Misty Threads in Dorrigo, New South Wales | Arts and crafts shop

Misty Threads

Locality: Dorrigo, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6657 1200

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25.01.2022 One underway getting ready for the post-covid baby boom! If you're looking for something outside the traditional baby colour scheme that will please both grandma and modern mum, have a look at this delightful combination! #mistythreads #aussienurseryfabric #summersewing #cotquilt #stillyourlocalpatchworkshop

24.01.2022 Just playing - a good place to start with some lovely soft but vibrant Jane Sassaman solids combined with this delightful little panel. This should be a fun quilt for a little one! #mistythreads #fabric #quilting #sewing #quiltsforkids

22.01.2022 Beaches and ocean - it's beautiful. #mistythreads #quilting #fabric #lovesewing #ocean #beach

20.01.2022 Hi everyone, late post this evening. I've been on the road to Queensland to visit my mum - 94 now, that's a pretty decent age, wouldn't you say! Tonight, Misty Threads is talking about Yalke Blue, a lovely fabric, by June Smith, from Central Australia. Yalke Blue is beautiful as a feature fabric but also sets other fabrics off well in combination. You can find it on our website at https://www.mistythreads.com.au//au/yalke-blue-detail.html and, like our other NAIDOC fabrics, it's on special at $14 pm for November. Our latest bears came out to play (see https://www.mistythreads.com.au/soft-toys.html) - don't they look great against Yalke Blue! The background's pretty neat too.

19.01.2022 Pretty, shiny - even the most environmentally conscious of us love ripping the pretty, shiny wrapping off the pressies and the prettiest, shiniest wrapping of all is, of course, around the Easter eggs! We hope you all enjoy your long weekend. Here is some fabric inspiration that would be perfect for that Easter-themed project you've been trying to get finished. #mistythreads #fabric #sewing #Easter #quilting

19.01.2022 Water has always been a precious resource in Australia and there would be very few of us, even city dwellers who have not seen or experienced our terrifying droughts. Today's beautiful fabrics are Underground Water in red and black by Janet Nakamarra Long, depicting the underground flows of water, the soakages and aquifers in amazing topographical detail. Speaking as a quilter/sewer, I am always looking for that perfect shade of [insert colour here] - the red in Underground Water Red is such a perfect shade of red. I haven't found it elsewhere yet! Both fabrics can be found at https://www.mistythreads.com.au//authentic-aboriginal-desi and, like our other fabrics this week, are on special at $14 pm for November.

18.01.2022 Hi everyone, hope you are all well and looking forward to your weekend. For this Friday in NAIDOC week 2020, our fabric is a beautiful design by Tanya Nangala Price, Wild Flower Dreaming. Wild Flower Dreaming is quite restrained but shows so well the lush flowering of the wildflowers after even small winter falls of rain in the semi desert regions of Central Australia. Wild Flower Dreaming is available on our website at https://www.mistythreads.com.au//authentic-aboriginal-desi and is on sale for $14 pm during November.

16.01.2022 Just a sneak peak at a few delightful new fabrics in. Perfect for making Christmas presents or as gifts! Available online shortly and more details soon.

16.01.2022 Just a small jumble of a few of our favourite patterns - these are by the talented Rachelle Denneny and Rachaeldaisy, well written and easily made by even less experienced quilters. I've watched several of our quilters making up these patterns and they look so good, especially in scraps. And because I wasn't organised for Black Friday, we're going to do a December sale on all our patterns - 15% until 24 December with the code PATTERN15. See www.mistythreads.com.au for details. #mistythreads #quiltingpatterns #rachelledenenny #rachaeldaisy #stillyourlocalpatchworkshop #Christmasshopping

16.01.2022 From NAIDOC week to Diwali, the Indian Festival of Light - despite everything 2020 has dumped on us, there are still wonderful things in this world. I hope your weekend is pretty good.

10.01.2022 Fabric stories - I love them! Today, it's one of our lovely authentic aboriginal fabrics, Dancing Spirit designed by the very talented artist from Utopia in Central Australia, Colleen Wallace. And to add to the good feels, it's on special!! $14 pm - enjoy!

09.01.2022 A little story of aussie fabrics, just the right size for Christmas - all available online at mistythreads.com.au. Enjoy and I hope you have a good weekend!

08.01.2022 "As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame" ..... yes, I had to quote that, didn't I! One of my all time favourite poets and one of my all time favourite poems! (Gerard Manley Hopkins). And here is a favourite fabric, Kingfisher Camp by a favourite artist, Nambooka. This is also on special until the end of November, $14.00 pm, and can be found at https://www.mistythreads.com.au//authentic-aboriginal-desi.

08.01.2022 Recently I've been enjoying the peace of some handwork in the evenings. (Yes, I did have lots of fun with the colours, thank you!) This is one of Dijanne Cevaal's lovely ladies in her lino cuts. Dijanne runs online courses in lino cutting, among other courses - great teaching and all good fun! #mistythreads #embroidery #dijannecevaal #linocutting

07.01.2022 Who doesn't love new pencils, pens and paper, in fact, anything for mark making! Irresistible! Pencil Clubs by Heather Givans will be on the website soon. #mistythreads #fabric #quilting #sewing #heathergivansfabric

07.01.2022 Our colours here at the moment are grey and black and vivid green and water, lots of water - lots and lots of water! It's very beautiful. A tad soggy but beautiful! #mistythreads #fabric #quilting #sewing #stillyourlocalpatchworkshop

06.01.2022 Fabric recent and recenter, Christmas and that last minute gift - literally! Take care everyone, stay safe and I hope you manage a happy day, wherever and whenever you are! x

04.01.2022 At this rate, Misty Threads is going to end up the queen of oops moments! However, we thought we'd share this accidental snippet with you even though it's a little belated. It was mistakenly left out of our latest newsletter, which is sent to our subscribers directly - we put it on the web to catch you up, forgetting that it would be a poor stray scrap by itself. If we confused you, we confused ourselves even more! If you would like to sign up for our newsletter, go to https://www.mistythreads.com.au/ - we'd love to have you join us and we often include special offers and coupons! Hope you are still enjoying the rainy weather, great for sewing although some places are getting a tad soggy here. Take care and stay safe.

