And something more for the BiECO!

Upcycled cardie with buttons, puffs and embroidery!

Another etsy listing that I've just put into my shop, ready for the BrisStyle indie ECO market on Saturday.

Buzzing for BiECO

There's a great big buzz of excitement about the first ever BiECO this coming week-end! Just the sort of challenging parameters to bring out the champion crafters and creators...genuinely can't wait to see what the girls come up with, including lots of genuine vintage and second-hand as well as repurposed, recycled and renewed goodies.

These cushions now available at my etsy shop are a modern twist on log cabin patchwork, with quirky applique, button backs, and complete with my own calico inserts...little party-starters in groups or singles for the mod lounge room.

Hope to see you on Saturday!

BiECO-lossal!

reconstituted woollies ready for the BiECO

wimcee's next market is something very different - brisStyle's first ever eco market, on Saturday July 10th, at St Augustine's church hall and grounds on Racecourse Road, Ascot. Local etsians will be amazing us all with a wide range of upcycled, repurposed and vintage wares. While most of my usual stock is made from new fabrics and fibres, I have previously offered a few eco-friendly pieces, so the BiECO is a wonderful opportunity to devote extra time and energy to upcycled denims, reconstituted and embellished woollies, and all manner of wimcee-cal numbers put together from my supply of vintage fabrics, buttons, ribbons, trims and scraps. As usual, just never quite enough hours in the day and days in the week to make good all the ideas I'd like to try out, but so much fun -!

Mathilda mayhem

Another flurry of couturier activity, so to speak, with Mathilda's Market this Saturday (19/6/10) at Eagle Farm Race Course, Ascot, Brisbane, from 9 am to 1 pm...the first time I've been at Mathilda in the new venue, so looking forward to seeing how it all works, for them and for me. Lots of colour in my latest work (when was there never) with more skirts, more soft toys, more trousers and knits. Even if you have no small people yourself, Mathilda's really is an ideal shopping ground for gifts that are different and of a  high quality, so worth a look. And a preview of wimcee...

chicka chic

After a long but rewarding day taking part in Brisbane's Saviours of the Lost Arts Fair on Tuesday, fingers and toes are crossed for a beautiful winter's day for the BrisStyle indie Designers' Market this Saturday...and wimcee will be there with more even more fiesta-rama goodies, including more fabric-covered journals for catching the moment in prose or image form, and some new fabric brooches to dress up the most neutral woolly cardie or coat.

Fiesta-rama!

Viva the fiesta! Check out the chicka chic! Limbering up for the lambada round...Baby and Kids Market (30/5), BiDM (5/6), Boutique Markets (13/6) and Mathilda's Market (19/6), plus a possible spot on the co-op tables in King George Square all day on Tuesday 1st June as part of the Saviours of the Lost Arts Fair, wimcee should be in over-drive this week but isn't...

The fiesta mood has mellowed the pace and I've been having too much fun with ruffled skirts and little embellished trews to feel too stressed out about anything at the moment. A few cameo peeks just to set the scene and go-go the co-co cabana!

Skirts with plenty of ruffles, frills and braids will warm up the coolest winter's morning teamed with leggings and boots, and are unique combinations of colourful cottons. Little trousers are embellished with frills and trims, this one in a hooty owl print on cord, and there are plenty of hand-knits in pure wool like this riotous rio shrug! Join the congo line...Mama-mio!!

May Mother's Day Week-End

After the totally brilliant BrisStyle indie Twilight Market last Friday night, madly busy prepping for the BrisStyle Mother and Child market this Saturday at St Augustine's church hall and grounds, Racecourse Road Hamilton, followed by the monthly Boutique Market at Portside, Hamilton on Sunday...arghhh...so much sewing to be done, to be done!! Sneak peak, little jackets and skirts aplenty for the mother-and-child, plus some new upcycled denim and knits for Portside. Come and see wimcee for Mothers' Day week-end!

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