3 Sisters-Three Sisters
3 Sisters (Three Sisters) is a collaboration born of mutual love and respect. This family of designers each dedicate their own voice to every collection. Vintage chic, country sophistication and an appreciation for the simple elegance of life are just a few of the stylistic threads that are woven into their designs. The widespread popularity of this dynamic trio can be attributed to their keen eye for rich yet subtle color choices and a gentle finesse of both scale and pattern.
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American Jane
American Jane - Sandy Klop had her first exposure to the world of colorful patterns while watching Klompen dancers perform. Every year in May her hometown of Holland, Michigan, celebrated tulip time with a vast array of Dutch costumes. She was first exposed to quilting in 1979 at her sister-in-laws when she returned from teaching in Iran. She went on to teach art in Saudi Arabia for the next four years. She loved the rich colors and patterns in the tiles and carpets of the Middle East. Back in California, Sandy began to make pattern samples for a local quilt store. From there she moved to machine quilting. She has worked at a local quilt shop and taught many quilt classes. In 2000 she published a series of quilt books with Jan Patek under the series title Folk Art Favorites before venturing out on her own as American Jane Patterns. In 2003 at Quilt Market Moda approached her to see if she would like to capture her look in fabric. She has been designing for Moda ever since. “Now I have a new fabric range from Moda every six months and I design quilt patterns to feature my new fabrics. I’m truly living my dream.” Her creative designs have appeared in several catalogs and many magazines. She speaks regularly on the topic, "The American Jane Story in Fabric".
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Amy Bradley
I am inspired by people. I want to design for the giggly, belly-laughing, knee-slapping quilters I love. Quilters have such great heart and personality. I am always looking for my next comical character such as Quilt Diva, Super Quilter, Seasoned Quilter, and Bountiful Beauties. After four years designing quilt patterns, note cards, and T-Shirts, I am so pleased to be designing for Moda Fabrics.
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April Cornell
April Cornell - April Cornell’s colorful designs grace products that range from clothing to home décor accessories, but her first love is textiles. Her passion for the home arts and making an occasion of everyday is reflected in her rich use of color and luxurious texture.
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Arrin Turnmire
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Barbara Brackman
Barbara links her books, e-Clubs and Moda reproductions to give quilters lots of opportunities to create accurate reproduction quilts. Her most recent print projects include a few from Star Books. Flora Botanica: Quilts from the Spencer Museum of Art, is an exhibit catalog of antique quilts with patterns for reproductions. She’s also been using her digital photo manipulation programs to create some very silly takes on classic paintings. See her 16 month calendar The Lost Quilt Masterpieces and a set of Notecards with more images. These are available from the Kansas City Star’s Pickledish.com
https://www.pickledishstore.com/
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Basic Grey
Basic Grey makes fabric extraordinary. Deliciously different. Ambitiously diverse. Remarkably distinct. Refreshing palettes of color in exceptional prints that so easily fit your style, making your creations uniquely you.
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Blackbird Designs
Barb and Alma met several years ago when Barb took an appliqué class from Alma. They decided to begin a quilt book publishing company called Blackbird Designs. Both Barb and Alma are inspired by the colors and textures of fabric. They not only enjoy working on quilts, but also are excited by cross-stitch and rug hooking. They try to include projects with wool and cross-stitch in their books. They both appreciate the break a small project offers after working on several large quilts.
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Bonnie and Camille
Bonnie and Camille met on June 10, 1983 when Camille came into the world on Bonnie’s 24th birthday. Not only do the two share a family and a birthday, they also share a love of quilting and an all out obsession with fabric.
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Brannock and Patek
For more than 20 years Jan Patek has been designing primitive folk art quilts and publishing the patterns in books. Jan also designs original fabric lines for Moda.
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Cheri Strole
Cheri Strole is one of the most gifted and talented textile designers working in the quilting industry today. Over her vast 30 year career as a professional designer, she has consulted and designed for companies such as Cosco, Graco, Century Baby Products, Evenflo, Pickhardt and Siebert and recently spent 6 1/2 years as the Vice President Design and Merchandising for South Sea Imports. She has designed and styled thousands of fabrics and wallpapers that have sold over 100 million yards worldwide.
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Chez Moi
Every group from this talented artist is masterfully hand painted using classic watercolor technique. She uses her traditional training to compose highly stylized and surprisingly contemporary landscapes. It is exactly this juxtaposition that sets Chez Moi apart.
