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Another beautiful newbie this week, Hemp/Organic C

Another beautiful newbie this week, Hemp/Organic Cotton knit in a classic black and white mini stripe🖤 Perfect for knit dresses and boxy tees, pjs shorts or adorable baby wear, this sustainable knit will become soft and draped with washing. We’ve got a bunch of new knits (including a black and a navy organic cotton 😃) that I’ve made it my mission to get online next week but this one’s in there now!

We’ve jumped back into work with both feet this

We’ve jumped back into work with both feet this week! A big delivery off patterns and notions from Merchant & Mills arrived yesterday and today we’ve had a nice batch of Japanese wovens, including this gem that we sold out quick smart in the Spring so just had to order more! Beautiful, light to mid weight woven Japanese cotton with a delicate sashiko running stitch throughout, absolutely divine. Light enough for dresses and tops but would be lovely as a ligthweight jacket too 🙌🏻 The others that arrived today are equally gorgeous, pop in to our homepage to check them out in the Recently Added section 😃

We’ve had a few people asking if we’ll be gett

We’ve had a few people asking if we’ll be getting the delicious looking 52 Weeks of Socks book that @laine_magazine is releasing next month and the answer is YES! Preorders will open February 3rd and we hope to have stock in time for the release of February 14th 😃 Will let you all know as soon as preorders open but if you want to shoot me a quick DM or leave a comment here, it’ll help give me a better idea of how many to order! At this stage, it's going to be around $68, may be a bit higher depending how much shipping comes to (international shipping is a killer, especially for books 😩) Images ©️ Laine

Celebrated my last day of holidays with an indigo

Celebrated my last day of holidays with an indigo vat 💙 We’re back to our normal Tuesday through Saturday, 10am til 4pm, hours starting tomorrow and I’m so looking forward to hearing what you’ve all been making! And yes, there will be some Indigo dyed fabric and yarn hitting the shop 😃 Probably next week once we catch up on everything 👍🏻

I’m dropping this pile of joey pouches to the We

I’m dropping this pile of joey pouches to the West Footscray hub this morning, 10 outer liners and 20 super soft cotton knit liners. The @animalrescuecraftguild has put up a post in their Facebook group this morning detailing what they still need - they have a good stockpile of koala mittens and bat wraps now but joey pouches, especially in the larger sizes, are still needed (all patterns are available for download via their Facebook group and there is also a link there to find drop off points around Australia). Keep sewing, friends!! My feed has been full of beautiful generosity from knitters and sewers around the world ❤️

UPDATE: Higher ups in the CFA have deemed these no

UPDATE: Higher ups in the CFA have deemed these not safe to use for their personnel unfortunately ☹️ Please see @verandah_crafts latest post for full info, they are working with other groups to see where these can be put to use.
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Another fantastic initiative for sewers to get involved in bushfire relief!! Di from @verandah_crafts, Amy from @amykallissa and Michelle from @michmade are co-ordinating a project that has been approved by the CFA to make Cool Ties for firefighters on the front line. Cool ties are made of cotton fabric and filled with water storage crystals, they aid in keeping the fireys cool - a much needed relief and small way to say thank you for their tireless efforts.
The pattern can be downloaded from @amykallissa’s website at www.amykallissa.com (under Freebies). Please see @verandah_crafts’s post for full details on how to get involved

Fibresmith will be a drop off point for donations or finished Cool Ties once we reopen on January 14th. In the meantime, please see @verandah_crafts’s post for full details on current drop off points around Melbourne or items can be mailed to:

Di Greig
PO BOX 3021
Frankston East
VIC 3199

#coolthefireys

My afternoon included making snacks for five kids,

My afternoon included making snacks for five kids, going through my stash and cutting out wildlife pouches to sew up for the amazing rescue groups scrambling to save native animals from our seemingly never ending bushfires. My Facebook newsfeed is full of sad and distressing news but the Animal Rescue Craft Guild (also on Facebook) gives plenty of small ways to help out. They provide all the patterns and information on what is needed, from joey pouches to bat wraps, and most can be made with offcuts or scraps. I was super happy I’d kept a bunch of random sized knit pieces as they’re perfect for medium to large sized pouches.

I don’t even know how to say thank you for the i

I don’t even know how to say thank you for the incredible outpouring of support on my last post, it’s been really overwhelmingly awesome. I’ve read each and every comment - I started replying to each one on Facebook before I came over to the 400+ comments on Instagram and had to admit that just wasn’t going to be possible! So please so consider this a very thankful and appreciative reply to each of you ❤️ Big love right back to you ❤️

So I received the above email tonight. To the 100

So I received the above email tonight. To the 100 ‘shoppers’ who are apparently unhappy with me talking about my health issues on my own Instagram/Facebook page, here’s the thing - Fibresmith is a small business. Small businesses are run by PEOPLE. Real people. Usually community focused, family people. And that is no different here. We are a small team of four people. If you come into the shop at any given time, you’re going to meet always one, usually two and sometimes three of us. We talk about sewing, knitting, patterns and skill building, yes but we also talk about travels, music and grandkids, family illnesses, health struggles and loss. We share a connection through craft and life experiences. I am the voice of this business on social media. I am not an automaton spewing out generic photos of fabric with pithy headlines (although sometimes I do this too 😉). When real life events effect the shop, I’m going to let you all know. My health issues are minor (I am a lucky, lucky, super lucky person on all counts and I never let myself forget it) but they did mean that a lot of the ideas I had for 2019 didn’t even get a look in. I really haven’t been on my top game performance this past year and I’m looking forward to doing bigger and better things with Fibresmith. I sat down to write my 2019/2020 post and I couldn’t fake it. Our country is burning, we’ve been drowning in terrible news all year and I’ve felt like a zombie just trying to keep it all together for most of it. I will say that sewing and knitting were, always have and continue to be a sanity saving balm throughout. The soothing satisfaction of creating something with your hands that is beautiful, meaningful or useful cannot be underestimated and I truly love the part of my job that is finding gorgeous quality materials to aid that. But the best part of my job? The absolute best? Is meeting the visitors and hearing about their projects and getting to know them on all sorts of different levels. Real people meeting real people. If you want a faceless, impersonal ‘shopping’ experience, then Fibresmith is most likely not for you 🤷🏼‍♀️

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