you like to win 1 free yard of 'Kristopher K' fabic?

Magnolia Little Gem - Sage by Kristopher K

Several days ago I was asked if I'd like to contribute some tips and techniques for photographing fabrics on the Spoonflower Blog. I was so excited to be asked, and now I'm even more thrilled to tell you, that the lovely folks over at Spoonflower are offering a prize of one free yard of 'Kristopher K' fabric, to one lucky reader simply for leaving a comment under the blog post (here) - Yay!

Also contributing some fabulous tips is Berene Campbell of Happy Sew Lucky?
- See Berene's photo tips, and possibly win the cutest Retrotastic Camera Bag Pattern by leaving a comment (here)

The winner for both prizes will be announced on the Spoonflower Blog on Monday 17th October at noon EST!

~ Good Luck

Daisy Dress in Dusty Pink!

As soon as my "Dusty Pink Daisy" fabric sample (above) arrived from Spoonflower, I knew my days - To Do - List would be out the window!
So instead of working, I searched the internet for a cute little toddler dress pattern and spent the day sewing instead ;)
This so cute (and so easy to sew) 'A' line sundress is based on a free downloadable pdf pattern by Oliver + S  called "popover sundress" ~ Thank-you ;)

Now that it's finished, I guess it's time to get back to work! 
... Although It could be 'milk and cookies' time first ;)

Winging It!

Yay! 
So happy to see a sneak peek today of the (Aug 2011) edition of Australian Homespun Magazine, as their Window Shopping Page 'Winging It' features our colourful little dragonfly design: Dragonfly Dance 

Courtesy of Homespun Magazine, I am so excited to share this 'sneak peek' of 'Winging It' with you too!
- Happy Days ;)

Free Shipping 'Monday' at Spoonflower!

Heellloooo,
How is everyone?
It's been absolutely far too long since I said hello! 
(Is it the cold - aka freezing - Winter weather sending me into hibernation?) Well, whatever it's been, the following news is just to good not to share:
Spoonflower is having a FREE SHIPPING Monday - Yay!

... Here are the details fresh from the Spoonflower Blog :)

"For 24 hours 
-- from 8am ET on Monday, June 20th, to 8am ET the following day -- 
we're going to make shipping completely free on all Spoonflower orders. Free to those of you in the US and free to those of you elsewhere (shout out, Australia!). The offer will apply to standard shipping only, but otherwise there are no restrictions and no minimum or maximum order size to qualify. See you on Monday!"

... (Penciling in the diary now ;)

In other news ... Following the amazing response to our very first cushion 'Olives on Spice' (Now Sold Out) I've been busy designing and hand screen printing some all new 'French Provincial' inspired designs, that I hope will be available as cushions, in the Kristopher K Shop, very soon!

And finally 'Just for Fun' 
... here is a photo of a new 'Kristopher K for Spoonflower' fabric - Bubbles - Designed originally for one of my young nieces, and featuring a palette of pink, plum, aqua and mint :)

Pear Harvest - Cabinet Makeover!

Yay!
Today I finished making over my new 'stock' cabinet!!!

Finding this beauty for a bargain price on ebay was the easy part - deciding what fabric to use for the makeover, .... well that's another story!

Weeks of procrastinating later, I finally ordered my Spoonflower design "Pear Harvest" 
I love that even with the doors closed, you get the sense you are peeking inside the cabinet, to see shelves of pretty pears all lined up in rows :)

Before pics below:


To give this cabinet a simpler, more rustic country feel - the first thing I did was remove the fancy 'fret work' from the legs.
Then I lightly sanded, washed and painted the cabinet in one of my all time favourite products: White Paint!


Further adding to the country feel, I attached a new iron handle and French inspired escutcheon (for a key and tassel.)


To attach the fabric to the timber panels, I measured and cut the fabric to size - and simply used double sided tape to fix the fabric to the timber .
(This also makes the fabric quite easy to remove whenever it's time for a change)
Finally the edges of the fabric were topped with ribbon (applied with a hot glue gun.)


And Voila! 

