Vintage fabric - Inspiration Swatch Packs

Fab retro linen Scandinavian bird pack - five birds per pack, each slightly different.
Only two packs made - one is at Meet Me at Mikes and the other will soon be for sale on our website.

A stunning collection of 40's cottons - that decade had some of the prettiest colourways on the 20th century, we feel....Only two packs made - one is at Meet Me at Mikes and the other will soon be for sale on our website.

She rocks, doesn't she? The girl at the bottom is a rare hippie Sanderson fabric - unusual style for them. This pack is all novelty browns and greens - Only two packs made - one is at Meet Me at Mikes and the other will soon be for sale on our website.

A rare kiddies novelty pack - these novelty designs are getting harder and harder to source...they seem to be quite collectable with all types of fabric lovers. Only two packs made - one is at Meet Me at Mikes and the other will soon be for sale on our website.

We've been busily working on getting together some vintage fabric packs for the new Meet Me at Mikes store to open next week in Melbourne - city end of Brunswick St, Fitzroy, Vic, Australia. We started doing these fabric packs some months ago to great success. We realised there were lots of crafters out there who keep an eye out for smaller pieces of rare and unique fabric. It's a rarity, we think, offering these packs...we can't find anything like them worldwide. Seeing as most of our stock is rare, unique and oh so hard to find, we thought there would be crafters out there who wish to use smaller pieces we would otherwise trash...horror, horror, horror!

We don't trash the larger pieces - just scraps...says she in horror!! But I am slowly realising even that is bad when we're talking about vintage fabrics, so we're keeping all of our strips and offcuts now, too.

We decided to call the new range of packs Inspiration Swatch Packs for several reasons. Number one was largely due to the gorgeous unique designs - it seems a lot of people use the textile designs as 'inspiration' rather than actually using them. Secondly, the fabrics range in sizes - some just 20cm x 25cm all the way up to large fat quarter size. Thus the 'Swatch' term instead of the 'Stash' term.

Meet Me at Mikes has around 20 packs and we'll be putting around 15 packs on the website - www.vintagefabrics.com.au - in the next couple of days...so stay tuned...