Recent E-Happenings Highlights

Each week Kathy sends an email to our E-Happenings Newsletter subscribers. The products highlighted in those emails are also posted as “Recent Newsletter Highlights” blog posts. You can find a short summary of each of those blog posts from the last 3 months below. Just click on any image or the “Read More” link to see the full post for that week.

Free Spirit Fabrics Find the Birds Este Macleod PWES004 Raspberry Rouge

Find the Birds from Este MacLeod

Esté is a South Africa born professional artist and designer based in England. She originally studied textile and fine art printmaking degrees followed by an MA in Jewelery Design in 2012.  Her work is bold and colorfu. It is characterised by the use of stylised forms and painted layers. Esté draws inspiration from nature, seasons,…

Free Spirit Fabrics Sarah Campbell Flower Fields PWSH024 Flowers in vases on blue

Flower Fields from Sarah Campbell

It might be the middle of winter, but we have some colorful new florals and interesting coordinates that have arrived from Free Spirit. It’s Sarah’s Campbells new collection, Flower Fields. Flower Fields is the second collection we have carried from Sarah Campbell. Sarah is an internationally acclaimed textile designer. The love of pattern and color…

Robert Kaufman Fabrics Prairie Song by Leslie Jennison Tucker 21335 170 Dots Sienna

Prairie Song by Leslie Tucker Jennison

Leslie is an artist who creates contemporary quilts and designs fabric by working directly onto cloth using ProcionMX fiber-reactive dye and paint.      She loves to use unconventional objects and everyday observations to generate imagery.  She is inspired by an eclectic mix of repeating shapes in both natural and man-made environments such as street art…

Free Spirit Fabrics Katie Pasquini Cool Breeze PWKP037 Multi geometri stripe

Cool Breeze from Katie Pasquini

Katie has been a well known contemporary art quilter for over 30 years. Her energetic manner has made her a popular teacher and lecturer. When not in residence at her studio in California she travels presenting her contemporary quilting theories and technique. Kaite has taught internationally as well as across the United States. In 2005…

Free Spirit Fabrics Tropicalism PWOB072 Tropical

Tropicalism by Odile Bailloeul from Free Spirit Fabrics.

It takes a compnay like Free Spirit to bring us such a bold and innovate collection as Tropicalism. The prints are fun, bright and all mix together. This is Odile’s second collection from Free Spirit and we are thrilled to have it in the shop. Odile Bailloeul — so how do you pronounce the name…

Stonehenge Surfaces from Northcott Fabrics Marbled fabric

Stonehenge Surfaces – A Northcott Classic

Variations of Stonehenge fabrics have been available for over 10 years. Northcott Fabrics has made them a classic. They are fabulous for applique or make a great guy quilt….no flowers here. Hope you will enjoy working with these new fabrics. Can’t decide which ones to buy? We certainly know that dilema. Purchase a fat quarter…

Farmhouse Cross Quilt Kit

November 2022 – Farmhouse Cross Quilt Kit

Introducing Our Farmhouse Cross Quilt Kit We loved this Farmhouse Cross Quilt pattern from QuiltFOX Design so much that we immediately knew we needed to create a Farmhouse Cross Quilt Kit using the same beautiful fabrics that they used. Learn more below. We also offer the pattern by itself and the gorgeous Hoffman Farmhouse Blooms…

Art Gallery Listen to your Heart Fabric TRB6002 Dandelions on coral

Listen to Your Heart from Art Gallery Fabrics

Sharon Holland is a designer who likes to mix the contemporary designs and colors with vintage designs and colors. What you get is a wonderful mix that looks new to some and vintage to others. We love her approach to color and design. Hope you will too. She has done seven other lines for Art…

Moda Fabrics Debbie Maddy Kawa 48089 11 Shibori Patchwork dark

Kawa by Debbie Maddy for Moda

Debbie Maddy is a nationally known pattern designer, teacher, and Shibori stitching/Indigo dyeing instructor. Debbie has studied in Japan and abroad to become an expert instructor as well as designer in the art of Shibori stitching and Indigo dyeing. Her original Shibioi stitching and dyeing designs have been produced by Moda. We have carried every…

Farmhouse Cross Quilt Kit 46" x 60" at Creations Kerrville

Farmhouse Cross from QuiltFOX designs

What a great collaberation to bring us this beautiufl wall hanging. Farmhouse Cross from QuiltFOX patterns and the beautiful digital prints of Hoffman fabrics. It was hard to wait until our quilt was finished to talk about it, but I’m glad we did as this picture is worth………. Wish we could take credit for the…

Aboriginal Prints are back in stock

Absolutely the best selling fabrics in our shop are the Aboriginal prints. They are so different than other fabrics. M & S Textiles works with Aboriginal artists to bring us the prints that represent this culture. We also love these fabrics because we have been able to reorder them many times over the years. Sometimes…

Stacey Iest Hsu for Moda ABC XYZ 20811 14 Alphabet Panel

ABC XYZ by Stacy Iest Hsu from Moda

Stacy Iest Hsu has done some great kids collections for Moda. Her artwork is contemporary and stylized so it’s very appealing to young parents. This collection has a cute alphabet panel and some great coordinates. This panel will be great for a gender neutral baby quilt. With no pink or blue as the predominate color,…

Australian Sisterhood Quilt Kit

October 2022 – Australian Aboriginal Fabrics

New Australian Aboriginal Fabrics and Quilt Kits! We are always excited when new Australian Aboriginal Fabrics or re-orders of our favorites arrive back in stock and they’ve finally arrived recently so we are going to highlight some of them here! We even have 3 new Australian Aboriginal Quilt Kits and a variety of Australian Aboriginal…

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