Gimme: Your Market Lovin’

Okay, so it really is all about the stuff you leave with when you go to Market. And yes, I know, you all are probably really getting tired of hearing Market tales. But this is a little bit different. Here were have some stuff the Jake brought back from her Shameless Promo Ho pursuits on behalf of GenQ at Market a couple of weeks ago…

Market Values and Cheddar, No Crackers patterns by Modern Quilt Relish

This pretty little pattern is part of a relatively new pattern line from Modern Quilt Relish. We attended a Schoolhouse of theirs and enjoyed many innovative and well-designed modern quilt patterns. Marny and Jill are partners in quilted joy. For those who might remember, when Jake wrote about attending PIQF and seeing very few modern style quilts there was one that stood out from the Cherrywood Fabrics’ booth. Gray with yellow squares, it sparkled. Well, that pattern is called Cheddar, No Crackers, and is also a MQR pattern. The patterns sell for $9 each on MQR’s site.

Cotton Couture Card by Michael Miller Fabrics

For many of us, it’s all about solids. And we’ve been enjoying their rich hues from many of our fave fabric houses. Michael Miller has a wonderful collection called Cotton Couture and that could be just enough for us, but then they had to go and offer up the Cotton Couture Card and we’re all over this one! This fold out card that will easily fit into your purse has a small swatch of every color fabric in the collection.That’s 85 fondle-sized squares of beautiful silky solids, just waiting for us to work into our next quilt design. It’s brilliant. The cards retail for $24 and here’s some inside 4-1-1 just for you all: We’re gonna start selling them on our site soon. Very soon. See, we promised that we’d have some fun ways to part you from your money coming up and we really like anything that inspires our creativity. But even if you don’t get the Cotton Couture Card from us, get one anyway.

Joen Wolfrom’s Magic Design Ratio Tool by C&T Publishing

Joen is one of our favorite legacy quilt authors. Her books on color should serve as mandatory reading for every beginning quilter. Recently she authored yet another book (we lost count at five) with C&T called Adventures in Design where she explains in her amazingly easy-to-get way about basic design principles and how to apply them to our quilting. The Magic Design Ratio Tool supports those lessons by offering proportional scales for your future designs. With slide cards and picture examples, she gives us another pocket tool to boost our inspiration whenever it strikes.