Quilt Market recap :: Part Deux

Sorry this post took so long to publish—it is only a few weeks late. So much going on around here 🙂

Well, ten days is entirely too long to be away from one’s family—I now have empirical evidence. Skype was moderately helpful. But the best part was coming home in the middle of the night to see my clan. My son could sense that I was near so he woke up (!) like those stories you hear about dogs knowing when their owners are coming home and so he was wide awake to greet me at midnight (!!) a lucky and joyous reunion in the dark of night. My little ladybird wouldn’t rouse from her slumber no matter how much I kissed her.

But It was all worthwhile. First Quilt Market and then five days of Quilt Festival where I met so many wonderful modern sewists from around le monde. But back to the hubbub of Market: on the very first day as I was setting up my booth a lovely blonde woman stopped to take a peek and she was so kind and I told her she looked familiar but after about one second I realized it was Lotta! Lotta Jansdotter was my first craft crush. Maybe ten years ago, I found her and fell in love with her artfully drawn products: bags, totes, stationery, etc. Earlier posts here and here. I have so many of her products in my house—sticky labels, stationery, paper lunch bags, her books, and a long-lost apron. I have hoarded them for all these years. I dole them out on a need-to-use basis. She is a true artist. Lotta has just designed a pretty new collection of fabrics, but this time instead of small runs on linen, they have been created by Windham Fabrics on quilting cotton. The collection is called Echo and it rocks! Buy it here. Blogged here. She is just a really kind person and you’d never know that she is a supah-stah designer.

Lotta with her Echo line

I met so many inspiring people many of whom I have known through the blogosphere. Like Ellen Luckett Baker. She is a crafty mama from the South who writes the wonderful blog, the Long Thread, which I have read for a long while. Ellen has a new book out which is filled with great projects and was debuting her new line of fabrics, Quilt Blocks, for Moda. I can’t wait to sew with them…

Ellen Luckett Baker’s new fabrics for Moda.

Malka Dubrawsky is another great blogger and artist. She writes the blog A Stitch in Dye and designs gorgeous hand-dyed fabrics which she uses for quilting and sewing. Her palette is always a riot of fun, bold colors. She has interpreted her fabric designs into a new collection for Moda called, A Stitch in Color. Can’t wait to get my hands on these!

I met so many of my other craft heroes—the exquisite Rashida Coleman-Hale of I Heart Linen who has a new book out, Zakka Style, that has to be incredible because she is so talented and inspiring. I have her first book, I Heart Patchwork, which I just lu-uh-uve.

Kathy Mack, of Pink Chalk Fabrics (my very first customer) was there buying new things for her amazing online shop. And Sarai Mitnick of the tres chic Colette was there with a booth showing her gorgeous vintage mid-century/French-inspired garment sewing patterns. She wins my prize for greatest palette of any booth. She really understands color and how it communicates a mood. If her booth could pout, it would! Creams, peaches, champagnes, and enameled soft aqua, and navy blue. Her designs say come hither without anything being revealed. They are just so pretty.

Colette’s booth at Market.

Sarai also has a new book out, The Colette Sewing Handbook, and I WANT it. Although, I would like to know exactly when I will have time to sew gorgeous clothes for myself?

November 28, 2011 Design Author: carriebloomston

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