Morag Lloyds Lovely Fabrics!

On my little blogging break recently, I purchased some lovely new designer fabric from Morag Lloyds new range. This was her first print run of fabrics and I was really excited when I was told that they were finally on sale in her Etsy shop. I had vaguely followed Morag's journey from having her illustrations transferred to fabric, via her Twitter stream. So, when the final fabric arrived, I almost felt as though I'd followed the whole process from start to finish.

It was really exciting to have original fabric designed by an artist I admired, delivered to my doorstep. I felt very priveleged, and was almost too terrified to cut into my fabric swatches! I had previously purchased a small piece of artwork from Morag - I really love her West Coast/Hebridean themes. (See needle-felted hanging below)

So far, I have only managed a couple of experimental pieces, using Morag's fabrics, both items available in my Etsy shop:

I added a Harris Tweed fabric button as an extra embellishment onto the second pincushion design:

I really enjoyed using the fabrics with my Harris Tweed and the themes of the print worked really well. I think the illustrations are fabulous and I love her use of colour and her humorous and quirky themes - fantastic! It's great for us crafters that talented artists are now allowing us to share in their creativity by transferring their work onto fabric - very exciting times!

I think these fabrics would also look lovely if used to make small purses, clutches, etc. For fabric addicts everywhere, you can purchase her fabrics here and here.

Her needle-felted pieces are available in her other Etsy shop here.