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Lovely prints from UK Based New House Textiles. I especially adore the Sweetheart Collection.

May we all have a moment a silence to drool over such stunning color, texture, and pattern! Oh my, Designers Hoda Baroudi and Maria Hubri of Bokja Design truly have created a fabulous line to adorn your home with and gives all textile lovers inspiration galore! Wouldn’t you just love to be able to travel to Lebanon to tour their atelier/studio! Ok, let the drooling begin…

Oh, how I am so very excited to share this new line of custom handmade carpets from Textile Designer Malene B.! If you all remember, Malene shared some of her creative insight with us back when JuBella first launched. Malene is such an inspiration to me as she has impeccable style and so many creative ideas for the home. For more than a decade, she has been creating carpets for industry professionals and private label brands such as Nicole Miller, Martha Stewart, Nautica, Liz Claiborne, Nate Berkus, and the list goes on and on, and now Malene has her own line! I so wish I had a home because I have fallen in love with the Mendhi & Pupunya Pieces; and the Kantha is another favorite too…heck they are all wonderful!

Her Carpet collections will not only make you swoon over texture, pattern, and color, but each one of them takes inspiration from Malenes travel destinations around the world, taking you on a global ride as she identifies the cultures so beautifully within every piece don’t you think? I can only imagine the things to come from Malene…I so hope that a wallpaper collection and a shop open to the creative masses are coming in the near future! Oh my, she is truly one of my textile sheroes! Be sure to check her site to view the full collection & for custom ordering info.

Oh how I do love these pieces from the Villa Nova collections. I think that the pattern, color, and texture combination of these pieces are beautiful. The couch in the top photo is absolutely divine. I love the shape of it…It reminds me of a well-tailored suit and the legs in my opinion give it a very fashion forward feel as they remind me of the tops of many dress forms. I could definitely see it in a fashion designers office/studio! So, if you ever find yourself in the London area, be sure to visit their showroom which is located in the Chelsea harbor Design Center.

Who: Jane Schouten of All The Luck In The World

Occupation: Graphic Designer, Artist, shop owner

Home Location: Rhenen, Netherlands

Style of Home: An eclectic mix of vintage and handmade

Time to visit another creative elite! Today we have been invited to the colorful and lovely home of designer Jane Schouten of All The Luck In the World. I love Janes sense of style in her home, and the color and pattern just pops out at you so lovingly don’t you think? If you have read my About The Editor Page, then you will know that one of my creative goals is to live a “Zakka” filled life, and Jane’s home reminds me of the art of Zakka. She has taken the time to show so much TLC to every nook and cranny of her space. From little trinkets, to placement, to an eye full of colorful art, Jane has done a spectacular job of making her space beautifully filled with the influence of Zakka!

Ok, let’s head on over…and if you would like to stay longer, then check out her full flickr set of her home!

JuBella: Favorite Rooms/Spots & Why?

Jane: I love my bedroom because it’s a nice white, quiet place. My whole home is filled with treasures and memories so every room has it’s own charm. My kitchen and bathroom are tiny. In my next house I hope they will be bigger!

JuBella: Design/decor challenges when it came to decorating?

Jane: Fitting everything in and organizing it so it’s not too cluttered.

JuBella: Favorite shops/boutiques/websites for decorating your home?

Jane: fleamarkets and thrift stores. I love the Noordermarkt (market with lots of vintage goods) in Amsterdam, and Spitafields market and Portobello Road markets in London. Local flea markets are the best for finding real treasures. I also buy gifts and art on ETSY.

JuBella: How do you want someone who is visiting your home to feel?

Jane: I want them to feel welcome. There is a lot to see if you have an eye for it!

“I’m so proud of my beautiful new designs in Softwares,” said Amy Butler. “I love the way this digital collection allows sewers and quilters to customize and completely plan their projects – and better yet, to see the results right before their eyes.” ~Amy Butler

She just never stops the inspiration! Amy Butler has a new quilting software (Amy Butler Softwares) via the Electric Quilt Company that will be available for purchase for just $29.95 on May 15th. The software will be available on both Amy’s site as well as the Electric Quilt Company site. The digital software will include a collection of 22 new home sewing projects and nine bonus projects for sewers of all skill and experience levels who want to add fresh, modern items to their homes. Project instructions are written in a clear, step-by-step style so that first-time as well as experienced sewers can successfully create beautiful new projects for their homes! Yay!

Images by David Butler, © Amy Butler Design for The Electric Quilt Company

Oh how I love the Flowie Collection by Textile Designer Yaling Hou! I especially love the pillows…swoon!