New Fabric Designs :)

Yay! it's the weekend ... !!! 
It may be raining again today, here on the Gold Coast but these beautiful Chrysanthemum daises never fail to make me smile.
I clicked a few extra photos of them, while taking photos of my new fabric designs, now available at Spoonflower... enjoy :)
Cheers, Kris

Revamped Vintage Chair

Fabric Design: Inky Floral - French Blue

I have been wanting a cute and comfy study chair for absolutely ages ... so I decided to remodel an old timber dining chair that had seen better days.

.... Using the chairs original, worn out fabric as a template and leaving the existing padding in place helped to make this (my first ever) attempt at reupholstery so much easier than I thought it would be - YAY !!!

For more fabulous Chair makeovers, see the Chair Party being hosted on the Drab to Fab blog 

... Oh the possibilities :)

Merry Christmas :)

I had such fun today listening to old Christmas records, and making this cute fabric ornament with my new design "Vintage Christmas Star" 
..... Many many thanks to the Knitty Gritty Thoughts blog for your inspiring free tutorial on how to make these super cute ornaments :)

To all my fabulous friends here on Blogger, 

Wishing you a very

MERRY CHRISTMAS

and a

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Thank-you so much for all your wonderful support throughout 2010

... you guys rock!!!

All the very best for 2011
Enjoy the holidays

Cheers,

Kris
xxx

Multi Dots Collection

Hello friends...
Here are some Multi Dots for a Marvellous Monday!
Colours from top left : 
Purple, Blue, Mint, Yellow, Green and Pink :)

It's summer school holiday time here in OZ - YAY!!!
(although with all the rain and flooding along the east coast, its quite easy to forget it's summer) .... 
Hope you have a fabulous week, and stay warm (for those of you caught in the snow) and dry (for those of you, like us here on the Gold Coast, listening to the sound of drumming rain ;)

Delft Blue

Happy Tuesday Friends ... Here are some designs from my latest Spoonflower collection : Delft Blue 

.... Hope everyone enjoys the last day of November ... Can't believe it's December tomorrow....

:)

One to pencil in the diary

YAY !!!! 

Free shipping on all Spoonflower fabric orders for 24 hrs.

Starts 8am EST Monday Nov 22, and 
Ends 8am EST Tuesday Nov 23

Thanks Spoonflower.
... I'll pencil this in the diary for sure :)

Vintage Shabby Rose : Cushions

This month, I've really been enjoying pretty pink, green and neutral colour palettes.



So to bring some of these wonderful Springtime tones inside, I decided to make myself some new cushions, featuring designs from the Vintage Shabby Rose Collection.

Today the rain is pouring outside my window, but I'm enjoying listening to the steady sound it makes as it hits the roof :)
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Also this week Judi Hall from Gingezel, featured our designs on the Gingezel website ~ Thank-you so much Judi for the wonderful Kristopher K feature :)

I first became aware of Gingezel Fabrics on Flickr, when I saw this lovely Collection of fabrics called Ocean Villa 

... (I just love the muted blue and brown colour palette) 

See more beautiful Gingezel Fabrics @Spoonflower here

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I hope your week so far has been fabulous ... 
Time for me now to make a nice hot cup of coffee, while outside the rain continues to fall :)

Terrific Tuesday

Today has been a Terrific Tuesday ... why ? Well apart from being the first Tuesday in November and a day when a little old horse race called The Melbourne Cup stops a nation ... I also made some fun "easy as" fabric buttons :)

Using a simple button kit that I purchased from The Haby Goddess (here) it really was as "easy as" 1, 2, 3 to make these adorable fabric covered buttons (with absolutely no sewing skills required ;)

Fabrics shown are from my Perfect Pink Collection and include : (from top)
Disco Dots - Hot Pink
Country Checks
and
Spring Blossoms 


I hope you had a Terrific Tuesday too, and if you placed a bet on The Melbourne Cup, I hope you backed a winner!

Spring Blossoms on Silk!

... How exciting !!! 

I received my first sample of the new Silk Crepe de Chine fabric from Spoonflower today. 

See photos of this beautiful silk fabric, featuring my design Spring Blossoms below 

.... Now I'll really be able to practice some of my new "how to tie silk scarves" skills :)