Quilting Treasures produces some of the best licensed character collections! They have already printed a few collections based on classic Little Golden Books, and this one — The Tawny Scrawny Lion — might be my favorite. I’ve never actually read the story, but I love that patchwork print! And it’s time I got some of [...]
{ the Peacock Lane collection. Photo by Red Pepper Quilts, used with permission. And see what she did with it! } With Fall Quilt Market being only six-ish weeks away now, manufacturers are feverishly putting together samples, designers are sewing 24-7 to show off their new patterns and collections, everyone’s printing up a fresh [...]
{ Slavic } Melissa White is the newest designer on Westminster/Rowan‘s power lineup. This first collection, Misaki, is so gorgeous I can hardly stand it. There are eight prints in four colorways apiece — Slavic (my favorite, above), Edo, Jaipur, and Baltic. Which is your favorite? { Edo } { Baltic } { Jaipur }
The City Quilter in NYC has just come out with two new prints that pay tribute to their hometown, called “New York Line by Line — Day” and “New York Line by Line — Night.” These black-and-white designs join three other NYC-themed prints that they produced in the past. The drawings are by German artist [...]
Critter Community is the newest collection by Suzy Ultman for Robert Kaufman. Like her previous collection Appleville, it features a panel print that would be great cut up or used as-is for quilts and other projects. (fabric stack via Fabricworm, who is a True Up sponsor) Suzy also has an Etsy shop where you can [...]
Reproductions of 1930s-40s fabrics, especially feedsack prints, were my first love when I started sewing 10 years ago, and I still love them (though I prefer the genuine article these days). Windham‘s new Flour Sack collection is a lovely assortment of small-scale floral prints and two focus prints of flour sack labels, a must have [...]
Hyperreal Garden is the next collection to look forward to from Art Gallery Fabrics (but you don’t have to look forward for long, it’ll be in stores this month!). I’m especially loving this print — it’s got an almost comic-book feel. See the fabrics in action in this post and on Flickr. Designer Pat Bravo [...]
Karen Tusinski is an amazingly talented painter. Her work has been translated into a fabric collection by P&B Textiles — the collection Gallery Fiori is the latest to result from P&B’s partnership with Lilla Rogers Studio, who represents Tusinski (as well as fellow P&B designers Helen Dardik, Carolyn Gavin, and Jenn Ski). This painterly, textured, [...]
I have a soft spot in my heart for Keiki since her Wee Woodland collection for Moda, which had the strangest creature I’ve ever seen on fabric. This new collection, Oops a Daisy, is just out. I like the combination of traditional damask and scrolly leaves with the folky yet modern garden theme. Throw in [...]
Utako Yamada is the Japanese illustrator behind a tea-centric product brand called Karel Capek, named after the Czech author who invented the term “robot”. These are not the first of Yamada’s designs to be put on fabric by Kokka, but it might be the largest and most cohesive collection to date. These fabrics are a [...]
Julia Rothman is a kick-ass illustrator who is known not only for her surface design work but for her blog Book by Its Cover. She’s one third of the design firm ALSO, who are responsible for the look of design*sponge and other illustrious websites. In fact Julia’s post on design*sponge about how to make a [...]
Thank you all so, so much for all the kind words and wishes and welcomes for Theo! The sleep deprivation is really starting to set in but otherwise everything is going really well. Thanks for hanging in there with me! Today, I welcome Monica Solorio-Snow of Happy Zombie fame. She’s here to tell us all [...]
Garden Party is the second collection by Jane Dixon for Andover — her first was Desert Bloom, which caught my eye at last Fall’s quilt market for its funky take on cacti, which I think are seriously underused motifs as far as botanicals go. + P.S., I am retiring New Release Tuesday because they’ve become [...]
New Release Tuesday is my periodic roundup of new fabric sightings (mostly quilting cottons). These fresh arrivals have started to arrive in fabric shops and are ready to buy. Retailers, as always, if you carry any of these collections, let us know in the comments. This week, there was so much to cover, I broke [...]
New Release Tuesday is my periodic roundup of new fabric sightings (mostly quilting cottons). These fresh arrivals have started to arrive in fabric shops and are ready to buy. Retailers, as always, if you carry any of these collections, let us know in the comments. Wow, I’ve put this off so long that the new [...]
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