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Chloes Closet
Chloe’s Closet represents a longing for the past both in color and pattern. Her designs spring from her collection of childhood trinkets and flea market treasures. No one ever would have thought that being a pack rat would inspire a career of fabric design! Her passion for all that is retro brings a flare of playfulness and innocents to every collection she designs.
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Deb Strain
Deb Strain - Deb, her husband Scott, three children, Arrin, Katie, and Taylor live in a small wooded area at the edge of Gettysburg, Ohio. Her husband and family lovingly built their Saltbox home, which is the namesake of their Folk Art Stationery line that they began in early 1995. In 1996, Deb left her position as an art teacher for the past nine years to devote herself solely to her family and the development of her own art and business. "Many of my images have a folk art flavor to them, increasingly leaning toward the primitive. I have grown to love the warmth and friendliness of old quilts, gardens and Americana." Inspirations for several of her paintings have come from dolls created by Anne McKinney, an artist in her own right. Detailed images that touch a familiar heartstring or bring a quiet smile to the viewer, create the basis of her portfolio. "I am continually collecting ideas and images for my next illustration, whether it be from nature, antique shops, friends or my own imaginings. A painting is usually constructed from several scraps of ideas and then carefully pieced together to make a whole...similar to the quilts that I have come to treasure. Finally, my inspiration comes from the wonderful and loving support that is all around my life, from those in my own family, the staff in our own business and the company and the stores that I work with. I feel like I have so many people cheering me on. We truly work in a kind part of the business world, one that gives back in friendship as well as other benefits...and that is one of the most cherished qualities there is."
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Fig Tree Quilts
Fig Tree Quilts - My desire to create something almost always starts with the color inspiration itself. Beautiful color combinations are everywhere if we can train our eyes to see them. A few colors that we see everyday, suddenly look fresh and new when put together into an unexpected grouping. I love that!
My designs, both for fabric & for quilting, always start with the color palette. I work with vintage fabric swatches, my flower garden, wrapping paper, children’s illustrations from the early part of the last century, flea market finds, antique quilts to start finding colors that speaks to me. The palette dictates the designs themselves and slowly a collection grows. I call myself a hybrid fabric designer. I like to use many different mediums and techniques to create my designs including vintage fabrics, painting, computer, line drawings, just to name a few. Hope you will come & experience some of that Fig Tree look at www.figtreequilts.com or for the latest happenings & inspirations visit my blog “Fresh Figs” at www.figtreequilts.typepad.com.
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French General
Collecting antique textiles in France has long been a passion of Kaari Meng, owner of French General. French General is a workshop located in Los Angeles, California that stocks a collection of vintage craft kits, as well as fabric and old millinery supplies. The fabric collections represent colors that could have been found in 18th century rural homes in France. Different textures and prints are meant to blend together for projects that are both beautiful and functional. Filled with soft faded reds, ticking stripes and provencal checks, the fabrics are made to be used for heirloom quilts as well as home interiors.
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Holly Taylor
As a representative for Moda Fabrics, Eileen Taylor immersed herself in the quilting industry and dreamed of designing fabric. Soon she and graphic designer and artist Lynn Hawley Bloomquist pooled their talents to design the Holly Taylor fabric collection, creating more than 30 lines of Northwoods-theme fabrics for Moda.
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Howard Marcus
Howard Marcus Dunn, owner of United Notions, started an ongoing program called Collection for a Cause. It will feature antique quilts from our collection and support charities and causes that touch the hearts and lives of all of us.
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J. Michelle Watts
J. Michelle Watts is a quilt artist that loves living in the Southwest region of the U.S.. Michelle has been quilting for over 22 years. She has spent the last 15 years creating quilts and wearable clothing that express her love of the Southwest.
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Kansas Troubles Quilters
Lynne Hagmeier, designer and owner of Kansas Troubles Quilters, has been creating and sharing her quilt designs since 1995. She learned to quilt in 1987 while working at a local quilt shop-partly as a way to maintain her sanity as she and her husband, Robert, raised their six children. The last two children graduated high school May of 2000 and that has allowed her love of quilting to blossom into a full time business. Lynne has a very distinctive style of traditional quilting with adding her own personal flair by embellishing her quilts with wool applique’s and wool embroidery. Lynne’s husband gets involved in the business. He is a history teacher and researches information for her quilts and the stories that inspire them. Lynne and Robert make quite a team. Good things just keep on coming with this gal. New fabric groups, new quilt kits, new quilter’s journals... more.
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Kate Spain
For 15 years, I’ve designed successful products and collections for global manufacturers and retailers, while staying true to my creative convictions and not losing sight of market trends, budgets, and consumers.
