Rotary Club – Prints and Story

Say HELLLLOOOO! to Rotary Club, my Spring 2016 collection for Cotton and Steel Fabrics! Rotary Club is about obsolete technologies and the birds who use them. It was inspired by people’s budding relationship with communication technologies in the Sputnik Era, so it has a hardcore Midcentury Modern vibe.

It includes two rayons and double gauzes in addition to the quilting cottons — these are my first prints on these two substrates!

Rotary Club was released in July 2016 and is now out of print. It is still available through my Etsy shop and through independent fabric stores. Some prints may still be available to wholesale customers — visit the Cotton + Steel website for more information.

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Hello, Yes, This Is Bird - Denim // The "hero" print of Rotary Club has birds using various old technologies -- record players, cathode-ray TVs, and manual typewriters -- as they gossip with each other on their rotary phones. SKU #3032-2
Onions N Things - Red // This is a quirky midcentury print featuring a heady mix of onions, apples, cherries, flowers, and leaves that one might imagine on vintage kitchenware. // SKU #3035-2
Birds and Cages - Peach // These sweet little birds and their guided cages were found on an old silk scarf. SKU #3036-2
Dials - Navy // Getting nostalgic for rotary phones, I started to think about the ways we used the phone in my childhood, calling dial-a-joke lines, services that recited the time and weather, and radio station request lines over and over again. I incorporated some of the actual numbers of these lines into the “Dials” print, along with era-appropriate names. SKU #3033-2
Things Grid - Periwinkle // This small grid incorporates various motifs from Rotary Club and brings in other miscellany such as nests, pocket watches, and spectacles. SKU 3037-2
Facets - Periwinkle // Facets is a terrific and versatile little midcentury print. SKU #3038-1
Ring Rings - Red // Rotary Club is rounded out by the versatile “Ring Rings,” which is printed on both quilting cotton and rayon. This print was inspired by an old doll dress. SKU #3034-4
Hello, Yes, This is Bird - Pink // The "hero" print of Rotary Club has birds using various old technologies -- record players, cathode-ray TVs, and manual typewriters -- as they gossip with each other on their rotary phones. SKU #3032-3
Things Grid - Navy // This small grid incorporates various motifs from Rotary Club and brings in other miscellany such as nests, pocket watches, and spectacles. SKU #3037-1
Facets - Red // Facets is a terrific and versatile little midcentury print. SKU #3038-3
Dials // Getting nostalgic for rotary phones, I started to think about the ways we used the phone in my childhood, calling dial-a-joke lines, services that recited the time and weather, and radio station request lines over and over again. I incorporated some of the actual numbers of these lines into the “Dials” print, along with era-appropriate names. SKU #3033-1
Ring Rings - Red // Rotary Club is rounded out by the versatile “Ring Rings,” which is printed on both quilting cotton and rayon. This print was inspired by an old doll dress. SKU #3034-1
Space Thistles DOUBLE GAUZE - Pink and Gold Metallic // “Space Thistles" is my first print on Cotton + Steel’s supersoft and versatile double gauze. Can't you just hear the beeps and pings of satellites flying through space? SKU 3039-13
Hello, Yes, This is Bird - Green // The "hero" print of Rotary Club has birds using various old technologies -- record players, cathode-ray TVs, and manual typewriters -- as they gossip with each other on their rotary phones. SKU #3032-1
Birds and Cages- Navy // These sweet little birds and their guided cages were found on an old silk scarf. SKU #3036-1
Onions N Things // This is a quirky midcentury print featuring a heady mix of onions, apples, cherries, flowers, and leaves that one might imagine on vintage kitchenware. SKU #3035-1
Facets - Blue Green // Facets is a terrific and versatile little midcentury print. SKU #3038-2
Ring Rings - Navy Green // Rotary Club is rounded out by the versatile “Ring Rings,” which is printed on both quilting cotton and rayon. This print was inspired by an old doll dress. SKU #3034-2
Ring Rings - Light Blue // Rotary Club is rounded out by the versatile “Ring Rings,” which is printed on both quilting cotton and rayon. This print was inspired by an old doll dress. SKU #3043-3
Space Thistles DOUBLE GAUZE - Blue Green // Space Thistles is my first print on Cotton + Steel’s supersoft and versatile double gauze. Can't you just hear the beeps and pings of satellites flying through space? SKU #3039-23
Ring Rings RAYON - Red Navy // Rotary Club is rounded out by the versatile “Ring Rings,” which is printed on both quilting cotton and rayon. This print was inspired by an old doll dress. SKU #3034-55
Ring Rings RAYON - Dusk // Rotary Club is rounded out by the versatile “Ring Rings,” which is printed on both quilting cotton and rayon. This print was inspired by an old doll dress. SKU #3034-65

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