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| Fall Quilt Market 2019, Houston, Texas. |
Bags, Totes, Pouches and Duffles
At the M&S Textiles Australia booth, several bags and totes from Penny Sturges [Quilts Illustrated] were on display. This Summertime Carryall featured Dreaming in One Flame, one of M&S Textiles Australia's striped aboriginal designs.
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| Summertime Carryall [Penny Sturges from Quilts Illustrated] with M&S Textiles fabrics. |
The Roxy Bag, made with Man & Goanna for the body and strap, was accented with a Four Seasons stripe along the curved top.
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| Roxy Bag [Quilts Illustrated] with M&S Textiles fabrics. |
The Totably was made with a stylized floral—Summertime Rainforest in the black colorway.
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| Totably bag [Quilts Illustrated] with M&S Textiles fabrics. |
A zippered duffle featured Brett Lewis' Stag and Thistle collection from Northcott.
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| Stag and Thistle zippered duffle bag. |
The FIGO booth showed off its upcoming DIY collection with a cute tote to store crafting supplies—paint brushes, crayons, scissors, washi tapes, etc.—for the active do-it-yourselfer.
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| Art supply tote and art smock from the DIY collection from FIGO. |
Need special hardware for bag making? If the standard gold and silver colors won't suffice, several companies have a range of colored zippers, magnetic snaps, bag feet, swivels, clasps and the like. Anything you'll need to provide an expert finish to your next bag project.
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| Bag making supplies from Sallie Tomato. |
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| Colored magnetic snaps from Sassafras Lane Designs. |
The Cork Fabric Craze
Although this product has been out in stores for a few years, it made a resurgence at Market. Cork sews just like fabric—and without any frayed edges to attend to. What's not to like about that? Cork comes in colors and prints and it can be embellished as desired.
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| Cork bag from Belagio Enterprises Inc. |
Although I haven't tried this innovative substrate yet, it appears you can crochet, knit, sew or weave with it or cut and slice it to make a quick fringe or tassel. Cork seems to be "un-stoppable" with what you can make with it!
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| Projects made with cork fabric [Belagio Enterprises, Inc]. |
Patterns and Tools
To assist quilters, sewers and makers with their projects, vendors previewed new tools, notions and patterns to facilitate accuracy, efficiency and creativity. These are just a sampling of what you'll be seeing at YLQS [your local quilt shop] soon.
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| Fat quarter and pre-cut friendly patterns and the Shortcut Binding tool from The Franklin Quilt Co. |
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| Pom Pom making tools from Clover Needlecraft. |
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| Studio 180 Designs patterns and rulers. |
Hand stitching is still going full force! New patterns, books, threads, needles and other notions are available for every kind of hand stitchery you can imagine.
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| Books, patterns and kits by super stitcher, Sue Spargo. Hand and machine threads from WonderFil Specialty Threads. |
This display featured Vicki McCarty's [Calico Patch Designs] beautiful wool appliqué, patchwork patterns and kits as well as the Yazzii bags—a classy way to organize, store and carry all your hand stitching and quilting supplies.
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| Calico Patch Designs products and Yazzii Bags. |
The needle arts manufacturers are embracing time honored techniques like sashiko and kantha and combining them with intriguing new pattern designs, notions, and threads in gorgeous color palettes. Hand stitching—for decorative embellishing or for the functional mending processes—is still going strong.
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| Hand embroidery projects from Bald Guy in a Kilt/Global Artisans. |
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| Sashiko stitching and hand sewing needles from Tulip. |
And speaking of hand stitching... still one of my favorite fabrics to use for hand stitching is the yarn-dyed wovens from Diamond Textiles. A range of soft neutrals and textured stitched patterns are coming to the Nikko Geo collection. You'll certainly want to get your needles into these!
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| New soft neutrals in Nikko Geo [Diamond Textiles]. |
So, that's a wrap for Fall Quilt Market 2019! Hope you enjoyed a preview of what's coming to your local quilting and sewing shop.
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| All packed up! A pallet of boxes ready for shipping. |
