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6th September 2023
Welcome to another blog where we discuss our latest William Morris fabric craft. We’re all of the mind of buying something you love and using it forever. We absolutely love reupholstering an armchair to give it new life, or fixing up an old chair with a layer of paint and some new fabric for the seat. Which is why, this summer, when we were digging our old windbreak from the depths of the garage, we decided to not throw away our ancient wind break, but to update it!
At aged 32, our windbreak had certainly seen better days. It had also seen many happy holidays, so we absolutely knew we couldn’t just throw it out and get a new one. Last year you might remember we made a lovely William Morris quilt for a picnic blanket using our cotton fabrics, and then lined a picnic basket to match. So on the same theme, we decided to re upholster in effect our old wind break. Using our licensed William Morris Strawberry Thief design, we got to work!
The old wind break, having seen many blustery trips to the beach, had holes in it and was fairly broken, but the poles still have plenty of life in them, so we simply cut away the old cover to be left with the poles. If you’re making a wind break from scratch, you can buy some poles from a hardware shop, just make sure they’re quite robust so you can hit them into the ground.
Deciding between the normal weight cotton fabric we print on or our heavyweight fabric was the next task. The heavyweight fabric would have been slightly heavier to carry, as we wanted to make our windbreak double sided so the pattern was on both sides so whichever side you sit on, you can enjoy the design. We ultimately chose cotton for this reason, but either will work brilliantly.
We used the same measurements as our old windbreak as it’s a size that’s always worked for us, but you can of course make this absolutely any size you’d like, depending on your group size and how far you’d like your windbreak to reach.
You’ll start by placing two of the pieces face to face, ensuring the pattern on both is the same way up. Then, stitch down one side so you have one continuous piece of fabric. Repeat on the next two pieces of fabric. Now, cut off all but about 1cm of the salve edge where you’ve sewn.
Press the seam open and then lay one piece of fabric with the pattern side up, and one piece of fabric with the pattern side down, and stitch up the side along the top and down the other side. Turn the fabric the right way around and top stitch along the top and sides of the two joined pieces of fabric.
Lay the fabric out, and along the bottom, turn both pieces of fabric in just 1cm and then again, to form a hem and then stitch that down. Smooth the fabric out flat and using the wooden pole as a guide, form a hem down each outer side and sew down. Ensure the poles are held tightly by the hem so they can’t slip out whilst you carry it – which would be very annoying!
Next, measure in from each of the sides a hem to put the other two poles so the poles are equally spaced along the length of the wind break. These inner hems are made by forming a fold in the fabric and stitching down. We used a metre of matching bias binding cut into two lengths to tie the wind break together so it’s easier to carry.
Posted in William Morris by Laura
The best season is peony season 🫶🏻 Our favourite flowers, having peonies blooming in the house is always the best ✨ This is our William Morris Merton design, the most stunning blue and white pattern is so timeless ✨
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Lily is one of our favourite William Morris designs, it’s such a beautiful botanical design with all those willow leaves in the background 🌿
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Happy Strawberry Thief day! 🍓 On this day in 1883, Morris registered this beautiful design, isn’t it amazing that all these years later, it’s still as timeless as ever now more popular than ever and decorating homes across the world 🐦⬛
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We want to say a huge THANK YOU to all our lovely customers who have been so patient with us whilst our website checkout has been all in a tizzy - and thank you for your orders on another platform, we appreciate you keeping us going as a small business- but, we’re back up and running now so please use code: THANKYOU at checkout for 15% off until Sunday 🫶🏻✨ (song was me when we finally got tech issues fixed 🫠😂)
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📣 This fabric is on a big sale! 📣 Our red Strawberry Thief drill fabric is currently on sale for £15 a metre 🍓 Our drill fabric is a slightly heavier weight and weave than our heavyweight fabric and is perfect for light upholstery, curtain making and more 🪡🧵 It won’t be on sale long so grab yourself some whilst you can ✨
