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The Week in Sewing

I’ve been making samples from my new Stamped fabric collection for Quilt Market over the past couple of weeks. Quilt Market is a buyer’s market where representatives from fabric stores all over the world come to shop for fabric to sell in their stores. Here’s a peek at what I’ve made. If you follow me on Instagram, you’ve seen these snapshots and I just didn’t get a chance to take photos this morning. I sent the samples off with Melody Miller to head to the Kokka booth, but I didn’t have time to take photos. By the way, Melody’s new book, Ruby Star Wrapping, is shipping now!

Oh, and rumor has it that my Stamped collection may be shipping as early as November! I can’t make it to Quilt Market this time around with so much going on with the kids this weekend, but if you’re there, please stop by the Seven Islands booth and check out my fabric. I’ll try to get photos of the projects in the next couple of weeks so you can see them in more detail. I made two projects from my book 1, 2, 3 Quilt, so you’ll get  a sneak peek of what to expect next year.

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Stamped Fabric Preview

I finally got around to taking some photos of the fabric from my new Stamped collection for Kokka. The texture of the linen/cotton blend makes the fabric look so different from the digital images that I wanted to make sure I had photos of the actual fabric to show you. I’m really excited about this collection and hope you like it too!

You can see all of the prints and colorways below. There are six prints in the collection, each in three colorways. To give you an idea of scale,  the cheater print pictured just below is a large-scale design, with squares that are about 6″ and the ladybugs are about 2 1/2″ tall. The other prints are perfect for smaller piecing projects, but not tiny in scale. You can see more of the collection in the Seven Islands booth next week at International Quilt Market. I think it will be shipping to stores in early 2013. The prints are, as pictured below: Cheater, Triangles, Circle Flowers, Ginkgo Leaves, Scallops and Ladybugs.

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Stamped Yardage

I got some exciting mail on Friday — yardage from my new Stamped collection for Kokka! Suppose I’ll be doing lots of sewing from now until Quilt Market.

The Stamped collection for Kokka will be showing at Fall Quilt Market in Houston and will ship to fabric shops in early 2013. Please contact the U.S. distributor, Seven Islands Fabric, for wholesale ordering information.

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The Week in Pictures

Here’s what I’ve been doing this week on Instagram: making color corrections on strike-offs, blending everything in sight with our new Vitamix, getting the kids’ lunches packed during their first week of school, and finishing up some projects for 1, 2, 3 Quilt. Laura Malek and I are taking pictures, I’ve got some help sewing binding and getting everything finished. It has been such a long process this time around, so I am really looking forward to a break this fall!

Oh, and head over to True Up to see a bit more from my new collection for Kokka. You’ll notice in the Dresden above that I’ve already started cutting into my strike-offs (the scalloped design).

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My Collection for Kokka!

If you follow me on Instagram, you’ve seen that I just got strike-offs of my new fabric collection with Kokka! Yes, Kokka! I’m so excited to be working with this company that I can’t even begin to tell you. Really. I love absolutely everything that Kokka makes and to see my designs printed on their beautiful linen/cotton blend is a thrill. I cannot wait to sew with these fabrics!

If you’re not familiar with Kokka, they are a Japanese company with a few really amazing American designers including Melody Miller and Heather Ross. Kokka has lots of adorable prints and produces beautiful, high quality fabric. I’m just giving you a peek today, but I’ll show you more soon! The collection is called Stamped, inspired by hand-printed fabric with a bit of a handmade feel. The collection will be shown at fall market and will be in shops in early 2013.

I’d also like to say that I’m incredibly grateful to Moda for giving me the opportunity to produce my debut fabric collection last year. And Quilt Blocks is in stores now, so go pick some up if you haven’t had a chance!