Spring Quilt Market, Amy Butler
May 19th, 2009This past weekend, Craig and I attended the International Quilt Market in Pittsburgh. Quilt Market is a trade show where shop owners can see all the new fabrics, patterns and notions for the coming season. It’s so much fun being a customer, and we are quite pleased with our purchases. I can’t wait for you to see them! In the meantime, Craig took some great photos of our trip, so I can share some of the fun things coming in over the next few months.
Since our rooms weren’t going to be ready by the time we arrived, we went straight to the show from the airport. The whole ceiling of the convention center had windows which provided natural light! Such a welcome change from the usual fluorescent bulbs. All the better to see fabrics and take photos!
Within 20 minutes we found ourselves at Amy Butler’s booth. It was gorgeous as usual and we got a chance to chat with Amy. She is so nice, and has lots of exciting things coming up. Her new line, Love, ( which wasn’t yet available at the show) will be out in August. Our Westminster Fibers pal, Elyse, told us it was looking wonderful. Of course!
Here’s a little peek at Amy’s new patterns, due out next month. Both of these are destined to be summer essentials!
One of the most exciting things we found is Amy’s new project software. She has partnered with the people at Electric Quilts to bring us 22 projects- quilts, bags & pillows all on one CD! You can make the projects as Amy designed them or use her virtual swatch gallery to customize your project. I will definitely be posting more about this, but if you can’t wait, we already have the software available in the shop and at our online store Newcastle !
Seeing Amy’s booth was incredibly inspiring and made me want to start creating right away. All this in the first hour of the show! I’ll be posting this week about the fantastic things we saw from Freespirit and Michael Miller. If you want to see more photos of Amy Booth check out our Flickr page Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas rip
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May 20th, 2009 at 11:09 am
Ooh, project software? That sounds really interesting. I’ll have to check it out.
May 20th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
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May 20th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
I didn’t know Amy had new fabrics coming out…can’t wait to see them! Also, is there anywhere that I can go to read exactly which projects are in the Amy software?