Bari J. Ackerman is a designer and the owner of Bari J. Handbags & Accessories, a shop selling original vintage-inspired bags, brooches, cell phone cozies, and belts. (There’s even a design-your-own option, which allows you to choose your own fabric.) Bari was the talk of Fall Quilt Market 2008 — or at least she was [...]
This is my sewing machine self-interview for Sew, Mama, Sew!’s Sewing Machine Month. Great idea, ladies! What brand and model do you have? Janome 4612 Travelmate. I don’t know why it’s called a “travelmate,” it’s not particularly light or compact or anything … it does have a hard plastic cover, which is nice. How long [...]
On Friday, we met graphic/surface pattern designer Josephine Kimberling. For Part II today, we take a closer look at her debut collection for Robert Kaufman, Hot Blossom. It occurred to me that I would love to hear more about designers’ processes and the inspiration/work/motivation behind each colorway and print in their collections. Knowing more context [...]
Josephine Kimberling is a Seattle-based graphic and surface designer. Her debut quilting fabric collection for Robert Kaufman, Hot Blossom, is arriving in stores this month. It’s a bold, colorful, graphic collection in three colorways, with bright, layered, splashy florals; happy butterfly flocks; modern folk medallions and birds; an updated bohemian paisley; and versatile geometrics. Hot [...]
Today True Up welcomes Betz White, author of the new book Sewing Green: 25 Projects Made with Repurposed & Organic Materials (STC Craft), on her blog tour. Betz is the queen of crafting with felted (or fulled, if you’re a stickler for terminology) thrift-store sweaters — her first book was Warm Fuzzies: 30 Sweet Felted [...]
Yvonne poses with some of her great European fabrics In the past few years, Japanese fabrics have taken worldwide crafting scene by storm, but all the while — just more quietly — European fabrics have become more widely available too. Yvonne is the proprietress of Bunte Fabrics, which focuses on European fabrics, patterns, and notions [...]
Over the next few months I’m going to be running interviews with True Up’s sponsors. In addition to (hopefully!) giving an extra boost to the people who help make this website possible, I’m excited to get to know everyone better. Be on the lookout for giveaways and discounts too! Patricia Bravo at the Fall Quilt [...]
Lizzy Dish’s Sunny Side Up colorway Lizzy House is having a big month — she just received her B.A. in Printmaking and around the same time, her debut fabric collection with Andover, Lizzy Dish, was released. At 23 years old, she may very well be the youngest designer the quilting fabric world has seen! Judging [...]
True Up: How did you start selling fabric? Jamie Christina: About 4 years ago I took a quilting class at the local rec center and a whole new world opened up to me. I had known how to sew since I was a little girl, but it wasn’t until I took the quilting class that [...]
A big thanks to Jenny from Blempgorf for curating the Daily Swatch this week and for coming up with the great Roy G. Biv theme. (See here if you want to know what “Blempgorf” means!) To close out the week I asked her a few questions about her interest in vintage fabrics … The stash [...]
Kimberly Niesz is the owner of Niesz Vintage Fabric & Design, one of the small handful of stand-alone vintage fabric and textile sources on the internet. Being a vintage fabric seller would be right up my alley, but that would involve actually having to part with the merchandise, so I suppose that’s a deal-breaker! Needless [...]
“Audrey” by Daisy Janie You may have seen Daisy Janie recently on Decor8 and the Spoonflower blog. Owner Jan DiCintio creates her own custom fabric and sews them into beautiful bags and other accessories, and also sells wonderful, affordable yardage featuring her original designs. Jan also runs Scoutie Girl, a blog dedicated to “fabulous finds [...]
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