CELEBRATE THE RE-OPENING OF THE BIRTHING SERVICE AT BLUE MOUNTAINS HOSPITAL

Monday, September 1st at 10.00am

Blue Mountains Hospital

(Great Western Highway side)


The provision of local birthing services is vital to our community. Come along and show your support for our local maternity unit.

Enquiries to Janet Mays of HEAL Ph: 0424 720 720

x-large tote designs : kara smith

These are my new x-large tote designs that I will be taking to the Powerhouse Museum Youngblood Designer market tomorrow til Sunday. Hope to see you there!


Kara

Dyed by her own hand

Enlisting the help of my dye-guru Leanne, yesterday was spent dyeing massive amounts of hemp/silk charmeuse. The fabric supplier warned it was a notoriously hard fabric to dye, so we did a fair bit of swatch testing first. Above is a shot of one of the steaming dye baths.

The final fabrics, with the original natural colour on the left. I am not 100% happy with the colours, but I think we (read: Leanne) did exceptionally well in light of all the variables in the process. The final proportions of the colours in the design will be crucial.

Swatch tests, colour chips and design roughs.

A

Jane Pollard jewellery - studio sale

Friday 22 August 6-8:30pm

10 Cambridge Street

Enmore, Sydney

Jane is a fabulous jewellery designer and I hear her studio is wonderful, so its a shame she has to move on... go take a look if you are around and feel welcome to pass this flyer on.

Kara

Puffy Playful Curtains

This week I was asked to make a soft padded curtain for a local daycare centre, ideally using donated fabrics in neutral colours.

The idea was to make the room more soothing and less echoing for the children. The donated fabric was masses of synthetic semi-sheer fabric, and I used nearly all of it for my crazy creations. I stitched some of it into large sheets, then bunched up the rest to form a wadding-like mass sandwiched between.

I quilted on top, and this was the fun part: I went a bit crazy with ships and houses and mermaids and stars and clouds and umbrellas and raindrops and suns and snails and butterflies....

The entire contraption is puffy and soft, though bulky. I have yet to see it fully installed, so hopefully it works ok in the space!

A

SOYA - Spirit of Youth Awards 08

I was sent this by Springboard and thought I'd share with any talented young Australian designers who might be interested to enter the SOYA awards. There is an industrial and object design category with a $10K prize plus a mentorship with Marc Newson.

Entries close this Friday August 8th so be quick!

Object designers: functional, experimental, conceptual, manufactured, handcrafted, furniture, appliances, accessories, objects, ideas, innovations... are you the next big thing?

"Design Sponge"... round up for Australia

Hello.

An american based design blog..."design sponge" is looking for Australian designers to feature on their blog this month after a successful edition based on Icelandic designers last month. Check out their site at www.designspongeonline.com, and if you are interested in submitting work email Anne at pretavoyager@gmail.com.