Blog - Page 165 of 209 - Amanda Jane Textiles

I now have a video for Amanda Jane Textiles, which was made specifically for my Etsy shop. I had to sit in my studio (as shown above) and speak about what I do.

You can find it in my Etsy shop in the About section, tucked in with some photos. Click here to go to the shop.

Or you can just click on the video below!

You can see me working away in my studio under the eaves (that’s where I write this blog), but also downstairs making a cup of tea on my Aga (I do a lot of that as well!) with a few finished textile items artfully displayed, so you can see what the finished product is like, for the patterns I sell in my shop.

My studio is small but perfectly formed, with all manner of art materials, fabrics, threads and other haberdashery contained in boxes (all labelled) so I can pull out what I need in any one time. Finished projects are kept elsewhere: this space is solely for ideas, new projects and creativity.

When it comes to designing fabrics, this is where I paint and in the video you can see watercolours being added to a pencil drawing – and the finished printed fabric.

So there it is, my working life in a nutshell, contained in 30 seconds of film!

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This is my ‘Summer Butterflies’ fabric design which you can see in the film. You can find it here.

Thank you for reading my blog. Quilt patterns are here, Fabrics are here, Classes are here

I recently made a trip to Bristol to see Lydia of Made my Wardrobe fame. I blogged about Lydia not so long ago, you can read about her by clicking here. She operates out of a very cool studio in Bristol – here she is in situ.

She is starting to offer some textiles workshops (some fancy knickers were about to be made when I was there!), so if you are in the Bristol area, take a look at her website at: http://www.mademywardrobe.com.

Whilst in Bristol, I discovered a lovely quilt shop on the Gloucester Road, which rejoices under the name of ‘Flo-Jo Boutique’. You can just see the shop behind its scaffolding disguise:

Inside was a beautifully-presented, well-stocked shop. You can see some of the great range of haberdashery on the right of the picture below.

They stock an interesting range of patterns and kits alongside some attractive bolts of fabric.

It was hard to pick, but I purchased a collection of different fabrics for my stock, and a little scrap bag, for who can resist the lure of a lucky dip!