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Birch Organic Fabric Certification

by modes4u July 22, 2016

Birch fabrics are incredibly popular, due to their beautiful designs and their use of high quality certified organic materials. We know many of you are curious about this so we’d like to share with you their certification, which shows Birch textiles are processed in accordance with Global Organic Textile Standards (GOTS). The GOTS is one of the world’s best standards for recognizing organic textiles; only fabrics with over a 70% organic fibre content can be GOTS certified. Are you a fan of organic fabrics? Let us know!

Page 1 of the Birch Organic Fabric Certification

July 22, 2016 1 comment

New organic fabric collections by birch

by modes4u August 11, 2015

We have lovely new organic fabrics by birch in our shop. You can now order the cute collections Happy Town and Picnic Whimsy with funny animal designs as well as the stylish collection Bear Camp with many shades of blue and grey. Moreover, if you are looking for some stretch – we also have a lot of plain-colored birch knit fabrics.

Some of the new organic fabric from the birch collections Happy Town and Picnic Whimsy.

white ‘Happy Houses’ colourful house organic fabric birch USA

sky blue ‘Happy Pals’ lion & giraffe animal birch knit organic fabric USA

orange leaf pattern & dots organic fabric birch ‘leaves’

cream colour spot speckled birch knit organic fabric USA

grey crocodile & flower animal organic fabric birch USA ‘Lurking’

off-white mushroom & raccoon organic fabric birch USA ‘Mushroom Forest’

blue grey ‘picnic’ crocodile & penguin flower birch knit organic fabric USA

turquoise ‘Bear Bois’ tree stripes birch knit organic fabric from the USA

grey ‘Bear Hike’ bears birch poplin organic fabric USA

navy blue ‘Bear Hike’ bears birch poplin organic fabric USA

coral red ‘Bear Bois’ tree stripes birch poplin organic fabric USA

solid light green birch knit organic fabric from the USA

solid teal birch knit organic fabric from the USA

August 11, 2015 0 comment

Our visit to the Quilt Market 2015 in Minneapolis: Part2

by modes4u June 30, 2015

During our visit to the Quilt Market in the United States this year we were especially keen to look for new organic fabrics. Responding to our customers wish for certified organic cotton fabrics, we were able to find a range of very beautiful designs for our shop. We were very happy to have a chance to talk first hand to great suppliers like Monaluna, Birch and Cloud9 and choose from their amazing new collections.Due to the very good experience with the organic fabrics already available in our shop, we are sure to have the best partners to offer you wonderful fabrics for future children’s clothing and home sewing projects.

New Birch collection. We are always surprised how colorful organic cotton can be.

New Birch collection. We are always surprised how colorful organic fabrics can be.

We received great information and advice on organic fabrics.

We can't wait for these dreamy Birch fabrics.

Some wonderful dreamy Birch fabrics.

Dream team. Together we found so many beautiful Monaluna designs.

Cute Monaluna apron and quilt blanket with charming flowers.

Aren’t colorful fruit fabrics always refreshing. Especially if they are organic.

All of the booths are decorated with amazing attention to detail.

A lovely pastel colored Cloud 9 collection.

The garments on display really showed that these organic fabrics have a unique beauty.

The garments on display really showed that there is unique beauty to organic fabrics.

white ‘Shine Bright’ colorful bright spot Cloud 9 Voile organic cotton fabric

white monaluna mini flower organic fabric Jacks

Peonies Blue peony flower birch organic fabric from the USA

June 30, 2015 1 comment

Our fabrics are the cover garments of Sew Magazine

by modes4u February 10, 2015

Do you like this stunning top on the cover of the February issue of Britain’s Sew Magazine? We adore it and it was made with our birch flag fabric. We teamed up with Sew Magazine and sponsored two organic birch fabrics that were used for cover garments and we couldn’t be happier. Both the peplum top and the dress look amazing.

The stunning top on the cover of the February issue of Sew Magazine is made with our fabric

The gorgeous organic birch flag fabric looks great as a peplum top

This dress is made with our birch knot dot organic fabric.

cream maritime birch flags organic fabric Flags petrol

grey knot dot pattern organic fabric by birch from the USA

February 10, 2015 0 comment

What to sew with birch’s Acorn Trail organic fabrics

by modes4u January 3, 2015

It’s always nice to see what fabrics look like when used for different products. The organic fabric manufacturer birch shows on the birch website some wonderful examples of apparel made with the new collection Acorn Trail. We also carry the cute collection designed by Tegan White and love the photos. Such an inspiration!