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Kathy Schmitz
Kathy Schmitz - Kathy Schmitz never really knew what was going to hit her when she signed up to do her first Quilt Market. She had always been a quilter. In fact, she is a fourth generation quilter. Kathy made her first quilt when she was 13 years old on her grandmother’s treadle sewing machine. In high school, she made another quilt using batiks. At the time, her mother questioned Kathy’s fabric choices but soon realized how creative Kathy really was. Quilt Market seemed the perfect fit to peddle her line of quilt inspired cards and plaques.
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Laundry Basket Quilts
Edyta’s love for fabric began at a very early age when she cut her mothers’ drapes to create her first fabric project. Her mother recognized Edyta’s passion for fabric and she taught her the skills required for sewing. Creating beautiful gowns initiated Edyta’s journey into creative textile design and was a building block into the quilting adventure that lie ahead of her. Edyta considers her marriage to her husband Michael one of her biggest blessings. She not only fell in love, but she built a close relationship with her mother-in-law Carol and grandmother-in-law Anna; two women who introduced Edyta to their family tradition of quilting. Edyta has always possessed a desire to express herself about the objects or occasions in her surroundings and now quilting design is the avenue she chooses to release this passion. The combination of inspiration, a love for fabric, a keen eye for color, and her family teachings blended into the recipe for developing a thriving talent for designing quilts and quilting patterns.
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Lauren and Jessi Jung
When you think of this "daughter-mother" team, think "young." That is the pronunciation of their last name. Lauren is an artist—Jessi, a quilter. But it wasn’t until recently that they decided to combine talents.
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Lila Tueller
I’ve loved to create for as long as I can remember. As a child I spent endless hours crocheting, drawing, painting, etc. I learned to sew when I was 12, and loved it immediately. My mother would take me to the fabric store, and buy me anything I needed for a project, and then let me run with it.
I have always had a million ideas of things I wanted to sew, but back in the days before online shopping, the problem often was that I couldn’t find the fabrics I was looking for. I became very frustrated with that, and vowed that someday, somehow, I would design my own fabrics. That was many years ago.
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Mary Engelbreit
With a range of licensed products that stretches from cards and calendars to dinnerware and fabric, a successful retail store in her hometown, an award-winning magazine, more than 150 book titles published and hundreds of millions of greeting cards sold, the most apt description of artist Mary Engelbreit may be a line pulled from one of her well-known greeting card designs – she truly is "The Queen of Everything." Mary’s unmistakable illustration style, imbued with spirited wit and nostalgic warmth, has won her fans the world over. PEOPLE magazine dubbed her a Norman Rockwell for our times.
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Maywood Studios
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Me and My Sister
Yes…we are sisters; actually we are two of five sisters! Four of us are quilters and we’re working on the fifth! Through the years, and at times many miles between us, our love of fabrics, sewing, and quilting remained a bond we shared. When a move back to Phoenix brought the two of us together again we started thinking...there is nothing like owning a quilt shop to increase your fabric stash…so we did. Designing and sewing sample quilts for the shop was more fun than could be imagined. Years passed and the quilts piled up. After selling the shop we focused all our attention on designing quilt patterns, and “Me and My Sister Designs” came to be. We still get to cut fabric and put it back together again but now we can do it in our pajamas! Now that’s a dream come true! I’m the brights and 30’s reproductions and she’s the rich florals and blended quilts, with our common ground being soft florals and pastels. Once in awhile, but not very often, we cross the beams and I can be found working with blenders and she with brights! We hope you enjoy our latest creations.
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Minick and Simpson
Minick and Simpson - Polly and Laurie are sisters that share of the love all things textile. They are the authors of "Folk Art Friends; Hooked Rugs and Coordinating Quilts"; "Everyday Folk Art; Hooked Rugs and Quilts to Make"; Modern Primitive Quilts: Redefining Country Style," and "Americana Rugs". Laurie is known for the quilts she creates and Polly hooks a rug to match. They have both been featured in various magazines including Country Home, American Patchwork & Quilting, McCall’s Quilting, Victoria, and Architectural Digest. They have combined all these loves into fabrics that include 100% cotton prints, Classic twills and 100% over-dyed wools. Polly and Laurie travel and teach together occasionally. This summer (2009) they will be teaching at the 1800 House on Nantucket for the Nantucket Historical Organization.
