Melimba & Beccabury are Melissa Snyder Wood and Rebecca Snyder, a two-sister design team whose debut fabric collection Rainy Days and Mondays was recently released by Riley Blake Designs. This little collection has been enthusiastically received so far for its bright, happy colors and clever adaptation of umbrella and rain motifs into geometric patterns. I’d [...]
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 [...]
I have been following Jenn Ski‘s work and blog for a long time now and knew it was only a matter of time before her designs were brought to cloth! Jenn is one of the three Lilla Rogers Studio designers that P&B Textiles recently licensed to create fabric lines. (Caroline Gavin’s Wild Thyme is already [...]
Nashville artist/designer Caleb Gray is a new addition to Robert Kaufman’s team. You might recognize his retro style from Target and the paper and stationery world. Groove (above) is a mini-collection of versatile geometric prints in six colorways. The two shown above are Spring, top; and Earth, bottom — there is even a Holiday colorway [...]
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. [...]
I spotted this playground print on someone’s blog today (please let me know in the comments if it’s you! Usually I can locate these things through the magic of Google Reader’s search function, but not today). This reproduction-looking print is so cute, but a closer look reveals several things make me cringe as a modern [...]
Thanks so much to Kim for inviting me back to True Up, to guest blog about my new fabric collection, Glam Garden! Last time I was here Kim interviewed me about my debut fabric collection Hot Blossom, and today I’m going to share with you the inspiration and creative process behind Glam Garden. For Glam [...]
{ Fifi’s Frolic from Michael Miller Fabrics } { Hush Puppies from Alexander Henry — also in Brown } And retro dogs at that. Curse you, No-More-Buying-Novelty-Prints-on-White rule!
{ Pinks } Illustrator David Walker‘s latest collection for FreeSpirit is called Hopscotch. Definitely a fabric upon which you and your little girl can agree. Don’t worry, parents of boys (and tomboys), you’ll get the David Walker treatment in May. { Blues & Whites } { Golds & Greens }
{ The Ballroom Tweet } I always like to see what Japanese designer Hoodie is doing over at Blank Quilting. Her latest is Rumba, and it’s sure to please all you bird lovers. Plus it’s a manageable little collection. There are only five fabrics on the Blank Quilting site but the shops are selling them [...]
Monica Solorio-Snow of the popular quilting blog Happy Zombie announced today that Lecien will be releasing her first fabric collection, Holiday Happy, at the Spring Quilt Market. There seems to be a trend of non-Japanese designers designing for Japanese companies — not that good design knows sees borders! Holiday Happy is of course a holiday [...]
Though you have to be careful with what you make out of Oilcloth International‘s products (see safety info here) I find their prints quite irresistible, especially this new one, called Kenya, which comes in three colorways. Birds! Crazy color blocks! Just my thing.It’s not in stores yet as far as I know, but your best [...]
Have you noticed that I’m keeping up with Alexander Henry better lately? Well, I’m proud of myself for it, anyway. It hasn’t been for lack of wanting, but since they don’t do things quite like the other companies — all their collections are in-house and they often release sub-collections under the umbrella of larger, ongoing [...]
SEI is one of the several scrapbooking/paper designers being brought into the fabric world of late (see Riley Blake for several more instances of this trend). Dill Blossom is their second collection for Robert Kaufman, the first one being chick-a-dee chick-a-doo, which repeated over and over would go well in your beatboxing repertoire. What do [...]
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