Mmmm, who wants a little urea-formaldehyde on their quilting cotton? No? Then consider going organic. Cloud9 Fabrics is a two-woman organic fabric company, the brainchild of Michelle Engel Bencsko and Gina Pantastico. They teamed up last year to create a contemporary, eco-sensible alternative to traditional quilt and craft fabrics. Their wholesale+ fabric line bridges the [...]
I am in love with the palette of Botanica, the new Lourdes Sanchez‘s collection for Timeless Treasures Fabrics. Shades of plum, lilac, dove and charcoal grey with a hit of poison yellow. (Were you to add olive green and worn-out denim, you’d have all the hues in my closet. So maybe I’m a little biased.) [...]
{ Tufted Tweets: sorbet colorway } Stay tuned for Tufted Tweets giveaway news at the end of this post! Austinite Laurie Wisbrun is a surface designer who — after 20 years in marketing and a brief stint in cheese — began designing and selling her own fabric designs through Etsy with the aid of digital [...]
First off, big thanks to True Up for inviting me back to talk about Plume, my newest collection for Moda Fabrics. Plume was an opportunity for me to go a little bit further in my design process. The main goal was to drown in detail, the kind of detail that you need muck boots to [...]
Nearly a year after bringing her fresh designs to Spring Quilt Market 2009 to find a home, new designer Jessica Levitt sits down to share with us the tale. After you are thoroughly impressed, please enter our giveaway for one of three fat quarter packs of Timber — details at the end of the post. [...]
Lizzy House, designer of adorable fabric lines Lizzy Dish, Red Letter Day, and the upcoming Castle Peeps (all for Andover Fabrics), recently spilled about a book she’s written (well, an e-book, but a book’s a book in my book) called How To Enter The World Of Textile Design: For The Quilting Industry. Since I started [...]
This winter was a flurry of activity for fabric designers; it saw the releases of dozens of new collections, including Patty Young‘s Flora & Fauna for Michael Miller Fabrics. We invited Patty to stop by the True Up, um, “virtual offices” (have a seat on the virtual couch! There’s room for virtually everybody!) to share [...]
Today we’re going to get a behind-the-scenes chat with Jenean Morrison, the sweet and extremely talented designer behind Free Spirit‘s Moondance, Picnic Parade and her latest, just-released collection, California Dreamin‘. Jenean is a prolific artist and pattern and surface designer, designing everything from rugs to stationery to (you guessed it) fabric. She often shares her [...]
Last time, we looked at stashes on shelves (a theme I can promise you I’ll revisit); today we’re going rogue! From the “Why Didn’t I Think Of That” folder: hanging fabric on tiny pants hangers! I may have just squealed. I apologize. There’s more beauty and inspiration in the flickr photostream of Viv of Ish [...]
You know Helen Dardik, right? Orange You Lucky blog? One of a kind paintings? Amazing surface design? Thought so. We’ve pointed her out before. Now, lucky for us, Helen has been developing a fabric collection with P&B Textiles, and recently she gave us a sneak peek. Few people, in my opinion, can make spatulas and [...]
Interweave Press invited us to be part of their virtual book tour for Meg McElwee’s new book, Sew Liberated (see my review, too!). How could we pass up a chance to interview one of our favorite bloggers and authors about her stash? We could not, that’s how. Hi, Meg! Thanks for talking with us today. [...]
Sew Liberated: 20 Stylish Projects for the Modern Sewist by Meg McElwee, Interweave Press, 2009 If, like this reviewer, you had a baby a few years ago and revived your interest in crafting at the same time, you might remember seeing patterns on a blog called Montessori By Hand. Ring a bell? Meg McElwee was [...]
Fabricate: 17 Innovative Sewing Projects that Make Fabric the Star by Susan Wasinger Interweave Press, 2009 The beauty of Susan Wasinger’s Fabricate is the way she shows you how to create beautiful fabric, not just shop for it. For some of us living in the wilds of the American Midwest (far from a Bolt or [...]
Prepare yourself for tiny button people! Amy Barickman is the genius behind the vintage-flavored Indygo Junction, The Vintage Workshop, a great source of vintage images and clip-art for creative projects, and vintage-inspired fabric designs. Her latest fabric line, for Red Rooster Fabrics, is based on her 2008 reprint of the 1929 classic Sew-It Book. Tiny [...]
Bend The Rules With Fabric: Fun Sewing Projects with Stencils, Stamps, Dye, Photo Transfers, Silk Screening, and More, by Amy Karol, Potter Craft, 2009. Bend The Rules With Fabric is Amy Karol’s second book, the followup to the popular Bend The Rules Sewing and every bit as fun. I assume you all know who Amy [...]
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