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.
Kelly Rae Roberts Christmas Magic
Benartex brings us another collection from Kelly Rae Roberts. This is her first Christmas collection. The Christmas Magic panel is approximately 24″ x 42″. Each of the six designs is uniquewith thoughtful words of expression. Take a look below to see close-upsof some of the designs. These are the coordinates to work with the panel.
Magic Coins Quilt Kit from In The Beginning
We featured these beautiful prints as soon as they arrived, and now we would like to share the quilt we made using them. Why would we want to reinvent the wheel when this beautiful quilt was designed by Jason Yenter for In the Beginning Fabrics. Our kit is for the 87″ x 101″ size quilt…
Alexander Henry – Dynamic Prints
If there is one fabric company that truly does it’s “own thing” it is Alexander Henry. You will find eclectic, folkloric, ethnic, and fanciful prints from this company. There is never a “collection” of coordinates. That’s too mundane for them. Check out our newest prints. These are some other prints that arrived a few months…
Promenade from 3 Sisters for Moda Fabrics
Moda brings back those vintage looks of pastel prints in soft colors that just blend into each other. The perfect quilt for this collection is our simple Pieces of Eight. It takes just 8 – 1/2yds pieces. Seven of the fabrics are cut into eight inch squares and the eighth fabric is the binding. Nothing…
Yukata by Debbie Maddy
Debbie Maddy is one of our favorite designers and we are blessed to call her a friend as well. She has taught for us and we have carried all of her fabric lines from Moda. Debbie is a talented pattern designer, fabric designer and nationally known teacher. Yukata may just be our favorite line of…
Wanderlust from P & B Fabrics
This brightly colored panel shows two camping scenes. There is one at the lake and one in the mountains. Can’t decide? They both come on the panel which is approximately 24″ tall and 42″ wide. It’s hard to see all the details in the panel so we took a couple of close-ups. This could be…
My Unicorn – Michael Miller Fabrics
This is such a cute little line, we couldn’t resist. Just a few prints, but fun to work with. The Unicorns have a very modern feel and the tossed rainbow print makes a great coordinate. The Rainbow writing adds a nice structured print to go with all the tossed designs.
Blush Gardens from Wilmington Fabrics
If you are a lover of traditional quilting fabric, then you will love these beautiful florals and coordinates from Wilmington. The colors are greys, greens, white, soft lavender, and shades of pinks. We tried to reorder this line just as soon as it arrived, but we were already too late to get any additional fabric.…
Honey Bee from Riley Blake Designs
Seems we are always being asked for designs that include the Honey Bee. Riley Blake to the rescue. Hope you enjoy these delightful designs.
Lilla from Clothworks
Amy Reber finds her inspiration from her love of nature and mid-century architecture. Amy’s mantra is “never underestimate the power of a simple shape.” She illustrates this time and again in her unique, heartfelt designs. Amy is a self taught artist who uses pen and paper as her initial design evolves. She is constantly looking…
Casey Bag from Sallie Tomato
There are some great bag designers in the field today and none better than Sallie Tomato. She has designed the Casey Bag which is a vintage inspired travel duffle featuring faux leather trim. The Casey Bag is accented with a double slide zipper closure, carry handles, two exterior pockets, two interior pockets, adjustable strap and…
Imagine from Clothworks
This precious line features woodland creatures. Just imagine if we could all get along as well as they do, at least in this fabric. Rabbits, foxes, bears and squirrels all gathered in harmony…just imagine. What a great focus print and coordinates for the start of a kids quilt. Want some additional coordinates to go with…
Leslie Tucker Jenison from San Antonio
We are fortunate to have this talented designer in our area. We have enjoyed the fabric lines she has designed over the past few years and are looking forward to more great fabric from Leslie. She now designs for one of our favorite manufacturers, Robert Kaufman. Great designer and great quality!! Leslie’s latest line is…
Wabi Sabi from Marcia Derse for Windham Fabrics
Marcia Derse is a graphic artist that we have followed since her first line nearly ten years ago. Over the years there have been some signature prints that we have been able to order reorder. We have some of our favorites back in stock. This is one of Marcia’s newest classics. I wanted to know…
Living The Dream from Dan DiaPalo for Clothworks
This new line from Dan DiaPalo for Clothworks includes a panel with two sizes of blocks that can be used for mug rugs, blocks in a quilt, or pillows. There are some cute coordinates too. The panel is 24″ x 44″ with a total of 14 small 5″ x 5″ blocks. Each block has a…
Camp Shirt and Picasso Rayons – Great combo!
A camp shirt for the summer months is just the thing for our weather. We have combined our favorite camp shirt pattern from Cuttling LInes Designs and one of our Picasso Rayons from Telio fabrics. Great mix. These rayon prints are lightweight and machine washable. I even put mine in the dryer on low. They…
Rain or Shine by Jessica Swift for AGF
Inspired by the rain-filled, puddle-jumping walks through the neighborhood, Jessica Swift takes you along a magical adventure with her kids through her illustrations of darling boots, playful frogs, and cheerful rainbows. Jessica Swift is a surface designer who now lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, children and cats. She learned to sew at an…
Colorful Collage from Northcott
These two fabrics will just be fun to study. You will find so many different images on each. Enjoy looking.
