Liza Prior Lucy sent me this glowingly gorgeous stack of fat quarters representing some of the newest designs from the Kaffe Fassett Collective, which is composed of Brandon Mably and Philip Jacobs in addition to Kaffe. They will be presenting other color families of coordinated and cooperatively designed fabrics, which will be coming soon to [...]
Lantern Bloom is the debut collection from Laura Gunn for Michael Miller. Laura is from an incredibly talented, artistic, and colorful family — her mother is Elinor Peace Bailey and her sister-in-law is Heather Bailey. It’s very refreshing to see these handpainted designs coming on the computer-graphics-dominated contemporary fabric scene. I’m loving the saturated colors [...]
Though Tanya Whelan‘s collections are more traditional than what I normally cover here on True Up, I do greatly appreciate her beautiful, spare, bold take on vintage floral motifs. Her newest collection for Freespirit is the French Hatbox, which will show in Pittsburgh. I love the description: Fresh, candy colors both saturated and pastel make [...]
I’m really digging Deer Valley by Joel Dewberry for Freespirit, described on his site as “Lodge Chic.” A preview of the persimmon colorway is above; there are two more — tarragon, which is avocado green and deep yellow; and Azure, which is powder blue and deep orange. The gothic deer, columbine, and faux ikat dots [...]
Jeanean Morrison‘s second collection for FreeSpirit Fabrics is Picnic Parade. Like her debut collection Moondance, Picnic Parade is full of her signature densely packed, smaller scale floralmetric motifs. Only this time around, the colors are vibrant and invigorating, like an extroverted sister to Moondance’s sweetly subdued palette. Jenean will be at Quilt Market to tell [...]
Pittsburgh, from daveynin on Flickr; shared with a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. The Spring Quilt Market in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania begins tomorrow. Thursday will be filled with “schoolhouse” presentations from designers and other industry professionals for fabric retailers. It is followed by the madhouse that is sample spree, where manufacturers sell sample sewn items, [...]
Shade Garden is the second collection by Michelle Engel Bencsko for Henry Glass. She just posted this sneak peek showing the two colorways, blue bell (top) coral bell (bottom). (Note: not all the prints are represented.) I am loving the deep blue, the seedlings, the snails and mushrooms … The always-on-top-of-things Michelle has already prepared [...]
The Sock Monkey collections have been a mainstay for Moda for several years now — did you know they’re by Erin Michael, of last year’s sleeper hit collection Lush? The monkeys will be back this July — this time around it’s a bedtime collection, Goodnight Monkey, and I am really liking it — books, banana [...]
Sometimes fabric collections come (and go) before the market is ready for them. Such is the case, Tula Pink hypothesizes, with her first collection Full Moon Forest. Diehards are still asking her where they can find the hidden owl paisley print from that line, she writes. So she and Moda are bringing it back (or [...]
Bari J. has such a cool story. More than a year ago she announced her interest in designing fabric. She learned how, printed her designs using Spoonflower, then took them to Quilt Market in fall of 08 and showed them to companies there. She landed a deal with Windham right then and there! Full Bloom [...]
Genevieve Gail is a new designer for Windham. Her debut line is Flower Bucket, a sweet collection of florals, butterflies (so many great butterflies this year!), and coordinates in three colorways. She has an extensive background as an artist, designer, and crafter — check out her wonderful jewelry for sale on Etsy. Her blog is [...]
Nantucket colorway Manhattan colorway Miami colorway Paula Prass‘ followup to Flights of Fancy for Michael Miller is called Summer Soiree. Doilies, roses, houndstooth, animal prints, stripes, and dots in three fresh, bold colorways. Update: Paula posted the two remaining prints that hadn’t arrived in time for the photos above. They’re here. Gorgeous!
Mezzanine is Patty Young’s second collection for Michael Miller. On her blog, Patty talks about how working and traveling abroad in Europe inspired the collection. You can also see lots more images of sewn items, giving you a better idea of the prints’ scales.
Spring Quilt Market is in two weeks, and fabric designers are posting sneak peaks of their new collections on their blogs and websites. I’ll be pointing to many of these great new collections in the coming weeks (just so there’s no confusion, this is unrelated to the silk series currently underway. We’re talking cotton here!). [...]
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