Most people know Darlene Zimmerman from her enormously popular, feedsack-inspired collections for Robert Kaufman, but this tour de force (and very lovely lady) also happens to be a designer of patterns and quilting tools, a published textile historian, an in-demand leader of quilting workshops, and a very accomplished quilter. We are grateful that she found [...]
Three new prints from German pattern, ribbon, and now fabric company Farbenmix are available now from Volksfaden. Above: Florafox by luziapimpinella; below: Owl Love by Hamburger Liebe and Raccoon Woods by paulapü. Owl Love is on 59″ wide corduroy, and the other two prints are 55″ poplin.
Dream On by Urban Chiks for Moda yardage is in stores now! Word on the street is that despite the fierce internet love, this collection didn’t do as well with traditional brick & mortar shops, so not a whole lot of it was printed. If you like it, snatch it up quickly! City Weekend [...]
Erin McMorris‘ followup to her wonderful Weekends is Irving Street Flannel, a bright, cheery kid’s collection in three colorways inspired by her hometown of Portland, OR. Makes me want to move to there … but then again, what doesn’t? Irving Street is available in stores now.
Sonoma is a strikingly beautiful and versatile collection from designer Franchelle Contreras, her second for Henry Glass Fabrics. See the full collection here. She writes about the inspiration for the collection on her blog: The Somona County area is very lush in color with its vast array of contemporary and vintage wineries. Florals and vineyards [...]
Melissa Averinos has unveiled Swoon, her second fabric collection but the first for Andover. There are eight prints in three colorways (moss, teal, and cherry — some of the teal is shown above). She says the main print Garland is her favorite and reminds her of seventies sheets — once I read that I was [...]
Nature Walk is Cloud9 Fabrics‘ next-next organic fabric collection. It will be available in stores in January 2011 and is their first “price-sensitive” organic collection, with an MSRP of under $12/yard, made possible by using a different basecloth. As they explain on their blog, “Our newest fabric construction is a true, high-end quilter’s squares. Still [...]
Jenean Morrison‘s upcoming collection Wild World for FreeSpirit maintains her signature closely packed, dazzingly complex design style, revisits the oft tones of her debut collection Moondance, yet marks a new turn into organic floral motifs. Jenean explains the inspiration behind Wild World: My inspiration for this collection came from the modern movement of creative people [...]
Now here’s part II of the preview of Amy Butler‘s Fall 2010 collection, Soul Blossoms. (Did you see Part I earlier this week?) In addition to the quilting/apparel weight cottons, Soul Blossoms will also include a smaller group of home dec weight cottons and laminated fabrics. There are four prints here that are not in [...]
Erin McMorris‘ next collection for Freespirit is called Weekends and it’s fabulous! It has a little bit of her signature Cloisonné-like designs, mixed together with some lovely organically sketched florals and (my absolute favorites) a little Scandi-Mod. And, ta-da, bikes! See all three colorways on Erin’s website. Weekends will be shown at Spring Quilt Market [...]
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.) [...]
Alain Grée is a French illustrator and graphic designer who published hundreds of children’s books and a dozen or so board games in the 1960s-70s. Learn and see more about Grée on his official website. His work is enjoying a resurgence today, especially in Japan and France. I’m not sure who licensed his designs for [...]
I’m floored that Art Gallery Fabrics offered to let me share an exclusive sneak peek of their newest collections, which will go on sale to retailers at the upcoming Spring Quilt Market in Minneapolis. Between her zillions of projects, designer Pat Bravo deservedly got to take a vacation to Paris, and it’s this trip that [...]
{ 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 [...]
{ Meadow Colorway } { Plum Colorway } { Aqua Colorway } In case you missed it on Heather’s own blog, here is the full preview of the next iteration of her Far Far Away collection for Kokka. I’m already looking for the perfect dress pattern to pair with those roses. Unlike the first round [...]
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