Spring Quilt Market Booth Tour - Day 1

We're back from Spring Quilt Market with plenty to show! We'll be splitting the photos into three days of posts. Today you'll see the booth displays and new collections from Nancy Halvorsen, Rose Ann Cook, and Cheryl Haynes. 

First up, Nancy Halvorsen's display, featuring her bright new collection, Bree. 

Nancy showing her calendar quilt, which features a different applique block and word for each month. The quilt is featured in her new book.

A closer look at the quilt: 

It feels like summer at this fresh patio set, with cushions covered in Bree fabric and a cute hourglass block quilt top. 

A closer look at the quilt: 

Nancy's blocks can be used individually, as well, such as for a pillow.

Adorable themed banners and small wall hangings for each month: 

We're thrilled to see your new collection, Nancy! We've missed you!

A few more quilts made using the Bree collection (both are available as free patterns on our website).

Click here for a sneak peek at the entire collection, available in shops this summer. 


Next, Rose Ann Cook, with her new collection Modern Antiques.

Rose Ann's collection was inspired by the antique quilt she's holding here. 

A gorgeous classic quilt design with twelve different blocks, made from Modern Antiques.

Simple half-square triangles pack a punch in Rose Ann’s “Cracker Jack” quilt.  “Churn Dash Candy” is folded in front.  The quilt to the right with the fanned top (Hidden Shoo Fly) is available as a free quilt pattern on our website.  These three quilts are SISTERS Quilts, meaning that each one can be made from one half of one fat quarter bundle (plus backgrounds, sashing and borders. Rose Ann introduced her line of SISTERS Quilt Patterns at the show.

Star blocks in a table runner

Rose Ann shows the quilt she made using her fabrics based on the antique version.  This quilt, called “Antique 4-Corners” is also a Sisters Quilt Pattern.  She made Antique 4 Corners and the Cracker Jack quilt from the same fat quarter bundle!! 

SISTERS Quilt Patterns are available from Rose Ann’s shop, Quilter’s Emporium.

Click here for a sneak peek at the Modern Antiques collection, available in quilt shops this fall.

Cheryl Haynes' booth display features her three newest collections, Pumpkin Patch, Liberty Hill and Chicks on the Run. 

Cheryl used her Liberty Hill collection to create an iconic Americana quilt, the Liberty Hill Collection Quilt. The pattern can be made into three smaller quilts or combined into the quilt Cheryl's holding below. 

Ready for fall? Pumpkin Patch has all the right prints!

Using Liberty Hill coordinates for a beautiful star quilt.

Cheryl's Liberty Hill quilt on its own.

More details from the Liberty Hill Collection Quilt:

Chicks on the Run--so cute!

Sweet bird and chick themed quilts using the Chicks on the Run fabric:

Click here to see the entire Pumpkin Patch collection, available in quilt shops now. 
Click here to see the entire Liberty Hill collection, available in quilt shops this summer.
Click here for a sneak peek at the Chicks on the Run collection, available in quilt shops this fall.

Stop by tomorrow as we continue our booth tour! 

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Pumpkin Patch

With summer just around the corner, it's the perfect time to start a quilt for fall. That way, when the leaves begin to change and the temperatures cool, your quilt will be finished and ready to enjoy! Cheryl Haynes' new collection, Pumpkin Patch, has just the right fall flavors.

It starts with the panel, full of favorite fall motifs: pumpkins, sunflowers, leaves...

And moves into harvest-color coodinates:

 We asked Cheryl to tell us more about the Pumpkin Patch fabrics.

You do so many seasonally themed collections. How did you decide what to include in Pumpkin Patch?
Fall is my favorite time of the year. It begins right after the kids go back to school, and then the nights get cool and the mornings have that crisp, chilly air about them. For fall motifs, I really like pumpkins. I love the orange color on black, so we decided to go with the black background this time, which really makes the pumpkins pop out. I added in the blackbirds—you see so many in the fall, probably because of the sunflower and corn.

Tell us about how you designed the collection.

First I do the panel and then we pull the other fabrics from the panel itself. I started doing some sketches—I actually used colored pencils on this one—to get an idea of what color goes where. I really wanted to include the sunflowers—worked really hard to make them look good and they just turned out so well on this fabric. I love the sunflowers in the pumpkin bowl in the panel.

How did you branch out the color palette?

Pumpkins come in all different colors and so do leaves—I balanced the design by adding in gold tones. I love all the colors in here—the pumpkin and the honey—the greens. I try to use a lot of tan in my lines. Because I use a lot of tan in my quilts, I try to have at least four or five shades of tan in a line. They make such great backgrounds and fillers.

Tell us about a few of your favorite prints.

The paisley is a new design, and I absolutely love it.

I dearly love my pumpkin leaf stripe. It’s so great to use as a sashing. 

One of the new tonals we did for this line is called Whispering Sunflowers. I love tonals. You can create a piece of art with different shades of fabric that barely have a pattern to them.

What do you especially like about this collection?

You can create totally different looks depending on which fabrics you use. You can choose to feature pumpkins, sunflowers, or just blenders and the paisleys. I like to use the tonal fabrics in a pattern, and then use on of the prints, like the crow and sunflower print, as a border.

What patterns are you working on with the Pumpkin Patch fabrics?

I have three different patterns: Autumn in New England, Harvest Song, and Midnight Pumpkins. They’ll be available on my website. Here’s a sneak peek at Midnight Pumpkins.

Cheryl's "Four Pumpkins" free quilt pattern uses the tonals from Pumpkin Patch. 

Click here to download the free quilt pattern.

"Harvest Pumpkins" by Benartex Studio features the panel surrounded by pieced borders.

Click here to download the free quilt pattern.

Cheryl also shows you how to cut up the panel to make these sweet wall hangings and table topper.

Click here to download the free patterns.

Click here to see the entire Pumpkin Patch collection. 
Click here to find the free quilt patterns. 
Click here to visit Cheryl's website.

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