My Creative Space...

This week we are starting preparations for the Kustom Kraft market on May 23rd. It will only be the third market that we have done and we thought that it was time to spruce up the stall a bit.

First up some red and black felt bunting for along the front of the table.

Ironing bias binding, the epitome of excitement and burnt fingers

Pinned up and ready for sewing

Even though we predominantly sell fabric and buttons at our stall it is always nice to round things out with a few handmade items.

Some Voodoo Rabbit skins ready for Cloud to put together this weekend
(told you I would be cracking the whip)

Don't forget to check out Kirsty's blog for some more creative spaces.

Ky

Friday 13th Sale

Who's up for a Lucky Friday 13th sale?
Pop over to our website before midnight tonight (Brisbane, Australia time) and enter the code BLACKCAT13 on checkout to receive 13% off your entire order.
Valid until midnight tonight.

Craft and Sewing Show Giveaway

We will be at the 2012 Brisbane Craft and Sewing Show at the end of this week with Pauline from Funky Friends Factory. The show runs from the 22nd - 25th March so there is just enough time to squeeze in a fabulous give-away!!!!

We will be giving away a toy-making kit which features a brand new toy design from Funky Friends Factory and fabrics from the ‘Cephalopod Collection’ designed by Voodoo Rabbit :)

It’s EASY to enter!
LOOK at the toys in the box above
GUESS WHICH is the one we are giving away as a KIT,
AND leave a comment here (or on the Funky Friends Factory BLOG POST) with your guess!

WHAT can you win?

1st Prize – will win a toy making KIT of this NEWEST Funky Friends Factory design (Valued at $45).

2nd & 3rd Prize – will win a Printed Pattern and a $10 voucher to spend with Voodoo Rabbit (can be at the show or online too!).

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The draw will take place on Wednesday night (21st March) and we will announce the winners on our Facebook pages.

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Looking forward to seeing you there – look for the Voodoo Rabbit at stand number D18


GOOD LUCK EVERYONE!!
- Ky, Cloud and Pauline

Stitch 'n' Bitch - 25th Jan 2012

Sorry for the late notice bunnehs, it has just been one of "those" weeks.

Anywhoo the first Voodoo Rabbit Stitch 'n' Bitch will be held this evening at the bunneh clubhouse :0) If you can't make it tonight never fear we will be holding these on a regular basis. If you think that you will be attending tonight please let us know so we can make sure that we have enough chairs.

Where
Office 1 (Upstairs via Side Entry), 904 Stanley Street, East Brisbane

Phone
0422 215 053

When
25th January
5.30pm - 9pm

What
Bring along a project (knitting, crochet, embroidery or anything you want) and join us for a chat and a snack. We will have tea, coffee (instant sorry), hot chocolate and cookies. If you need something a bit more filling there is a Crust Pizza and a Thai restaurant nearby. There is one sewing machine available to hire for $5 but this will be on a first in basis.

Cost
none (though a gold coin donation for tea and coffee is appreciated)

Parking
On Site - There are two car spaces located in the carpark behind the building.
Stanley Street - There is on street parking on Stanley Street in front of the building after 9am. Please check parking signage for parking terms.
Side Streets - There is on street parking on Potts, Hampton and Lisburne Streets.

Public Transport
Inbound to City - 184, 185, 210 ,212, 235, 230 stop across the road in front of Dan Murphy's
Outbound from City - 184, 185, 210 ,212, 235, 230 stop on the corner of Wellington Road and Stanley Street (1st stop after the Wooloongabba bus station).

The wait is finally over! Brisbane now has a fabric and craft shop that stocks only the best designs from around the world. We are proud to specialise in the hard to find and harder to get fabrics that other stores won't stock. Come down to see the full range of skull, goth, rockabilly, spiderwebby, geeky, retro, kawaii & downright awesome goodies on offer. There are a load of items that aren't available yet in our online store including - Sublime Stitching patterns, DMC embroidery threads, new Alexander Henry, Lecien and Michael Miller fabrics.

• Upstairs, 900-904 Stanley Street, East Brisbane
• Saturday, December 3, 2011
• 10am to 4pm
• Limited carparking is available onsite (via Potts Street). Free street parking available in Potts Street and Stanley Street. 
• Short walk from the Woolloongabba Bus Station.

If you can't make it on Saturday our regular opening hours for the rest of the year will be:
Tuesday - Friday
11am - 6pm

Saturday 17th December
10am - 4pm

We hope to see you soon!

- Ky & Cloud

Win FREE tickets to the Craft and Quilt Fair - Brisbane 2011

The Brisbane Craft and Quilt Show starts in LESS than 3 weeks and for the first time ever Voodoo Rabbit will be there! The bunnies are madly cutting and folding fabrics in preparation and we also have FREE TICKETS to give away, in conjunction with Pauline at Funky Friends Factory.

Pauline has designed lots of new patterns since last year’s show like SAMMY the SHARK. He is super quick and cute to make!

Cloud is such a child sometimes - she loves to play with the toys!

