Art Gallery Fabrics impressed with its prize-winning booth and lovely new prints. I spoke with Pat Bravo, who walked me through all that Art Gallery had to offer.
The Pure Elements solids were a huge hit at market and at Sample Spree. They are remarkably soft and the colors are so vibrant. Pat said they will continue to introduce more colors in the future.
Amy Butler‘s fabric was some of the first fabric that I ever bought, so I was thrilled to meet her in person and see the new lines.
The booth featured Amy’s new line, Organic Soul, features prints “derived and rescued” from Amy’s Soul Blossoms collection. These prints will be available in FIVE substrates: corduroy, a silky rayon, organic quilting cotton, voile, and laminated cotton. No joke- corduroy and rayon! Apparel sewers, get excited! The fine-wale corduroy was really my favorite — it would make a lovely backing
This was Mark Cesarik’s first booth at Quilt Market. He and his wife Cara started releasing designs under the Sew Bettie moniker on Spoonflower. FreeSpirit picked them up, and they recently released Calypso Swing, a line of violets, pinks, black and grey quilt weight cottons.
I just had a few minutes before closing to check in with the reps at P&B Textiles. They were getting a lot of deserved attention for two lines in particular — Toomuchery by Helen Dardik and Gallery Fiori by Karen Tusinski. Both artists are represented by Lilla Rogers studio, with whom P&B has been contracting with the last couple of years to bring some great design to fabric (Helen Dardik’s first collection, Mod Kitchen, Caroline Gavin‘s Wild
Cynthia and Jason, the partners behind Birch Fabrics, put together a super sweet double booth to introduce their two new lines, Avalon and Storyboek. Both lines are 100% GOTS certified organic.
Avalon features bikes and birds in 8 prints, that boast deep color saturation and crisp lines, and is currently shipping.
Stash Books author and fabric designer, Bari J. Ackerman, showed off her new line for Lecien in her her own version of a Paris Aparment.
This line should be shipping in June. View fantastic photos of the entire collection
Monica Solorio-Snow’s new collection “Happy Mochi YumYum” for Lecien debuted at Market. You can read about her inspiration and see the full swatch sheet here. The line was showcased at their booth with kids clothes sewn from Patterns by Figgy’s.
These are some new additions to the Mrs. March’s line:
More quilt weight cotton from Hokkoh designer Sayasans. This line is called “Wonder.”
These four border prints by the same designer were called “uma flor e um leão.”
I liked these paint box geometrics tagged under the name “Flora.” And finally, some of
More quilt weight cotton from Hokkoh designer Sayasans. This line is called “Wonder.”
These four border prints by the same designer were called “uma flor e um leão.”
I liked these paint box geometrics tagged under the name “Flora.” And finally, some of
From the looks of it, Hokkoh had a smaller booth set up this year (no samples), but the collections were strong and they brought with them a small rack of apparel fabric that I was going a bit crazy over. The apparel fabric was a bit of a test for them, and they were surprised that we were both so excited about it, so maybe we’ll see a lot more of it next
