New Heather Ross Fabrics Arrive At Owl & Drum

Heather Ross' debut collection for Windham Fabrics is here!

"Briar Rose" features a fun blend of summertime scenes, animals and fruits - from a family of happy frogs playing on logs on a pond to juicy strawberries, from a field of yellow daisies and orange poppies to a meadow of green four-leaf clovers.

Ross - a talented New York-based author, artist and designer - uses a pastel color palette of light greens, yellows, pinks and red hues for her cool collection.

The colorful and beautifully-drawn designs are printed on 100 percent quilting-weight cotton and are perfect for patchwork, bedding, decor, baby clothes or decorating a child’s nursery.

And five bolts of the stylish fabric have just arrived at Owl & Drum's store in midtown Tulsa, OK!

Nanny Bee

Hex Bee 

Calico

Strawberry

Cricket Clover

"I love Heather Ross' style," said Bianca Howell, the co-owner of Owl & Drum.

"I like her vintage-inspired illustrations and her whimsical use of color. And I know I'm not alone - a lot of my friends and Owl & Drum customers really like her fabrics. They have such a great look."

Ross' cool collection is close to her heart.

"In my family, summers are sacred," she writes on her website, www.heatherross.squarespace.com.

"They are about sun and rain and mud and frogs and strawberries and dirty feet. Of falling asleep on porches under piles of quilts as the air turns chilly and the crickets begin to sing.

"And of never, ever brushing your hair (but maybe your teeth!). And swimming. Lots and lots of swimming.

"Briar Rose is inspired by summers: past and present; and by families: mine and yours."

Ross has also had published a number of craft books, including the popular Heather Ross Prints, which contains a step-by-step tutorial on how to create your own fabric prints. Ross also illustrated a children’s book called “Crafty Chloe,” which was published in 2011.

For more details about Ross and her creations, check out her informative blog on her website.

For more details about her first-ever fabric line for the Jersey City, N.J., company, visit www.windhamfabrics.com.

For more details about Owl & Drum - which carries about 300 fabrics made by many different designers, crafts supplies and tools, plus numerous unique gifts - visit www.owlanddrum.com.

The 2810 E. 15th St. store also sells many other items made by Tulsans, Oklahomans and artisans from Portland, Oregon, plus a wide variety of craft books.

Owl & Drum is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. The store is closed on Sundays and Mondays, but it's open every day online at www.owlanddrum.etsy.com.

For more information, call Bianca at 918-742-1404, send an email to owlanddrum@gmail.com, or follow us on Facebook, Blogger.com, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram.

Amy Sedaris Fabric Arrives At Owl & Drum

Amy Sedaris has added another string to her creative bow.

The actress, author, comedian and keen crafter has designed her first ever fabric collection called "I Like You" for Windham Fabrics.

And Owl & Drum has got three bolts of the quirky, funky, 100-percent-cotton range!

The three Sedaris fabrics Owl & Drum recently received are called: Martini Floral, which features bold yellow and red tulips on a black-and-white striped background; Ric Rac Black, which has white wavy lines on a black background; and I Like You, with the words spelt out in different colors on a white background.

"I'm a big fan of Amy and I really like her satirical books, especially 'Simple Times: Crafts For Poor People," said Bianca Howell, the co-owner of Owl & Drum.

"Her other book, "I Like You: Hospitality Under The Influence," is also very funny.

"When I heard she was designing her first fabric collection we decided we had to have it in our store. We've been waiting patiently - and now it's here!"

"'I Like You' is an unmissable fabric collection," Windham Fabrics, a Jersey City, N.J. company, says on its website.

"Amy will sweep you off your feet with her unique and wacky design styles that you would only expect from her!

"Fun, cheer and whimsy - mixed with a little quirkiness - in the world of quilting is not necessarily a bad thing!"

For more information, visit windhamfabrics.net.

