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 endpaper prints that have been included in every Golden Books collection.
{ 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 round of business cards … and aspiring fabric designers are getting together their portfolios in hopes of wowing a company at market and becoming next year’s new big
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 Robinson, aka Werner Kruse, who recorded the city in meticulous line drawings in the 1960s (The City Quilter also has a whole book on
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 purchase her original art, prints, and stuffies.
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 for the text fabric fans.
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 is giving away Hyperreal Garden Fat Quarter Sets on her blog, but only for a few more hours, so get over there and let her know what inspires
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, lush, and modern collection is available in stores now.
see also:
interview with Karen Tusinski at Sew Fresh Fabrics
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 coordinating gingham in a bunch of colorways, ladybugs-as-polka-dots, and you’ve got a sweet and unique collection. Oops a Daisy comes in four colorways.
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 85% cotton, 15% linen blend canvas. I’d love to hear what you’d do with the big busy border print — it’s awfully cute!
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 repeating pattern was a light-bulb moment for me and started my own journey into learning fabric design. So of course I was excited when Cloud9 Fabrics announced last year
