Julia Brendel Lee

A woman in traditional folk costume embroidering a Kurpie folk pattern. Woman wearing a traditional Polish folk headdress. Photo by an unknown photographer. Both photographs are from the Archives of the National Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw. If you’d like to discover more about the interiors and patterns I create and the inspirations behind them, follow me on Instagram: @juliabrendelstudio⁠

I’ve worked with Olga & Taras for a few years now, so it’s a pleasure to introduce them as this month’s Creative Spotlight makers. I’ve also had the chance to spend a day with them creating some wonderful cushions. Olga teaches sewing as well as making beautiful soft furnishings and I can say from experience that she’s an amazing teacher. She even managed to teach me how to put a zip into a cushion and zips have always been my sewing nemesis! If you’d like to learn from her too, you can find...

In this post, I share my new Teresa Stripe fabric pattern, exploring the inspiration behind it and the creative process that brought it to life.