For more details about Owl & Drum – which stocks more than 200 different bolts of fabric, unique handmade gifts, craft books and equipment/supplies – visit www.owlanddrum.com, call Bianca at 918-742-1404 or stop by our store at 2810 E. 15^th St. in midtown Tulsa, OK.

Lotta Jansdotter Designs Delightful Fabrics

Lotta Jansdotter is a creative tornado who touches down to create wonderfully distinctive fabrics, before picking up again to design and illustrate stylish stationary and craft books.

She’s a real whirlwind of creativity, incorporating aspects of her Old World upbringing to design products for modern women's lives and homes.

Bella, her latest fabric collection for Windham Fabrics of Jersey City, N.J., features a color spectrum of gray, white and orange, plus imagery that evokes her Scandinavian heritage.

Large Tree in Poppy

Ball and Leaves in Poppy

Wide Stripes in Gray

“I named this collection Bella because, to me, the word expresses excitement and delight for pretty things and events in my life,” she says.

Bolts of her new Bella fabrics – called “Ball & Leaves,” “Wide Stripe” and “Large Tree Poppy” – recently arrived at Owl & Drum’s midtown Tulsa store.

“I really liked the colors she uses,” said Bianca Howell, the co-owner of Owl & Drum.

“I’ve always been a fan of Lotta Jansdotter. I have some of her books and she inspires me to want to create. I think our customers will like her fabrics as much as I do.”

Based in her Brooklyn, N.Y., studio/shop, she makes “things of simple beauty that bring relief to the urban landscape (and her) designs are like little plants working their way through cracks in the sidewalk,” according to her website, www.jansdotter.com.

Jansdotter says her work is about her life, and life is her inspiration, such as “exploring the beauty of everyday things – drinking coffee from a pretty cup, writing notes on a hand-printed card, dressing your child in the clothes you made.”

She was born in 1971 on Åland, a small group of islands in the archipelago between Sweden and Finland in northern Europe.

And Jansdotter says her creative aesthetic is “deeply rooted” in the Scandinavian landscape and the Swedish heritage of being pragmatic and self-sufficient: if she can’t find what she wants, she makes it; if she doesn’t know how, she learns it.

“I surround myself with colors and patterns at home and at work,”she says. “My every-day items feel more creative and meaningful by using fabrics, a few swift stitches and some dabs of glue.”

And Jansdotter took the basic craft skills she learned as a child, such as potato printmaking and sewing, and developed them into modern, sophisticated tools.

In addition to cool-looking fabrics, she designs and makes stationary labels, stickers, notes and to-do’s, and a printing studio kit. She also makes three types of candles (called Strim, Kvitt and Konralj) in conjunction with Crash Candles of Chicago.

“Lotta’s designs may be steeped in artisan traditions and a do-it-yourself spirit, but the homespun aspect ends there,” according to her website.

“Her look is sleek and urban, and her products are created for a busy city life. Her awareness, substance and instinctual sense of style are perfectly suited for contemporary lifestyles. As is her generosity and sharing of knowledge. 

“She plants seeds and let others reap the benefits – because you always reap what you sew!”

Jansdotter has also created four books – Handmade Living, Lotta Prints, Simple Sewing, and Simple Sewing For Baby – published by Chronicle Books.

A ledger on her website features lots of free, fun crafting ideas for around the home, for entertaining guests and for weekend breaks, such as a quick-sew picnic roll that serves as a placemat and carry-all for utensils. She also hosts a few workshops at her Brooklyn studio/shop each year, plus online workshops.

For more details about Lotta and her products, visit www.jansdotter.com.

For more details about her newest fabric line, visit www.windhamfabrics.com

For more details about Owl & Drum – which stocks about 200 different bolts of fabric, unique handmade gifts, craft books and equipment/supplies – visit www.owlanddrum.com, call Bianca at 918-742-1404 or stop by our store at 2810 E. 15^th St. in midtown Tulsa, OK.