Fabrics coming soon, part IV

Me and my sister introduce their funny fabric line, Good Morning. Quilt kits, new house technique and more

Sherri Falls from This n That pattern company shows her new creations. She has also done a block of the month featuring Chateau Rouge fabrics from French General.

Lisa Bonegan from Primitive Gatherings is one of the hardest working women in the industry.

Market Favorites: Notions

Swatch buddies were a huge hit at market!

They contain all you need to easily create and label swatches

for your shopping and designing needs.

      INCLUDES:

*Ball chain holder (12ct pk) OR Stainless Steel Cable Ring with thumb screw fastener (24 & 48ct pk)

*plastic cards 

*double-sided removable adhesive templates for cutting and mounting swatches 

*removable labels

Available in 12, 24 & 48 count packs.

Beautiful new threads from our new designers Pat Sloan & Vanessa Christenson. 

These little bobbin bikinis are too cute for keeping your bobbins nice and tidy. 

Fun decals for decorating you or your kids/grandkids sewing machine.

Quilty wall & car decals. 

We handed these fun new Temporary Tattoos during a book signing and the quilters went crazy over them. 

With their low cost these will be great giveaways at Shop Hops. 

New Clover products including these Clam Shells. 

Available in small, medium and large they are great for storing things from coins to makeup to sewing tools.

Brand New & Exclusive to United Notions are the Moda Bias Assortments. 

3 Assortments to choose from:

Bella Solids

Moda Marbles

Marble/Bella Mix

Assortments come in a beautiful wooden display.  

It was a hit at last market and continued to go strong at this market. 

Click below to browse through the Market Catalog for all the newest notions. 

Fabrics coming soon, Part III

Sandy Gervais introduces Everlasting fabric collection and Month by Month door decor patterns. Everlastings will be at your favorite store this September.

Joanna from Fig Tree and Co shows her new collection, Tapestry. Also, Joanna has a book from Wiley, With Fabric and Thread. The book is available in stores now.

Lynne introduces Harvest Moon fabrics and shows the new moda precut called Moda Candy.

Moda Candy ( 42- 2 1/2" squares ) will be available in 9 different collections this fall.

Fabrics coming soon, Part II

Lauren and Jesse Jung had thier first booth at Market and won a ribbon for best new exhibitor. Congratualtions!

Meet Jan Patek. Fellowship collection available at your favorite quilt shop August 2012.

Liesl shares the most adorable childrens patterns using Fabrics from the Ladies Stitching Club fabrics. She also has a new brand, Straight Stitch Society and fun sewing patterns.

Life is hard, Sewing is Easy. - Liesl Gibson

Fabrics coming soon

Meet some of the moda designers showing their new patterns and fabrics. Sandy Klop introduces her new line of Fabric, ABC123 in stores in time for back to school in August.

Susan from the design team of Sweetwater shows off their new line, Mama Said Sew.

The sister team of Polly Minick and Laurie Simpson share their vision for their collection, Independence Trail. Fabrics available in stores August. We are very excited to have 100% wool back in their line also. Wool Layer cakes and fat quarter bundles will also be available.

Quilt Market Spring 2012 sneak peek 2

Day 1 of Market is over and I cannot begin to describe the energy, excitement and enthusiasm on the show floor. Don't get me wrong, this is not like strolling along Michigan Avenue's over the top window displays, but pretty close. Market is long hours and miles of walking on lightly carpeted concrete floors. One saying that is true for market is "fashion stops at the knee."

This is so true because it is all about the comfortable shoes.

Yesterday I showed you some of the new collections and I thought I would go ahead

and wet your appetite for a few more  fabrics that

will be headed to your favorite store this fall.

The first three groups shown are designers that have just debuted their first line with moda. How exciting for them to see all their months of work come to fruition.

More feast for your eyes with the following collections.

Now would be a good time to clean your sewing machine, change your needles and get it all oiled up for fall and holiday sewing.

Make your shopping list!!

Spring Quilt Market 2012-Sneak Peek Part 1

We are all in the throws of excitment as the booth is being set up, quilts are being displayed and the final touches are put in place for the shopowners to arrive and see what the team of designers have created for them.  The doors open in about an hour!

These are some of the items will arrive in stores beginning this fall,

 so take a sneak peek at some of the collections debuting at market.

Stop back by tomorrow for more pics.

                          Visit your favorite store to see which collections they will have this fall.

