We are gearing up for the Spring Quilt Market posts and it’s hard to come up with fabrics to show leading up to them, because I don’t want to scoop my own writers! But here’s a collection that I must have missed at last market and is now just arriving in stores — Atomic Bots by Silvia Dekker for Wilmington Prints. Silvia lives in the Netherlands and is a Lilla Rogers designer. This is actually her second Wilmington collection, the first was the flannel collection Winter Warmth.

Fabric stack photo from Fabricworm (they even have the collection, along with all children’s fabrics, on sale through Thursday 5/23/13!).

Tags: fabric collections, silvia dekker, wilmington prints | Category: Fabrics 2012

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Britex Fabrics: 20% off linen fabrics. (online only, through 5/31/13)

Connecting Threads: 30% off batting. (through 6/17/13)

Contemporary Cloth: 25% off selected yardage and pre-cuts, no code needed, discount appears in shopping cart. (end date unknown)

Delta Patchwork: 10% off all in-stock Solids and Tonal Category (through 5/22/13). Special of the Month – 10% off all 108″ quilt backs (through 5/31/13). Always free shipping in contiguous USA for orders $40+.

Drygoods Design: Domestic orders $35+ always ship free.

eQuilter: Ocean-themed fabrics 10% off. 1 yard minimum on sale fabrics. (through 5/26/13)

Fabric.com: 20% off kids fabrics (quilting, home dec, and apparel). 15% off fabric picks and free pattern download for Allison’s Ruffled Pillowcase Top & Dress Pattern. Additional 20% off clearance with code CLEAR513. (through 5/20/13) Always free shipping on orders $35+.

The Fabric Stash: Website redesigned – a new section of $6/yard fabric including Riley Blake and Westminster/FreeSpirit. (while supplies last) Free shipping on U.S. orders $100+ and international orders $150+.

Fabricworm: 10% off all children’s fabrics (through 5/22/13). Always $5 off your purchase of $50+ with coupon code linus5. Always 10% off orders $100+ with code bulk10.

Fat Quarter Shop: 50% off 100+ items from Andover Fabrics. 40% off Sending My Love by Marie Cole for Henry Glass and Marcus Mixers by Marcus Brothers Fabrics. Visit our Sale section for more. (while supplies last)

HoneyBeGood: Happy Birthday Bash! All Children’s Prints 15% off with coupon code KIDS. Saffron Craig’s Valley View 20% off with code VALLEY. Sara Lee Parker Textiles 10% off with code SARA. Daisy Janie New Leaf 15% off with code NEWLEAF. Nancy Mims Prints 15% off with code MIMS. Coupons can be used more than once but cannot be combined in the same order. (through 5/31/13)

Jones and Vandermeer: Echino, Alexander Henry Ghastiles, Liberty Japan, and Dear Stella in the sale section. Always free shipping on orders $60+, or $5 flat rate otherwise.

Lark Cottons: Modern Madness sale continues on Fat Quarterly’s competing collections: Simply Color and Architextures. Receive 20% off these collections with code madmod1320, 25% off with code madmod1325 when your cart totals $64 or more, 35% off with code madmod1335 when your cart totals $200 or more. Cart total is based on all fabrics in cart, not just those from eligible collections. As collections are eliminated from the Modern Madness competition, they will be dropped from the sale. (end date unknown)

Lowpricefabric.com: Organza on sale. See website for coupon code. (through 5/26/13)

Mad About Patchwork: Celebrating five years in business with lots of fabrics $5/yard! (end date unknown). 10% off Regal Spectrum bundles and yardage (through 5/31/13). Free shipping in Canada on orders $150+ and free worldwide shipping on patterns, not including clearance patterns.

nido: Melody Miller’s Ruby Star Spring $13.20/yard. Includes the record print in two colorways (while supplies last). Always free shipping on orders $50 + or just $5 for all other orders.

