Organic Sewing: Show and Tell with City Chic Country Mouse
Modern Organic Fabrics: What do you make with organic cotton fabric?
Jamie: My Mom (Country Mouse) and I (City Chic) are using organic fabrics for handmade items we sell in our Etsy shop including ironing board covers, sewing machine covers, oven mitts, towels and aprons. We'd love to make the time to sew ourselves a nice quilt as well, but there is never enough time when we get together!
Jamie: The number of organic fabrics is growing so there are a lot of beautiful fabrics to choose from, but we fell in love with Cloud9's Beyond the Sea and My Happy Garden collection when we saw it at Spring Quilt Market. We were so happy when the boxes arrived at our doorstep just a few weeks after Market!
Modern Organic Fabrics: Why do you like to use organic cotton fabric?
Jamie: Aside from all the gorgeous designs that are available, we know organic is important to people who also support handmade. We are happy to be a part of the effort to produce fabric responsibly and in an environmentally friendly way.
Modern Organic Fabrics: Tell us about your products.
Jamie: My mom and I love designing handmade items to make those boring household chores (like ironing!) a bit more fun! We started our shop just over 2 years ago and love spending our weekends together in the sewing room. In addition to sewing we enjoy stopping at estate sales to hunt for treasures that we can recycle and re-purpose. We just finished new aprons, oven mitts, and towel sets incorporating vintage doilies and linens from estate sales with some of the Cloud9 fabrics.
Thanks for sharing, Jamie! You can find Jamie and her mom, Carmen at:
City Chic Country Mouse Etsy Shop
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 6:00AM
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