We’ve added more photos on our Makes page – cushions, lavender bags and accessories in gorgeous vintage and country-style fabrics. Here’s a taster: 
Gorgeously grey!
French chic fabric
Spring fabrics
New accessories
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Favourite Fabric Shops
As promised, here are some of our favourite fabric shops in London and further afield. Do get in touch with your recommendations.
London:
The Cloth Shop: this small shop on Portobello Road stocks gorgeous natural fabrics including Swedish linens
MacCullock & Wallis: fabulous fabric and haberdashery online and in their London store on Poland Street, W1
The Cloth House: online fabric and haberdashery plus a shop on Berwick Street, W1
Liberty: needs no explanation (but a large wallet perhaps!)
Our locals:
Fabrics Galore: 54 Lavender Hill, SW11: a small shop crammed with fabrics include Liberty.
The Wimbledon Sewing Machine Company, 292-312 Balham High Road, London SW17 7AA
020 8767 4724: this slightly old-fashioned shop (which is more Balham/Tooting than Wimbledon) is packed to the rafters with fabrics and haberdashery
Sew Over It: the lovely sewing café in Clapham and Islington runs sewing courses and stocks fabrics and sewing kits – also available online. Their founder, Lisa Comfort, has also written a blog on her favourite fabric shops in London.
Further afield:
The Guardian lists its top ten fabric shops in the UK – it’s worth reading the comments underneath for more recommendations.
Fabulous fabrics
We discovered some gorgeous fabrics – well, Fiona did – at a little shop in Kent called The Sewing Space. These fat quarters proved to be irresistible – we will show you what Fiona makes with them in a future blog, plus some other ideas of what to create with all the gorgeous fat quarters we keep buying. Plus we are in the middle of compiling a list of best fabric shops – local to us in south west London and also further afield. We will share them in our next blog. Get in touch if you have any recommendations.
50 shades of teal
The colour teal appears to mean different things to different people. All these doors represent various shades of teal. Should it be greeny-blue or blue-green? There’s no right or wrong answer of course and that’s one of the reasons we love the colour so much.
According to colour psychology (whatever that is!), blue expresses calmness and serenity while green symbolizes growth, strength and spirit. We hope that’s the direction we’re heading with Turtle & Teal…
The turtle has landed!
It has been a busy few weeks setting up Turtle & Teal (turtles will not be rushed!). No doubt we’ll be tweaking our site over the next few weeks and adding new posts. For now, it’s a quick hello and a chance to say a little about the Turtle and Teal team (oh, we do like these alliterations). We are three friends with a love of sewing, crafts, the colour teal and of course, turtles. We plan to regularly share our latest creations, sewing tips, ideas and recommendations. In the meantime, we bring you our beautifully crafted teal turtle…
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