Quilt Market: The Fabrics - Part I

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Today I'll be sharing a bit more about Quilt Market. If you missed my previous posts, here they are:

Schoolhouse

Unofficial Guide

Now, that we've covered that, here's a tour of the upcoming fabric lines now that I'm back from Quilt Market in Houston, TX. Here comes a sneak peek of collections that will be hitting stores near you in the coming months.

You may remember Carolyn Friedlander's Architextures and Botanics lines. 

Her upcoming collection for Robert Kaufman, Doe, was unveiled at Market.

She also has a new book.

Birch fabrics has a new Charlie Harper line coming out.

Showing onesies instead of swatches certainly ups the adorable quotient.

American Made Brand's collection has reached 50 luscious colors.

Alison Glass has a batik collection, titled Handcrafted, that will make you see batiks in an entirely new way. She also has additional Sunprints that make an excellent basics with personality.

Cascade is a soothing collection by Jessica Levitt for Windham.

Iza Pearl, another Windham designer, showcased her Sunshine Serenade collection.

Jen Kingwell, the Australian whose patterns include Gypsy Wife and Green Tea and Sweet Beans, unveiled her Moda Gardenvale line. It has thirties repro ambiance with a modern vibe, and is unabashedly scrappy.

You can expect to see patterns and kits especially for the new line too.

Moda designers made a great showing.

This Ombre Lonestar by V & Co. is stunning.

I'll be back soon with more material temptation.

Fun at the Craft Fair

My Mothers of Preschoolers group puts on an annual craft fair as their annual fundraiser. I was impressed by the quality of hand-made items featured. Here's a showing of my loot.

First up, I bought a handful of these scratchy, scrubbies. They remove cookware grime better than a washcloth or sponge, but don't scratch metal surfaces like stainless steel scrubbers. You can also throw them in the dishwasher, and use them over and over.

 I'll give you three guesses as to the composition of the longer beads. Did anyone say paper? I'm a sucker for the color coral, so this boxed set came home with me. I also bought some loose beads, in case they want to make their way onto an art quilt. I don't think it would do to wash them, even though they are coated in a lacquer. If you want your own, check out Paper Personalities by Steph.

 I am in denial about my daughter's refusal to keep a bow in her hair. Can you blame me? These are so cute!

Then there were the painted peg people. This Ninjago set caught my son's attention, but the crafter also had Breaking Bad, Star Wars, and Disney princess sets. Truth be told, my son is making Play Doh clothes for these figures as I type.

Bright Eyed Owl has an assortment of well-made baby items. I picked up a couple of these iSpy bags. They are flannel with a vinyl window on one side and minky on the other. Inside the bag, charms hide amongst clear pellets. A card shows the objects that are to be found within the bag. If you want to make your own, supplies can be found at HighPie on Etsy.

Local author, Jill Lane had gift sets available. Of course, we ended up taking on of these home since Linnea has a bear fetish like I have a fabric fetish. He's posable too! How could I resist? I suppose I didn't figure that out because he lives with us now.

What has been your favorite craft fair find?

P.S. Don't forget to get yourself in the running for the pattern giveaway.

Round Robin - Kathy's Quilt

Just in the nick of time...(Ok, I'm lying; I sent this baby out a day late.)...I completed two borders of wonky trapezoid towers.

I was trying to figure what shape remained to be added since there were already x's, triangles, rectangles, half-circles, and curvy, striped leggings. Ok, just kidding about the leggings. But what shape would you call the shapes in the center?

Nobody had added trapezoids, so trapezoids, it was! I used a selection of yellow, black & white, olive, orchid, orange, and blue prints with a white and white on white background.

Let me tell you about the process, in case you want your very own wonky trapezoids. Cut a 2 1/2" x 4 1/2" rectangle of whatever fabric you want for the trapezoid. Use scraps for the background.

Lay a background piece on the trapezoid rectangle as shown, with right sides together. Stitch a 1/4" seam.

Even use one long strip for the background, if you want to be really bold.

Press the background toward the corner. Flip the rectangle so the wrong side is facing upward and cut away everything that extends beyond the rectangle.

Flip the piece over so the right side is facing upwards. Flip back the background triangle and cut the seam allowance even with the background.

Add a stitch and flip triangle to the other side in the same fashion. Trim it up too.

Make more, and attach them in one big ol' tower.

Who's up for some wonky trapezoids?

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