  

To celebrate our Craft and Quilt Fair debut, we are giving away FREE TICKETS to the show AND you can also win PATTERN AND FABRIC VOUCHER prizes.

BUT, FIRST…

Let me show you where we will be so you can come and say Hi!

We know we will be well looked after at the show - Pauline will be set up nearby with her Funky Friends Factory stall and will make sure we don't get ourselves into trouble. We will be selling Toy-making KITS made up with Pauline's Funky Friends Factory Patterns and our quirky cotton fabrics. We thought it would be a great idea to do a joint promo to give away our free tickets and vouchers to use at our Show stands.

What can you WIN?

1st  PRIZE:

2 FREE TICKETS, a Funky Friends Factory Pattern Voucher and a $15 Voodoo Rabbit Voucher (only redeemable at the Show)

2nd PRIZE:

2 FREE TICKETS

3rd PRIZE: 1 FREE TICKET

4th PRIZE: 1 FREE TICKET

5th PRIZE: 1 FREE TICKET

6th PRIZE: 1 FREE TICKET

HOW do you enter?

All you need to do is to leave a comment on this blog post BELOW, or on the FREE TICKETS blog post at Funky Friends Factory to let us know ‘WHICH Funky Friends Factory toy pattern you think would look AWESOME made up in WHAT Voodoo Rabbit fabric’. (English teachers – please excuse any grammatical errors!!!!)

*** You can comment on BOTH blogs for TWO CHANCES TO WIN
- pretty cool! Huh? : )

The Vouchers are ONLY valid at our show stands.. so we look forward to catching up with the winners at  the Craft and Quilt Show…

We will draw the winners on Wednesday night, the 12th October.

GOOD LUCK everyone!

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Bulimba Festival on Sunday

Voodoo Rabbit will be at the Bulimba Festival this Sunday. You can find us between Cambridge and Jameson Streets just up from Riverbend book shop and the K Rudd tent (see map below). Entertainment will include Mental as Anything', and 'Ross Wilson' from Daddy Cool with other acts including local Brisbane band Prefontaine (Nee Wayward Gentleman), The Frets and Russ Walker duo.

When:
28th August 2011

Time:
10am - 4pm

Where:
Oxford Street Bulimba

What:
We will have fat qtrs of all of our commercial fabrics as well as a selection of Voodoo Rabbit original design fabrics, kits, buttons and handmade goods.

Payment:
We except payment via EFTPOS and cash at all of our market stalls.


If you would like us to bring meterage of any of our fabrics for you to pick up at the markets please contact us at sales@voodoorabbit.com.au. We will be more than happy to bring your order along with us.

- Ky

Customer Project: Invader shirt

Daniel sent us these images of his awesome new Invader shirt, click on the images to go to Daniel's flickr page.

The black accents on the placket, shoulder loops and sleeves add a nice level of interest to the shirt design don't you think. I also love the little section of musical tape under the front placket. The very neat pattern matching of the pockets and shirt front is also to be applauded.

This shirt was made using our Gingham Invaded White on Black print. Available via our online store.

If you need a large amount or would prefer a different basecloth you can purchase it direct from Spoonflower.

Have you made something awesome from one of our fabrics, we'd love to see  it.

- Ky

BrisStyle Indie Designer Markets

The Bristyle Indie Designer Markets will held next Saturday in Hamilton, Brisbane. Once again we will be sharing a stall with Pauline from Funky Friends Factory.

Pauline will have a bunch of her awesome Funky Friends patterns and kits and we will have Original Design Voodoo Rabbit fabric, Voodoo Rabbit sewing kits, dyed buttons and a selection of handmade items. Our stall is going to located outside in the church grounds (see map below), here's hoping the weather co-operates.

The market will also feature local emerging and established artists, crafters and designers from Queensland's South East who specialise in producing quality handmade goods including handbags, sweet art, jewellery, children's wear and vintage re-creations.

Where: St Augustine's Church Hall and grounds, Racecourse Road, Hamilton
When: Saturday July 9, 2011. 9am-2pm
Website: http://www.bris-style.com/page/indie-designers-market/

 - Ky and Cloud

I do not like green eggs and ham but I do love Dr Seuss!

We are super excited about this - we have the whole range of the brand new Celebrate Seuss! and The Cat in the Hat fabrics from Robert Kaufmann in stock!

Dr Seuss: Cat In the Hat

The fabrics feature all your favourite characters and  illustrations from the books Horton Hears a Who; One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Fox in Socks, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and of course The Cat in the Hat.

Dr Seuss: Celebrate Seuss - Character Stripe

Dr Seuss: Celebrate Seuss - Words

Dr Seuss: Celebrate Seuss - Characters

Dr Seuss: Celebrate Seuss - Character Spots

The co-ordinating spots and stripes are to die for and are delightfully quirky and perfectly complement the main character fabrics.

Dr Seuss: Celebrate Seuss - Spots by Robert Kaufman

Dr Seuss: Celebrate Seuss - Stripes by Robert Kaufman

 Free quilt patterns are available from Robert Kaufman for you to download if you are in need of inspiration.

