{ photo by Michelle Engel Bencsko } Monsterz by Michéle Brummer-Everett for Cloud9 Fabrics is finally available in stores now in a few weeks! I just happen to have a new nursery to decorate, too, hmmm. (Moving, not another baby, in case that’s not clear.) Or shall I wait for Michéle’s next collection, Seven Seas? [...]
{ David Butler, graphic artist and now fabric designer–he’s also in a rock band, the Black Owls! } We’re excited to speak with David Butler, the designer behind studio Art of the Midwest (and husband to to the wonderful Amy Butler) about his latest project, “Parson Gray.” Parson Gray will focus on print & design for [...]
{ Pearadise by Jenni Calo } We’re topping off the Connecting Threads mini-series with a giveaway! Connecting Threads has three brand-new collections out: Pearadise, Tulane, and Sweetgrass Prairie. They also have 33 new colors of thread and 10 new Thread Sets. Just leave a comment on this post letting us know your favorite fabric collection [...]
{ Dancing Daisies from Montecito by Jenni Calo } I think I first learned of Connecting Threads a while back when I was knitting more than I was sewing. If you’re a knitter you certainly know Knitpicks, a company offering affordable, quality yarns and knitting supplies. Connecting Threads is actually Knitpicks’ sister company, under parent [...]
Jessica Hogarth is a recently graduated textile and surface pattern designer from the U.K. She’ll be officially launching her studio work at the British Craft Trade Fair this April, but in advance of that, we get to enjoy her debut fabric collection, VeloCity, from P&B Textiles. After I post this I’m running right over to [...]
The latest in Quilting Treasures‘ Little Golden Books series is The Poky Little Puppy — maybe most iconic Little Golden Book? Also recently released: Scuffy the Tugboat. See the QT Library for all their children’s book fabric panels.
{ Mark & his wife Cara at their first Quilt Market in Salt Lake City. } Mark Cesarik describes himself as a surface designer, graphic designer, fine artist and doodler—and his fabric designs are a fusion of each of those styles. He burst onto the fabric scene with Sew Bettie, a collection of kitschy, fun [...]
Elephant Showers, a house collection from Timeless Treasures, is so retro-good, I may not need to shop for vintage fabric again. Well, that will never happen, but these happy 60s-70s prints made the thought at least cross my mind, so that’s saying something! { image courtesty Hawthorne Threads }
Back in November, some of my favorite indie Australian indie fabric designers, Umbrella Prints, released their second quilting cotton collection. Though Rock Garden is composed of just three prints, you can see from the quilt in the picture above that less can be more. Rock Garden, along with their first collection Oasis and their hand-screenprinted [...]
Ta-da! Here it is! The most wonderful Amy Butler introducing Lark (and the inspiration for it, Maxime de la Falaise) and giving us a tour of her booth. Amy Butler just released her own Lark video here.
Oh, what an adventure it is trying to process and upload a video for the first time … I can’t believe I’ve never done it before. Well, while we wait for Youtube to make my awesome Amy Butler video available, I’ll share a couple booths from far-off lands from you. Kristen came across South Africa’s [...]
{ photo by Kristen Lejnieks } I ran out of time at Quilt Market and failed to capture the rest of FreeSpirit/Westminster/Rowan‘s offerings (except for Amy Butler, the one and only video I managed despite plans to video everyone, coming up next!). Fortunately the new collections are well-represented on the web, so I’ll point you [...]
Jenean Morrison had an insanely creative booth. So I would have given her the Creativity Award if Quilt Market hadn’t beaten me to it. It made me think “Is there anything fabric can’t do?” Also, I’ve compared fabric to music before (collections = albums, etc.) so it’s just so helpful when designers actually name their [...]
Happy New Year! Well, I wanted to have the Fall Quilt Market posts wrapped up at least by the end of 2011 — two months of posts was already getting ridiculous! — but I ended up taking the four-day weekend seriously. So, here are the first fireworks of the Quilt Market finale. Parson Gray, aka [...]
Here’s what’s next from Art Gallery Fabrics: Poetica (above), in stores February 2012. Pat Bravo has been brining some rougher, more natural looking lines to her motifs, which I love. Summerlove has a warm-season palette befitting its name, and with lots of Tangerine, which happens to be the Pantone color of the year. It’ll be out [...]
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