I don’t know about you, but I am absolutely thrilled that we finally have
a new collection of Harry Potter fabrics…and they are fabulous digital prints as well!
Do you remember the old original screen printed HP fabrics from 2003? They were kind of cartoonish, but we loved them. I stocked up and stashed them away, including the iconic fabric panel, and now they are collector’s items. And no… I will not sell mine…
Our oldest son Mason who is now 27, grew up with Harry Potter. He was 10 years old when the first Harry Potter book came out, with the hero as a 10 year old. Mason grew up with Harry Potter, read every book and listened to the Jim Dale HP books-on-CD countless times. We saw every HP movie as it opened, and pounced on every new book as they came out. What wonderfully rich anticipation we felt in those years! Now they are classics, but we witnessed the birth of the legend.
For years I have been begging our vendors to get the HP license and come out with a new collection. Well, it only took 13 years! And this year we got the Magical Beasts movie, so we are ready to play with the new HP fabrics in 2017. Many thanks to Camelot for pursuing this license, and the Star Wars and Star Trek licenses. (We have all in stock…because we are nerds.)
Sophie and I finally got out to see the new Star Wars movie last night. After this week’s loss of Carrie Fisher/Princess Leia, we felt we couldn’t wait any longer. How bittersweet. We had some tearful hugs at the end of the movie. Now we understand the Rogue One fabrics and we’ll have to put some of those fabrics in our collector stash! The two panels are like movie posters, which means they can just be pinned on the wall like we used to put up fan posters in the old days.
With the recent Outlander digital panels, and new Harry Potter and Star Wars panels inspired by movie posters, this opens up a whole new genre of collecting and displaying fabrics. Fans and nerds alike are scooping up these fabric ‘posters’, and it is so fun to see what you are doing with these panels.
It is time to say goodbye to 2016, and welcome 2017. We don’t know what the new year will bring, but eQuilter will continue to introduce over 1000 new products every month, to delight and inspire our friends and customers. We will continue to support important charitable causes, and quilt art exhibitions, in the US and around the world.
We look forward to seeing more of you in person in 2017, in our classes and creative retreats, and on my overseas tours. Make your reservation to spend New Years with me in Tanzania one year from now – very limited availability!
Warm wishes and Happy New Year hugs to you all!
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana
