Daylight Savings Time comes to an end while most of us are sleeping tonight – don’t forget to turn back your clock!
Here is the second part of our Quilt Market Trends Report – including some of the most amazing and groundbreaking products that are coming in the next few months.
We are most excited about the expansion of digital products, including Digital with Metallic, and Digital Backing! Woo hoo! Yes we will carry all of these incredible fabrics, and we CAN’T WAIT for them to arrive. More digital surprises coming in 2017 – watch our newsletter for details.
Other trends: Bees, Hedgehogs, Flamingo Tropicals, Sloths, Polar Bears and Nutcrackers.
Also, that gorgeous trend of quilts made with LINEN that started in Japan, moved through the Modern Quilt movement, is now MAINSTREAM so you will see lots of gorgeous quilts with natural, solid and printed Linen/Cotton blends. Yummy!
Vincent van Gogh – Digital Panel – portraits of the Artist himself!
Encyclopedia Terrestria by Suite 1500 – Digital panels – flora & fauna engravings
Beary Happy by Eric Carle – 50th Anniversary
Color Flow by Caryl Bryer Fallert Gentry.
American Dream by Jean Poult – Route 66, motorcycles, vintage cars, USA map.
Moda’s Sunshine by Howard Marcus – Collection for a Cause benefiting the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association.
Bee Inspired by Deb Strain – New bees & butterflies collection.
Dolly Jean by Darlene Zimmerman – 1930s collection
Merry, Berry & Bright – *Digital* Christmas w/ RED Metallic
Bumble Bumble – Cute bee collection.
Hedgehog Village by Judy Hensen
Natural Beauty by Ro Gregg
Potpourri – Digital Quilt Backing
True Blue – Peacock collection in blue and white.
An issue that is coming to the forefront at Quilt Festival in Houston – prizewinning quilts that are copies or interpretations of another artist’s work:
Quilt artists copying another artist’s painting or photograph *always* need to get permission and give credit to that original artist. Quilt artists who DO give credit to the original artist (and who DO get permission) should not be bullied online. We as a community need to set a benchmark for how these derivative quilts should be properly identified, so it is not such an explosive issue. If you are making a quilt from another artist’s work – BEWARE.
We have several videos that were filmed at Quilt Festival, and are now in production – stay tuned for more quilting inspirations!
sharing your Passion for Fabric…
Luana