Bump Thump Panel Quilt Pattern

Let's Party Quilt Pattern

The Cat in the Hat Quilt Pattern

 - Ky and Cloud

Customer Project: Geeky Business Shirt

Sorry that we seem to have disappear from the face of the Earth since our return from Japan. In hindsight booking 3 rather large markets in the week and a half after our return wasn't the best of ideas. We have been very tired little bunnies.

Things seem to be a bit more under control now so hopefully you will see us around here a bit more. Today we would like to share another awesome customer project with you all.

Rosemary was kind enough to send us a picture of the business shirt that she made.

She has used our very own Invaded Pinstripe fabric design, the great thing about this fabric is that it looks like a standard stripe until you get in close enough to see that there are actually little space invaders on the fabric. Sneaky Geeky :)

Do you have a project that you used Voodoo Rabbit products for? You can share them with us via email (sales@voodoorabbit.com.au) or our Flickr group.

 - Ky

BrisStyle Twilight Markets

We arrived back in Brisbane yesterday after our mammoth Japanese shopping trip but there is to be no rest for the wicked!  You can find us at the Brisbane Indie Twilight Markets (BiTM) tonight in King George Square.

It looks like to weather is going to co-operate this time, so it should be a lovely night out under the stars.

Once again we will be sharing a stall with Pauline from Funky Friends Factory and in the stalls around us you will find Hungry Designs, Pannikin, Feybles Nel and Catamation. We are tucked away right up the back of King George Square on the Anne Street side (see the map below).

Pauline will have a bunch of her awesome Funky Friends patterns and kits and we will have Original Design Voodoo Rabbit fabric, dyed buttons and a selection of handmade items. 


Where: King George Square (in front of city hall)
When: 5 - 9pm Friday 27th April 2011

- Ky and Cloud

Travelling Bunnies - Bicycles, Sore Feet & Fabric (Day 3)

We have been doing a lot of walking the last couple of days while shopping and it is starting to hurt. To try to save our tootsies we borrowed the free bicyles available here at the hotel.

They were a bit rattly and had no gears but they got us where we needed to be much faster than walking. Osaka is quite flat too so the hardest thing about riding around is not running into people or having them run into you. Cloud took some pictures of the streets as we rode around today.

We are visiting Kokka on Monday so we rode to the area where the showroom is. Nearby we found a huge shopping arcade. It is under a massive highway overpass and contains 10 separate buildings. It runs for a kilometre, split into two sides and multiple levels. We couldn't take the bikes in there so it was back to punishing our feet again. We found some goodies though so it was worth it!

After coming back to the hotel for a quick nap & a shower, we headed to Tennoji and ABC Craft. Not much there for the shop but a load of stuff for us! Cloud bought forceps (for stuffing toys) and some Clover crochet hooks. Ky hit the motherlode - a blank umbrella frame (with pattern) so she can make her own parasol; a number of dressmakers rulers, belt interfacing (for making woven bags), sashiko kits and also a rotating bobbin holder. For the shop we found some great little bells that are going to be included in some of our toy kits and a cute little anchor fabric.

Our stomachs were growling with hunger after so much exercise so we went in search of okonomiyaki. It is referred to as 'Japanese Pizza' but it is really a cabbage pancake filled with either meat or seafood and then covered in sauce and mayonnaise. It doesn't look pretty but it is both tasty and filling. Ky got tentacles in hers just to gross out Cloud.

Tomorrow we are going to Kyoto for the day. There is a market on at one of the temples and we also want to stop in at a fabric store we love. Hopefully there will also be time to visit the Astro Boy store ^_^

~ Ky & Cloud

My Creative Space

I made a cushion cover for my mother-in-law for Mother's Day. It uses a crazy patchwork quilt as you go technique on the front which is a great way to use up larger sized fabric scraps.

Front made from fabric scraps of Ephemeral Antiquity, Send in the Crowns and Quatrefoils by Michael Miller.
As well as Leathergrain by Windham Fabrics

Back made from Leathergrain by Windham Fabrics

For more creative spaces pop over to Kootoyoo.

- Ky

My Creative Space

This week we have been transforming boring colourless buttons into new and awesome ones by dying them. They look so pretty, just like lollies, mmm lollies....

We will have packets of dyed buttons available at the BiTM tomorrow night in King George Square, we hope to see you there:)

For more creative spaces head over to Kootoyoo.

- Ky

BiTM this Friday...

If you haven't got any plans for Friday night then pop on down to King George sqaure and visit the Brisbane Indie Twilight Markets (BiTM). Voodoo Rabbit will be there and as an extra incentive we will be sharing a stall with Pauline from Funky Friends Factory!


Pauline will have a bunch of her awesome Funky Friends patterns and kits and we will have Original Design Voodoo Rabbit fabric, dyed buttons and a selection of handmade items.

Where: King George Square (in front of city hall)
When: 5 - 9pm Friday 29th April 2011

- Ky