Fall Quilt Market Recap

You may have seen sneak peeks of our Houston Quilt Market booth on Facebook or Instagram; we're offering the full recap here! 

First, an overview: 

Much of our booth's focus was on our Painter's Palette Solids (168 colors!). The booth included a Pop Up Shop where quilt shop owners could purchase precuts or yardage to take home and sell in their shops.

We collaborated with Indygo Junction on a booth this year. If you're not familiar with Amy Barickman and all the patterns Indygo Junction has to offer, check out her website! All of their displays are made from our fabric.

Now, the close-ups of the quilts...what you've been waiting for!

"The Lion & the Paintbrush" by Valerie Funk, made using our Painter's Palette Solids.

 Maria Pate's bug jar quilt, made using the You Bug Me! collection:

More quilts featuring Painter's Palette Solids:

Sheri Cifaldi-Morrill with her "Sun Salutations" quilt made from Painter's Palette Solids (gorgeous--it glows!). Purchase the pattern here.

Valerie Funk's "Gypsy" quilt--love the colors on the giraffe!

Barbara J. Eikmeier's Cowboy Quilt featuring her Kick Off Your Boots fabric collection. Find the free quilt pattern here.

This zigzag quilt features the solids and coordinates from our Mayfair collection. 

These fun Painter's Palette Solids quilt made a reappearance! Download the free quilt pattern for the Hashtag quilt (right) here.

Hello to Amy Barickman! 

Hope you enjoyed our booth recap!

Welcome to our booth! (Day 1)

We spent the weekend in St. Louis at International Quilt Market, meeting shop owners and introducing them to our newest fabrics. The Painter's Palette Solids (all 168 colors) were definitely the stars of the show! (psst...if your local quilt shop isn't carrying them yet, ask them to contact us!)

Here's the view of half our booth; we'll share the second half later this week. 

If these look familiar, you're right! Jacquie Gering machine quilted these beauties, choosing a gorgeous palette from the Painter's Palette Solids, and we used them in our QuiltCon booth. Jacquie has since added to the collection, and we were thrilled to hang them again! 

...and, since many people asked...these are all done on a regular home sewing machine using a walking foot. You can learn more about Jacquie's techniques on her website or in her newest book, Walk. 

We have more of Jacquie's work in the booth--she created this quilt using a palette of hot reds and oranges. The quilt is unnamed--we asked attendees to leave a business card with a name suggestion--can't wait to see what Jacquie picks from the entries!

More of a showcase on solids--illusion quilts featuring Painter's Palette Solids, designed by Lisa Swenson Ruble.

Our new Woodland Friends collection, featuring the art of Charlie Zabarte, received plenty of attention at the show. Here the blocks in the panel are assembled into a stuffed block:

And the coordinates create an adorable dress for a little girl!

The America Quilt by Cynthia Wismann hung proudly in our booth again! This art quilt combines Ro Gregg's Valor collection with Painter's Palette Solids to create a design that is pure America. 

And of course the Hashtag quilt made with Painter's Palette Solids, which has become a fast favorite since its debut at QuiltCon. (You can find the free pattern for it here.)

Designer (and quilt shop owner) Maria Pate stands with her bug jar quilt, made using the You Bug Me! collection. We love all the different size and shape jars, as well as the appliqued butterflies and quilted spider webs! 

In addition to viewing and ordering our new collections, quilt shop owners could make some impulse purchases. We brought a variety of precuts and Painter's Palette Solids bolts that shop owners could buy and take home right away. These flew off the shelves, so look for them in your local quilt shop!

One last quilt for side 1 of the booth. Originally a free pattern for the Elemental Lines collection, Maria Pate stitched this version using the neutral palette of the Essentials 2 collection. Find a link to the pattern here.

Thanks for taking part 1 of our booth tour!
See part 2 of our tour here.

You Bug Me!

Creepy crawlies...spiders, lady bugs, ants, dragonflies, crickets, butterflies.

If it has six legs (or eight!) we've got it covered in our new You Bug Me! collection. 

What can you do with these fabrics? 

Try the classic "jar" quilt. (Here's a tutorial for one.)

Sew a drawstring bag for your favorite little bug lover. 

Make an "I spy" quilt. 

Create some larger-than-life stuffed bugs! 

Or...try our free quilt pattern, "Eek!" by Jessica Toye!

Download the free quilt pattern here.

See the entire You Bug Me! collection here and ask for it at your local quilt shop. 
Find the Eek! quilt pattern here. 
Check out our You Bug Me! Pinterest board for more fun bug ideas!