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Friday, November 20, 2009

Out on the web - on the hunt for baby fabrics

While looking around for sites that sell baby suitable soft wintery type fabrics I found this site:
http://bubbaearth.com.au/

Now admittedly Bubba Earth is aimed more at the make-your-own-cloth-nappies market (not sure if I'm up for that), but they do have a few fabrics and accessories that I think could be used for baby clothing.
First of all I think this Minkee could be used to make some cute jackets, bootees or hats up - and they have a reasonably wide range of colours. I'm loving the pale yellow but if I have a girl I would definitely also be stocking up on fuchsia pink!
Bubba Earth also has a selection of terry towellings, organic cotton and hemp fabric. While all come undyed / "au naturel" they do sell dye kits online in some really funky kid-friendly colours.

Finally (for me) the most exciting part is their snaps collection! After having (at best) a choice of pearl, white, silver or gold snaps available in most of the fabric stores I've visited, I was thrilled to see snap packs sold in colourgroupings of "primary", "jewel" and "pastel". Each pack contains 20 snaps and each "group" appears to have 4 different colours in it - which would be great for making rompers look more professional and colour co-ordinated. Admittedly I have occasionally seen coloured snaps at Lincraft, but usually the colour I want is sold out and the range is really limited to begin with :( Also at around $5 for six snaps I don't think they would be very cost effective for rompers. Looking at the Kwik Sew pattern I picked out that would be $10 on snaps alone - ouch!

Well all that said I've yet to actually order anything from Bubba Earth yet (will have to wait until my next sewing budget appears ;P ), but as soon as I do I'll let you know how they are service and delivery wise.

Fingers crossed they turn out to be good.

1 comment:

Sew Wilde said...

Glad you found a source in AU! I hope the order is what you want.

Julie