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BC Artists and Designers
Favorite Things
bags, hats & clothes straight from the cottage by BC designer Leslie Gladman

Violette's Folk Art - colorful folk art in White Rock
Fibre_Essence_Gallery_- a Vancouver based gallery
featuring a variety of work by local textile artists
Vancouver Guild of Fibre Arts

Interesting Places in Vancouver
Urbanity - local wearable artists' art, currently featuring works by Angelika Werth. Imports gorgous Oleana knitwear from Norway. 207 Abbott Street
Bed - 100% cotton dyed bed sheets and duvet covers in more than 54 colors! Fabulous!
2151 West 4th Avenue.
Ruby Dog's Art House - Wonderful resources for altered books, and collage artworks. 4738 Main St. between 30th and 32nd.
Dressew - The biggest selection of trims, zips, fringe, buttons in Vancouver. Also fabric, notions and great costume bits. 337 West Hastings Street.
Maiwa Handprints - Loveley clothes and textiles, great textile supplies and books, workshops, too. The Net Loft, Granville Island.

Pattern Companies
Purrfection Artisic Wearables

patterns up to plus sizes, fabrics, stamps & more
Critter Pattern Works

wonderful animal quilts by Deborah Konchinsky
Saf-T-Pockets
practical travel clothing
Carol Lane-Saber Designs
Oriental influenced fabrics & patterns

Lorraine Torrence
pieced clothing
Park Bench Patterns
cute styles of easy to wear clothing

Plus Sizes
Plusstop - Everything for plus sizes on the net
Full & Sassy Pattern Boutique

Sewing & Embellishment Resources
Get Creative Show
- a reference site for sewing & crafts!
Deborah Gayle Sales
- sewaholics jewelry
Cyndi's "High Fiber Diet"- links for fiber artists
The Quilting Channel from VidBook.com- learn quilting with video-enhanced guides

Sew-Ergo
- tilting table for better sewing machine ergonomics & healthy bodies
Hand dyed Fabric at Textile Art
Fabrics to Dye For - hand dyed fabrics
Denver Fabrics - 'We have the largest selection of sewing and quilting notions on the Internet"
J J Handworks - millefiore Fimo buttons & jewelry
Porcelain Rose
- PO Box 7545, Long Beach, CA, 90807- fantasic porcelain buttons
Mail Order Thread by SULKY
Fairfield Processing- makers of quality quilt batting
Quilter's Resource Inc- suppliers of all kinds of good things for the sewing room
Quilter's Warehouse - online resources

Sewing & Fitting Instruction
Conselle
- Judith Rasband, fitting advice

Margaret Islander Sewing Systems
- great educational instruction

Interesting textile and surface design magazines!!
Look for all of these on local newstands or in fabric stores.
Threads
Sew News
Ornament

Fibrearts
Surface
Belle Armoire
Cloth Paper Scissors

Stamper's Sampler

Selvedge

Inspiring Artistic Sites
Mythmakers - performance group
Cirque De Soleil - performance group
MacKenzie Childs - Inspiring furniture
Oilily - a colorful store, good eye candy, clothing for women and children
Nancy Eha Bead Creative- embellished quilts & garments
Jane Sassaman - intricate floral quilts

Dolls
Gail Wilson's folk doll furniture kits - charming kits for wooden dolls & doll furniture

Monique Motil - exotic dolls

Interesting wearables
Gallery of Wearable Art - New York City
Mycoanna - exotic recycled knitwear
Indian Summer Leather- origami leather bags

Pavelka's Big Family Adventure Sailing from British Columbia to Mexico for 9 months