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Golden Lily always brings the sunshine indoors ☀️ we’ve got 15% off our website right now with code: florals 🌷
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The soundtrack to our day- our fabric cutter! 🎼 If you ever order fabric from us this is how we get our cuts so straight ☺️ Did you know that we sell our fabrics by the half meter, so however big or small your project is, we’ve got fabric for you ☺️ This is our gorgeous William Morris Strawberry Thief blue design, it’s very often on our cutting table as it’s so popular! Do you prefer it in red or in blue? 🍓
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The prettiest design; Hearts & Kisses 🤍 An original design, we’ve restored it from our late 1800- early 1900s French archive, we just love how delicate it is 💕 Would you like to see more of our archive designs? 🌷
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An Easter crafting weekend, our pvc wipe clean fabric is perfect for crafting with easy clean up!🌷🐣 Hope you’ve all had a lovely weekend, remember if you’re doing any shopping, our 15% off is still running on our website with code; EASTER 🐣
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🌟 15% off our website! 🌟 Get your tablescapes sorted for Easter (or get a treat for yourself from the Easter bunny!) with code; EASTER on our website only until Tuesday 7th 🐣🐰
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Replacing all normal eggs with chocolate ones for the foreseeable future 🐣 Brother Rabbit Green on the table always looks so beautiful, we just love this new colour way in this gorgeous William Morris design ✨
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Spring is officially here! 🌷 Take 15% off our website this weekend with code; EASTER to celebrate spring finally being here, use it to treat yourself or to get those Easter tables ready! 🐣
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Officially mini egg season, so we’ll incorporate them into every meal 🐣🌷 On the table today is our William Morris Lily design, isn’t it a stunning design 🌿
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Gorgeous flowers this weekend 🤍 We can’t get over the beautiful tulips 🌷 Brother Rabbit blue on the table, do you prefer it in the blue, red or green? 🌿
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A moment for the greens 🌿 We know sometimes it’s hard imagining different designs together for projects whether you’re quilting with tonal colours or mix matching curtains and cushions, the things you can do with our William Morris fabrics are endless, so seeing them together you can see how beautifully they pair together ✨ We’ll post the blues next so you can see them together too! 🤍 Message us if you’d like a sample of anything, we send them free in the UK 📮
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Back in stock alert! ✨ All sizes of our gorgeous William Morris blue Strawberry Thief tablecloths & napkins 🌿 Sometimes the easiest napkin folds are the most effective (we have no bias towards this being our favourite just because it contains a chocolate egg… promise…) 🐰
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Happy International Women’s Day! 🌍 We thought we’d celebrate by bringing you the words from some amazing Pre Raphaelite women, who’s talents shouldn’t have been so overlooked at the time (but luckily now are being celebrated with their contributions to the arts!) be sure to read into their stories if you have a minute today, they’re all so interesting ✨ As a business run by women, it’s always a day to celebrate 💜
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Gorgeous Willow Bough blue on the table paired with layers of beautiful @burleighpottery plates 🤍 Always a stunning design to have on the table, did you know it was first produced in 1887, his daughter May Morris wrote of the design, “We were walking one day by our little stream that runs into the Thames and my father pointed out the detail and soon after the paper was done.” We love the behind the design info, painting a beautiful picture of how he was so inspired by nature 🌿
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Have you seen our range of table runners? ✨ This gorgeous Golden Lily design adds some Morris floral loveliness to the table, pair with matching napkins and placemats for layer upon layer of floral magic ✨
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Some new fabric bundles are now uploaded on our Etsy! ✨ We’ll post the link to our stories to them but some, like in the picture are almost fat quarters, perfect for quilting and crafting, and some are proper scrap bundles full of various sizes and designs, wonderful for crafting- we always wonder what everyone will create from them 🪡 They get rave reviews on our Etsy with crafters and quilters loving them for smaller projects 🥰
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