Archive for May 2011

Spring Quilt Market 2011: P&B – Solids and Blenders

P&B has expanded its line of affordable solids, Color Spectrum. The lines includes some great chartreuses, greys, and blues. The P&B Rep said that the company is going to make efforts to make the color card more widely available which should help all of us become more familiar with the Color Spectrum solids. I am [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011: P&B Textiles – Helen Dardik and Karen Tusinski

I just had a few minutes before closing to check in with the reps at P&B Textiles. They were getting a lot of deserved attention for two lines in particular — Toomuchery by Helen Dardik and Gallery Fiori by Karen Tusinski. Both artists are represented by Lilla Rogers studio, with whom P&B has been contracting [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Lakehouse Dry Goods – Pam Kitty Morning

Lakehouse Dry Goods presented their new collection from Pam Kitty! The

Sale Alert Friday: North American Edition

If you have any fabric on your wish list, this weekend is the time to pull the trigger. So many great sales for Memorial Day Weekend — enjoy! Also, we’re still working on the site fixes but we’re close to the end, so the regular posting schedule will resume as soon as possible. — Kim [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Birch Fabrics

Cynthia and Jason, the partners behind Birch Fabrics, put together a super sweet double booth to introduce their two new lines, Avalon and Storyboek. Both lines are 100% GOTS certified organic. Avalon features bikes and birds in 8 prints, that boast deep color saturation and crisp lines, and is currently shipping. You can read the [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Cloud9 Fabrics

Admin note: The site is still experiencing outages and significant slowness, but I have a professional on the case now … we should be better-than-normal by this weekend. We’ll be posting whenever we can access WordPress ourselves. Thanks for sticking with us! { photo by Melissa Frantz } Cloud9 Fabrics has so much goodness going [...]

Japanese Fabric of the Week: Floating Animals

Here’s another Japanese fabric that is at once adorable and puzzling, and in the end even more adorable because it’s puzzling … these poor creatures seem to be hanging by their necks from the balloons, and then what of the ones without a balloon? And of course with the two-way print, some are floating and [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011 – Paris Apartment by Bari J.

Stash Books author and fabric designer, Bari J. Ackerman, showed off her new line for Lecien in her her own version of a Paris Aparment. This line should be shipping in June. View fantastic photos of the entire collection here!

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Lecien

Monica Solorio-Snow’s new collection “Happy Mochi YumYum” for Lecien debuted at Market. You can read about her inspiration and see the full swatch sheet here. The line was showcased at their booth with kids clothes sewn from Patterns by Figgy’s. These are some new additions to the Mrs. March’s line: “Sweet Time” Retropop Sweet cross [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Daiwabo – Novelty Prints

Daiwabo produces a large range of Taupe fabric (for the quilts seen in books like Japanese Taupe Quilts by Susan Briscoe, but they are also the producers of the very popular Tip Top Elephants (they had mini versions at market!) and other whimsical prints on twill, canvas, and mini corduroy. I forgot to write down [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Daiwabo – Kanon & More

Most of these prints are from the Kanon collection, on quilting weight cotton. They also have your strawberry fix taken care of:

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Daiwabo – Novelty Prints

Daiwabo produces a large range of Taupe fabric (for the quilts seen in books like Japanese Taupe Quilts by Susan Briscoe, but they are also the producers of the very popular Tip Top Elephants (they had mini versions at market!) and other whimsical prints on twill, canvas, and mini corduroy. I forgot to write down [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Daiwabo – Kanon & More

Most of these prints are from the Kanon collection, on quilting weight cotton. They also have your strawberry fix taken care of:

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Daiwabo – Notus

Daiwabo was carrying a large group of cotton canvas that has been pretreated to be water resistant up to 20 washings. The prints were beautiful and the canvas had a great hand. The good folks at Daiwabo were doing brisk business at Market and some of the designs were selling out. Hurrah!

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Daiwabo – Notus

Daiwabo was carrying a large group of cotton canvas that has been pretreated to be water resistant up to 20 washings. The prints were beautiful and the canvas had a great hand. The good folks at Daiwabo were doing brisk business at Market and some of the designs were selling out. Hurrah!