Fall Quilt Market 2010 – FreeSpirit – Tula Pink

Can I just say? Meeting Tula Pink for the first time had to be one of the highlights of this market for me. She is hilarious and awesome and her tales of living in the rural Midwest had me rolling on the floor at the Fabric 2.0 party. And of course her booth to promote her new collection Parisville (her first for FreeSpirit) just blew me away — her imagination, the attention to detail. She basically transported Versailles to a surreal alternate universe, and made that universe come alive in a 10′x10′ booth, all in the name of a single fabric collection. Pretty cool.

First off, those quilt/banners with the silhouette of her modern-day Marie Antoinette spokesmuse with ship-hair. Everyone makes quilts to promote a fabric line, but whoever thought to not use the actual fabrics from the collection? And to quilt the name in there amongst some of the most amazing, intricate quilting I’ve ever seen? Just — wow. (I remember seeing really nice, detailed pictures of these quilts somewhere on the internet — can anyone point them out?)

And then I want all three of her quilt patterns (available through her online shop and through independent quilt stores).

Quilt Dad’s banner/ribbon quilt is awesome as well. It it supposed to be available as a free pattern at some point on the FreeSpirit site.

Here are the fabrics — I took detailed shots of each of the prints in the Mist colorway, which you can see on Flickr if you haven’t gotten a chance to see these up-close yet.

{ Mist Colorway }

{ Sprout Colorway }

{ Pomegranate Colorway }

{ Laminates }

Parisville is available from your favorite fabric stores now.