{ photo by Jennifer Causey } Designer-hero to many (and prolific author) Lotta Jansdotter will launch her first quilting-weight cotton collection in November 2011. It’s called Echo and it’s with Windham Fabrics. Visit the Windham blog to see the fabric in action — that large crosshatch texture print looks terrific as a guy’s button-down shirt!
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 [...]
Jessica Levitt, of Juicy Bits, was promoting her new line for Windham Fabrics, Kingdom. The collection hits stores in August. You can see the whole line on Jessica’s blog here.
New Release Tuesday is my periodic roundup of new fabric sightings. 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! Bryant Park by Khristian A. Howell for Anthology Fabrics Bonjour by Diane Kappa [...]
I only got to pop my head in briefly at Windham this time, but I just had to go to see Paige Stanley Miller‘s Bon Vivant after seeing her sporting the cape above the day before (why no picture, why, WHY!?). Parisian and French themes were an unexpected trend this market, and Mademoiselle Paige’s interpretation [...]
Country Lane by Bari J. for Windham (Meadow Monarchs print shown above, courtesy Ms. Bari herself) — we’ll definitely be seeing and hearing more about this collection ’round these parts. The very pretty Sonoma by Frachelle Contreras for Henry Glass. She’s got a giveaway going on her blog right now. A trio of new collections [...]
Caitlin and Camelia are two floral mini-collections (within the ongoing Fashionista collection) from Alexander Henry. Well, they’re mini collections featuring maxi prints, or at least, florals that make me think of maxi dresses.Images from Hawthorne Threads. And while we’re alluding the the Sixties, the Peace Group from Michael Miller is also hitting the shops [...]
On Sunday I got to eat dinner with a wonderfully assorted crew: Kathy Mack of Pink Chalk Fabrics and her mom, quilt artists Susan Brubaker Knapp and Sarah Vedeler, and Windham designers Jessica Levitt and Paige Stanley Miller. (I was exhausted by this time and embarrassingly started crying uncontrollably when I tried to tell Kathy’s [...]
(Feed readers: Please click over to see the slideshow if it’s not visible. I’m trying out a new slideshow generator — what do you think?) Windham Fabrics has a feedsack reproduction series, the most recent of which is Feedsack V (though I can’t find evidence anywhere of Feedsack IV — is that because that could [...]
{feed readers … please click on over to see the slide show … I’m trying to figure out if it’s possible to make these slide shows visible to you all … } Stationery designer Anna Griffin has put out many impressive collections for Windham (including last year’s favorite, Blythe). One of the two most recent [...]
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