Halcyon by Jason Yenter from In the Beginning Fabrics
Jason has done it again with another beautiful collection of prints and tonals. This collection is named Halcyon which is pronounced “hal-see-un”. The word Halcyon denotes a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful. Similar words are peaceful, happy, joyful, gentle, successful. All those words sound great right about now.…
Pure Solids from Art Gallery
We love the solids from Art Gallery. They are using the same base fabric for their solids as they do for their wonderful contemporary prints. We all know what a quality product Art Gallery produces and now we can have that same quality in our solids. See our selection below. It will continue to expand…
Quiltmania and Simply Moderne
These two publications are two of the best in the industry. Both magazines are top of their class and are filled with inspiration, ideas, patterns, projects and articles. Each has it’s own audience. Quiltmania would be the more traditional magazine while Simply Moderne tells you exactly what you will find. We love them both! Quiltmania…
April 2022 – Bluebonnets Time
It’s Texas Bluebonnet Season! If you’ve ever lived in Texas, or if you’ve been shopping online at Creations for a while, you will know that spring is Bluebonnet and wildflower season in Texas. They are so popular with our customers and visitors to the shop that we try to keep bluebonnet fabrics in stock year…
Día de los Muertos
Timeless Treasures has introduced a new group of fabrics to celebrate the Day of the Dead. However, these fabrics should have been here in the early Fall as the holiday is the first of November. Oh well. We are going to say they are here just in time for Fiesta in San Antonio which starts…
Art Gallery’s Tails & Threads
Art Gallery is the premier company for contemporary and modern fabrics. They have added some darling children’s prints to their modern line of fabric. If you have ever purchased their fabric, then you know the quality. This darling little line has mice stitching and sewing. (These little mice are actually cute!) If mice aren’t your…
P & B Wild Animal Collection
These might not look like your typical wild animals, but the colorful characters are just right for that special child in your life. This panel was designed by Kim Green for P & B. It’s so colorful and fun that it doesn’t need coordinates to complete the look. Get a panel and purchase 1 1/2yds…
Kaffe 108″ Wide fabric makes a great quilt back
We were so happy when Free Spirit decided to produce wide backings from some of their designers. These 108″ wide fabrics make great quilt backs, of course, but they also have some other great uses. They can just be quilted and you have a beautiful bedspread. They are wide enough to be a table cover…
Passion from Northcott
This is a collection where the coordinates are as great as the focus fabric. Northcott is well known for their beautiful digital prints and this collection is no exception.
Been wanting MORE batiks
We just received 20 new batiks, all from Hoffman of California. If you are a batik lover, this will be very tempting. Nothing beats a Hoffman batik!
Let’s Sew Something
It’s Spring (almost) and time to sew something for warmer weather. What’s more appealing than a “Big Shirt”? Those great loose fitting brightly colors tops over basic pants just say Spring is here! We are showing two of our favorite patterns. One is an old favorite, London Shirt. Our newest top pattern is the Remy…
Favorite fabric of the week
With thousands of bolts of fabric, it’s very difficult to choose just one for the “favorite” this week. We just received the 108″ cotton sateen from Robert Kaufman’s Venice collection. These prints are amazing and the sateen is just the silkiest fabric ever. These 108″ wide fabrics are so much more than a backing. They…
Morning Light from Linzee Kull McCray
This is the third collection that Linzee has done with Moda featuring feed sack prints. These vintage prints are fun to work with and far more interesting than the reproduction prints from the 30’s. We have pre-cuts as well as yardage in this group. Want to find out more about feed sackfabric? Linzee is also…
There are no ordinary cats….
This precious panel and coordinates are from Northcott. If you are a cat lover, you get it and if your aren’t…..well. The panel is 24″ x 44″ so it could be the beginning of a quilt or cut the blocks apart to use them independently. Here are a couple of close-ups of the blocks in…
New batiks have finally arrived
We have been very patient waiting for batiks scheduled to arrive last Fall. Who cares…they are here now. There are batiks from Hoffman and Tonga batiks from Timeless. Both companies have great fabrics to offer. Timeless always has some wonderful lights which our customers are always looking for. The last 3 pictured above are their…
Glyphs from Free Spirit Fabrics
If you like graphic designs and architectural patterns then you will love this new line from e bond for Free Spirit. This is the first group from e bond, so hopefully it will be well received and we will have more collections. e bond holds an BFA in graphic design and art history so you…
Star Sprinkles Quilt Kit
This pattern from Atkinson Designs is one of our favorites to use up scraps or feature a certain group of prints. This time we used fabrics from the Kaffe Collective which means we used fabrics from Kaffe, Philip Jacobs, and Brandon Mably. They all work so great together and the prints are large so it…
Sisterhood — A new quilt kit from Creations
We are always looking for quilts to show off our Aboriginal prints. The new Sisterhood pattern from Villa Rosa Designs is perfect. It’s an easy quilt to make so it’s fun for everyone. The finished size of the quilt in the pattern is only 50″ x 64″ so we added additional blocks to make our…