You've been seeing my posts from Quilt Market. Or if you're a recent arrival, you are welcome to catch up on my Quilt Market posts:
So, what's the overall picture? What new or enduring themes did I see? Here's my totally subjective analysis.
Southwestern and Native American motifs are still going strong. I'm talking about tepees, arrows, and the like.
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| My Tribe Quilt from Amy Friend's Intentional Piecing |
They're even cropping up alongside pandas, of all the expected things!
Bunnies prints are breeding like, well rabbits. Examples include
Wonderland Two by Melissa Mortenson for Riley Blake,
Hello, My Deer by Camelot Fabrics, Violet Craft's
House of Hoppington for Michael Miller, Tula Pink's
Slow & Steady for Free Spirit, and Felice Regina's
Luna Sol for Windham.
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| Wonderland 2 by Melissa Mortenson for Riley Blake |
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| Hello, My Deer by Camelot Fabrics |
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| House of Hoppington by Violet Craft for Michael Miller |
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| Luna Sol by Felice Regina for Windham |
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hand-printed look is also a feature of many upcoming fabric lines. This can be seen in Carloyn Freidlander's overprinted Essex line called
Euclid, the hand-carved block print collection titled
Marks by Valorie Wells for Robert Kaufman,
Color Dash by Heather Jones for Robert Kaufman, and Cotton + Steel's
Print Shop collection,
Handcrafted Patchwork by Alison Glass for Andover, and, rumor-has-it,
Lizzy House (You heard it here first, folks!)
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| Color Dash by Heather Jones for Robert Kaufman |
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| Alexia Abegg's Print Shop for Cotton + Steel |
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| Marks by Valori Wells for Robert Kaufman |
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| Handcrafted Patchwork by Alison Glass for Andover |
There's always been something about "
shiny" that gets quilters going. I'm excited about
Opalescence, Windham's pearlescent solids. Also, I'm delighted that my Michael Miller
Fairy Frost stash has aged to the point of reintroduction. What's old is truly new again.
Speaking of reemergence,
greatest hits collections are in full force. There's Tula Pink's Timeless collection, Elizabeth Hartman's
Paintbox Basics pulled from her Pacific and Rhoda Ruth collections plus one print,
Lizzy House's Hit Parade and color unsaturated Whisper Palette, and
Sarah Jane's remix.
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| Paintbox Basics by Elizabeth Hartman |
Market had some footstep-following fantastic-ness.
Mother/daughter duos include
Bonnie & Camille,
Anna Maria &
Juliana Horner, and
Sherri and Chelsi of A Quilting Life.
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| Fast Friends by Juliana Horner for Free Spirit Fabrics |
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| Desert Bloom by Sherri and Chelsi for Moda Fabrics |
What trends do you see in quilting?
I'm impressed that you can identify trends out of that overwhelmingness that was market. Thanks for a great post.
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