Misty Morning Sun

The sun just can't seem to shine through here.  It's been a cold, wet spring, thus Misty Morning Sun. Fat Quarter packages (1 1/2 yds. total) are $27 ($30 including shipping by first class post within the U.S.); 1/2 yard packages (3 yds total) are $54 plus actual postage to your location; 1 yard packages (6 yards total) are $108 plus actual postage. Misty Morning Sun is now available for shipping.  This is a limited edition, so not many packs are available. Email me at bonnie@handwerktextiles.com to order. Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal accepted.

May Handwerk Fabric Club Selection Now Available to Ship

Warm is what we're all wishing for here in the Pacific Northwest.  It's been a cold, wet spring.  Time for some warmer weather!  Warm consists of a medium pink with yellowish highlights, a lighter pink, barn red, tangerine, gold, and a cherry pink. Fat Quarter packages (1 1/2 yds. total) are $27 ($30 including shipping by first class post within the U.S.); 1/2 yard packages (3 yds total) are $54 plus actual postage to your location; 1 yard packages (6 yards total) are $108 plus actual postage. Warm is now available for shipping.  This is a limited edition, so not many packs are available. Email me at bonnie@handwerktextiles.com to order. Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal accepted.

Dusty - March 2011 Handwerk Fabric Club Selection Ready to Ship

My gardener did a spring cleanup on my yard a couple of weeks ago.  This is what I saw.  "Dusty" includes 3 beautiful mixes of lavendar, daffodil and brown, and 3 neutrals:  a grey/brown dark, a warm light beige, and a warm medium brown. Fat Quarter packages (1 1/2 yds. total) are $27 ($30 including shipping by first class post within the U.S.); 1/2 yard packages (3 yds total) are $54 plus actual postage to your location; 1 yard packages (6 yards total) are $108 plus actual postage. Dusty is now available for shipping.  This is a limited edition, so not many packs are available. Email me at bonnie@handwerktextiles.com to order. Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal accepted.

Azalea - January 2011 Handwerk Fabric Club Selection Now Available

Even though it's only the beginning of winter, I'm thinking spring.  Being in South America in November completely threw my seasonal timing off.  "Azalea" includes a beautiful teal, emerald green, grass green, lime green, and mustard color progression accented by a magenta. Fat Quarter packages (1 1/2 yds. total) are $27 ($30 including shipping by first class post within the U.S.); 1/2 yard packages (3 yds total) are $54 plus actual postage to your location; 1 yard packages (6 yards total) are $108 plus actual postage. Azelea is now available for shipping. Email me at bonnie@handwerktextiles.com to order. Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal accepted.

Desert Dwellings, Handwerk Fabric Club November Selection

Last January I went to Palm Desert to visit my sister and attend a couple of quilt shows.  I was inspired by the colors of the buildings in the desert area.  Isn't it fun how each area has it's own colors which seem appropriate for buildings and houses?  In the Pacific Northwest, you seldom see a pink house.  While in Southern California or Florida, pink houses are the norm.  These earthy tones of the desert architecture inspired the colors for the Novermber Handwerk Fabric Club selection, "Desert Dwellings."

"Desert Dwellings" Fat Quarter packages (1 1/2 yds. total) are $27 ($30 including shipping by first class post within the U.S.); 1/2 yard packages (3 yds total) are $54 plus actual postage to your location; 1 yard packages (6 yards total) are $108 plus actual postage. Email me at bonnie@handwerktextiles.com to order. Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal accepted.

"Sahara" - September 2010 Handwerk Fabric Club Selection

"Sahara" includes some of the dry, dusty browns, yellow, and pink of the desert at dusk.  Fat Quarter packages (1 1/2 yds. total) are $27 ($30 including shipping by first class post within the U.S.); 1/2 yard packages (3 yds total) are $54 plus actual postage to your location; 1 yard packages (6 yards total) are $108 plus actual postage. Email me at bonnie@handwerktextiles.com to order. Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal accepted.

Handwerk Fabric Club - Back Issues On Sale!

Until August 31, 2010, I'm offering back issues of Handwerk Fabric Club fabrics at reduced prices.  Quarter yard packs (6 fat quarters, 1 1/2 yds total), regularly $27 are $25.  Half yard packs (6 1/2-yd pieces, 3 yds total), regularly $54 are $50.  One yard packs (6 1-yd pieces, 6 yds total), regularly $108 are $100.  Actual shipping is charged. Email me at bonnie@handwerktextiles.com for ordering information. Here are the packs that are available:

"Sunspots"

Available in Fat Quarter, 1/2-yd, and 1-yd packs

"Fruit Salad"

Available in 1/2-yd packs

"Bougainvillea"

Available in 1/4-yd packs

"At the Beach"

Available in 1/2-yd packs

"Harvest"

Available in 1/2-yd packs

"Hydrangea"

Available in 1/2-yd packs

"Emerald City"

Available in 1/2-yd packs

"Buttered Rum"

