International Quilting Fair I cant wait!!

Only 8 days till the International Quilting Fair of Ireland starts in Galway!! You have probably been wondering, thinking my god shes gone awful quiet!! I have been running a one women sweatshop from my Kitchen table for the last month sewing and sewing making handbags cushions headbands and even upholstering a chair omg! Its great to be busy and I know that it will all be worth it when I set up my table at the quilting fair and its heaving with amazing mariposa products!!

If your about Galway on the weekend of June 7th to the 9th call down to the quilting fair to see the amazing array of quilts which have been sent in from all over the world to be displayed. There will also  be some amazing craft suppliers (like myself) and its in the lovely grounds of NUIG.  Sunday the 9th of June is family day and it will be a great day out for everyone!

http://www.iqfoi.com/

St Patricks Day Fabric Giveaway Competition Time

ariposa Textiles St Patricks day Giveaway! For The Wearing of The Green

Woop Woop my first ever Giveaway Competetion!!!!

To celebrate the launch of our new custom order fabric services. Irish textile company Mariposa Textiles is having our first ever Fabric Giveaway!! Four fat quarters of my original printed textiles in a million shades of green, prints include ‘Limeade Ghost Estates’, ‘The Lights Are On’, ‘Wellponia Chartreuse’, and ‘The Emerald City’. These bright vibrant green fabrics will inject a splash of colour and modern print into any craft, fashion or interiors project.

 Mariposa Textiles now offers bespoke fabric printing, you can choose the print, scale the print size to suit your needs, and your choice of fabric type.  We offer a range of over 20 different fabrics, Cotton Gabardine, Knit Fine Ribbed Cotton, sheer Silk Habatoi, luxe Cotton Velvet, Cotton Pique,  Linen Canvas, a wide variety of upholstery and home fabrics to suit whatever your project, interiors, craft or fashion.  We offer Irish Linen, Hemp Canvas, and a variety of Organic Cotton fabrics. Prices start from €25 $32 a yard

We also offer a bespoke quilting fat quarter service, customer can choose between Kona or Quilting Cotton, they can specify the scale of print.  With a range of over 50 bright prints Mariposa Textiles offers a bold modern selection of original design limited edition fabrics. Quarter yards are €7.10  $9

Our St Patrick's day giveaway can be entered on twitter using the twitter name @taramariebee and the hashtag #greenmariposa. Or through our Facebook page.

Mariposa textiles is based in Galway Ireland, and is the creation of myself textile designer, Tara Birmingham

Look us up online at www.mariposatextiles.com or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/mariposatextiles

Working away on my new set of prints with great excitement here is a taster of whats to come. I am making a special series of fabrics for quilters which will feature these lovely 'Birds of Galway' prints along with several other corresponding fabrics. the wholes set will be available to buy in store on Mayday.  In the meantime both these bird prints are available from my online shop mariposatextiles.com or my etsy shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/MariposaTextiles

maybe Cleo the cat thought the birds were real?

New in!! Dia De los muertos Fabric Day of the Dead

I love Mexico and all things Mexican, this Kona Cotton sugar skull fabric is my latest printed fabric in stock at Mariposatexiles.com.
 This print originates in a drawing from 2007, I was in my first year of college studying textiles. We had to do a final project and having just returned from a holiday in Mexico I thought Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead would be fun.  I created the sugar skull men using life drawings of people I knew. I cut up loads of photocopies and used tons of glue, gouache paint and black marker and made a massive mess in the sitting room of the shared student house I lived in. This was a collage, painting, drawing which I made as a mock up of a repeat textile. This being my first year it of course didn't repeat just right and I made a big mock up out of loads of photocopies stuck together.  This fabric has been dying to get out since then, its embarrassing to admit but I have been meaning to make it into a proper fabric for the last 6 years! Recently, when I started to suffer a bit of a post holiday mental block while starting work on my new range, I decided to finally tackle it. It actually turned out to be quite an epic undertaking fixing it up. I am so delighted with my results its amazing!!!!!!!!!!!! (yes I just used loads of exclamations they are necessary its amazing)  The best bit of all my head is clear, I have been churning out new work like mad. Plus, the small original painting of this has been hanging up in my studio making me feel guilty. hopefully the sugar skull men's hater eyes (which I feel have been reproaching me constantly for having not completed their destiny) will be all beaming!Watch this space for a handbag a.s.a.p. 

or you can make your own creation with this amazing fabric starting from $32/ €25 a yard on my website Dia De Los Muertos Fabric mariposatextiles.com