About: “Flowie is a textile and lifestyle product design company that was formed by Yaling Hou out of her passion for textile designs and her appreciation for stylish yet personal objects. Launched in 2007, Flowie designs and manufactures refreshing fabrics, bags, home accessories and other fashion accessories. All the fabrics (linen or cotton) are hand screen printed locally in the San Francisco Bay Area and finished products are also sewn locally.” -flowiestyle.com

I have a major passion for not only color but i think textile art, especially fabric dyeing and screen printing, and hand printing is amazing. The colors and textures that can be achieved never cease to amaze and inspire me. With that said I love the color palettes of A Stitch In Dye(isn’t that name great). I have plans on starting my own shop online that will sell hand printed fabric swatches and one of a kind gifts, and this offers me so much inspiration for achieving my goal of diving back into textiles. I truly miss it from the days of S.C.A.D and it continues to call upon me to create in this medium again!

Designer Lisa Whatmough of Squint Limited is absolutely amazing! As far as my personal style goes, I absolutely adore an eclectic and clever combination of patterns, bold and striking colors, textures, and random composed shapes. The collection of Squint is the epitome of what I love about design..fun, colorful, and artistic! I would be in heaven if I had a studio with accents of furniture such as this..oh why yes..I would sit on my custom sofa of magentas, sage greens, eggplant purples, and teal blues, and sip on some lavender tea s I sketch away my dreams within my sketchbook! Squint is located in East London, and I am sure it would be heaven to visit! Oh, how I want that Egg chair(top left)!!!! It’s so so pretty!

Oh my gosh…the HIMLA Textile catalog is absolutely beautiful! Their palette of sweet pastels and rich magentas and baby blues and purples are so intriguing & I would love to have a candy coated purple car such as this one in which yes I would drive around town with bolts and rolls of linen fabric sticking out the top and possibly the trunk too! I think that these colors would be so much fun to decorate a little girls room in. I remember my parents painting my walls a very light purple very much like this when I was a little girl and I loved it! Nevertheless HIMLA, based out of Sweden, specializes in decor and fabrics made of mostly linens and cottons. A list of their retailers can be found on their website under Agents.

Have any of you been to the ABC Home store in Manhattan? I would love to step foot in such a textile rich abode! I am in love with the eclectic patterns used on there chaise lounges, chairs, and sofas, such bright and rich colors…I love it all! Gotta Get There!

Have you ever ran across textiles that are just so overwhelmingly beautiful that it makes your heart melt and then you get pretty color overdose and you feel like all you can do to fix your textile hangover is to take a nap and sleep & dream about all that colorific goodness you just saw? Okay, well maybe you have not gone that far, but that’s how I felt when I came across the website of Anna Maria Horner. Oh my, I am in love with her pieces and her tutorials, and her home! Oh my gosh her home sums up my style perfectly…filled with color, texture, and playfulness (the total opposite from my husband, as he prefers earthy colors and simple smooth lines and empty spaces). Nevertheless, I am forever inspired by Anna and I am sure you all will be too once you wander about her website & blog.

Just click the last photo below which will link you to photos of her home & be sure to pre-order a copy of her book that is set to release in October called “Seams To Me: 24 New Reasons to Love Sewing”.

I have my eye on her Scrap Bags and the Chocolate Lollipop Bundle! Oh me oh my!

I am so excited to have come across this tutorial for an East Indian embroidery style known as Shisha or little mirrors. I have always loved the textiles and pillows that are lovingly adorned by hand and I cannot wait to try this out on one of my own creations!

I ran across these gorgeous images of Textile Designer Kathryn Irelands California home from House Beautiful. I love everything about this abode! the rustic furniture, and the mix of color and pattern that makes me think of Mexico, Africa, & east India. But, hey, what more could you expect from the home of a textile designer! The first bedroom and office setting is just divine..and I would simply love to be gently awaken by the glowing sun basking through the windows! Oh my..what a lovely place wouldn’t you say? Our living room walls are a rich Caribbean blue and these images gives me so much color inspiration to lean on. Now I want to go & seek out some fabulous textiles, and buy a dozen red roses & a pretty white vase! Lovely!

I am always a fan of colorful tones and I think the cool rich turquoise paired with the deep reds and tangerines are perfect, and the textiles in her home are fabulous(of course) pieces of art. I love to decorate little vignettes with textiles, like a stack of old vintage quilts or sheets, or folded remnants of culturally inspired fabrics. In my eyes, it is all art!

“Every textile represents a story, a drawing of an adventure in a far–off place–from Yogakarta to Rajasthan, Bolivia to Vietnam. Arriving at textiles from painting and printmaking, I am interested in the mistakes, overlapping prints and the miss-registrations of woodblocks that record the human hand.” -johnrobshaw.com

I have always been a big fan of many of the textile designs of John Robshaw, and these are some of my favorites from his Spring 08′ Collection.