Santa Fe is Alexander Henry’s ongoing line of southwestern-themed prints; Folklorico is their Mexican/Day of the Dead/Catholic-themed line. These are from the “big black book” which means that they have yet to be produced and will be shipped to stores in about six months’ time. It blows my mind that these all come from the [...]
Alexander Henry has always produced the most apparel-friendly prints in the business, so one of my questions for them was going to be “are you ever going to introduce some retail apparel fabrics?” But before I could open my mouth, Nicole laid out before me their brand new cotton lawn collection. People, this stuff is [...]
I have a little more from Moda to show you, but I find myself separated from my pictures today, so I will come back to it after showing you Alexander Henry’s new fabrics. Alexander Henry already has a handful of prints inspired by Henri Matisse. As they write on their website: Henri Matisse, who lovingly [...]
Oh no! I forgot to get a picture of Fig Tree & Co.‘s Johanna Figueroa — in fact from this point forward at market I think I started getting fabric tunnel vision! But I’m sure you’re acquainted with her already — I mean, her upcoming fabric collection, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (delivering Sept. 2010), will be [...]
Family design teams are finding a home at Moda, it seems! I got to meet the ladies of Sweetwater for the first time this Market — their Colorado-based business has branches in scrapbooking, quilting patterns and supplies, gifts, stationery, custom fabric labels, and marketing- and design-for-hire. Yowza! And they blog all about it here. Text [...]
Bonnie & Camille are a mother-daughter design team — Bonnie (mom) lives in Idaho and has been running her quilting pattern design company, Cotton Way, since 1990. Camille Roskelley (daughter) lives in Las Vegas, and has been running her pattern company, Thimble Blossoms, since 2007. Looking through their websites you can see that though they [...]
I have a special place in my heart for Moda Home, a division of Moda/United Notions specializing in finished textile products, paper items, organizers, specialized fabrics, and lots more home accessories and gifts. Most of their stuff is vintage reproductions and they seem to have a direct line to my taste center, because I adore [...]
Today and probably stretching into tomorrow, we’ll be taking a look at Moda‘s offerings at Spring Quilt Market 2010. First off — American Jane! I’ve been an admirer of American Jane‘s quilts and fabrics forever, so it was an honor to meet the woman behind the brand, Sandy Klop, for the first time at this [...]
I got to meet the design team of Pillow & Maxfield (that’s Valorie Pillow and Anne Maxfield) for the first time this Market, and they were the nicest team of ladies you could hope to meet. Their debut collection Whimsy has had a few iterations, and this time around it’s no different — they are [...]
Sandi Henderson, Ms. Portabello Pixie herself, had her own booth again this market to promote her new book, new sewing patterns, and a gorgeous new colorway of Meadowsweet. Here she is, posing with a copy of Sewing Bits and Pieces, which she signed for me to give away as a door prize at my Textile [...]
Patty Young had her own booth showing off her brand new kids’ collection, Playdate, and Michael Miller’s new knit collection, which is part her prints and part Michael Miller Studio prints. I hope Patty will do another guest appearance over here to talk more about these knits and how to sew with them — this [...]
Michael Miller‘s booth was a white, shiny, glowy oasis in the middle of the color cacophony of Quilt Market. That’s because they were rolling out their biggest new collection, Antiquity, which Kathy Miller described as a celebration of “white, romance, with a bit of bling and glitter.” Now, Antiquity is a little frufru for my [...]
For the first time, I got to meet with the Seattle-based Clothworks at this Market — more specifically, Brandi Frey, the company’s Marketing Coordinator and half of their blogging team. I have always admired Clothworks’ online presence (their website has everything a gal could ask for in a fabric company website!) and I know they’ve [...]
Alyssa Thomas of Penguin & Fish came to the rescue on Twitter when I asked about Minneapolis hotels and possible spots for the Fabric 2.0 party. I’m so glad she did because it led me to her incredible online shop and booth at Quilt Market. The booth was situated “right between Moda and the bathrooms” [...]
Michelle Engel Bencsko and Gina Pantastico of Cloud9 Fabrics were at Market showing off their new collection Beyond the Sea (which folks only got to see on paper last time, if memory serves). They both had the cutest clothes sewn out of their fabrics! We stayed at the same hotel so I got to eat [...]
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