Examples of what to sew with birch’s collection Acorn Trail, photo from birch.com

Super cute shorts and tank top, photo from birch.com

amazing children apparel made with Acorn Trail fabrics, photo from birch.com

lovely boy’s shirt, photo from birch.com

stunning girl’s dress, photo from birch.com

cute Acorn Trail cushions, photo from birch.com

January 3, 2015 0 comment

What customers made with our products: bags, clothes and bentos

by modes4u December 26, 2014

We spotted so many lovely projects from our customers over the last months again on our Facebook site that it’s about time we introduce them here on the blog:

Samodiva’s Treasures sewed a lovely kindle cover with our Camelot Dream A Little Dream fabric. Don’t you just want to get comfy and start reading?

Samodiva’s Treasures made a wonderful kindle cover with our Camelot fabric

blue night moth animal fabric Camelot Dream a Little Dream

Isn’t this diaper bag just amazing? Le Petit Monde de Lilaxel? sewed it using our Michael Miller Summer Night Lights Border fabric.

Le Petit Monde de Lilaxel? sewed a beautiful diaper bag with our Michael Miller fabric

border fabric Summer Night Lights Twilight Michael Miller

Our customer Evelin Mostafa made a gorgeous bag set with a handbag, coin case and pouch using our pretty Timeless Treasures autumn fabric.

A great bag set with our Timeless Treasures autumn fabric made by Evelin Mostafa

black autumn leaf tree fabric by Timeless Treasures

Les Bêtes de Céline showed us pictures of lots of pretty loop scarfs that she made. This one is sewn with our Spring sampler organic fabric by Cloud 9.

Les Bêtes de Céline made a pretty loop scarf with our Cloud 9 organic fabric

Spring Sampler Petal Pink Cloud 9 leaf organic fabric

Per sfizio ma non solo showed us several projects on Facebook. She made a gorgeous pencil wrap case using several of our fabrics like e.g. the teal Urchin Forest organic birch fabric. She also showed her great project how to turn an old pair of jeans into a skirt and used some of our fabrics like the pretty Voile Koi fabric as embellishment.

Super pretty pencil case made by Per sfizio ma non solo with many of our fabrics

teal circle animal birch organic fabric Urchin Forest

Per sfizio ma non solo turned an old pair of jeans into a skirt and used our fabrics as embellishments

purple pattern Cloud 9 Voile organic fabric Koi from the USA

Redecorate Con Lola Godoy? made a lovely fridge magnet notepad that she covered with our Timeless Treasures raspberry fabric.

Redecorate Con Lola Godoy? made a pretty fridge magnet notepad covered with our raspberry fabric

Raspberry fabric by Timeless Treasures from the USA

And finally also a non-fabric related product. Isabelle Torloting from the blog Lovin Bento used our 4pcs Eiffel Tower bento box set to make a delicious bento.

Isabelle Torloting from Lovin Bento made pretty bentos with our Eiffel Tower bento box set

Eiffel Tower and polka dots Bento Box 4 pcs Lunch Box

December 26, 2014 0 comment

New birch fabrics: Acorn Trail and Feather River

by modes4u December 21, 2014

We have two lovely new organic fabric collections by birch in our shop. Acorn Trail is by Tegan White and a very cute collection with flower, bug and forest animal designs. A lot of the prints also include the cute girl Penny who hangs out with her forest animal friends.

Feather River is by Jay-Cyn Designs and revolves around the theme of Camping. There are lots of pretty nature and animal designs with bears, birds, trees, camping scenes and so on.

Many prints of both collections are also available as knits, flannels or strong canvas fabrics.

New birch fabrics on modes4u: collection Acorn Trail by Tegan White (picture by birch.com)

Penny’s Seasons forest animal girl seasons birch organic fabric from the USA

Laundry Day forest animal laundry girl autumn birch organic fabric from the USA

Acorn Trail Map forest girl autumn birch organic fabric from the USA

Bugs Tonal Blue insect bug animal birch organic fabric from the USA

Bugs Gold insect bug animal birch organic fabric from the USA

Nature Hike girl autumn forest animal birch organic fabric from the USA

Birds and Branches Coral bird branch birch organic fabric from the USA

Peonies Blue peony flower birch organic fabric from the USA

Tonal Floral Shell mini flower birch organic fabric from the USA

New birch fabrics on modes4u.com: collection Feather River by Jay-Cyn Designs (picture by birch.com)

Feather River Patch Patchwork camping forest poplin organic fabric birch USA

blue fish Blue School poplin organic fabric birch USA

off-white Feather River Main camping forest poplin organic fabric birch USA

orange Quail and Poppy bird flower poplin organic fabric birch USA

grey bear Bear Hike Shroom poplin organic fabric birch USA

off-white Bobbers Sun poplin organic fabric birch USA

off-white Canopy tree forest poplin organic fabric birch USA

blue River View water pattern poplin organic fabric birch USA

December 21, 2014 0 comment

birch sewing tutorials for cheater fabrics

by modes4u August 23, 2014

If you like sewing you should definitely have a look at the birch blog. The official blog of the organic fabric manufacturer birch shares wonderful and detailed tutorials made by bloggers like Straight Grain or Plum and June. Today we want to show you some great examples of what to do with cheater fabrics. You can click on the picture below to get to the tutorials on the birch blog.

