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Quilt Market #14, more quilts!!

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Nearing the end of Quilt Market Houston 2012 coverage,  and there are a few more posts to go.  Here are more quilts from different categories that caught my eye because they are just amazing for a variety of reasons. I’m sure you won’t need me to tell you why, so take a gander and enjoy!

Dear Friends by Michiko Yanagihara and 8 friends, Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan

details of Dear Friends by Michiko Yanagihara

Super Star by Marilyn Badger

detail of Super Star by Marilyn Badger

Syzygy by Rochelle Stibb

detail of Syzygy by Rochelle Stibb

Prometheus by Ferret

detail of Prometheus by Ferret

Once Upon a Time by Sharon Schamber

detail of Once Upon a Time by Sharon Schamber

Tangled Up by Ruth Anne Yax

No Direction Home by Barbara Oliver Hartman

Windmill on Bluebonnet Hill by Kay Marburger

Departure by Kiyomi Takayanagi

Green Message by Naoko Takeshita

detail of Green Message by Naoko Takeshita

Tree of Life by Allison Lockwood

Quilt Market #13: Carolyn Friedlander

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Carolyn Friedlander Quilt Market Houston 2012

The other designer whose booth and work I was incredibly attracted to at Quilt Market Houston 2012 was Carolyn Friedlander.  Her quilt patterns, wonderful on their own, were a fantastic vehicle to showcase her fabrics from her first collection with Robert Kaufman, Architextures. Check it out!

Carolyn Friedlander

Carolyn Friedlander

Stripes by Carolyn Friedlander

detail of Stripes by Carolyn Friedlander

Quilt Market #11: More Quilts

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And continuing our Quilt Market Houston 2012 coverage, more of my selections from the quilt exhibitions:

Alexandra’s Quilt by Tara Faughnan

Alexandra’s Quilt by Tara Faughnan

Diamond Quilt by Tara Faughnan

Diamond Quilt by Tara Faughnan

Dream Fields by Janet Steadman

Jet Trails #10 by Marcia DeCamp

Crazy for Plaid by Allison Aller

Crazy for Plaid by Allison Aller

My Flower Plates by Candyce Grisham

My Flower Plates by Candyce Grisham

La Torre de Babel by Celilia Koppmann

La Torre de Babel by Celilia Koppmann

Pane Reflections by Timna Tarr

Pane Reflections by Timna Tarr

Broken by Janet Steadman

A World by Many Colors by Georgeta Grama

A World by Many Colors by Georgeta Grama

Quilt Market #9: Modern Quilt Relish

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One of my favorite quilt designer booths at Quilt Market Houston 2012 was Modern Quilt Relish.  Fresh and modern, I love their design sense.  A little bit about them…

Jill and Marny have been in business just about 3 years.  Friends for 20 years, they worked together at the Quilting Connection in Ames, Iowa.  When their sons, who are best friends, married sisters, they decided they would have to be nice to one another forever.  They share the same design aesthetic and since they weren’t seeing many modern designs, they decided to create them.  Their patterns were first introduced at the AQS/DesMoines show the fall of 2010 and since then they have exhibited at two spring and two fall markets.

They say this about their design process:
“Our designs our collaborative.  One of us will explore an idea and then we’ll tweak the design to production together.  Having helped many quilt shop customers, we feel we have the knowledge to write an accurate and understandable pattern.  It’s always our goal to make our patterns easy, fun, gender-friendly with just a little taste of the unexpected!”
Their new book Picnic, (available mid December)  shares their understanding of design principles and elements along with thirteen projects.  They will be vending at the upcoming Quiltcon in Austin (February).  McCall’s Quilting, America Makes Fast Quilts will publish a baby quilt at the beginning of the year and Martingale will publish Modern Baby this April, with one of our designs.

Quilt Market #8: More Booths

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Continuing coverage of Quilt Market Houston 2012, here we have some of the popular fabric designer’s booths.  May I also mention that these are also incredibly nice and wonderful people.  There is not a single designer that I met in the last few years at Quilt Market that wasn’t friendly, genuine and open.  Make no bones about it though, they are also all very hardworking. Such is the creative community!