Thank you for choosing moda fabrics.

In the Press

Look for the following ads in some of your favorite magazines.

Be on the lookout for Fellowship by Jan Patek and Linda Brannock hitting Stores August 2012.

The Fellowship ad can be seen in the July 2012 issue of American Quilter.

Joy by Kate Spain

Joy is featured in Quilting Arts- June July 2012 issue.

Available in stores June 2012.

Juggling Summer by Zen Chic is featured in American Quilt Retailer

Quilt Market issue

Juggling Summer will be in stores October 2012

Good Morning by Me & My Sister

Rise and Shine with Barb and Mary and their fun patterns.

Featured in

American Patchwork and Quilting, August 2012 issue.

Fabric arrives in stores August.



Kansas City Schoolhouse

Thursday May 17th
there is a fantastic event at Quilt Market.

The event is called
SCHOOLHOUSE.

It is just as exciting and nervewracking as the first day of school.

.......arrive early

........pick up your schedule

......anxiously look over the classes and teachers

........plot  and plan which classes to attend

.......bell sounds- on your mark get set go

.....move from class to class with a 5 minute break in between classes

Schoolhouse lasts all day and is full of new products,

information, class ideas, demos, block of the months

 and much much more.

If you are attending Market and have already registered for schoolhouse,

I wanted to share some of the moda designers classes

as well as some moda sponsored classes.

4:55 Moda Designers Group schoolhouse- What’s the buzz Part 1
5:30 Moda Designers Group schoolhouse- What’s the buzz Part 2

 This is a two part class. You will want to attend both sessions to hear about all the buzzing.

Additional Class Times and Room Numbers

11:00AM - 11:30AM Scrappy Fireworks Book -  Edyta Sitar Rm.2215C

11:35AM - 12:05AM Fabric Silhouettes (Over the Rainbow)  Rm 2215C

12:10 -12:40  Whats new - Fig Tree and Co.  Rm 2505B

1:55-2:10 Auriful designer      Pat Sloan Rm 2206

1:55-2:10 Zen Chic Room 2215C

2:15-2:30 Online resources-  Missouri Star Room 2215C

2:15- 2:30 Polly Minick American Summer Rm 2203

2:35-3:05 Coach House Designs Room 2215C

3:10-3:40 Bigfork Bay Cotton Co and Pat Sloan Room 2215C

3:45-4:15  Barbara Brackman  Room 2215C

4:20 off the shelf- patterns- Lynne Wilson Room 2215C

4:55 – 5:25. BCS Mystery Club is in room 2204

I would show you a picture of this one, BUT it is a mystery so I can't.
You will have to be at Market to see this one.
 It features Blackbird Designs new collection, Cinnamon Spice. Yummy!

Meet the New Designers

PAT SLOAN

Pat Sloan has been creating since she was a child. From the first shoebox dioramas to sketches for a fabric line, there has always been creative energy flowing. When she tried her hand at quilting in 1989, she never looked back. During a career in computers as a software developer and project manager she started her design business in the evenings and weekends. Then in 2000 she and her husband decided to take the leap and open their family business full time. You'll find Gregg managing all the all the behind the scenes activities.

Pat's quilts have been published in all the national magazine since 1998. She now has over 25 published books with Leisure arts, many patterns, and she hosts American Patchwork & Quilting radio show which is heard around the globe on the internet.. and they are recorded for you to listen to at any time!

Coming from a technology background, Pat has been on a computer since she was 16 years old and the machine took up the entire back of her math class.  A self proclaimed 'Geek' she loves the internet and you will find her at all the best places. She has built blogs, quilting yahoo groups, forums, facebook communities, and even the group “Quilters in Second Life” for quilting enthusiasts using the popular virtual world, Second Life.

Look for Pat in your area, she and Gregg travel all over the world to visit quilters and play with fabric!  Pat’s overall passion has always been to help others harness their creative energy.

Pat will be working with Bigfork Bay Cotton Co. on a block of the month, Red Apple Lane.

Vanessa is a mother of 4 who likes to quilt, sew, decorate, design and have fun. She is a well known blogger, pattern designer and book author. She is known for her simplistic design and creative use of fabric.

Vanessa has been a part of the moda bake shop as well as a contributor to the Moda Bake Shop book, Fresh Treats. Her current book from Martingale is,  Make it Sew Modern, stock #B1100.

Vanessa is introducing Simply Color fabric collection but is most excited

about her ombre fabric. 

