Earlier this year, Michael Miller and Spoonflower launched Project Selvage, an online fabric design competition. The competition was fierce, and Houstonite Patty Sloniger emerged victorious! This market was the launch of her collection with Michael Miller. The competition theme was baby boy, so those fabrics were produced, and Patty also designed a baby girl themed [...]
Patty Young‘s new collection Lush evokes exotic tropical far-off lands, so I was surprised to read that it was inspired by the Missouri Botanical Gardens! But that’s Patty’s creative genius at work. Like Sandi’s collection, Lush also includes coordinating Cotton Couture solids. See Patty’s blog for info on coordinating ribbons and new patterns, and of course [...]
Sandi Henderson‘s gorgeous and sprawling collection Secret Garden has been out for a little while now, but it’s gotten some new life with the addition of Michael Miller’s new solids collection, Cotton Couture, which has several colors drawn from Sandi’s palette.
Ooh La La is Pillow & Maxfield’s latest. It’s a big collection (three colorways, Sky, Citrus, and Spice) with some big prints. I’ll talk more of the worlds-colliding trend that was palpable at quilt market — people consciously blurring the boundaries between home dec, fashion, and quilting prints, but this collection is a great example [...]
Laura Gunn‘s next collection is called Garden Wall. She’s been sharing sneak peeks and project on her blog, so don’t miss that.
Oops, last week I misidentified Crazy Old Ladies‘ (aka Emily Herrick’s) new collection Hall of Fame as a Michael Miller Studio collection. Forgiveness please! Here it is again, with booth action. Fabric manufacturers are going after the tween market and this is just perfect for sporty boys and girls.
Michael Miller handed over the Halloween reins to Mark Hordyszynski (study the spelling of his last name, it’ll be on the test!). Ask him about carrying that giant bone through airport security! And MM also has a gingerbread-house-themed Christmas collection for 2012, designed by Michael Miller Studio:
Michael Miller not only have a new Birthday-themed collection, they also have a wedding collection! If memory serves, Michael Miller once did some retro wedding prints — this time around it’s more text-y and contemporary. You’ll see some other underrepresented holidays brought to fabric from other companies this market, too. If there’s a greeting card [...]
Indigo Red is Michael Miller‘s newest color story, inspired by the New England coast. Also includes Weekend by Swirly Girls Design, the new Michael Miller Clubhouse collection, and several other mini collections that you see here. { The British Are Coming + coordinates } { Thar She Blows! }
Michael Miller has always had the greatest retro Kids prints, and their new kids collections continue that tradition. I love the Happy Birthday print (why has no one done that before?) — it would make a sweet quilt backing, tablecloth for birthday parties, and of course bunting as its little coordinate suggests. The British [...]
It’s Michael Miller time! They introduced their color stories at the Spring Quilt Market, and this time around there are more groups and more fabrics in each group. The Michael Miller Studios collections are still organized by theme — the color stories provide another way to group prints (and their new Cotton Couture solids) together [...]
Jen Eskridge of ReannaLily Designs is my new-Stash-book sister! Her book, Deploy That Fabric: 23 Sewing Projects That Use Military Uniforms in Everyday Life, is all about upcycling military uniforms to celebrate service members, and mixing these textiles with modern fabrics to create beautiful and awesome things for everyone. Of course, I have to zone [...]
There is no other fabric shop like Voodoo Rabbit. In their own words, “They specialise in a range of fabrics and sewing supplies that match their own tastes — eclectic, rockabilly, retro, vintage, punk, sleek geek, dark and ‘a bit goth.’ … Voodoo Rabbit loves skulls, cherries, black, red, white, space invaders, cotton textiles and [...]
{ the Peacock Lane collection. Photo by Red Pepper Quilts, used with permission. And see what she did with it! } With Fall Quilt Market being only six-ish weeks away now, manufacturers are feverishly putting together samples, designers are sewing 24-7 to show off their new patterns and collections, everyone’s printing up a fresh [...]
The British brand Horrockses is re-launching this month! See my previous posts on Horrockses. “Cotton that looks like silk” from Reese Scannell in Australia (via Red Pepper Quilts) Casey’s Elegant Musings on Sourcing Vintage Fabric (and new fabric for vintage styles) Previews Tanya Whelan’s new book (out in December) Tilly strike-offs from Daisy Janie Circa [...]
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