Perkins Dry Goods

Ok, it’s been three weeks since market and I think I need to get back to work.  There are a few things that I’m thinking about for fall market, probably more than I can get to during the summer.  

I spent the weekend unpacking the rest of the boxes from market and reorganizing my storage room.  The next job is to get things going in the studio.  I have a list!  One pattern is ready to be written and tested.  There are two other quilts on the design wall and a few bag ideas are floating around in my head. I have some fabric that is calling my name!

School is out in two weeks.  At that point, I have more supervision - by my three teens - than I know what to do with.  One of the challenges of working from a home studio!

Quilt Market was held in Salt Lake City May 4-6 and what a blast it was!  So many things to see.  Fabrics were lighter and brighter.  Definitely a feeling of youthfulness in the air.  A nice addition to the mix of traditional and reproduction prints.  Lots of patterns, notions and gadgets.  I can’t wait to try the samples of Presencia thread I got.  I have spools of 3 ply 60 weight and a 3 ply 50 weight.  Stay tuned!

I introduced three new patterns along with my Perfect Piecing Seam Guide this market.

Magic Squares is a fat quarter quilt that uses a slice and dice technique.  You end up with a scrappy four patch square in a square in a square block.  It goes together really fast and comes in three sizes.

Sweet Pea lived on my idea wall for about two years.  I knew I wanted to use this block and a simple fabric plan to make a quilt that looked more complicated than it really was.  And finally one day it just came to me!  The setting triangles are pieced which makes it hard to tell where the main block is.  Three sizes in this pattern:  throw, twin and queen.

Man Quilt happened almost by accident.  I was talking to a friend about what kind of quilt she was going to make for her brother.  It just so happened that I had a quilt on the design wall  that wasn’t quite finished.  It didn’t have a name, and it was definitely more masculine than most of my quilts; both in design and fabric choices.  Just for fun, I called it the Man Quilt - and it stuck!