Marbled Hexies Repeat Patterns

I had talked two days ago about making jewelry again and showed off some new marbled hexagon pieces. Well, I went another step and scanned a huge handful of those hexagons and digitized them to be used in all kinds of projects.

Marbled Hexies Repeat Patterns {an Art School Dropout's life}

I thinking I’m going to run with this idea and see exactly what I can make when I mix my jewelry with my quilting. The sky is the limit.

Marbled Hexies Repeat Patterns {an Art School Dropout's life}

For now I’ve added a whole bunch of pieces using the scans to my Society6 shop

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I am slowly ordering swatches from Spoonflower and currently a few colorways are available as yardage with more coming super soon…

Marbled Hexies Repeat Patterns {an Art School Dropout's life}Also any designs available in my Spoonflower shop can also be used on Sprout Patterns. How cool is this dress? I want it so bad…

Marbled Hexies Repeat Patterns {an Art School Dropout's life}

Seriously, there is so much more I can do here! Other shapes, more casting techniques, different colors, etc. I am so excited by this project and will probably be sharing more about it soon!

 

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Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co.

Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life}

Last week I spent almost my entire week, and weekend wandering around the International Quilt Market! It’s an industry professional only trade show that is all about sewing. It’s where fabric, thread, batting, pattern, and other companies show off the newest and greatest products.

I go to help find jobs since I am technically freelance, but while I’m there I also do a lot of shopping. The night before the trade show flood opens they have this event called Sample Spree where you can buy bundles of fabric that isn’t out yet, so you can make a sample piece to help promote the fabric when it does come out. This is mainly meant for shop owners, but people like me use it when designing new patterns where there is time in between photographing the pattern and the actual pattern coming out. This way your pattern can be released the same time as the new fabric and it will be super relevant and make people want to replicate it. Does that make sense?

Well this event gets super crazy and there is a lot of running, pushing, shoving and more. It’s really hard to explain the craziness without seeing it in person. I went in with a list and only scored maybe 1/3rd of it.

Luckily for me a friend grabbed this bundle for me…

It’s the brand new line from Rifle Paper Co. named Les Fleurs and is part of a collaboration with Cotton + Steel fabrics.

Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life}It’s a little busier than I would normally go for, but I have a pattern being released soon that would look great in these fabrics.

The bundle I ended up with had numerous substrates in it (different types of fabrics) so I photographed them all separately for the most part, to show them off better.

Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life} Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life}

Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life} Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life} Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life} Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life}

The first substrate is 100% quilting cotton. I’d say half the bundle was quilting cotton actually. As you can see from the photos (which doesn’t do this stuff justice) the colors are super vibrant and rich. It’s like something out of a Wes Anderson movie.

Everything above this sentence is quilting cotton.

Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life} Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life}

Next up is their Lawn fabric, which is slightly thinner than quilting cotton and can be used nicely for quilts and clothing. The blue flower print in the above photo is actually Rayon, I got confused while photographing them!

Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life}

These are the other Rayon prints. The drape of this fabric is beautiful and so flowy. If I was more girly, I’d probably make some dresses out of it.

Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life} Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life} Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life} Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life} Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life} Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life} Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life} Fabric Stash Friday: Les Fleurs by Rifle Paper Co. from their collaboration with Cotton + Steel Fabrics {an Art School Dropout's life}The rest of the bundle of their thick Linen/Cotton Canvas. I’m not 100% how I’m going to use these pieces, but I can say they really are gorgeous! Even though the designs are printed on an unbleached fabric, the colors are still really pretty. There is also a huge panel that is just illustrations of different city maps. I LOVE it.

This fabric isn’t quite out yet, but I bet you’ll start seeing sample pieces popping up everywhere soon enough. I myself have several projects planned out.

All the substrates of Les Fleurs are scheduled to be in shops July 2016! That’s only a month or so away, and a lot of shops already have pre-order listings set up!!

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Fabric Stash Friday: Libs Elliott’s True Love

Fabric Stash Friday: Libs Elliott's True Love fabric {an Art School Dropout's life}I know I said two weeks ago that I would only be doing one project for Andover Fabrics this Quilt Market, and I really meant it at the time! But then I saw Libs Elliott’s debut line with them called True Love. It was just too many perfect black and white fabrics, and I just had to work with it.

So I am now working on a second, much smaller project using all of these beauties…

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These marbled designs are my absolute favorite and I plan on getting a few yards of each when they officially come out! I’m thinking dresses, kids skirts, quilt backing, quilt binding and so much more! It’s just too perfect!

Fabric Stash Friday: Libs Elliott's True Love fabric {an Art School Dropout's life}

The line officially comes out May 2016, so keep an out at your favorite shops local or online!

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Fabric Stash Friday: Lizzy House’s Whisper Palette

LH_whisper_001It’s that time of year again… Quilt Market sewing!

I’m taking it slow this spring and I am only working on one project, and it just happens to be for the company I’ve been working with the longest, Andover Fabrics.

It will be a super tall and skinny banner featuring all of the Lizzy House line shown above and using an upcoming pattern of mine. I won’t be showing TOO  much of the progress over the next few weeks because I don’t want to give that much of the pattern away.

Instead let’s just drool over just how gorgeous the Whisper Palette by Lizzy House really is…

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Look at all those pretty grays and low volumes!! I can not wait to cut in to these soon!!

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About two months ago I was contacted by the lovely people over at Andover Fabrics with an idea they had for a rainbow wall of mini quilts at QuiltCon this year. They would send me the fabric in a specific colorway and I would send them a mini quilt to hang in their booth during the event. I have been very sick, and haven’t had the energy to finish anything large, but I figured I could hand sew most of the mini so I said “yes!”

They sent me the gorgeous bundle of blue and white fabric shown above, which arrived right at the beginning of the blizzard we had. The majority of the fat quarters were either by Lizzy House or Alison Glass. The rest was from various other lines with Andover (I really should look in to them because they were all beautiful).

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