Sometimes inspiration comes from fabrics.

And sometimes it comes from other sources.

I had put together a collection of fabrics in bright colours for some appliqué, but it just wasn’t coming together.

I keep a stash of all my selvedges. I like the patterns, symbols and words that appear on them. I had a root through my selvedges to see if anything presented itself as useful.

And found one I had snipped off this…

This fabric design is quite famous nowadays. It is called Flower Shop and was designed by Hans Jurgen Holzer.

And although I don’t have any of it left,  lo and behold, inspiration took flight from it’s selvedge…

I just need to finish fixing up that vintage frame, and there we are.

There are days when I actually really like my hoarding tendencies. ♥