JENNY'S LIBERTY STYLE FABRIC SHOP

This week we are in for a real treat, a visit to a fabulous Liberty inspired fabric shop created by Design Team member Jenny. Over to Jenny to take you on a little tour and a closer look inside...

Taking inspiration from the famous London fabric shop Liberty, Jenny turned both sections of the ‘At the Shop’ Book Nook Intrigue® into a wonderful haberdashery, even going to the extent of adding the mock timber cladding on the outside.

Inside the counter, shelves and display cabinets are stuffed full with rolls of fabric, sewing patterns, tiny tape measures, skeins of embroidery silks, balls of wool and more! We’ve had requests to see more of this shop so today Jenny explains a bit about how it came together.

As with every CoolKatzCraft kit there are full instructions (and a YouTube assembly video) showing how to put the basic structures together. I painted the walls and shelving, and stained the floorboards before gluing everything in place, making sure to avoid the edges to make sure everything fitted as designed. The matching picture rail and shelving edges were finished with painted strips cut with the thinnest of the Purrfect Precision Strip Dies.

The bolts of fabric are in fact strips of ribbon rolled around pieces of wooden lolly stick and I chopped pieces off a strip of cream card, again cut using the thinnest of the Purrfect Precision Strip Dies, to create the price tags. I also used cocktail sticks and embroidery thread to create some knitting on needles for the counter.

The rolls of fabric were wrapped around cocktail sticks and I used tiny strips of Black Tiger Tape to hold miniature balls of wool together. Digital kits for miniature sewing patterns and books can be found on Etsy – look for 1:24 scale to fit any of the CoolKatzCraft nooks.

The window display was a labour of love with small strips of ribbon rolled up at the bottom and cut to create the fringing effect. You will also spot the tape measures (more of the thinnest of the Purrfect Precision Strip Dies, this time cut from yellow card and marked with a black fine-liner pen) skeins of embroidery thread wrapped with the Black Tiger Tape and even sewing cottons wrapped around the ends of cocktail sticks to form reels.

The Purrfect Precision Strip Dies were so useful for accurately cutting all the strips of black card needed to create the mock Tudor cladding on the outside of the shop. Texture paste was used through the CoolKatz Flagstone Path Stencil to add the paving at the front and I added handles to the CoolKatz Miniature Flower Pots to create buckets for the flowers on the doorstep, as seen outside the Liberty store.

Thank you to Jenny for explaining more about how this shop kit was transformed.

If you would like to share your own CoolKatz projects pop over to the CoolKatz Facebook group using the links below, where you will also find lots more inspiration, advice and updates. And don’t forget there’s a whole section on the CoolKatzCraft YouTube channel dedicated to the construction of Book Nook Intrigues®.

What an amazing store and such a clever use of materials. If Jenny has inspired you to create your own Haberdashery shop then please don't forget to share your projects using CoolKatz products in the Facebook group.

Happy Crafting

The Coolkatz Team x

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