03.01.2022 It's Saturday so just a few of my favourite things - fabric, more fabric, little furry things, things to read, thunderstorms, flame trees and, of course, more fabric. Enjoy your weekend, everyone. #mistythreads #fabric #morefabric #stillyourlocalpatchworkshop #myfavouritethings

03.01.2022 Misty Threads is more than patchwork and quilting. I had so much fun (with, let's be real, the odd bit of cursing as I improvised from an existing pattern) making this scrubs top for a lovely close relative to wear to work on Christmas Day. The fabric is delightful! #scrubs #sewing #mistythreads #itsallsewingtome #nursesrock

02.01.2022 It's NAIDOC week again! NAIDOC week celebrations are held across Australia, normally each July, to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The 2020 celebrations were delayed to this week due to Covid-19 restrictions. From previously chatting with several of you, I know many of you love both history, particularly the history of Australia, and great stories. Well, there is some incredible history from our first nations p...eoples to be found and amazing stories to marvel at. The theme for this 2020 NAIDOC week, "Always Was, Always Will Be" recognises the spiritual and cultural connection of our first nations people to this country. It acknowledges the many nations and cultures that lived here and their occupation and sustainable care for this continent for over 65,000 years. This long history becomes part of Australian history for all us too and there is much we can learn from these millenia. The week is a great opportunity for Australians from all walks of life to support your local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community, to hear their history and stories and to join in the many activities available (see https://www.naidoc.org.au/get-involved/2020-theme for details). Misty Threads has been delighted over many years now to provide wonderful authentic Aboriginal fabrics (see https://www.mistythreads.com.au//authentic-aboriginal-desi) designed by amazingly talented indigenous artists, many well-known and represented in several areas of media. These fabrics each tell the artist's own story and show us the beautiful colours of our land. Over the next week, we'll be showing you some of our all time favourites and the lovely touch they can bring to your own creativity. Keep an eye out for our posts, we can't wait to share NAIDOC week with you all.

02.01.2022 Did you promise someone a handmade Christmas gift this year, but due to 2020's trashfire nature you know that is just not gonna happen? Handmade is not your forte, you don't have the time, well, you do but honestly you just can't be bothered. Visit the Misty Thread's ARTISAN section today for a range of exclusive handcrafted treasures for your loved ones. Send us a message or give us a call and we'll even take the Misty Thread tag off at no extra cost to you! And if it's all too much, just send them a Misty Thread gift voucher and be done with your Chrissie Shopshop in under 3 minutes. Simples.

01.01.2022 In the spirit of advice from Butterfly Media, today a little note in memoriam. My beloved mum, Elsa, died early Tuesday morning at the very respectable age of 94 years and 9 months. It was entirely expected, very peaceful and, of course, totally unwelcome. However, this isn't to spread sadness here; this is to say what an amazing woman she was. Gentle and quiet but strong, deeply conservative but she always had my lefty, feminist back, fiercely intelligent but gave her all t...o being a wife and mother when the demands of the patriarchy were even more than they are now. She grew up a city girl, living a stone's throw from the beach - she became a country woman on remote properties in the harsh inland of northwest NSW and southwest Qld. Growing up there, I took this land for granted but it must have been such a difference for her. She lived with what she had rather than what she could have had. The link from her story to mine is not just that she is my mother but that she introduced me as a young child to the wonderful world of sewing, knitting and making things that, of necessity, were always useful but beautiful and decorative too. The more I study the history of our work, the more I see what a powerful social and political tool it has been and can be as well as a sanity saving pastime and a happy place for many of us. All this despite the tiresome putdown of 'mere woman's work'. As today's world grows harsher, it may well, once again, take its place as a domestic necessity. In the meantime, I remain very grateful to my lovely mum for giving me my happy place in both work and leisure. #mistythreads See more

01.01.2022 Hi MT's daughter here! As a child of one of you crafty people, one of my fondest memories of my Mum's sewing room was driving her mad by rifling through soft, oddly sized envelopes, emblazoned with SIMPLICITY, and pulling out the brown paper with strange lines that she was adept at deciphering into whatever garment my heart desired. "Mum I want a jumper made from this red polarfleece with cartoon sheep on it. It also must have this blue bias for the neckline." Out come the sc...issors (these are my good dressmaking pair, don't you dare use them for paper or I will use them to chop your fingers off!), out come the pins and out comes the colourful tailors chalk in the little red box with the clear lid. Our mothers and grandmothers (and fathers amd grandfathers) have held the mantle for long enough, because with over 83,500 vintage patterns now available for free online... it's our turn. There is a reason these patterns have stuck around for so long, so keep it simple with Simplicity. See more

01.01.2022 Friday evening - just chilling with some cider and planning a few projects with these gorgeous solids from Jane Sassaman. The slightly faded colours are stunning and the texture lovely to the touch. Weekend fun! #mistythreads #quilting #sew #patchwork #janesassaman