Our friend and designer, Desiree Habicht was at quilt market and has a great blog showing her whimsical designs! Her re-cap of quilt market is here: Check it out at The Clothesline Desiree’s Designs Blog So much fun and talent!!!
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Our first blog!!! Because fabric should be fun!
Its finally here, our very first blog for our new brand, Ink & Arrow fabrics. We couldn’t be more excited to share with you the fabulous fun of our fabrics. Our website will be live in early December, but, until then, we’ll blog about our adventure at Quilt Market (our industry convention) and give you your own sneak peek of the collections and inspiration!
I’m Meredith, an employee-owner at Ink & Arrow. I work as a marketing brand manager and I am so proud to be a part of this new adventure! So sit back, relax, grab a cup of coffee or tea (or both) and we’ll get inspired together!
Do you love to scan pinterest and instagram images and drool at the projects you find there? Are you addicted to fabric? Are you scouring blogs on the regular? If you are the kind of person who is a maker and creator, we know you’ll love Ink & Arrow. We love all things creative and can’t imagine a time/place without color, print, pattern and fun! Our Ink & Arrow fabrics are designed with you in mind! #NoRulesJustFabric #becausefabricshouldbefun Each fabric design has a little motif hidden in the design for extra fun. An arrow, an I&A or Ink&Arrow is in there somewhere… How cute is that!?!?
Here’s an inspiration board we made for our Quilt Market booth. Quilt Market is a place where shop owners, pattern makers, publishers and fabric companies get together to network, show collections and fill their shelves/magazines with amazing stuff! We were there this past weekend – what a whirlwind!
We’ll be back. There is so much more to share! Please comment and give us ideas of things you want to see on this blog!
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QT at Quilt Market – Recap #1
Well, a few of us have returned from Quilt Market in Houston. The Marketing group arrived in Houston last Wednesday to set up and prep for our biggest trade show of the year! International Quilt Market in Houston is an industry convention for shop owners to buy fabrics, notions, and patterns for their shops. They come from all over the world and visit exhibitors like us to see our collections, network, and get inspired! It’s a great event with lots of color and creativity!!!
Above, see how color & creativity SHINE in our Block of the Month quilt “Festival of Stars” designed by Pine Tree Country Quilts and our “Stained Glass” quilt designed by Cyndi Hershey. Both feature our new Ombre Scroll fabric. These are just being shown at Market and will be available to shops in March 2016 – I know… “Patience is a virtue”. 🙂
While at market, most of the companies meet with peers and also with potentially new customers, magazine editors, book publishers and the like. Our team has been busy! We were especially excited for this market as we have a completely new booth! This market was the launch of our new booth styling – hard walls with plenty of room to hang and pin quilts/fabric as well as a space for creating visual vignettes!
Speaking of vignettes, our licensed artist/designer, Janet Wecker Frisch had her own section that she beautifully decorated to show off her collection, Sewing Seeds II which will be available in stores in March 2016.
And… if the décor wasn’t impressive enough, she and Jo Packham, founder of “Where Women Create” got together for an Issue signing. The Winter 2016 issue features Janet’s studio and gives a glimpse into her creative world.
That was just a snippet of Market, we’ll blog again soon to share more with you!!!
A great accomplishment shouldn’t be the end of the road, just the starting point for the next leap forward.
Until next time…Use QT to create something that is fabulous…something fantastic… something FABTASTIC!
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We must ask you about your Stash!
Let’s face it – we all have our fabric stash. We will discuss this again and again. I am unapologetic for mine – it is part of who I am as a creative person. You never know when you will need that 6″ strip of fabric from 1978. It’s really really really important to keep it, just in case.
Here’s some of our QT stash… I was thinking that we should all take pictures of our “stash” and put the hashtag #MustAddtomyStash Don’t forget to include #quiltingtreasuresfabrics Facebook is always a great way to show your stuff too! Post a picture to our wall and/or tag us!
I still have fabric that is untouched in my “organized” plastic drawers, just screaming to be used. Why do we do that? For me, I know it’s because I want to be hit by the epiphany truck… just the right project for the right time… You never know!
Having said that, here is the first of an ongoing theme to feature for our blog “Must Add to my Stash” Take a peek, these collections are hitting the stores in September and will be a nice addition to your stash 😉
What do you think?… Must add to your stash??? 
If I want to calm down, I’ll buy some fabric, get a pattern, shut myself in a room and stay there for days, really happy. And at the end of it, you get a bedspread or some curtains or something to wear – it’s lovely. Twiggy
Until next time…Use QT to create something that is fabulous…something fantastic… something FABTASTIC!
On the QT 