Pink Castle Fabrics: Comma, 23, I Like You, Salt Water, Shelburne Falls now on sale. (end date unknown)

Quilthome: 25% off all currently in-stock Riley Blake fabrics and Bella Solids by Moda with code QHARBB. 25% off all currently in-stock Jennifer Paganelli fabrics and books and Sis Boom patterns with code QHAJPSB (through 5/20/13). 20%
off PRE-ORDER of all World Tour fabrics by Parson Gray with code QHWTAF (through 6/6/13). Only one coupon code per order.

Sew, Mama, Sew! is closing up shop (but expanding the blog and forum), so all fabric is on sale, including new collections. Additional 15% off with code COUNTDOWN15. (end date unknown)

Sew Modern: Awesome goodies in our EPIC SALE section including some FQ bundles, The Red Thread by Marisa and Creative Thursday, Sweetcakes by Riley Blake and more all 20-40% off! (while supplies last)

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Melissa Swansey Nicholson of Vineyard Haven, MA sells vintage-inspired designs on Etsy under the name oliverhenry. Her goods are printed on 100% certified organic cotton or 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper. This new collection which I just spotted via Facebook is available for sale through her Spoonflower shop.

Tags: digital textile printing, oliver henry, spoonflower | Category: Digital Fabric of the Week

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Borderline Fabrics is a London textile company producing “an eclectic collection of prints and weaves from 1730 to the present day for the upholstery and curtain trade.” This beautiful design from the 1930s by E.Q. Nicholson is called Black Goose, and it is available in blue and brown colorways on 100% linen. The U.S. distributor is Lucy Rose Design.

Tags: 1930s Fabrics, borderline fabrics, e.q. nicholson, high-end, interior fabrics, linen, sally baring, u.k. | Category: Home Dec Fabric of the Week

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Kapitza is a European design studio run by two sisters, Nicole and Petra Kapitza. They have produced two intriguing pattern sourcebooks, several dingbat fonts, several products featuring their patterns, and now they have an iPad/iPhone App called Geometric. I bought it last night after seeing it on Pinterest and thought all you pattern fans out there might like to know about it.

The reviews on iTunes are actually quite negative, but if you manage your expectations going in I think you’ll find it’s worth the price of $2.99. It generates patterns from Kapitza’s fonts and color palettes, and the only control you have as a user is to lock the font, palette, character, size, and/or sequence of the characters. After making your choices you simply swipe and the app shows you pattern after pattern. You probably have to like minimalist geometric patterns going in, and have a certain level of appreciation for 80s retro. I do, so enjoyed enjoyed playing around with this app. It is cool to see the infinite configurations that are possible with just a handful of motifs and colors.

Kapitza retains copyright to the patterns, and you really can only use the generated patterns for iPad/iPod wallpapers. (However, their website terms here indicate that the patterns downloaded from their website can be used for limited commercial purposes. I don’t know if this applies to the app-generated patterns. You can save, email, and share the patterns, but the images are low-resolution. But again, if you think of it more as an inspiration (and wallpaper) source than a tool, you won’t be disappointed.

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Tags: apps, geometric, ipad, iphone, kapitza, surface pattern design | Category: Scraps

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I’m a little late to pull the trigger on this post because Alice Apple‘s sample and remnant packs are already sold out from her Etsy shop, but maybe these images will inspire you to pick up some yardage from her Spoonflower shop.

Tags: alice apple, digital textile printing, spoonflower, u.k. | Category: Digital Fabric of the Week

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Britex Fabrics: 50% off online fabric sale – 100+ fabrics including imported wool, silk, linen cotton & more! (end date unknown)

Connecting Threads: 30% off batting. (through 6/17/13)

Crafter’s Vision: Monaluna Organic fabrics 30% off (through 5/14/13). 15% off all sale section fabrics. Free shipping on U.S. orders $30+. (end date unknown)

Delta Patchwork: Special of the Month – 10% off all 108″ quilt backs (through 5/31/13). Always free shipping in contiguous USA for orders $40+.

Denver Fabrics: Summer fabric sale – cotton lawn, voile, gauze, knits, shirting, and lace $3.95/yard, activewear/swimwear $5.45/yard. (end date unknown)

Drygoods Design: Domestic orders $35+ always ship free.

eQuilter: Free shipping on U.S. orders and 50% off international shipping on orders $35+ with code MOTHER. (through 5/18/13)

Fabric.com: 50% off in the Mom’s Favorites section. 15% off outdoor fabrics. (through 5/13/13) Always free shipping on orders $35+.

