Posts tagged ‘spring quilt market 2011’

Spring Quilt Market 2011: FreeSpirit – Tina Givens, Jenean Morrison, and Erin Mcmorris

FreeSpirit will be shipping Tina Givens‘ Pernilla’s Journey this July. It’s a combination of quilting weight cotton and linen cotton blend prints and takes its inspiration from one of Tina’s favorite childhood books about a young girl who lived in a place called Parrot Jungle. Check out the whole line here (there is a great [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Rowan – Melissa White

You might have already seen Melissa White‘s line in your local quilt store, as it started shipping earlier this year. Fairlyte Garden is her first collection with Westminster/Rowan but her background in hand painted interiors, textiles, and frescoes makes it look like an effortless transition. The palette, is again, distinctly Westminster with five prints in [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Rowan – Kaffe Fasset Collective and Martha Negley

Westminster/Rowan had fewer of their designers on hand this year, maybe because Spring Market is a bit smaller? No matter, as their fabric offerings were, as usual, stunning (and their partner company FreeSpirit had plenty of designer booths to go around). The Kaffe Fasset Collective is comprised of Kaffe, Brandon Mably, and Philip Jacobs. While [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011: More Michael Miller

In addition to its own prints, Michael Miller also has a number of designers working with them, both old favorites and some new additions. First up, two beachy collections. Mark Hordyszynski, a prolific fabric designer and author, showed his new marine animal and hula girl collection. The collection includes both fabric and embroidery patterns and [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Riley Blake Designs

Riley Blake took a blue ribbon in their category for booth design. They had a TON of cute samples from most of their new lines, not to mention a beach cruiser as a part of their Cruisin’ With Riley Blake Contest (there is an actual Cruise at stake). Sweet Nothings (top) and Alphabet Soup (bottom) both [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011 – Michael Miller

Michael Miller‘s super-hero themed booth was fantastic. All the reps wore capes and there was even a identity-changing phonebooth. What isn’t more fun when you are wearing a cape? Here’s Kathy Miller holding the fabric that was the inspiration for the booth. Kathy was wonderful to meet with. She was super knowledgeable about fabric and [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011: P&B – Solids and Blenders

P&B has expanded its line of affordable solids, Color Spectrum. The lines includes some great chartreuses, greys, and blues. The P&B Rep said that the company is going to make efforts to make the color card more widely available which should help all of us become more familiar with the Color Spectrum solids. I am [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011: P&B Textiles – Helen Dardik and Karen Tusinski

I just had a few minutes before closing to check in with the reps at P&B Textiles. They were getting a lot of deserved attention for two lines in particular — Toomuchery by Helen Dardik and Gallery Fiori by Karen Tusinski. Both artists are represented by Lilla Rogers studio, with whom P&B has been contracting [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Lakehouse Dry Goods – Pam Kitty Morning

Lakehouse Dry Goods presented their new collection from Pam Kitty! The

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Cloud9 Fabrics

Admin note: The site is still experiencing outages and significant slowness, but I have a professional on the case now … we should be better-than-normal by this weekend. We’ll be posting whenever we can access WordPress ourselves. Thanks for sticking with us! { photo by Melissa Frantz } Cloud9 Fabrics has so much goodness going [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011 – Paris Apartment by Bari J.

Stash Books author and fabric designer, Bari J. Ackerman, showed off her new line for Lecien in her her own version of a Paris Aparment. This line should be shipping in June. View fantastic photos of the entire collection here!

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Lecien

Monica Solorio-Snow’s new collection “Happy Mochi YumYum” for Lecien debuted at Market. You can read about her inspiration and see the full swatch sheet here. The line was showcased at their booth with kids clothes sewn from Patterns by Figgy’s. These are some new additions to the Mrs. March’s line: “Sweet Time” Retropop Sweet cross [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Daiwabo – Novelty Prints

Daiwabo produces a large range of Taupe fabric (for the quilts seen in books like Japanese Taupe Quilts by Susan Briscoe, but they are also the producers of the very popular Tip Top Elephants (they had mini versions at market!) and other whimsical prints on twill, canvas, and mini corduroy. I forgot to write down [...]

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Daiwabo – Kanon & More

Most of these prints are from the Kanon collection, on quilting weight cotton. They also have your strawberry fix taken care of:

Spring Quilt Market 2011: Daiwabo – Novelty Prints

Daiwabo produces a large range of Taupe fabric (for the quilts seen in books like Japanese Taupe Quilts by Susan Briscoe, but they are also the producers of the very popular Tip Top Elephants (they had mini versions at market!) and other whimsical prints on twill, canvas, and mini corduroy. I forgot to write down [...]