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Momo
As a child growing up in Japan MoMo often found herself retreating into to caverns of her imagination. It was only natural for this talented young artist to eventually grace the world of graphic design. As she set out to redecorate the world with her patterns, colorful fantasies and childhood musings spilled out in a Technicolor landscape filled with imaginary places and graphic interpretations of the world in her head. MoMo’s designs are bold and colorful with a flare for the surreal, her feet firmly planted on the ground and her head in the clouds.
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Robert Kaufman
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Sanae
Sanae - Sanae is a young designer with a trained eye and talent beyond her years. Sanae travels through the cities of her native Japan to find inspiration. Sometimes a Koi pond catches her eye or the vibrant night life of Tokyo will ignite a dramatic spark of creativity. Sanae can never predict where her inspiration will come from but it will undoubtedly yield beautiful results every time.
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Sandy Gervais
Sandy Gervais - Sandy has always had an interest in art and sewing. Her mother taught her how to sew at a young age. In high school she made her own clothes and made greeting cards for her friends. Later on she made cards for her boyfriend, who later became her husband. On the advice of her high school counselor she did not pursue a career in art. She was told that an A in high school art does not make you an artist. In 1988 Sandy set out to prove that counselor wrong (or right) and started a greeting card company, " My Dream Designs." In 1992 she combined her love of art and sewing skills and the pattern company "Pieces From My Heart" was born. In spring of 1994, she attended her first international Quilt Market in St. Louis, where she was discovered by Moda fabrics. Many fabric lines later, she is thrilled to be designing fabric for Moda. Designing fabric allows Sandy to work with different color pallets, which is her favorite part of designing. Sandy resides in Algona, Iowa with her husband Bruce and two children, Anthony and Abby. Pieces From My Heart Books and Patterns are available through United Notions/Moda Fabrics.
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Sentimental Studios
Sentimental Studios is a fine art studio best known for their romantic florals and fine line work. The studio is a melting pot of talented artists from painters to colorists, each an expert in their respected field. Their design story is always one of timeless beauty rich with tradition. Collectively, Sentimental Studios takes a fine art approach to every design they create. From concept through to completion every step is handled with the delicacy of tending to a fine orchid.
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Sew Treasured
It has always been a dream to design fabric and I feel really blessed to be a part of Moda. It is the same feeling as being part of a big family. I set "no limits" on my art. I just wish for more hours in a day to accomplish all that I would love to do. My many passions are designing fabrics, creating paintings and murals, illustrating books, sewing, wood carving and baking. I like the simple life and still to this day hang the clothes out on the line to dry.
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Sweetwater
Sweetwater is a family ran design company located in northeastern Colorado. All of the designing, marketing, shipping, and distribution takes place at the corporate office just southwest of the town of Fort Morgan. Sweetwater is acutally a spin-
off of its parent company Farmyard Creations. Farmyard Creations began as a quilt company in 1985, providing quilt patterns and designing fabrics for quilt stores throughout the Unites States, Canada and even overseas. In 2001, Sweetwater was born by taking the fabric designs of Farmyard Creations and turning them into paper. Coordinating stickers and other accessories were then added to give the Sweetwater line a soft, sophisticated style. Recently, Sweetwater has been focusing their energy on fresh and innovative graphic design, as well as a fun line of fabric and quilt patterns.
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Tanya Whelan
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Terry Clothier Thompson
Terry owned a quilt shop in Kansas for 13 years. She has been featured in magazine articles and worked on many quilt projects documenting quilts, patterns and their history. Terry also specializes in 19th century applique patterns. She has coined the "Applique by the Yard" format. An elegant four block applique style using 36" x 36" blocks similar to many museum quilts. Terry has a pattern design business, Peace Creek Patterns.
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Tina Higgins
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Tula Pink
Tula Pink -Tula Pink draws her influences from everything she sees, constantly taking in and mentally cataloging her environment. From nature to fashion, nothing is safe from her searching gaze. From receiving her first sewing machine at twelve years old to now she has always valued something hand made over something that can be purchased. Known by friends and family to spend days on end locked in her room making everything from journals to dresses. Ms. Pink is always on the prowl for a new project, jumping up and down with excitement to share her discoveries with anyone who stands still long enough to listen.
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Urban Chiks
These two young designers each bring something very different to the drawing board. One has a background in fashion and a flare for modern lifestyle while the other is a graphic designer with a passion for vintage textiles. These two come together to create a fresh and vibrant approach to fabric design, providing yards of delicious material for the next generation of craft pioneers.
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Warren Kimble
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Wildflower Batiks by Holly Taylor for Moda Fabrics
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