Amy Butler Booth, Quilt Market Houston 2012

Amy Butler Booth Quilt Market Houston 2012

Amy Butler Booth Quilt Market Houston 2012

Amy Butler Booth Quilt Market Houston 2012

Tula Pink booth, Quilt Market Houston 2012

Tula Pink booth, Quilt Market Houston 2012

Kaffe Fassett Booth, Quilt Market Houston 2012

Kaffe Fassett Booth, Quilt Market Houston 2012

Laura Gunn’s booth, Quilt Market Houston 2012

Laura Gunn’s booth, Quilt Market Houston 2012

Laura Gunn’s booth, Quilt Market Houston 2012

Anna Maria Horner’s booth, Quilt Market Houston 2012

Anna Maria Horner’s booth, Quilt Market Houston 2012

Anna Maria Horner’s booth, Quilt Market Houston 2012

David Butler, Quilt Market Houston 2012

David Butler, Quilt Market Houston 2012

Joel Dewberry, Quilt Market Houston 2012

Joel Dewberry, Quilt Market Houston 2012

Joel Dewberry, Quilt Market Houston 2012

Valori Wells, Quilt Market Houston 2012

Valori Wells, Quilt Market Houston 2012

Quilt Market #7: more booths

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Ok, let’s start this week at a look at more booths from Quilt Market 2012 Houston.  A word about the booths.  Some are open, some are closed on one or multiple sides.  The fabric companies and larger distributors have huge booths that allow them to configure them in a variety of ways.  A huge surprise for me the second time I came to Quilt Market is that people did entirely new booth designs and had entirely different locations year to year, and so it was again this year.  Makes it a lot more fun looking around.

The large booths are hard to show because it is a show to sell to shop owners after all, and so many booths were set up in such a way that you really would be taking pics of the sales floor with people doing business, and the booth design would just show as background.  But I have a few snippets here and there. Besides Surtex, this is one of the more visual shows I’ve attended in the last several years and I have gone to a variety of them. In addition to all the fabric design on display there are quilt designs on display, the huge quilt exhibition, and fashion and home furnishings in prints print prints.  And color color color.

Let’s take a wander down the aisle…

Emily Herrick, quilt designer, author of Geared for Guys, and fabric designer for Michael Miller Fabrics with her latest quilt designs using cotton couture solids by Michael Miller

Art Gallery Fabric’s Pat Bravo’s new collection Rock n’ Romance

A corner of the Blend Fabrics booth, with Josephine Kimberling and Sarah Watts latest collections

Westminster Fabrics’ Booth

Westminster Fabrics’ Booth

Alexander Henry Booth

Sarah Watson’s booth with her collection Luxe in Bloom with Art Gallery Fabrics

Sarah Watson’s booth with drawings and inspiration for her collection Luxe in Bloom

Patty Sloniger for Michael Miller wit her new collection “Les Amis”

Laurie Wisbrun for Robert Kaufman

Booth for Kanvas, a branch of Benartex

Next up, more quilts from the Quilt Exhibition at Quilt Market Houston 2012

Quilt Market 2012 Report #3

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All right, I have so many photos it is going to take a long time to sort through them all, so I shall post in small groups at a time. So stay tuned, as we will have Quilt Market Houston 2012 content for at least a month here. First of all, let’s recap.  Who attends Quilt Market?  The intended buyer is the quilt store owner.  The exhibitors therefore are anyone that wholesales to quilt stores including fabric companies, sewing equipment companies, notions and distributors, and pattern companies – of which there are many and varied!!

Some of the fabric designers from the fabric companies have a booth either on their own or connected with their company, and many of those also have their own pattern business. Many pattern companies later go on to design fabric. What is a pattern business?  Someone who design original patterns for quilts, bags, apparel or anything that uses the fabrics that these store sells.  So the pattern companies display projects made with their patterns, and the fabric companies display projects made with their fabric. So it all makes for a varied and colorful display all around.

First off is Green Bee Designs and Patterns out of Nashville with clean trendy booth design and very appealing, modern sewing patterns and fabric choices for quilts, clothes and bags.  Alexia Marcelle Abegg is an artist, designer and seamstress, who also runs a sewing school.  She is joined by Rob Bancroft who has his first fabric collection coming out with Cloud 9 fabrics in November, and Michelle Abegg, who has sewn since a child, and creates sewing patterns with Green Bee. They were super nice and I am in love with that quilt.

Green Bee Design & Patterns

Green Bee Designs and Patterns

Green Bee Designs and Patterns

Green Bee Designs and Patterns

Next up for today is Me and My Sister Designs.  A corner booth with one of my favorite displays with mannequins wrapped in fabric, you can’t miss it and makes you look!  Very friendly, just like their fun friendly patterns, these two sisters started by quilting, then bought a quilt shop, and then designed patterns, and also have designed fabrics for Moda. Phew!  Take a peek…

Me and My Sister Designs

Me and My Sister Designs

Me and My Sister Designs

Me and My Sister Designs

Modern Quilt Guild Exhibition at Quilt Market Houston 2012

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The Modern Quilt Guild Exhibition at Quilt Market 2012 in Houston

Yesterday I got a chance to look at the quilt exhibitions at Quilt Market 2012, and started out with the Modern Quilt Guild‘s exhibition. Gorgeous gorgeous, I took photos of the ones that really struck me, and since I take the photo first and then look and see who designed the quilt second, I got surprised a couple times to see I had chosen quilts people from my own East Bay Modern Guild.  Hooray!

