As you might remember I was invited to speak at the Textile Center in Minneapolis during Spring Quilt Market. I yammered on for two hours (!) about blogging professionally and fabric trends, but punctuated the show with lots of giveaways. Becka Rahn, the center’s Education Manager and “WebWeaver” posted a recap of the talk here, [...]
It took forever, but that about does it for fabric previews from Spring Quilt Market 2010. Phew! But Quilt Market is all about hanging out with friends, putting names to faces, and making devious plans. Once again I suffered from fabric tunnel vision when it came to taking pictures, but here are some of my [...]
I started this Quilt Market out at Lizzy House’s rocking, standing-room-only schoolhouse presentation, and ended it at the Andover booth for some quickie shots of their upcoming collections from our favorite designers. Lizzie is an AMAZING public speaker, people! She shared the results of this survey and had people laughing and sometimes even gasping at [...]
I missed seeing several collections from Moda firsthand at Market, but I did take home their catalog, and just had to show you some more of their Fall 2010 collections … I am just crazy about Urban Chiks‘ Dream On, and I think you will be too. It’s inspired by vintage sheets, which have a [...]
I was thrilled to meet with Nancy Jewell of Coats & Clark and Westminster/Rowan this Quilt Market. She took me on a whirlwind tour of What’s New in Thread … the biggest news being that Rowan is introducing premium-quality, long staple Egyptian cotton thread sets and individual spools that coordinate with Amy Butler’s and Kaffe [...]
Have you met Emmie, Allie, and Kyle? I love these ladies. They’re Robert Kaufman‘s marketing department and I feel like we’ve become good pals. It’s funny because the three quilt markets I’ve been to, the RK booth has always had the same configuration and these ladies have always been sitting in the same spots relative [...]
Kaffe Fassett and Liza Prior Lucy were missing from Quilt Market this time, and it wasn’t the same without them! But there was new Kaffe fabric, of course. Marleybone (above) is the second installment in the Liberty Art Fabrics collection — these are prints chosen from the Liberty archives and colored by Kaffe. Learn more [...]
Not sure when these collections are coming out — throughout the summer and maybe a little into fall, I’d guess … Logan is Vicki Payne‘s followup to For Your Home, her debut collection eponymously named for her PBS show. Logan is a group of classic, simple, bold home dec-weight prints in a lovely, springy palette. [...]
Amy Butler and her booth was gorgeous as always. Her Fall 2010 fabric collection Soul Blossoms is still only on paper, but that didn’t stop her from whipping up quite a display. And there is some other news … Yarn! Organic yarn! It’s called Belle and it’s from Rowan. There are two weights, Aran and [...]
Hello, it’s Pat Bravo and I at Quilt Market, just hanging in her booth, pretending to drink tea and not pretending to eat fun-size chocolate bars. We’ve already gotten a glimpse at two thirds of Art Gallery Fabrics’ Fall 2010 collections here, and voilà , here is the third collection, Dreaming in French. I just love [...]
“June” was another one of Alexander Henry’s featured collections this Market — I think Nicole de Leon described its inspiration as “semi-Matisse.” So lovely. See more colors in the Flickr set.
I just had to show you these prints (from Alexander Henry’s Indochine collection) — I think I squealed aloud when they turned to this page in their Big Black Book. So clever!
Yay, a Christmas version of Alexander Henry’s popular 2-D Zoo print! Here are more of AH’s retro Christmas fabrics. Christmas fabrics tend to hit the shops in summer; let’s hope these are among them! Again, sorry for the looming shadows on these pictures! My Photoshop-fu only goes so far.
Farmdale is a collection under Alexander Henry’s In the Kitchen umbrella, where their retro/kitchen/apron prints live. This is so up my alley — love it! I didn’t get a good shot of the rooster print, so I borrowed the image above from Hancock’s of Paducah, who expect their shipment in August.
Misc. prints (on paper) from Alexander Henry’s ongoing Fashionista line. When I said before that AH has the most apparel-friendly prints in the business, this was the collection I had in mind. These florals are to die for …
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