Today we received this delightful letter from longtime customer Jean, and I just had to share with you:
“I am a senior citizen (I’m now 100) and live alone so like to keep myself busy so my brain will keep properly going. Serious sewing is my way of doing it as you have to use that brain when you assemble a jacket or two! I like your variety, your color sense and the quality of the fabric. With my 2.25 yards plus some knits for my jackets’ sleeves and collars I manage to keep going….so again, thank you, thank you! And, have a Happy Holiday and a Happy New Year!”
Wow, I think Jean has discovered the secret to a long happy life!
Today Kaufman announced their 2024 Kona Color of the Year. It is a soothing cool pastel green named “Julep”. It reminds me of Daiquiri Ice. Remember that Baskin Robbins flavor? It has been around since 1962. Yummy. If you’d like to be notified as soon as the Kona Color of the Year arrives in our warehouse, give us a call (or email) and we’ll put you on The List. We order yardage and precuts way in advance, sight unseen, because we know you are going to want it the minute it is available. In the meantime you can review the Kaufman Kona Solids in stock now.
On Thursday Pantone will announce their 2024 Color of the Year. One thing to remember about these colors – they are trending colors that will be in stores in early 2024. The products are literally ‘on the water’ – i.e. being shipped from factories to warehouse and then retail shops in the next month or so. They are not necessarily predictions of color trends far in the future, but snapshots of emerging color trends for the coming season and coming year. However we do expect these colors to be HOT throughout 2024 and undoubtedly we’ll be seeing lots of eye candy coming out on social media to celebrate and illustrate how to use/sew and live with these hues.
Both Kaufman and Pantone chose these colors awhile ago, and for months have been developing products with these hues. In the case of Pantone, they work with fashion designers and other color trend experts to choose the color in advance, and then work with more brand names to develop more product lines that will hit the stores in 2024. You will see branded product lines immediately following, in cosmetics, home dec, etc. It is fun to see what all the designers have been up to the last 6 months!
For future color forecasting, the colors are already bubbling up in the studios of artists and ateliers of designers around the world. In the coming year, as we see these new color combinations in galleries, art festivals, on fashion runways and in street fashion, we recognize them as something new and fresh, and….a color trend is born.
These days, because every color has been done, the freshness comes with how colors are combined. Even in our industry, every few years we start to see these innovative color combinations bubbling up in quilt festival exhibits, textile art galleries, and then a brave textile designer will put it in a new collection, and if the time is right it will catch our eye and a new color story is launched!
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Now through December 31 – special pricing on Aurifil Threads.
Time to add to your palette of thread colors!
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Travel/Quilt Dates:
Dec 8-9 – Boston Mass
Feb 21-24, 2024 – QuiltCon in Raleigh, NC – eQuilter is a GOLD Sponsor.
March 6 – Canadian Quilters Association – Zoom Lecture “Intl Quilt Trends”
