Stof has been a major supplier of fabric to Europe since the 1970s. Based in Denmark, they recently started exporting to the US. Their Pure collection shares some obviously Scandinavian DNA with Lotta Jansdotter’s last two collections. The colors are bright in a classic kind of way – check out the navy and red: [...]
As we saw with many companies this Market, Clothworks featured solids. Their goal is to offer their collection, Everyday Organic Solids, at an affordable price. Their organic fabric is surprisingly soft to the touch! The Clothworks booth featured two quilts made from their solids. I love the colorful sawtooth stars of varying sizes — especially the [...]
Marcus Fabrics had a slew of fresh offerings, a little something for everyone. First up, some of the modern goodies! Marcus’ new division Studio 37 will offer collections for the modern quilter. Greta Songe is making her debut with two mini-collections for them, Kitschy Kitchen and Here to There: And some in-house basics collections from Studio [...]
At market, Moda is a fixture and they often have a fun and whimsical theme to welcome you into their section of the floor, and they have a big compound of booths! This market they had a theme of Glamping and color. The dip-dyed paint stirrers were my favorite part of their area. It’s a [...]
Jack & Lulu, Dear Stella‘s one and only licensed designer (all other collections are in-house), has a second collection out now that is quite irresistible. Their first, Shore Thing, was about the beach, and they go futher out to sea with All Hands on Deck. Playdate (Stella’s ongoing kids collection) is an assortment of [...]
Some of the most rockin’ fabric at market: David Textiles Hello Kitty KISS: David Textiles Harmony offers a lovely palette of small tone-on-tone prints: { Pretty florals and nature-inspired prints } David Textiles also offered some great choices for baby projects including Noah’s Ark, Tweety and farm scenes. Finally, because owls are still [...]
It’s the economy, it’s the modern quilt movement, it’s the trend … whether it’s one of these or all of these things, the theme of this market was definitely Back to Basics. Several companies emphasized solids and versatile basics, and just the pure joy of color color color. Having fabrics with longer shelf lives is [...]
Seattle’s In the Beginning Fabrics is feeding the modern quilt movement’s hunger for simple, unfussy, graphic prints and interesting solids with Bloom Modern by Jason Yenter (March 2013) and Modern Solids, which are yarn-dyed and use subtly different thread colors for the warp and weft, which add a bit of depth and dimension to these [...]
I’m (finally!) wrapping up Spring Quilt Market coverage with Michael Miller‘s designer booths. Keli covered the in-house collections, while Lauren got the designer booths — and, even though I forgot to ask, she got MM’s main, award-winning display. (Thanks, Lauren!) The Portland and NYC Modern Quilt Guild’s collectively created quilts showed off Michael Miller’s Cotton Couture [...]
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