The Fabric Stash: Website redesigned – a new section of $6/yard fabric including Riley Blake and Westminster/FreeSpirit. (while supplies last) Free shipping on U.S. orders $100+ and international orders $150+.

Fabricworm: 15% off all bundles (through 5/14/13). 10% off all Japanese imports (through 5/16/13 5pm PST). Always $5 off your purchase of $50+ with coupon code linus5. Always 10% off orders $100+ with code bulk10.

Fat Quarter Shop: 50% off Chambray Rose by Rachel Ashwell & Shabby Chic, Oh Deer! by MoMo for Moda, Chicopee by Denyse Schmidt, Savanna Bop by Thomas Knauer for Andover, School Days from Quilting Treasures, and It’s a Strike by Kanvas for Benartex. 40-50% off Sew Stitchy by Aneela Hoey for Moda Fabrics, 40% off Out N’ About by Caleb Gray for Robert Kaufman Fabrics and Life is Beautiful from Red Rooster Fabrics. Lots more in the sale section. (while supplies last)

Hart’s Fabrics: 10% off all batiks. (through 5/13/13)

Jones and Vandermeer: Echino, Alexander Henry Ghastiles, Liberty Japan, and Dear Stella in the sale section. Always free shipping on orders $60+, or $5 flat rate otherwise.

Lark Cottons: Modern Madness sale continues on Fat Quarterly’s competing collections: Simply Color, Field Study, Architextures, and Madrona Road. Receive 20% off noted collections with code madmod1320, 25% off with code madmod1325 when your cart totals $64 or more, 35% off with code madmod1335 when your cart totals $200 or more. Cart total is based on all fabrics in cart, not just those from eligible collections. As collections are eliminated from the Modern Madness competition, they will be dropped from the sale. (end date unknown)

Mad About Patchwork: Celebrating five years in business with lots of fabrics $5/yard! (end date unknown). 10% off Regal Spectrum bundles and yardage (through 5/31/13). Free shipping in Canada on orders $150+ and free worldwide shipping on patterns, not including clearance patterns.

nido: Melody Miller’s Ruby Star Spring $13.20/yard. Includes the record print in two colorways (while supplies last). Always free shipping on orders $50 + or just $5 for all other orders.

Pacific Fabrics and Crafts: 20% off your purchase of $25 or more at any of our stores or online with code MOM13. (through 5/19/13):

Pink Castle Fabrics: Comma, 23, I Like You, Salt Water, Shelburne Falls now on sale. (end date unknown)

Pink Chalk Fabrics: Lida Enche for In the Beginning $6.95/yard. (end date unknown)

Quilthome: 25% off all currently in-stock Laura Gunn fabrics with coupon code QHLGEF. 20% off PRE-ORDER of all World Tour fabrics by Parson Gray with code QHWTAF. 25% off all currently in-stock Joel Dewberry fabrics Kate Spain fabrics
with code QHAKSJD. (through 5/13/13) Only one coupon code per order.

Sew, Mama, Sew! is closing up shop (but expanding the blog and forum), so all fabric is on sale, including new collections. Additional 15% off with code COUNTDOWN15. (end date unknown)

Sew Modern: Awesome goodies in our EPIC SALE section including some FQ bundles, The Red Thread by Marisa and Creative Thursday, Sweetcakes by Riley Blake and more all 20-40% off! (while supplies last)

Spice Berry Cottage: Lots of Robert Kaufman and Freespirit designers and more in the sale section. Look for the super stash builder special each week — $1.00 for 1 fat quarter with any order. (while supplies last)

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Wow, turns out I really like this theme of Geek Chic! The designers did a great job and now the round of 100 is open for public voting. I picked like 16, but I think Spirographic by Kateaurelia, above, is my superfavorite. Fabric8, if you didn’t know, is a collaboration between Robert Kaufman Fabrics and Spoonflower, and the winner of the contest will get a fabric collection with RK.

