Quilt Market Booth Tour: Contempo Studio

Ready for a sneak peek at our upcoming fabric lines? 

Last weekend we showed our future collections to quilt shop owners (watch for these fabrics arriving in your quilt shop over the next six months), and for the next three days we'll share photos from the show so you can see what's coming!

Take a peek at the Contempo booth:

Our Contempo booth was blooming with color and fresh designs from our star-studded line-up of designers! Which quilts will you add to your "to sew" list? It's so hard to choose! 

At left: Cherry Guidry's Front Porch and Words to Live By collections

Right: Christa Watson's Fandangle collection

A closer look at Cherry's "Shades" quilt, made using her Front Porch fabrics. Sew much fun! 

Christa's skirt is made from Fandangle fabric! We love how she coordinates with the booth!

Photo courtesy: Christa Watson

Zip bags? Love 'em!

Photo courtesy: Christa Watson

Christa's quilts are packed with luscious color. 

Photo courtesy: Christa Watson

More from our Contempo booth:

At left, Amanda Murphy's Free Motion Fantasy collection

Middle, Amy Friend's By Hand collection

At right, Printology by Modern Quilt Studio

We love the swirl action in Amanda's quilts! 

Photo courtesy: Amanda Murphy

 Free Motion Fantasy fabric close-up:

Photo courtesy: Amanda Murphy

 Amy Friend's new By Hand collection is rich with rainbow colors

Printology fabrics shine in Weeks and Bill's quilts

More Printology: The sophisticated Modern Quilt Studio booth

Photo courtesy: Modern Quilt Studio

Tour all three booths:

Benartex

Kanvas

Contempo

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Quilt Market Booth Tour: Kanvas

Ready for a sneak peek at our upcoming fabric lines? 

Last weekend we showed our future collections to quilt shop owners (watch for these fabrics arriving in your quilt shop over the next six months), and for the next three days we'll share photos from the show so you can see what's coming!

Take a peek at the Kanvas booth:

Our Kanvas booth was dino-riffic! 

It featured the fun new Dino Glow fabrics, which--wait for it--GLOW IN THE DARK! 

What Quilt Market booth wouldn't be complete without a blow-up dinosaur?! 

And a stuffed dinosaur.

All ready for a glow-in-the-dark campout. 

Pillow? Check.

Tent? Check.

Dino friends? Check. 

Look for Dino Glow and the coordinating Glow for It basics collection (37 SKUs!) in quilt shops at the end of summer. 

Kanvas isn't only about dinosaurs; below are quilts made from other upcoming fabric collections: 

Cool blues, teals, grays and blacks in the sophisticated Palermo collection: 

The Full Moon pattern (available as a free download in early fall) featuring the Moon Shadows collection.

The possibilities are endless with the Space Odyssey collection!

Color Calypso features bright pops of pink and purple

(there's a blue colorway as well!).

Rich colors and butterflies shine in the Butterfly Jewel collection.

Stop back to see more! 
Click here to tour our Benartex booth.
On Friday, we'll share photos from the Contempo booth. 

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Quilt Market Booth Tour: Benartex

Ready for a sneak peek at our upcoming fabric lines? 

Last weekend we showed our future collections to quilt shop owners (watch for these fabrics arriving in your quilt shop over the next six months), and for the next three days we'll share photos from the show so you can see what's coming!

Take a peek at the Benartex booth:

These majestic purple and green prints are from Jackie Robinson's Lilacs in Bloom collection. Gorgeous!

Say hello to Ann Lauer and her stunning Midnight Poppies collection. 

A peek behind the scenes: whipstitching Midnight Poppies pillow covers closed before the show starts!

The dramatic poppy stripe works beautifully on a rectangular pillow.

My Secret Garden is Cheryl Haynes' appealing new collection. 

Warm yellows and soft blues in springy garden prints! 

Learn more about these new collections on Facebook. Click on the Videos tab and watch the Designer Showcase. 

Thanks to our set-up team! Melanie Greseth and Joanie Holton designed the booth layout and brought along reinforcements (their brother and kids) to put everything in place. Nice job, team! 