Without further ado, my picks and pics -keep in mind there are limitations photographing in this environment and there are at times things obstructing a view of the whole quilt, but enjoy anyway!

Ripple by Daniel Rouse, Oakland, CA

Close-up of Ripple by Daniel Rouse

Bits and Ripples by Alison Schmidt, Oakland, CA

Refracted Sunset by Heather Scrimsher

Pixelated Color Wheel by Kati Spencer
Taylorsville, UT

The Kelp Quilt by Rossie Huchinson and The Mid Mod Quilt Bee
quilted by Bernie Olszewski

Shattered by Jacquie Gering and Angela Walters
Chicago, IL

Mainframe Derez by Violet Craft
Portland, OR

Hugs & Hugs by Hannah Talecki
Columbia Missouri

5-HTP Squared by Jennifer Carlton-Bailly
Portland, OR

Cutting Edge Conglomerate by Earamichia Brown and the NYC Metro Mod Quilters, quilted by Jackie Kunkel

Firedrill by Elizabeth Hartman
Hillsboro OR
Original design from her book Modern Patchwork

Tail Wind by Stephanie Ruyle
Denver Co

Tail Wind by Stephanie Ruyle
Denver, CO

What’s for Breakfast by Karen Anderson-Abraham
Santa Barbara, CA

What’s for Breakfast by Karen Anderson-Abraham
Santa Barbara, CA

Quilt Market 2012 Houston

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If you’ve never been to Quilt Market, take a little journey with me…

Well, what fun.  Today the actual market opens, but there have already been several days of antics.  For me, it started with an Andover Fabrics sales meeting and company dinner with lots of news of good things to come–new offerings in the batiks and solids (more to come on that), sponsorship of QuiltCon, and most exciting, a look at the new collections coming out. Quite invigorating.  More on Andover when I report on the fabric company booths later.

Last year I went to all the Andover schoolhouses which are incredibly well attended and have great give-aways.  This year I branched out and spontaneously went to where my nose led me, and I have some pics to show for it!  Then last night was the fabric 2.0 opening party, a place to meet new people, catch up with old friends, and meet in person people I’ve known online.  No pics of that so sorry, but here goes for some schoolhouse action–remember there are a million sessions and one cannot be everywhere at once – I wish!

First up was Dena of Dena Designs, the gal with one of the coolest booths at Surtex, showing her new fabric line “Happi”and projects she’s made with it.  Dena handpaints everything, and has a new book coming out, The Painted Home.

Dena Designs

Dena Designs

The Painted Home by Dena

Next was Jennifer Paganelli, showing her new collection Happy Land, a fun video she did with Downy and a second book coming out called Happy Home. Jennifer was accompanied by Carla Hegeman Crim, who writes many of the Sis Boom patterns and has her own book out now, Sewn Hats.

Jennifer Paganelli at Quilt Market 2012 Schoolhouse

Sis Boom

Sewn Hats by Carla Hegeman Crim

Valori Wells was there with her new line “Novella”, some quilt patterns to go with it, a slideshow that included her photography that serves as inspiration, and new sewing cards.

Valori Wells

Valori Wells

Valori Wells

Anna Maria Horner came with a variety of new fabrics (velveteen, voile, rayon) in her Field Study collection, her embroidery flosses and pearl cotton threads and projects that use all of these things together in new ways. Oh, and a new book, Anna Maria’s Needlework Notebook.

Anna Maria Horner

Anna Maria Horner

Anna Maria’s Needleworks Notebook

Amy Butler arrived with colorful projects using Alchemy and studio collections in satine, rayon, voile,  velveteen and linen. We were treated to a fashion show with music, and an appealing slide show of spreads from her new online project, Blossom Magazine, launching in November–patterns, photography and inspiration galore.  Its sort of a whole culture all its own.

Amy Butler

Amy Butler

Amy Butler

Next I went one to see some of the new designers at Art Gallery. First up, Angela Walters, machine quilter extraordinaire, with her new fabric line “textures”

Angela Walters

Then there was Bari J with her second collection with Art Gallery, Splendor 1920.

Bari J

And Sarah Watson, Illustrator, with Luxe in Bloom.

Sarah Watson

And Jeni Baker, with her Color Me Retro due Feb 2013.

Jeni Baker

And Pat Bravo, the creative force behind Art Gallery Fabrics concluded the schoolhouse with a video and a view of her new collection, Rock ‘n Romance.

Pat Bravo

That’s it for now.  In the next few days I will continue to report on my Quilt Market 2012 journey and share pics of booths, designers, cool projects, and the quilt exhibitions. Follow along!