Tags: contests, digital textile printing, fabric8, robert kaufman, spoonflower | Category: Digital Fabric of the Week

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Hand Quilted With Love by Sarah Fielke
Cico Books
buy on Amazon | buy directly from Sarah in Australia

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about “collections” as applied to designing things like fabric and projects for books — why we make them and how consumers respond to them. Having a theme can serve as a much-needed constraint and help you filter and edit when you are bombarded with ideas and need to focus. The downside is, you run the risk of creating filler that serves the theme but maybe is not your best work. But maybe brilliant work can also spring from the need to “fill in the gaps.” Without a guiding theme — creating one-offs instead of collections — you can follow your whims more, and produce only the work that you’re really inspired to create and for which you have a strong vision.

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With her first three books that she co-authored or authored solo, Sarah Fielke worked with themes. I’m not saying any of the work was filler, far from it! If it was I can’t tell. I’d say she’d fall more on the brilliant side when it comes to filling in the gaps. But her new book (her fourth), Hand Quilted With Love (which is not about hand-quilting as in sewing with your hand and needle and thread, but about handmaking in the larger sense) is simply an assortment of quilt patterns for quilts that Sarah had always wanted to make. In other words, Sarah unchained. The result is simply brilliant. Sarah’s signature style is to use lots of little snippets of prints, and not really any solids to speak of — the backgrounds tend to be make with polka dots and stripes and such. With her impeccable sense of balance, the quilts end up looking vibrant and happy, with depth and texture, rather than coming off as discordant. To her borders are an opportunity for more piecing and compositional play, rather than a boring old single-fabric frame that doesn’t do much more than make the quilt bigger.

Hand Quilted With Love features 16 quilt patterns, with a good mixture of easy, intermediate, and advanced projects. There is gorgeous photography throughout, but even when the quilts are stylishly draped, each pattern also shows the quilt flat so you can really see the whole composition. There is not much in the way of beginner instructional exposition, only a higher-level tips direct from Sarah’s bag of tricks.

My camera is busted (literally – by a hammer-wielding child!) or else I’d show you more from the book today. But there are already wonderful images in the two blog tour stops behind me and I encourage you to follow it in the days ahead to see all the patterns.

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SewTake a Hike – 5/4/13
Belinda Stitches – 5/5/13
True Up *you are here!* – 5/6/13
LilysQuilts (UK) – 5/7/13
Creative Dabbling (Australia) – 5/8/13
Mrs Schmenkman Quilts (USA) – 5/9/13
I'm A Ginger Monkey (UK) – 5/10/13
Petits Elefants – (Australia) 5/10/13
Prints Charming (Australia) – 5/11/13
RedPepper Quilts (Australia) – 5/12/13
HandMade by Alissa (USA) – 5/13/13
Meet Me at Mikes (Australia) – 5/14/13
Sew Mama Sew (USA) – 5/15/13

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photos by Sarah Fielke

Tags: australia, blog tour, books, quilting, Reviews, sarah fielke | Category: Reviews

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Bloomerie Fabrics: Mega May sale – fabrics, patterns, notions, embroidery supplies, books, and magazines up to 50% off. (end date unknown)

Britex Fabrics: 20% off knits. (through 5/14/13)

Connecting Threads: New markdowns in clearance, including Home Front, Soaked, and all laminates. (while supplies last)

Crafter’s Vision: Art Gallery fabrics 35% off (through 5/7/13). 15% off all sale section fabrics. Free shipping on U.S. orders $30+. (end date unknown)

Delta Patchwork: Special of the Month – 10% off all in-stock toweling (through 4/30/13). Always free shipping in contiguous USA for orders $40+.

Drygoods Design: Domestic orders $35+ always ship free.

eQuilter: Food themed fabrics 10% off, Clearance novelty & holiday 50% off. (through 5/12/13) 1 yard minimum on sale fabrics.

Fabric.com: 15% off basics in the Yard Sale section. Download the new free pattern, the Gypsophelia Peasant Top, from HotPatterns. (through 5/6/13) Always free shipping on orders $35+.

