2013 Spring Quilt Market Recap Vol. 1

A postcard arrived in the mail last week announcing the dates of Fall Quilt Market. Yikes! I still haven't blogged about Spring Market in Portland, Oregon. It's time to blog about it before it's ancient history, right?

Here are some of the many things that caught my eye...

Hello Tokyo by The Red Thread for Robert Kaufman. Dying!!

Gorgeous red and white quilts from Minick and Simpson

Pat Sloan's new Bobbins and Bits. Now why didn't I include her in the pic?

Most swoon-worthy collection at Quilt Market? Violet Craft's Waterfront Park!

Lazy Daisy Baskets by Darlene Zimmerman for Robert Kaufman.

From Art Gallery Fabrics. Beautiful booth, beautiful solids.

The Art Gallery displays are always amazing, and this Market was no exception. Carnaby Street.

Gorgeous quilt pattern from Sassafras Lane Designs. I want to make this quilt!

Brigitte Heitland's Zen Chic patterns and prints are in a class of their own.

The latest Echino Ni-co line. I need this bag.

More beautiful fabrics from Kokka

Love these prints spotted in the Seven Islands booth.

Upcoming Joel Dewberry.

Denyse Schmidt's new line, Florence, for Free Spirit.  

Don't you just love these colors?

The reality is, I didn't shoot many photos and the ones I took are dark and grainy. Time to start saving up for a new camera!

In the next post I'll show you what I ordered for the shop, a book review or two, and give a peek at the massive amounts of fabric I picked up at Sample Spree. Oh, my.

Stay tuned. More to come.

Happy sewing!
Annik

Announcements

What a busy and exciting week! Here are the highlights:

1. Have you seen the blog Flax & Twine? You really should because it's gorgeous and the projects are so inspiring. Anne, the brainchild behind the blog, approached me recently about doing a guest post for her sew, you've always wanted to quilt series.

I'm honored and delighted to present my modern pin cushion tutorial, the second installment in the series. An enormous thanks to Anne for the invitation and opportunity to be guest on her fabulous blog!

I hope you'll check it out and make one of your own. And send me a photo if you do because I'd love to see it.

2. In my last post I hinted that I'm thinking about starting a new venture. This week I've been going through my fabric stash with the intent to sell some goodies to raise funds for said venture. I'll keep you posted as I get these fabrics and ribbons on my Etsy shop. Rare, hard to find Heather Ross and Amy Butler. Woohoo!

3. The penultimate post in the Four's a Charm series is almost done. How to make binding and sew it on your quilt instructions will be up this weekend. It's starting to look like a quilt, folks!

4. And last, but absolutely not least, my oldest child turned nine on Thursday. Where or where did nine years go? How did this happen? How did my little baby turn into this sports-loving, poetry-writing, math test acing, cooking show-watching young man?

Happy birthday to my sweet Alex.

Thanks for stopping :)

-Annik

Sunday Stash #4

The other day as I was moving around one stack of fabric to get to another stack of fabric (don't laugh) and I couldn't help but notice that I have an enormous stash of Echino prints - especially some of the older ones.

A small fraction of the hoard

Do you know what's strange? I don't know the foggiest thing about Etsuko Furuya, the designer of all this yummy fabric. Isn't that odd? Other fabric designers have blogs, we see them in magazines, etc., but Etsuko remains a mystery. I did find a photo of her here, but not much else.

If you speak/read Japanese, would you mind giving us a quick translation of her profile on her web site?

Do you have a certain fabric designer you compulsively hoard? No judgment here - I completely understand.

Okay, I'm going to be scarce for the next few weeks. In the meantime - 

Happy Holidays to you and your family!

And may you find some time to do a little stress-free crafting ;)

-Annik