Stop back to see more! 
On Thursday we'll share photos from the Kanvas booth.
On Friday, we'll share photos from the Contempo booth. 

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Quilt Market Preview

We're on our way to Portland for Spring Quilt Market, where we'll introduce our upcoming lines to quilt shops! Here's a look at our schedule; if you're heading to Quilt Market, we hope you'll stop by our booth to see our fabrics and say hello, as well as attend our Designer Showcase sessions and Schoolhouses. Next week, we'll share photos of the booths and sneak peeks of our new fabric lines.  

You can also watch from home! 

We'll be streaming our Designer Showcase sessions on Facebook Live. 

Click here to find us on Facebook.

Schoolhouses: 

One more thing...We have a special Market edition of Win-It Wednesday! 
You can win fabric bundles! 

Spring Quilt Market is this weekend in Portland Oregon. One of the fun events at Market is Sample Spree ... since you can't be there, we are having our very own Sample Spree Giveaway featuring FQ bundles of four very popular lines from last market. Five lucky winners will each receive one of the prizes shown! Please note that this contest is for Facebook only--we're just promoting it here on the blog. 
Click here to visit our FB page.

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Spring Quilt Market Booth Tour - Day 3

We're back from Spring Quilt Market with plenty to show! Today is the third day of our booth tour, offering you sneak peeks at our upcoming fabric lines. We're showing the booth displays and new collections from Amy Friend, Cherry Guidry, Amanda Murphy, and Kanvas.

Amy Friend is a new designer for Contempo and we're so excited to have her on board! Her first collection is called Improv. 

As you can see, Amy has been busy in the time leading up to Market--look at the quilts and pillows in her booth. 

Flitter quilt pattern:

Amy's Bangles & Beads quilt pattern:

Amy's Improv Paper Piecing book fits in nicely with her fabric line! 

Improv paper pieced pillows--love this owl!

 Close up:

 Great detail on this pillow: 

Amy introduced her line and quilts to quilt shop owners:

Click here for a sneak peek at the entire Improv collection by Amy Friend, available in quilt shops this summer. 

Cherry Guidry's booth display featured her new baby-themed collection, called You Are My Sunshine.

Cherry standing with her boy/girl quilt patterns--so sweet! 

These three small wall quilts were inspired by the name of the collection. Adorable! 

Love the large toy animals! 

Look at the detailed applique on this elephant!

Every nursery needs a rocking chair complete with a quilt and pillows.

A tuffet for a nursery? Yes please! 

Who can resist a diaper bag or changing pad made from these cute fabrics?

And of course bibs! 

During the designer showcase, Cherry showed quilt shop owners her fabric collection and all the different ways it can be used. 

Click here for a sneak peek at the My Little Sunshine collection by Cherry Guidry, available in quilt shops end of summer. 

Amanda Murphy's latest collection, Folk Art Fantasy, brings a modern flair to popular folk art motifs. And as a bonus, this palette coordinates with her Sewing Room collection!

The centerpiece of Amanda's booth display was this impressive quilt, Folklore:

Center detail:

Folk Garden: Small applique quilts use motifs from Amanda's fabrics. 

The All Star quilt design; one pattern done in two colorways:

Folk Art Lane: sew your own town! 

Look at Amanda's gorgeous quilting on the Folk Art Flowers quilt:

A cute romper and fabric baskets:

 Love these fabrics!

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

The Kanvas booth showcased the new Floral Impressions collection. The fabric line comes in three colorways: Rose/Plum, Black/Ivory and Turquoise/Blue.

Large hexies on the right and the free quilt pattern, Impressive Grid, to the left. 

Pillows the Black/Ivory colorway: 

Turquoise/Blue: A Pink Sand Beach Designs tote bag and two elegant clutches:

The Impressive Grid quilt in the Turqouise/Blue colorway: 

Click here for a sneak peek at the Floral Impressions collection, available in quilt shops late summer. 

Did you catch the first two days of our Quilt Market booth tour? 

Click here to see fabrics and quilts by Nancy Halvorsen, Rose Ann Cook, and Cheryl Haynes. 

Click here to see fabrics by Ann Lauer, Matthew Pridemore, and Jackie Robinson.

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