Cheater fabrics are great for quilting, which is what they are probably mostly used for. But they also look great on projects like home decor pillows, bed linen and also clothes. Our favourite project of the birch tutorials is the soft baby booklet. What a great idea for babies!

Tutorial for throw pillows by Plum and June with birch fabrics

Tutorial for a soft baby booklet by Plum and June with birch fabrics

Tutorial for a quilt by Plum and June with birch fabrics designed by Charley Harper

Tutorial for the Sleepy Head Nap Mat by Christina McKinney with birch fabrics

patchwork forest animals organic fabric birch Fort Firefly

Patchwork bird ladybug organic fabric birch Cardinal Patch

patchwork elephant birch organic fabric Frolic Triangles

patchwork squirrel bird organic fabric birch Feeding Station

Patchwork sea whale anchor birch organic fabric Waves Patch

Patchwork Koi fish flower origami organic fabric birch USA

Patchwork forest stag bee canvas organic fabric birch USA

August 23, 2014 0 comment

New organic fabric collections by monaluna

by modes4u August 3, 2014

We have lovely new organic fabrics by monaluna in our shop. The super cute maritime collection Under the Sea as well as the cool geometric collection Haven with lots of grey and yellow are available with all designs. And if you are in need of stretch – we now also have monaluna knit fabrics.

aqua blue monaluna organic fox fabric foxy too

grey monaluna organic cat fabric Meow

white monaluna yellow dots organic fabric dot

white monaluna flower organic fabric bloom from the USA

grey monaluna geo birds organic fabric birdies

grey monaluna tulip flower organic fabric tulip

grey monaluna flower tulip organic fabric little garden

blue monaluna sea animal organic fabric sea life

white monaluna sea animal organic fabric octopus party

blue monaluna mermaid organic fabric little mermaid

green monaluna fish seaweed plant organic fabric kelp forest

teal monaluna fish organic fabric go fish

Swedish forest knit monaluna animal organic knit fabric

blue-grey polka knit monaluna dot organic knit fabric

blue-grey foxy knit monaluna fox organic knit fabric

August 3, 2014 0 comment

What customers made with our fabrics: bags and apparel

by modes4u July 17, 2014

Time for another round of “What customers made with our fabrics”. Many of you posted your projects on our Facebook wall and we can’t help but share it.

Marion from Les Z’Opérations du Dr Marion blogged about this great children’s shirt that was made with our maritime Michael Miller fabric. What an awesome summer shirt.

Marion blogged on Les Z’Opérations du Dr Marion about this super cute shirt made with our Michael Miller fabric

white maritime fabric sailing ship anchor Michael Miller

Alessandra showed us on her blog Per sfizio ma non sole a great ensemble for girls which is based on our organic girl Fort Firefly fabric by birch. Super pretty!

Alessandra blogged about this lovely ensemble with our birch fabric on Per sfizio ma non sole

sea green flower girl organic fabric birch Fort Firefly

Samantha sewed amazing children’s clothes with our Dear Stella snail fabric. The pattern looks gorgeous on toddlers.

Samantha made adorable toddler wear with our snail fabric

white snail animal fabric Dear Stella USA

What a fun idea: Concepcion Tejeda from Tenerife made lots of panties for her dog. One of them is done with our Alexander Henry skull fabric.

Concepcion Tejeda from Tenerife made cute pants for her dog with our Alexander Henry skull fabric

black Alexander Henry fabric roses and white skulls

Our Italian customer DIY – Diynamic crafts from Italy used our Michael Miller space fabric to sew a pretty cinch bag with a lace detail.

What a fun bag DIY – Diynamic crafts from Italy made with our space fabric

black spaceship space fabric Michael Miller Space Station

Anja from Germany used the Alexander Henry Zocalo fabric to make this beautiful bag. Unfortunately the beige color is discontinued, but we still carry the fabric in other colors.

Anja from Germany sewed this beautiful bag with our Mexican folklore fabric

beige Mexican folklore fabric by Alexander Henry

July 17, 2014 2 comments