Available in 1/2-yd and 1-yd packs

"Painted Desert"

Available in 1/2-yd packs

"River Wash"

Available in Fat Quarter packs

"Wisteria" July 2010 Handwerk Fabric Club Selection

Here in the Pacific Northwest we're experiencing a particularly wet spring.  We can't even call it summer yet.  However, the gardens are thriving, sort of, when they're not beaten down flat by the rain.  We even had hail this week!  This fabric pack brings us some of the spring colors we wish we could get outdoors to see.   "Wisteria" includes: a marine blue/green with eggplant shadows, a mottled gold/green, a light lavendar, spring greens with eggplant veins, a purple with green highlights, and a pale olive. Fat Quarter packages (1 1/2 yds. total) are $27 ($30 including shipping by first class post within the U.S.); 1/2 yard packages (3 yds total) are $54 plus actual postage to your location; 1 yard packages (6 yards total) are $108 plus actual postage. The July 2010 Handwerk Fabric Club selection will be available to ship June 25.  Email me at bonnie@handwerktextiles.com to order. Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal accepted.

Storm Watch - May 2010 Handwerk Fabric Club Selection

The May 2010 Handwerk Fabric Club selection is available to ship. Storm Watch includes three multi-color fabrics and three blues: a periwinkle, a light blue, and a medium value bright navy. Fat Quarter packages (1 1/2 yds. total) are $27 ($30 including shipping by first class post within the U.S.); 1/2 yard packages (3 yds total) are $54 plus actual postage to your location; 1 yard packages (6 yards total) are $108 plus actual postage. Email me at bonnie@handwerktextiles.com to order. Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal accepted.

Petroglyph - March 2010 Handwerk Fabric Club Selection

The March 2010 Handwerk Fabric Club selection is available to ship. The colors are based on the South African Bushmen rock paintings. Included are black with blue highlights, rock brown, iron oxide, yellow ochre, mica, and sandstone. Fat Quarter packages (1 1/2 yds. total) are $27 ($30 including shipping by first class post within the U.S.); 1/2 yard packages (3 yds total) are $54 plus actual postage to your location; 1 yard packages (6 yards total) are $108 plus actual postage. Email me at bonnie@handwerktextiles.com to order. Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal accepted.

African Aloe - January 2010 Handwerk Fabric Club Selection

African Aloe

The January 2010 Handwerk Fabric Club selection is available to ship.  The colors are based on the South African Aloe plant. Included are an eggplant purple with pink highlights, aqua, a silver-grey-green, a blush-yellow-peach, and the chartreuse and buttercup yellow of the aloe buds.  Fat Quarter packages (1 1/2 yds. total) are $27 ($30 including shipping by first class post within the U.S.); 1/2 yard packages (3 yds total) are $54 plus actual postage to your location; 1 yard packages (6 yards total) are $108 plus actual postage.  Email me at bonnie@handwerktextiles.com to order.  Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal accepted.

 

Handwerk Fabric Club

Last August I had the good fortune to go to South Africa on the Nancy Crow Craft Tour.  http://www.nancycrow.com/HTML/tours.html  The South African landscape was truly gorgeous. I’ve been trying to preserve some of the impressions by dyeing fabrics reminiscent of scenes from the trip. The colors were truly impressive!

My Handwerk Fabric Club is in its fifth year. I’ve shipped out an amazing array of colors!  I send 6 hand-dyed fabrics every other month. You can choose the size you wish to receive – fat quarters, ½ yards, or 1-yard pieces. Two-yard pieces are also available, but not on the order form. (Just write it in if that’s what you want.) I choose the colors each month. I don’t repeat colors, so every shipment is something new!

The first selection inspired by South Africa was the November fabric, “Cape Point”. The colorway turned out just great! The selection includes two lovely khaki-browns – the mountains, a beige – sand and soil, a reddish-rust – that amazing lichen we saw growing on the rocks on the road in to Cape Point, a light yellow-sage – the vegetation just coming alive, and a marine teal blue – the mixing of the two oceans. I’ve included a photo above of the colorway and a close-up of the darker brown which has beautiful greenish-gold highlights. (And how about that Samango monkey peaking out?) (Sorry, Cape Point is sold out!)  For January, I'm working on a dye selection based on the African Aloe.  I'm pleased with the results I'm getting.  That fabric should be ready to ship just before the new year.

I invite you to join the Handwerk Fabric Club. Note that you can stop and start shipments when you wish; it’s not a contract for a particular amount of time. Your credit card is charged when fabric is shipped. Also, if you’d like to order African Aloe as a trial or single selection, please do. Please email me through my web site, http://www.handwerktextiles.com/ or bonnie@handwerktextiles.com  and let me know that you are ordering or joining so I can set aside the fabric for you. I will email a sign-up sheet that you can mail back to me with your credit card information. I don’t have a secure web site yet, so the postal service is the best way to get that information to me.

I hope to hear from you!
Bonnie
Handwerk