Posts tagged ‘spring quilt market 2012’
Ever Kelly, aka Kelly Lee-Creel, made her big debut with Andover at Spring Quilt Market with a booth for her collection Storybook Lane. You can make a whole world with her craft panel print, and the regular scale prints are just as captivating. Her Falling Star Quilt (pattern now available, amongst others!) shows off the palette so [...]
Andover is becoming a major player on the contemporary/modern scene — they’re one of the small handful of companies who is going to be exhibiting at Quiltcon early next year, so that should tell you something! Here’s what we got to see at Spring Quilt Market, and we know there’s lots more excitement to come. First up, once-Austinite, [...]
Anna Griffin brings a diverse array of vintage and antique design styles to life with this season’s new collections. Camilla (top) evokes English cottages, Fleur Rouge is a group of turn-of-the-century French reproductions, and Palmer is retro-Bahamas all the way. And we’re never left without a charming vintage Christmas collection from Ms. Griffin — Twinkle [...]
This week I’m going to show the latter half of Lauren‘s quilt market photos — don’t think of it as late, think of it as spreading out the goodness over a longer period of time! Blend, as you know, is the (more) modern brand that branched out from Anna Griffin‘s fabric company, which is also relatively [...]
{ all photos by Lauren Hunt } I can’t write enough superlatives about Alexia Abegg. She’s just one of my favorite people in the world. She started out selling her handmade bags and worked with Anna Maria Horner in her studio. Spring Market finally saw the launch of her new endeavor, Green Bee Patterns, which [...]
In the weeks leading to Quilt Market, Dear Stella announced their second round of collections, which take their debut collections to the next level. Dear Stella was introduced to offer a unique and focused set of fabrics that differ from many manufacturers or licensed collections. With a set of coordinates that can work across all [...]
Martha Negley is well known for the realistic touches her work evokes. Most recently she debuted fascinating feathers. Now in the Classics Collection she brings to life elements of the garden and the woodland forest with bold, vibrant colors. Ships this month. Ruby by Dan Bennett might remind you of fireworks with unexpected and beautiful [...]
The show stoppers at Spring Quilt Market for FreeSpirit and Rowan were certainly the latest and greatest from their well-known licensed designers, such as Anna Maria Horner, Denyse Schmidt, Amy Butler, and Tula Pink. What may not have been in the big showcase booths did not disappoint, and the good news? These collections are arriving between now [...]
The nautical trend has not passed Alexander Henry by, but here it’s truly focused on some of the funnest pirates at sea you can find. Grab an eye patch, a peg leg and maybe a sword and have some fun with Pirate Island. We’re rather in love with fairytales, or at least, they [...]