Quilt Market Tour: Contempo Studio

We're back from Quilt Market in Houston with plenty of photos to show you our booth (and give you a sneak peek at some of our upcoming fabric collections!). Enjoy!

A look at the Contempo booth, with a flower shop theme:

The whole booth from another angle:

Projects made from Sarah Vedeler's Transformation collection 

(love those 3-D flowers!)

The soothing greens, teals and grays of Fresh Bloom by Michele D'Amore

The 3-D flowers go perfectly with Michele's Fresh Blooms fabrics!

Mix & Match by E. Vive...a basics collection with plenty of flair!

Quilts made using Cherry Guidry's newest collection, Sunday Ride

A phenomenal Lonestar quilt made using Cherry's Sunday Ride coordinates--all that applique in the center is so striking!

Holiday cheer in Amanda Murphy's new collection, Sparkle! Stockings, snowflakes, and more!

Photo courtesy: @amandamurphydesign

Amanda created coordinating emboridery motifs for these cute bags made from Sparkle (and a peek at a fat quarter bundle!).

Photo courtesy: @amandamurphydesign

Click here to see the Benartex booth tour.
Click here to see the Kanvas booth tour.

Watch for these fabrics to be featured here on the blog and then be available in your local quilt shop in early 2016!

Quilt Market Tour: Kanvas booth

We're back from Quilt Market in Houston with plenty of photos to show you our booth (and give you a sneak peek at some of our upcoming fabric collections!). Enjoy!

The motto of the Kanvas booth: Creativity is a piece of cake!

Love that checkerboard floor!

 The motto with visual aids--fabric cake slices and cupcakes!

 A gorgeous multi layer cake made using Bloom with a View by Maria Kalinowski

A fall-themed tiered cake using Maria Kalinowski's Leaf into Autumn collection. 

Getting ready for the holidays with Noel by Maria Kalinowski

A contemporary cake and quilt using Rhapsody in Blue

Fussy-cut fabric does the work in this cake and quilt featuring Joyful.

Glamour and glitz with Metallics

A layer cake with flair: the Carmen collection

These fabric collections look almost good enough to eat, don't they?! 

Click here to see the Benartex booth tour.

Quilt Market Tour: Benartex booth

We're back from Quilt Market in Houston with plenty of photos to show you our booth (and give you a peek at some of our upcoming new fabric collections!). Enjoy!

A gallery of quilts from different designers made from Paula Nadelstern's new Chromazone collection.

Putting those fabulous focal prints to use: clutches made from Chromazone--such a piece of art!

Table for two for some fine dining...the Golden Holiday collection.

Golden Holiday showcased in two quilts

From left to right: Garden Days by Cheryl Haynes, Divine Twine and Brittany (with Golden Holidays peeking around the corner)

Another view of the quilts above, plus two quilt on the left from Ann Lauer's new Circle Play collection.

Ann Lauer's Imagine This and Sensational quilt patterns, shown in Circle Play. 

The Benartex Coffee Shop, showcasing Basic Black & Beige by Jackie Robinson

Caryl Bryer Fallert Gentry's New Wave collection

From left: Garden Oasis Balis (teals), Tie-Dye Balis II, New Wave (white with on-point squares) and New Wave (pink, orange and black/white), and then Basics Black & Beige display on the right

Stop by the next two days for tours of the Kanvas and Contempo booths!

Guess the fabric line Winners!

Thanks to everyone who played our "Guess the fabric line" game over the last few days. It was so much fun to see your fabric line name guesses!

Here are our randomly selected winners:

Day 1: 

Kathy E. from Dubuque, IA

Her guess: Seed Jam

Day 2:

Gene B. from Anniston, AL

His guess: Technicolor Snow

Day 3:

Nadine H. from Ramsey, MI

Her guess: Ebony and Ivory

Day 4: 

Barb J. from Verona, PA

Her guess: Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer

Congratulations to the winners! We'll be contacting you by email. 

Watch for these fabrics to be featured here on the blog and then be available in your local quilt shop in early 2016!

Guess the fabric line: Day 4

While we're at Quilt Market, we're posting a picture each day with a sneak peek of one of our newest fabric lines. We want you to guess the name of the collection for a chance to win a FQ bundle of the fabric!

Please e-mail your guess to us at socialmedia23@gmail.com with the subject line “Guess the Name Day 4.” In the body of the e-mail please include your guess, along with your full name and mailing address. Only one guess per person per day please. (And...first looks at some of these fabric lines may already be out there, but remember, this game is just for fun. You don't have to guess the right name for a chance to win; you just need to guess a name.) Be creative! We can't wait to see your ideas! 

The Day 4 contest is now over, thanks for playing! Please see the fabric line name below. 

Each day’s contest will last for 24 hours. At the end of the 24 hours we will randomly choose a name from all of the e-mails to receive a fat quarter bundle of that collection. You do not need to guess the correct name to win. Feel free to post your guess as a comment to each photo if you would like, but blog comments will not be counted as entries into the contest.

We hope that you all enjoy your sneak peek of the new lines, and look forward to seeing what you think the names should be!

