It’s about time for a little show & tell.  For your visual pleasure, here are some recent projects our customers have created.

Brandi’s strip quilt with Amy Butler fabrics:

My sister Rosie’s first Jelly Roll Quilt featuring Anna Maria Horner’s Innocent Crush collection:

Teresa’s improvised Dr. Seuss quilt:

and E’s thread doodling from our class:

Love it all. Bring your finished project in to show us and you can be featured too!

Here is how the last few hours of quilt market are spent: rush to the Westminster booth to make sure we have ordered the new Joel Dewberry, Kaffe Fassett, Anna Maria Horner, & Tula Pink; rush to Michael Miller to make sure we get Sarah Jane’s first collection in it’s entirety, rush to Joel Dewberry’s booth to say hi, rush to Andover to make sure we get to see the future future Lizzy House collection and order it even though it’s only printed on paper and it won’t be out until Fall but we just looove it, rush to C&T to order the newest Stash books because oh em gee the Block Party book is out, forget to rush to the Threaded Pear booth to say hi to Gina (why is everyone always out of their booth when we remember to visit!) and then hurry over to reverently walk through the quilt exhibits and appreciate them while your heart is still pounding, until you can exit the market doors for the very last time this season, an actual half-an-hour before the show closes because you are just too hungry to stay till the very end. Phew!  The rest of the day is spent anxious to get back to the shop to show you everything we found. For now you’ll have to live with the 2-D version of our findings…

In the middle of the trade show floor is a small exhibit of quilts. I’d passed this a few times before I finally noticed it today. This quilt is called Circular Momentum and is made by Becky Goldsmith, half of Piece O’ Cake Designs, whose quilts always give me such an urge to applique.

Dummy me, I just now realized that the circular theme in this quilt is not only found in the pieced design and appliqued shapes, but also repeated in the various polka dots print fabrics used.

Not only is Anna Maria Horner debuting her new fabric collection this market, but she’s launching a range of hand-stitching supplies. Her Aida cloth, embroidery floss packs, and perle cotton boxes are arriving this September, which is not soon enough for me! I’m so happy to see such a resurgence in hand-stitching. I love it!

Tula Pink is no slacker. She has four quilt patterns coming out with her new collection, Prince Charming. This one is Crown Jewels and features the star of the collection, the frog prince. The best part of the frog is the fly hidden in his tummy! (Take a peek at the coral colorway. )

I’m loving this new bag design from Joel Dewberry, especially with that piping detail and made up in the laminates.

In the final moments of quilt market I was drawn into this thread-painted quilt, and just wanted to stare at these clouds created in the negative space of the stitched sky.

And with that, market is over!

We are exhausted and yet we can’t really contain ourselves what with all the inspiration (and fabric!) we’re getting here at quilt market.  Just you wait, you have no idea what is in store for you. For now, we’ve just got a quick update because, well,  I’d like to get some sleep this week.

Today we got to preview upcoming Alexander Henry lines.  These guys consistently set trends. Whether it’s being the first to do owl prints, or the first to use grey as a central colors in collections, we can count on AH to do it early and do it right. They’ve got an Asian-influenced indigo color story happening now that has got the wheels turning in our heads.

Jillily Studios pattern & notion company had probably the cutest booth at market, set up to look like a gelato shop, but with fabric on display in the gelato tins!  The sweet surprise was that they actually served us up mini sorbet cones. You’ll be seeing their new sticky finger-tip thimbles, Poke-a-Dots, in the shop soon.

Sarah Jane‘s booth was calling to us again today. We cannot get her new line, Children at Play, out of our heads! Classic, retro, and simply adorable prints to watch for coming soon.

Sweet fabric dreams…

Friday is the first day that the show floor is open and we get to see the amazingly constructed booths of our favorite fabric & pattern designers, plus every new notion inventor and whatsit promoter. A few highlights…

Seeing Annela Hoey‘s embroidery in person! Her  newest line for Moda, Little Apples, will be in the store this September.

Quilt from new Michael Miller designer Sara Jane, who also does the most adorable embroidery and has some sweet children’s prints coming soon.

Ok, so not fabric related, but I caught Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head in a tiff at the deli where we had lunch.

In a small exhibit we found this small quilt with the smallest of paper pieced compass points. I am in complete awe!

New patterns, fabrics, and stichery patterns from Anna Maria Horner.  Yummm.

Got to chat with the lady herself for a bit.

And of course I geeked out at Tula Pink‘s booth.

Solids are really getting their due and are featured in this cute display from Kona Cottons.

More with solids. Always love a good rainbow quilt! If you want to be more sophis you can call it a color wheel quilt. Yet more quilting by the genius Angela Walters, who also has done market quilts for Tula Pink & Lizzy House (among many more).

What? This is pieced and appliqued entirely with minky/cuddle fabric!

Local pattern designer Jen Giddens had a booth at market for the first time and it looks so good!  Not only does she have new bag patterns out soon, but she designed all the fabrics in these bags as well.

Kaffe Fassett has a new book coming out of his quilts in Sweden! (If you know me, you might be able to imagine the squeal elicited by the Sweden part.) And I’m dying to make this new design using his shot cottons and stripes.

Phew!  2 more days… more to come!

Picked some fabric for the baby quilt that we’ll be making in Patchwork 101 starting in September. I love choosing fabric as much as I love sewing it together.

I’ve always tried to finagle my sister into modeling. Back when I ran an Etsy store, I was often forcing (yes, that’s right) her to dress up in my wild vintage outfits for photos. Rosie’s like my little dolly. And now that she’s helping out more at Suppose, the impromptu photo shoots can resume.  See, isn’t she adorable?

We just wanted a few snapshots to show off what we’ll be doing in our Fall classes.  Like the Spring Cleaning apron.

But the photos I like the best are always the outtakes.  So I thought I’d share a few.  The layperson may not know this, but my sister brain knows that the face in this photo actually means, “What do you want me to DO here?”

Oh yeah, do this.

Just, you know, showing off the Beginner’s Tote & Jen Giddens’ Pleated Tote.

There’s almost nothing better than sharing the day with your sister and your fabrics.

The Oliver+S booth is always one of our favorite stops at Quilt Market. O+S designer Liesl Gibson & her husband Todd are just the loveliest people. (And I admit I geek out like a silly fangirl every time I talk to them.) As we’ve mentioned before, they’ve got some very exciting things coming up, and this video is a great way to hear all about it from Liesl herself.

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Guess what? There’s a way you can participate in the Victoria & Albert Museum’s celebration of quilts even if you can’t make it to the exhibit. They’ve invited quilters all over the world to share images of their quilts to create a quilt of quilts. You can see the stories behind the quilts, get all sorts of great ideas, add your own quilts, and get sucked in reading about stuff like the Samsui women in Singapore in the 30s who inspired a quilt. Get participatin’.

You may know momma Suppose (Kathy) and daughter Suppose (Jo=me) but do you know sister Suppose? This is my little sissy Rosie, who’s only real job here is to, um, look cute.  But she does get flurries of inspiration and makes cute little things.  Here she shows off one of her recent projects.

This is Anna Maria Horner’s Multi-Tasker Tote pattern, for which Rosie used fabric from the Neptune collection by Tula Pink for Moda.  I had to have one too, and used a lovely linen-like cotton from Westrade.

After we took these photos, she hopped on her motorcycle and rode away, hair flowing in the wind.  If we’re lucky we’ll see Rosie some more on the blog, perhaps modeling, perhaps tutorialing…