Etsy update

Lots of new loveliness is available in my shop! I've been making Kantha drawstring bags and duffle bags. The first lot went like hot cakes but never fear there's a new batch in my store!

These duffle bags are great to use for a short trip away, or as a sports bag especially yoga!

I have a short video on You tube that show these bags to give you a better idea.

 I hope this post finds everyone well! Thanks for reading! Rachel


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Catching up

I really have not blogged for such a long time! February has been a busy month and very tiring so my creativeness has slowed!!!! So frustrating! I'm hoping to catch up with new items for my shop and blog posts over the next few weeks. I have all kinds of things to blog about so I'll start now.

I finished some new cushions for my shop (about a month ago!!). I love the colours of these very cheery indeed!

I also completed a large kantha order recently. I just love these items and am planning to make some for my shop!

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Great idea!

I just recently finished this order for a customer. Large drawstring bags to hold diapers, a piant brush holder and pencil roll with zipper pouch at one end. I love the way they turned out and such a great idea. Lulu has altready put her order in for a pencil roll ( oh and a kantha duffle bag)!

 Large drawstring bags to hold toddler nappies

 Paint brush and pencil rolls

 Paint brush roll

 Pencil roll

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Kantha bags and pillows

I've been busy making so many goodies, new and old. Here are some recent kantha bags and pillows I recently made.

Kantha bags

Kantha pillows

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Kantha goings on!

Before I went away I made a lot of kantha pillows which I never blogged. Terrible I know! Here they are finally, I just love them. Most are already sold but I do have some more in the works!

Kantha love continues

My Kantha love continues! I have places a couple of quilts in my shop as i bought them to repurpose but they are too beautiful to cut. We already have 4 that we are keeping and use on our beds and on the couch so I felt I should sell a couple otherwise it's just being too greedy! 
 

 

I managed to make a couple more pouches and a large bag over Christmas. Any other ideas will have to wait as I have several orders to work through!

Love love love Kantha

As usual my sister and mum hae given something else to love Kantha quilts!!! Like I really needed to add something else to my repertoire of loves!!!!!!!! I bought some scraps in Australia and a while back finally took the plunge and made some pretty pouches posted previously. Recently I bought 3 vintage Kantha quilts,which arrived in super speedy fashion 4 days from India, I washed and dried them immediately and proceeded to look at them wondering what to do!

I really love parts of them but not all which makes it easier for me to repurpose them! If they were all perfectly beautiful I'd have to keep them for myself!!!

Slowly ideas are coming to me, very slowly! First I made a couple of pillow slips I love the way they have mending patches here and there!

Then with some of my remaining scraps and a little of the new I made these gorgeous drawstring bags.

They all feel so special because they are completely handmade and we know the time that was taken to embroider them!

Kantha Love

We all love Kantha quilts in our family. I bought my first one at the Sydney Quilt Fair earlier this year. At the same fair, we came across a Sydney shop called Cash Palace Emporium which imports beautiful items from India and Japan. On the weekend, mum and I went to find Cash Palace Emporium and we were not disappointed. Just diving up to the shop evoked great excitement with the most amazingly colourful window display of devine items and a huge pile of red toned Kantha quilts right at the door.

Upon stepping inside, it was sensory overload. There are piles and piles of Kantha quilts, embroidered cushions, vintage trims, clothes, jewelry and much more. I just didn't know where to start but very quickly gravitated towards the pink pile. I knew that there was no way that I was going to leave that shop without buying my second Kantha quilt. The hard part was picking just one. Below are my two Kantha Quilts. They are both stunning!

We got to meet the lovely Elaine Townshend owns and runs the shop. She very happily let us rummage through a massive box of scrap Kantha pieces and pull out what ever we wanted. I got a whole heap for only $5....... bargin!!! Some of the many scraps that I bought are below. Mum bought lots too and is making a wall hanging. Once she is done I will blog it.

I also bought a beautifully vintage embroidered cushion. There were many pretty ones but my son liked the Indian elephant god- Ganesha so we picked the one below.

She had lots of vintage Japanese Kokeshi dolls so I couldn't resist one of those as well. Now that I have one, I think I will start a collection. I love the vintage dolls.

You can follow the store on Facebook but I strongly suggest that if you like vintage Indian textiles and you are in Sydney, then you visit the store. It is located at 139 Catherine St, Leichhardt, Sydney, and is open from Monday-Sturday, 10am - 5pm. You will want to go back regularly as Elaine goes on buying tours quite often so she always has new stock.

Elaine Townshend at Cash Palace Emporium