Here's today's fabric collection:

Guess the fabric line: Day 3

While we're at Quilt Market, we're posting a picture each day with a sneak peek of one of our newest fabric lines. We want you to guess the name of the collection for a chance to win a FQ bundle of the fabric!

Please e-mail your guess to us at socialmedia23@gmail.com with the subject line “Guess the Name Day 3.” In the body of the e-mail please include your guess, along with your full name and mailing address. Only one guess per person per day please. (And...first looks at some of these fabric lines may already be out there, but remember, this game is just for fun. You don't have to guess the right name for a chance to win; you just need to guess a name.) Be creative! We can't wait to see your ideas! 

The Day 3 contest is now over, thanks for playing! Please see the fabric line name below. 

Each day’s contest will last for 24 hours. At the end of the 24 hours we will randomly choose a name from all of the e-mails to receive a fat quarter bundle of that collection. You do not need to guess the correct name to win. Feel free to post your guess as a comment to each photo if you would like, but blog comments will not be counted as entries into the contest.

We hope that you all enjoy your sneak peek of the new lines, and look forward to seeing what you think the names should be!

Here's today's fabric collection:

Guess the fabric line: Day 2

While we're at Quilt Market, we're posting a picture each day with a sneak peek of one of our newest fabric lines. We want you to guess the name of the collection for a chance to win a FQ bundle of the fabric!

Please e-mail your guess to us at socialmedia23@gmail.com with the subject line “Guess the Name Day 2.” In the body of the e-mail please include your guess, along with your full name and mailing address. Only one guess per person per day please. (And...first looks at some of these fabric lines may already be out there, but remember, this game is just for fun. You don't have to guess the right name for a chance to win; you just need to guess a name.) Be creative! We can't wait to see your ideas! 

The Day 2 contest is now over, thanks for playing! Please see the fabric line name below. (Plus another chance to win some Chromazone fabric!)

Each day’s contest will last for 24 hours. At the end of the 24 hours we will randomly choose a name from all of the e-mails to receive a fat quarter bundle of that collection. You do not need to guess the correct name to win. Feel free to post your guess as a comment to each photo if you would like, but blog comments will not be counted as entries into the contest.

We hope that you all enjoy your sneak peek of the new lines, and look forward to seeing what you think the names should be!

Here's today's fabric collection:

p.s. Want another chance to win new fabric? Bernina's WeAllSew blog is offering a giveaway of Paula Nadelstern's new Chromazone collection (featured here on our blog yesterday!), along with a great interview with Paula herself about her design work. Check it out (and find out how to enter this separate giveaway) here.

Guess the Fabric Line!

While we're at Fall Quilt Market 2015 in Houston, Texas, we wanted you to have some fun, too. Our booth will be full of some fantastic new fabric collections which you'll soon see in your local quilt shops. We'll be showing four of those fabric lines here, and we'd like you to guess their names! 

Each day we'll randomly pick a winner from the guesses to receive a fat quarter bundle of the day's fabric. (And...first looks at some of these fabric lines may already be out there, but remember, this game is just for fun. You don't have to guess the right name for a chance to win; you just need to guess a name.) Be creative! We can't wait to see your ideas! 

Starting today (October 23rd) through Monday (October 26^th) we will be posting a picture with a sneak peek of one of our newest fabric lines. We want you to guess the name of the collection!

Please e-mail your guess to us at socialmedia23@gmail.com with the subject line “Guess the Name Day 1.” In the body of the e-mail please include your guess, along with your full name and mailing address. Only one guess per person per day please.

The Day 1 contest is now over, thanks for playing! Please see the fabric line name below.

Each day’s contest will last for 24 hours. At the end of the 24 hours we will randomly choose a name from all of the e-mails to receive a fat quarter bundle of that collection. You do not need to guess the correct name to win. Feel free to post your guess as a comment to each photo if you would like, but blog comments will not be counted as entries into the contest.

We hope that you all enjoy your sneak peek of the new lines, and look forward to seeing what you think the names should be!

Day 1 fabric collection:

Quilt Market Sneak Peek: Sevilla

It's Quilt Market week, so while we're setting up our booth in Houston we're sharing sneak peeks of some of our new fabric collections.

Here's Sevilla, a new line by Andrea Komninos for  Contempo Studio that we're debuting at Quilt Market.

These bold new geometric and abstract designs from Australia blend together effortlessly to create exciting projects for the modern sewist. The colors, too, are new and trendy: turquoise/lime/navy; gold/black; or a wild combo of purple/red/gold. So easy to use - great for large patch quilts, cool totes, aprons and home dec pillows and tabletop accessories. Modern fabrics - Australian style!

It's Quilt Market Time! Carmen Sneak Peek

It's Quilt Market week, so while we're setting up our booth in Houston we're sharing sneak peeks of some of our new fabric collections.

Take a look at Carmen, a new Kanvas line we're debuting at Fall Quilt Market.

The rich colors of Classical Spain - deep reds, greens, bronze - are a huge fashion trend right now, and they are also the inspiration for this spectacular fabric collection. These intricate florals, flower vines, damasks, and swirls are all delicately touched with metallic gold. The effect is magical, the designs exquisite. The rich colors and patterns will make beautiful quilts and home decorating projects.