The book is coming very soon! I made forum to serve as its companion, a place to go to ask questions about fabric design, to share your work, to find new resources and inspiration, and to be whatever else it morphs into. Once the book is out I plan to post downloads there, like free [...]
I can hardly believe it, but A Field Guide to Fabric Design will be out in just a couple months! Stash sent me a huge box of postcards so I can get my own promotions efforts rolling. If you’re planning on carrying the book in your shop and want to create some advance buzz, or [...]
Introducing Theodore Jones Kight, born Monday, July 18, 2011, at 1:52pm, and weighing in at 9 lbs, 10 oz. The delivery was such a cinch compared to our first that I’m still a bit shocked by it all! We got home Tuesday evening and have started our transition to being a family of four. Theo [...]
I’d love to know your thoughts on this. I love all the modern (and especially hand-printed) tea towels, cushions, and other home textiles out there but have always waffled about featuring them here. What do you think? Are these products just fabric with hems, or would I be diluting my “all fabric, all the time” [...]
Three years ago today, I published my first post on True Up. The site has grown by leaps and bounds since then, the fabric industry has changed dramatically, and amazingly I haven’t run out of topics yet — not by a longshot! It is definitely a challenge to post daily M-F (and to hold myself [...]
Oops, I’m a day late for the month-long Celebrate the Boy fest hostessed by Rae and Dana. But, of course, if you have a boy, celebrating them is a 24-7 thing. I’m destined for a lifetime of all-boy, all the time celebration — that is boy #2 waving at you up there! I’m 23 weeks [...]
Oh boy, friends. I am SO out of it and overwhelmed — lately my life has been eaten by a bighugesecret project, on top of Quilt Market coverage. (My last official Fall Quilt Market post was on Friday, though I still have a few amazing, just less time-sensitive, things to share, and booty to give [...]
Stomach virus. I’ll try to catch up with the quilt market coverage and sale alert posts this weekend.
Hi all! 1. I’ve been on away on vacation for the last few days, and thought I’d be able to do the Sale Alerts, but no dice, so I’ll be posting them this week on Sunday instead. Shops, feel free to send them in through Sunday morning. 2. Mysteriously, the comments on the Dream On [...]
We have a long holiday weekend here in the U.S. and Canada, so I’m signing off till Tuesday. Enjoy the many sales and have a restful three days! What are your plans? I leave you with these irresistible graph paper fabrics (plain linen/cotton, laminated) from Nothing Elegant on Etsy. (via the Crafts Dept.)
New Release Tuesday will be on Wednesday this week because I spent most of my day yesterday battling HACKERS! True Up was hit by the so-called WordPress Pharma Hack. I happened to ego-surf on Google and was horrified to see that instead of True Up the link to my site was replaced with online pharmacy [...]
Hi all — images got stripped from the feed somehow today as I was experimenting with a new social bookmarking link plugin. The images should be restored now. Don’t worry, the change was neither intentional nor permanent! Also, I heard from a reader that if you click over from the feed to comment, you see [...]
Today I’m launching a big redesign for True Up, so if you use a feed aggregator, I hope you’ll jump over to take a look. The blog (along with a whole new identity system) was designed by the wonderfully talented Courtney of Seamless Creative (her blog, designworklife, is on my must-read list) and was WordPress-ified [...]
I’m very excited to announce today that I have a new writer here on True Up. I became acquainted with Kim Steckler through our shared love obsession with vintage fabric, which led to me interviewing her as part of last year’s Vintage Fabric Collector Series. Kim has agreed to contribute on a regular basis over [...]
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your comments and emails. They helped me through an extremely difficult week — it was a huge comfort to know that so many of you have my back! I am feeling about 95% human now and will be finishing off the Spring Quilt Market posts [...]
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