Saturday, December 24, 2011
Happy Festive Season!
Friday, December 16, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Today is the day…

{Below is a little sneak peak of a project in 2012, a collaboration with Dawn Tan and Shelley Panton for the 2012 Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. If you look closely, you can see the weave of this 100% linen, it’s really beautiful}

Friday, December 2, 2011
'Bird and Bush' Teepee by Leila Sanderson
There was all types of flavours, from deco all the way to whimsical. After the motif to form the basis of the design was chosen, it was transformed into this amazing decorated panel based around Leila's idea of the design fading upwards.
Friday, November 25, 2011
Dawn's Funny Meaty Pillowcases
I first met Dawn a few years back now, when this crazy digital printing idea popped into my head. And ever since, she's been so enthusiastic about experimenting with her artwork and textiles. She's pretty much a superwoman - painting, blogging, running kids and adults art workshops and art birthday parties, running her shop, whizzing off to Singapore, Finders Keepers markets, Markit markets and on and on.
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Wall Painting at Obus |
Thursday, November 17, 2011
The Ultimate Geek Quilt
Quilter extraordinaire Andi from PatchAndi came into the studio the other day and we printed up a huge periodic table! All the elements from Ununtrium to Ruthenium and back.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Betty’s Wall


Go visit Betty here and you’ll find other handmade cushions fashioned out of vintage tea towels, unique jewellery, vintage clothes, framed illustrations and prints, vintage fabrics, craft and DIY books, one-off vintage treasures and interesting bric a brac.
Can’t wait to meet her!
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
A Week of Epic Efforts
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Dress made by Cindy from Bug and Pop. |
I know someone who stayed up until 1 o’clock in the morning to finish off sewing a little girls dress, and some monkey pants and a bib (more on this later). This was after a full days work. In the evenings prior to this (again after a full days work), she sewed up a beautiful dress. This is Cindy from Bug and Pop. I also know a very talented artist, Dawn Tan, an amazing person in general, who has been super enthusiastic about experimenting with her artwork in textile format. The result of our little 3 leaf clover collaboration is this wonderful dress. That mannequin will not be wearing it for long, Cindy, Dawn and I are going to have to draw straws!
In other news, our new ebay vintage couch fell apart :(Thursday, September 8, 2011
Creative Womens Circle

Frankie and Swiss hosted the Creative Womens Circle on the weekend. There were 50 ladies present listening intently to Shelley Panton as she spoke about her background, creative processes and plans. As usual, the CWC event provided wonderful insights into the trials and tribulations of being successful creative women. Inspirational lady.

Beautiful wares from Shelley’s shop in Middle Park.

Some lovely ladies volunteered baked goods for offer at the end of Shelley’s talk, a big thanks to Clare from Victor Fox, Bianca from Miki.o and Jen from Love JK and Jac’s mother in law!



And a big thanks to Alex Parker who took these wonderful photos of the morning. Thanks Alex!
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Thursday night

We held a little Thursday night sewing session last week. Mary whipped up the colour chart cushions - they’re actually the fabric colour charts that assist in choosing colours for colouring designs, a great fabric in themselves!
Colour book cushions made by Mary from Chicken Flower Tots. cmyk colour book fabric from Frankie and Swiss.
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Coasters made by Magdalena from The Craft Revival. Design by Clare from Victor Fox. Printed by Frankie and Swiss
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And Cindy gets another mention as she also sewed pants and matching bib (complete with yellow button to match the yellow hanger, LOVE her attention to detail!) and a little dress. Adorable, so adorable! The lovely lady who designed the fabric is Jen Henderson, another fellow Southside Brown Owl.
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Little people things made by Cindy from Bug and Pop. Design by Jen Henderson.
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Monday, August 29, 2011
Unusual dress prints
This design didn't make it to the print room. Maybe another time...
Monday, August 8, 2011
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Rowena Martinich
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Granny Squares!
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Good Girl Flo!

Thursday, July 21, 2011
Sneak Peak


Flo, our textile printer, is behaving herself nicely and I nearly have the businessy back office type stuff under control. And after being Facebook challenged for a very long time, I even managed to set up a Frankie and Swiss page!

Sunday, June 5, 2011
The Arrival of Florence

The past few days have flown by in a whirlwind of activity, organising, nail biting and excitement. Flo arrived on Wednesday, I was there at 630am to meet her. There was a truck, there was a crane, there was 4 men and me, there was 2 locksmiths to remove the plate glass door and there was lots of coffee.
There was a few tense situations, like the talk of the entire glass frontage of the building shattering when Florence leaned a little too much to the left. A few false starts and with 2.5cm each side to clear, she made it through the door opening and into the studio.
So she’s here! But not yet ready for her debut. She’s in hair and makeup at the moment. Jac and I are itching to begin our first project. And of course, we cant wait to see the designs coming through from all the super talented peeps around town :) Hello (*waving arms*) to all the lovely gals who have already emailed me! We’re super excited to be working with you!
I'll get the website up and running soon which will detail how this little textile studio is going to work. You know, file specs required, sizes etc. That kind of thing. So, here’s Flo’s email if you want to email her : florence[at]frankieandswiss.com.au. Oh, and here’s her Twitter : https://twitter.com/#!/FrankieAndSwiss
And thats it for now.
