Quilt Market tour - day 2

Recently we introduced new fabric lines to quilt shop owners at Fall Quilt Market in Houston, Texas. We're taking you on a tour of our booth--there's so much to see!

First, an overall look:

Left side 

 Right side

Today we'll be sharing the quilts and fabric lines on the right side of the booth. Find the photos of the quilts from the left side of the booth here.

"A Flutter of Color" by Linda Frost using Painter's Palette Solids

A close-up of the butterflies--aren't they great!?!

"Leaf Ripple" by Tammy Silvers featuring the Nature Trail collection

"The Vintage Sampler" BOM quilt by Barbara Eikmeier featuring her Vintage Shirting & Dress Prints collection

Left: "Crossed Notes" by Dawn Stewart featuring the Marimba collection; right: "Lattice" by Jessica Toye featuring Ro Gregg's Butterflies Are Free collection

"Tribal Instincts" quilt by Pine Tree Country Quilts featuring Ro Gregg's Tribal Instincts collection

"Kansas City Silhouette" by Shannon Brinkley using the Painter's Palette Solids and featuring her scrappy applique technique

A close-up:

Scattered around the booth, we had bouquets of floral hexies in our new lines:

Our display in the Sneak Peek window--introducing our new Painter's Palette Solids and Shannon Brinkley's Dryad collection. "Mountain Scene" quilt designed by Dena White and Maria Pate

See the other half of our booth tour here.

We hope you enjoyed our booth tour! 

Watch for these fabrics to be featured on the blog and in a quilt shop near you!

Getting in the Halloween Spirit: Orange & Black Prints

With Halloween around the corner, it's time to grab some orange and black prints and do a little sewing! Door banners, trick or treat bags, a table runner, or even a quilt...with the right fabrics, you can have so much holiday fun!

Here are some of our favorite orange and black prints:

Top row: Truck Stop, Nite Owls by Judy Hansen; Middle row: Sea Turtles, Changing Seasons by Ro Gregg; Bottom row: Bear Hugs, Marblehead Global Brights

Top row: Nite Owls, Marblehead Gemstones Jewels & Quartz by Ro Gregg; Middle row: Marblehead by Ro Gregg, Graphix 3; Bottom row: Marimba, Sea Turtles

Ask for them at your local quilt shop!

Marimba

Marimba...even if you can't quite connect an image with the word, you can probably conjure up a feeling--warm breezes, tropical foliage, soft melodies...

A marimba is a percussion instrument--a type of xylophone, first used in Africa and then in Central America. If you'd like to hear some marimba music, click here and here.

Image credit (plus kits to build your own marimba!)

Now that you've had a brief lesson in the musical instrument, we'd like to introduce you to the fabric! 

That's right, one of our new collections this fall is called Marimba! 

Marimba music has a tropical flair to it--if you listen to it, you'll likely find yourself swaying along with the melody. We think you'll find that same feeling in the fabrics--the large tropical-looking leaves and swirls of the focal print, and even some of the coordinates, have that same movement to them. And the cool blue and gray color palette--so fresh, and so different! 

Looking for a quilt pattern to use with Marimba?

Try Dawn Stewart's Crossed Notes Quilt pattern, available for download on our website.

Download the pattern here.

See the Marimba collection here and ask for it at your local quilt shop.