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Spring Quilt Market 2009: Kokka

This post is part of a series reporting on the Spring 2009 International Quilt Market by True Up East Coast Stringer Mary Beth of Supafine. OH. EM. GEE. You guys. I’ve never been up close and personal with any of Kokka’s fabric before. So if I get a little drool on this post, I beg [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2009: FreeSpirit/Westminster

This post is part of a series reporting on the Spring 2009 International Quilt Market by True Up East Coast Stringer Mary Beth of Supafine. Advance warning: Most of this post will be smeared with my tears of regret over the unforgivable paucity of photos from the entire row of Westminster Fibers booths. Mea culpa. [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2009: Art Gallery Fabrics

This post is part of a series reporting on the Spring 2009 International Quilt Market by True Up East Coast Stringer Mary Beth of Supafine. Patricia Bravo‘s Art Gallery Fabrics booth was bumpin’ each time I passed it, so I considered myself pretty lucky to catch a moment with her Sunday to discuss the new [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2009: Moda

This post is part of a series reporting on the Spring 2009 International Quilt Market by True Up East Coast Stringer Mary Beth of Supafine. Oh, Moda. If Quilt Market was a cafeteria, you’d be the cheerleaders’ table. Everyone wanted a piece of Moda — at the sample sale, their table was three people deep; [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2009: Timeless Treasures

This post is part of a series reporting on the Spring 2009 International Quilt Market by True Up East Coast Stringer Mary Beth of Supafine. My favorites from Timeless Treasures? the practically-breathing prints of Luli Sanchez. I mean, come on. Parakeets (seen here in a West Elm pillow cover) and goldfish? Love. Also from Timeless [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2009: Lantern Bloom, Whimsy, Summer Soiree, Mezzanine

This post is part of a series reporting on the Spring 2009 International Quilt Market by True Up East Coast Stringer Mary Beth of Supafine. Ready for some more from Michael Miller? Then onward, followers! To the first of the company’s four featured individual designers with new collections! Ho! Let’s begin with+Pillow and Maxfield’s Whimsy. [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2009: Michael Miller

This post is part of a series reporting on the Spring 2009 International Quilt Market by True Up East Coast Stringer Mary Beth of Supafine. You know who had it together? Michael Miller. Their booth got great natural light, everything was very nicely decorated, and Kathy Miller herself was a veritable font of information and [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2009: Windham

This is the second in a series of posts reporting from Pittsburgh on the International Quilt Market (omg), by True Up East Coast Stringer Mary Beth of Supafine. Let’s start this party with the prolific Anna Griffin of Windham Fabrics. I did not get to meet her, nor did I take enough pictures of all [...]

Spring 2009 Quilt Market Eve

This is the first in a series of posts reporting live (not live) from Pittsburgh (really Pittsburgh) on the International Quilt Market (omg), by East Coast Stringer Mary Beth, of Supafine. I imagine this happens to you all the time, right? There you are, sitting at the dining room table, trying to piece a quilt [...]