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In stores soon.... You can see the whole collection on the Robert Kaufman website.

and some ladybugs too

polka dots

For Memphis inspired fabrics you could check out the works of London based designer 'Season of Victory'. The fabrics are available to buy at Spoonflower here and the prints are available for licensing.

Art Gallery Fabrics have announced their new early 2016 collections which will all debut at the fall Quilt Market next weekend in Houston. One of the new ranges is Chalk & Paint by Caroline Hulse aka 'Sew Caroline'. Taking a theme from the art covered streets Caroline was inspired by her "crafty/creative side and is an expression of the artist we all wish to be". Chalk & Paint contains ten

And here are a couple of other highlights from Art Gallery Fabrics forthcoming collections. The first is Coastline designed by Sharon Holland featuring shore inspired imagery in nautical blues, sea shell pinks and sea glass greens. The fabrics will debut to retailers and trade at the Houston Quilt show next weekend and will be in stores in early 2016. Avant Garde is

I don't think I ever posted these quilt projects on the Robert Kaufman site using fabrics from the Creatures and Critters 3 collection.

Designer Victoria Johnson has just finished a series of collaged paintings of Dala horses featuring intricate details and beautiful decorative saddles. She is hoping to start selling prints very soon and these will be some of the first prints available. Also shown is a fabulous new Christmas tree which like all of Victoria's work is available for purchase or license.If you'd like to see

These tea towels will be available soon in my Spoonflower shop. (the vegetables are now listed and available for sale - if you are interested choose the linen fat quarter).

Sari Ahokainen is a designer based in Finland who has recently designed some prints on children's clothes for German label Delari. Her organic fabrics Happiness and So Sweet have been used for leggings and dresses. You can see more of Sari's portfolio for licensing online here.

Spira is a textile design company based in Boras in Sweden who produce bright and funky fabrics with a retro feel. Spira use only cotton and linen mixed fabrics which makes them ideal for curtains, blinds, table cloths and cushions. Here are some of their latest releases for Spring Summer 2015 with some lovely vibrant prints.

The latest fabric collection from designer Lizzy House has been announced by Andover Fabrics. 'The Lovely Hunt' will be released in September 2015. In the meantime if you need some modern fabrics now then this May saw the release of Lizzy's 'Natural History' range with museum finds such as Butterfly collections, minerals, and Dinosaurs. And below a little preview of the forthcoming '

And finally today an exotic new collection from the in-house designers at Michael Miller called 'Migration'. Released on July 15th it will feature three colour groups : blue, pink or sorbert and includes elegant giraffes. trendy pineapples, coloured animal print and bold chevrons.

Today's posts are all about fabrics and my first port of call was online store Fabricworm to see what was new. The first collection to catch my eye was Glitz Garden (above & below) designed in-house at Michael Miller and released this July. I also loved the Fabricworm snaps of Emily Isabella's 'Happy Town' collection. And from Jill McDonald at Windhams they have snapshots of

The very latest collections from Cotton + Steel have just arrived in stock at Fabricworm. There a five colourful new collections from some fabulous designers. Here are the new ranges to look out for : The first is 'Honeymoon' by Sarah Watts a collection inspired by a tropical honeymoon with lounging sloths, tweeting songbirds, and wild horses. Next we have 'Paper Bandana' by Alexia

And finally today another new Michael Miller collection - The Birds and the Bees by Tamara Kate is a nature themed series of prints featuring bold shapes and bright up. There are two colour groups available for this fun range which was inspired by a ceramic bird ornament Chilean artist Pablo Zabal owned by Tamara's mother. Tamara has also designed a  holiday collection for

I just posted this design on Spoonflower that can be printed for a tea towel. You can print a fat quarter (21"x18") and choose linen/cotton.

 I wanted to pick out a few of the new fabrics being released by Andover in 2015. The first is this super cute dog collection called 'Patch' designed by the Makower Studio which will be on sale in September 2015. Next up is Sophia a delicate lined floral from Makower which will be launched next month in June 2015. And also from Makower are these bright designs from

Art Gallery Fabrics have listed some of their forthcoming collections for 2015, and showcased them at the Quilt Fair this week. One of those that really appealed to me was Playing Pop. This lively collection was designed in house by the AGF Studio and features two different colour groups. Here's how AGF describe the collection "Bits and pieces of upbeat sounds get illustrated on the same page

Legendary designer Sarah Campbell has created a fabric collection called ‘Melodies’, produced with the US company Michael Miller. It features super colourful, painterly birds, leaves, florals, spots, dots, and geos. The collection features ten pattern designs in two colour groups will be available for shipping at the end of June.

For today's Friday eye candy we are taking at look at some of the lovely fabric prints available from UK company Lewis & Irene. Some of the designs are available right now, and others are due for release over the coming months.

Creatures and Critters 3 is now available in stores - you can see the whole collection on Robert Kaufman's website. Here is a link of stores that carry my fabrics.

Here is a fun quilt project using fabrics from the collection by It's Sew Emma.

Haven't done this in a long time, but just found some cute stuff using my On A Whim Robert Kaufman fabrics on Etsy -

ball

block

Art Gallery fabrics have welcomed a new designer into their licensed artists team - Caroline Hulse. Known as Sew Caroline she was selected by Art Gallery Fabrics to be a part of their inaugural project AGF Limited Edition, where she designed a fabric collection called Gleeful (posted here), which was released in July 2014. Caroline will now have a new full collection of fabrics that will debut

Just spotted my Minky Fly Away bird print on a company's product that was just featured on the Shark Tank.