eQuilters Offers Luscious Batik Hippy Fabrics!

eQuilter.com is an online fabric store with a focus on quilting, sewing and fashion. They carry over 20,000 fabrics in stock, specializing in Asian and ethnic, contemporary and novelty 100% cotton quilting fabrics. Their real treasure is in the over 2,000 batik and hand-dyed fabrics, along with a large selection of fat quarter packets and […]

Purl Soho

I stumbled upon the Purl Soho site tonight, and I was astounded with yet another source of fabrics for quilting and fabric arts.
When you go to the site, just click on the ‘fabric’ link at top right. Then you can spend the rest of the evening looking through fabrics by company, style, or designer. Some […]

The Quilt Studio Patterns

If you don’t already know about the longarm quilting patterns provided by The Quilt Studio, then I’m here to do my duty and point you in that direction.
If you’re looking for angels, seashells, fish, pine needles, and a gorgeous little ginko pattern, you can find it here. I counted about 32 patterns just on this […]

Treat Your Nose Right

Shari Beaubien (”Be Still My Artful Heart,” Cloth Paper Scissors, January/February 2007) doesn’t let cold and flu season get her down. She takes the opportunity to collage and embellish “Totally Tricked-Out Tissue Box” covers for her home. Cute, cute, cute!
For instructions on how to make your own, visit the Cloth Paper Scissors Web site.

Valentine Mini Art Quilts

Kelli passed on her recipe for her Valentine mini-quilts at the Embellished Circus blog. A combination of dying, some swabs of acrylic paints, a few embellishments like buttons, ribbons, and type. Then she ironed them to stiff double sided fusible interfacing with a piece of plain muslin behind. A machine-sewed border edges the pieces and […]

Revival Fabrics Online

Nan Jaeger, proprietor of Revival Fabrics, appreciates her family history in sewing. Her Finnish Grandmother made wonderful clothes. Her own mother made many school outfits and was a seamstress for 35 years. Frequent trips were made to the fabric stores as a child and Nan enjoyed picking out sewing patterns.
After she graduated from college, Nan […]

Sis Boom Girlfriend Fabrics

As I browsed through some quilt sites the other day I happened upon Sis Boom, a very cool place for fabrics, products, and inspiration. You need to scroll down the page a bit to see the fabric samples, but it’s worth it - these chintz-like squares are too cute to pass up! These fabrics are […]

Vintage Fabric Online

Sharon’s Antiques specializes in vintage fabric from the 19th century to the 1950’s, and they carry more than 400 feed sacks and 300 vintage cotton print fabrics for sewing, quilting and antique quilt restoration. They also carry vintage kitchen linens, aprons, hankies, even fine antique quilts and tops so that you can create, re-create or […]

Retro Fabric Reproductions

At right: a Denyse Schmidt, “Flea Market Leaves,” chocolate.

If you want newer versions of older print fabrics, then ReproDepot.com is the place for you. They offer a selection of vintage reproduction and retro themed fabrics that are brand new 100% cotton broadcloth and usually 45″ wide cuts. Fabrics are varied, but colorful and fun. Look […]