For those of you just joining us: part I was reproduction collections, part II was vintage-inspired collections, and here are Lecien’s latest contemporary and cute fabrics. Minny Muu Plus Minny Muu Lovely Punch Girls – for bullies and fruit-drink loving gals. Oh, Color Basic. Let me just pet you. Caramel Town Charlotte
Here’s more from Lecien. (Part 1 is here, in case you missed it.) More charming vintage reproduction and vintage-inspired collections: The much-anticipated Grandmother’s Flower Garden from Rosalie Quinlan. Kicking myself for not getting a quilt picture, but fortunately GFG is well documented on Rosalie’s blog and on Ever Kelly. Ms. Pam Kitty Morning made one [...]
Nireko Ohira, native of Japan who has worked at Lecien‘s office in California for several years, kindly showed me the dozens of lines the company is offering now. Everything I have pictured here today is currently delivering or is now available in shops. There was so much of it that I have to break it [...]
You’re mostly up to speed on Heather Bailey from the Schoohouse Post, but here is some more detail for you from her award-winning booth. #1. Check out the pillow! Digital printing! Here’s the full story that inspired the prints, straight from the brochure: “Small-town girl, Nicey Jane, heads to the city on Friday nights to [...]
I had to laugh when I approached the Kaffe Fassett Collective booth this year: It was as if Liza Prior Lucy and Kaffe Fassett had stayed put right where I left them last year. Except that they had yet another amazing new quilt book, Quilt Romance, and a pile of captivating new prints to add [...]
This was Japanese fabric manufacturer Hokkoh‘s first Quilt Market (or at least, their first Fall market), and their presence confirmed to me that the popularity of Japanese fabric in the United States is increasing. Hokkoh produces higher-end apparel fabrics — mostly cotton lawn, double gauze, and linen-cotton blends. At market they had about a quarter [...]
You may remember della Q from our interview earlier this year and Silk Series post on working with silk taffeta. Unfortunately I didn’t get to meet Della in person, as she was in London, but I got to meet her lovely assistant, but failed to write down her name! So sorry! I got to visit [...]
Art Gallery Fabrics unveiled three new collections and some impressive new patterns at kits at this Quilt Market. Art Gallery designer/owner Patricia Bravo announced one collection, Naturella, just a couple weeks ago. Here are the two others, Filigree (above, in its two colorways; Blush and Fresh) I was fixated on the art nouveau-inspired peacock-feather-like “Plants” [...]
Kei Honeycomb Dots – new colors As part of this week’s Quilt Market coverage I’ll be showing one Japanese fabric company each day. Let’s start with Yuwa and Kei. I’m not sure if Kei is a brand belonging to Yuwa (or vice versa), or if they are two companies with the same distributor, but their [...]
On Sunday I got to eat dinner with a wonderfully assorted crew: Kathy Mack of Pink Chalk Fabrics and her mom, quilt artists Susan Brubaker Knapp and Sarah Vedeler, and Windham designers Jessica Levitt and Paige Stanley Miller. (I was exhausted by this time and embarrassingly started crying uncontrollably when I tried to tell Kathy’s [...]
While we’re on the subject of vintage today, here are shots from vintage textile dealer A.T. Roches out of Canton, Texas (east of Dallas). Note the insane array of vintage hankies, cocktail napkins, and gift wrap along with the fabric. I did some damage here and at Mary Koval Antique Quilts (but we’ve got an [...]
Well, this year I failed to see the upcoming fabric collections from Moda (their booth complex is a mini city and everyone is constantly busy!) but I did get to take pictures of the Moda Home products, shown here, and the quilts and a couple of the designers’ booths, which I’ll save for a later [...]
The line outside … I’d come straight from the Fabric 2.0 party so this reflects my perception of it all pretty well! Oh! I almost forgot sample spree! This was my first time going to this night-before-Market sale where you can get not-yet-released and overstock fabric (usually precut packs), patterns, and notions at cost. It [...]
Let’s start the coverage with Michael Miller. I’ll save the Michael Miller signature designers for another post, but here is the recent and upcoming releases from the Michael Miller studio — most if not all of these are designed by Kathy Miller herself. Coming soon: gnomes around the world! I can’t remember when these are [...]
Isn’t it cute how I thought I would be blogging throughout Market? Yeah. I was going going going from 7am till midnight all weekend and then shut the place down yesterday. But I’m back home now and exhausted, and my voice sounds like I’m a chain smoker, but I had a wonderful time seeing friends [...]
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