 The other skus are pretty cool also.

We fell in love with Brigitte's clean simple lines at market when her booth was right next to ours.

A former interior designer and student of textile design, Brigitte Heitland has been sewing since she was a young girl. Coming from making her own clothes, German Brigitte learned only a few years ago about quilting, but was at once hooked on. She brings her modern and sophisticated style in her quilts characterized by shrewd simplicity, harmonious color and class workmanship. Brigitte launched her brand ZEN CHIC in 2010 and designs not only quilt patterns but also her own fabric lines. Besides she is an experienced longarm quilter and since modern quilting is so dear to her heart she teaches different classes about contemporary quilting techniques and good use of color. Brigitte is mother of three children and lives with her family in Germany. To learn more about her style you’re invited to visit her website http://www.brigitteheitland.de/

Be sure and stop by Moda's booth at Quilt Market to meet these 3 talented ladies. as well as see everything else new and exciting. If you are not  coming to market, stop back by the Cutting Table blog for a full after market interview from the new designers and pictures of their fabrics and projects.

Brigitte Heitland of Zen Chic

Vanessa Christensen of V and Co.

Vanessa Christenson: Simply Color

While sewers of a certain generation often learned to sew by hand, lots of younger stitchers started by cranking up a sewing machine. But not Vanessa Christenson. When she was in middle school she asked a friend of her mom’s to teach her to quilt and because she didn’t have a machine, hand sewing was the method she learned. She created a few blocks, but then high school and college intervened. “I was dating and involved in activities and having so much fun that sewing didn’t come into my mind again for years,” she says.

When it finally reappeared, Vanessa was married, 25 years old, and pregnant with her second son. “I wanted some cool pillows for my home,” says Vanessa, for whom interior design is a lifelong passion; even when she was just four and five years old, she loved moving things around her bedroom.

A friend taught Vanessa the basics—how to turn on and thread a machine—and Vanessa hasn’t looked back since. Today, sewing is a defining characteristic of her life. She’s written a sewing book, Make It Sew Modern; creates patterns for quilts, bags, pillows, and more; and has designed her first line of fabric, Simply Color, for Moda.

Though thoroughly modern, Simply Color was inspired by the past. Vanessa’s an avid thrifter and loves fabrics from the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. “I’ve always been drawn to flowers and ‘spriggy’ things,” she says. One of Simply Color's leaf motifs pays homage to a vintage sheet she found at Goodwill and used to make herself a skirt and a quilt for her daughter.

Simply Color is also inspired by Vanessa’s past. Though she now lives in the Midwest and spent some years in Utah, Vanessa’s roots are in California and she says the blues and greens of the ocean are a constant in her life. She’s excited by the way hues like eggplant and tangerine work so well with her lifelong favorites.

She’s also super-excited about Simply Color’s ombre fabrics. She’d previously played with Bella solids in color values from dark to light to get a similar effect, but being able to get that range of tones from a single piece of fabric is a revelation. “Pleating an ombre fabric is amazing,” says Vanessa, who loves to add texture through her stitching. She’s doing just that for framed wall hangings she’s making for the walls of her four children’s rooms. “Fabric isn’t just in a blanket on your bed or a skirt around your waist,” she says. “It can be so much more!”

For more about Vanessa, visit her blog V & Co. 

Vintage Modern

Are you Vintage?

Do you lean towards the clean Modern lines?

What really is the difference?

That must have been what Bonnie and Camille were thinking when they put together

their current collection of moda fabrics,

 Vintage Modern.

When the creative team at Sew4Home saw this line they immediately knew of the perfect projects that inspire all of us for the perfect Vintage Modern kitchen ensemble.

Vintage Modern is headed to stores in May, so mark your calender for May 14 and follow along every day for tutorials, patterns and tips to whip up these fresh new accessories for your kitchen.

Monday 5/14: Placemats

Tuesday 5/15: How to Make Box Pleats

Wednesday 5/16 Napkins

Thursday 5/17: How to Make Knife Pleats

Friday 5/19 Table Runner

Monday 5/22 Apron

Tuesday 5/23 Recipe Cards

Wednesday 5/24 Oven Mitts

Thursday 5/25 Toaster Cozy

Friday 5/26 Great Giveaway- of course it will included Vintage Modern fabrics!

Follow Moda Fabrics on facebook and twitter as we will be posting from the

International Quilt Market in Kansas City, May 18-20th.