Focus on Embroidery: See what coordinates with our fabric!

We're focusing on embroidery here on the blog this week; today we're showing the embroidery collections that coordinate with some of our designers' fabric lines. 

Jackie Robinson has embroidery lines that coordinate with her three most recent fabric collections. 

A Mum for a Mum

Father Frost

Chickadees & Berries

Nancy Halvorsen has an embroidery collection for her Christmas Pure & Simple line, as well as some of her older lines.

Amanda Murphy has embroidery collections for two fabric lines:

Carina

Sparkle (consider this a sneak peek of one our holiday 2016 collections!)

 Susan Rooney has an embroidery collection for her Breezy Blooms line.

Cherry Guidry has embroidery collections for her two most recent lines:

Soul Blossom

Sunday Ride

Click here to see OESD's embroidery collections, including those featured in this post.  

p.s. We're launching an exciting giveaway (a sewing machine!) on Facebook. Be sure to check our Facebook page Wednesday evening for details! 

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Color Weave

Introducing your new favorite basic: Color Weave!

This fun new blender from Contempo Studios comes in a variety of colors (great combinations of dark, medium, and light values!) and features a woven-texture look that adds a little zing to your projects. 

Check out these colors!

One other great feature of these Color Weave blenders--they coordinate perfectly with both Amanda Murphy's Carina fabrics...

...and Cherry Guidry's Soul Blossom fabrics!

Click here to see the entire Color Weave collection.

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Soul Blossom

Designer Cherry Guidry says she developed her new Soul Blossom collection in the winter, and when you see the fresh, soft palette, along with the florals, birds, and butterflies, you know she was yearning for spring! Scroll down to learn more from Cherry about her new line.

Here are larger swatches of two of the prints in the collection:

The main floral print:

 The stripe: 

How did Soul Blossom come to be?

I was designing in the middle of winter and I wanted flowers! The flowers came together with some doodling I’d been doing. And of course I was into just doodling. Along with that, we had just gotten chickens for the first time ever. The birds in the fabrics have the comb like chickens have, and that particular print is called Chick a Doodle.

Can you tell us about a few favorites from the collection?

The Soul Blossom print, the large floral with the mum-looking flower and the feather, was the starting point for the collection. From the blenders, my favorite is the Soul Squares print. I love squares, geometrics. Next would be the doodle flower.

The color palette is so fresh and clean. How did you choose what hues to use?

My first love is aqua. Aqua and green were the starting point—I cannot get away from those colors!  I threw some grays in there because I love gray too—my whole house is gray these days. Adding pinks and yellows rounded it out. 

Here are a few patterns Cherry has designed using Soul Blossom. You can find them on her website.

Fantasy Blossoms; an appliqued wall hanging

Mini Blossoms Miniature; comes with 7 different layout options!

Soul Blossoms; a BOM quilt

Click here to see the entire Soul Blossom collection.
Click here to find Cherry's patterns.

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