Fabric Fly: 10% off for all True Up readers on your entire purchase. Use coupon code “TrueUp10” at checkout. (through 5/10/13)

The Fabric Stash: Website redesigned – a new section of $6/yard fabric including Riley Blake and Westminster/FreeSpirit. (while supplies last) Free shipping on U.S. orders $100+ and international orders $150+.

Fabricworm: 10% off all Moda fabrics (through 5/10/13 8am PST). Always $5 off your purchase of $50+ with coupon code linus5. Always 10% off orders $100+ with code bulk10.

Fat Quarter Shop: 50% off Chambray Rose by Rachel Ashwell & Shabby Chic, Oh Deer! by MoMo for Moda, Chicopee by Denyse Schmidt, Savanna Bop by Thomas Knauer for Andover, School Days from Quilting Treasures, and It’s a Strike by Kanvas for Benartex. 40-50% off Sew Stitchy by Aneela Hoey for Moda Fabrics, 40% off Out N’ About by Caleb Gray for Robert Kaufman Fabrics and Life is Beautiful from Red Rooster Fabrics. Lots more in the sale section. (while supplies last)

Honey Be Good: Get Free U.S. Shipping with the purchase of any gift box set for Mother’s Day with coupon code MOM. (through 5/12/13) One coupon code per order. All orders $50+ ship free.

Jones and Vandermeer: Echino, Alexander Henry Ghastiles, Liberty Japan, and Dear Stella in the sale section. Always free shipping on orders $60+, or $5 flat rate otherwise.

Lark Cottons: Modern Madness sale continues on Fat Quarterly’s competing collections: Simply Color, Field Study, Architextures, and Madrona Road. Receive 20% off noted collections with code madmod1320, 25% off with code madmod1325 when your cart totals $64 or more, 35% off with code madmod1335 when your cart totals $200 or more. Cart total is based on all fabrics in cart, not just those from eligible collections. As collections are eliminated from the Modern Madness competition, they will be dropped from the sale. (end date unknown)

Mad About Patchwork: Celebrating five years in business with lots of fabrics $5/yard! (end date unknown). 10% off Regal Spectrum bundles and yardage (through 5/31/13). Free shipping in Canada on orders $150+ and free worldwide shipping on patterns, not including clearance patterns.

Marie-Madeline Studio: All Michael Miller fabrics 25% off. (end date unknown)

nido: Hand screenprinted textiles from pippiejoe just $15/yard (must be sold in yard increments to receive discount). Tons more fabrics 25%-40% off (end date unknown). Always free shipping on orders $50 + or just $5 for all other orders.

Owl and Drum: Spring Sale!!! 15% off your total order with code SPRINGOWL. (through 5/10/13)

Pink Castle Fabrics: 20% off all precuts and bundles in the shop with coupon code BUNDLE20. (end date unknown)

Pink Chalk Fabrics: Lida Enche for In the Beginning $6.95/yard. (end date unknown)

Quilthome: 30% off all currently in-stock Valori Wells and Amy Butler Soul Blossoms fabrics with coupon code QHVWSBF. 25% off all currently in-stock PaintBox fabrics by Cynthia Rowley, and Michael Miller Dots and Stripes with coupon code QHPBCR. (through 5/6/13)

Sew, Mama, Sew! is closing up shop (but expanding the blog and forum), so all fabric is on sale, including new collections. Additional 15% off with code COUNTDOWN15. (end date unknown)

SewBaby: It’s SewBaby’s 19th anniversary, so take 19% off all fabric orders with the coupon code 19YEARS. (through 5/12/13)

Sew Modern: Out to Sea by Sarah Jane, Oh Deer! by Momo, Madrona Road by Violet Craft, Modern by Robin Zingone, Laurie Wisbrun collections, Storybook Lane by Kelly Lee-Kreel, and tons more in the ginormous sale section. (while supplies last)

Spice Berry Cottage: Lots of Robert Kaufman and Freespirit designers and more in the sale section. Look for the super stash builder special each week — $1.00 for 1 fat quarter with any order. (while supplies last)

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