Dear Stella is new fabric brand. Their Quilt Market Fall 2011 launch showcased 8 new collections. The booth presentation was modern, understated and fabulous. That big ribbon on the right is their Best New Exhibitor prize!
I’m enjoying the mix of modern, contemporary designs with a soft, fresh color palette.
The quilts and projects on display did an excellent job of showing the fabric in action.
The 14 Stella Dots are a ‘basic’. The colors coordinate to the collections but seem to be matching every stack we throw them into. Very fun!
Especially effective was showing different collections made up in the same project. The cathedral window pillows were beautiful. I loved that they paired contemporary fabrics with a traditional quilt pattern too. Fresh and modern.
Many of the projects shown in the above photos are available on the Dear Stella website. The Elephant was featured several weeks ago in our Saturday ChalkTalk newsletter, we received quite a few e-mails reporting difficulty in downloading the pattern. E-mail us at customerservice@pinkchalkfabrics.com if you experience problems and we’ll e-mail the PDF to you.
Two FQ sets are up for giveaway this week. A full collection set of Dear Stella Anchor’s Away (a little quilt market booty) and our custom Dear Stella Palladium FQ set.
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I’m looking forward to a nice, long, relaxing holiday weekend. There are SO MANY AMAZING contributions to the Handmade with Love Tutorial Contest. I’ve got my eye on a couple. What are you going to make this weekend?
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Recent book and DVD blog tour winners:
SewLindaAnn is the winner of the Little Bits Quilting Bee Book by Kathreen Ricketson
Mel is the winner of the Dyeing to Stitch DVD by Candy Glendening
Last week’s FQ Tuesday winners:
- Stephanie Dunphy of Loft Creations wins The Woodlands by Khristian Howell FQ Set (blog comments)
- Brenda wins a Calypso by Maude Asbury FQ Set (newsletter subscriber)
Look for an e-mail today, thank you!
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How Fat Quarter Tuesday works:
- Every Tuesday two items from the Pink Chalk Fabrics online store will be featured and given away the following week in a random drawing.
- The first winner is selected from those who opened their Pink Chalk Fabrics e-mail newsletter during the week.
- The second winner is selected from all comments left on the blog for the week (comments from all posts, not just the giveaway post).
You can sign up for the Pink Chalk Fabrics Newsletter here.
wow, what great fabrics! I love those nautical ones!
Pretty prints and colors. Thanks
What beautiful fabric. I am especially loving that elephant pillow.
Dianne
As always, love this site. Thank you for your very many projects.
Wonderful fabrics, thanks for the giveaway. Really like the blue chevron quilt in the third photo.
wow, both collections look gorgeous. The colors for the Palladium set are fantastic!
Beautiful quilts and pillows, lots of gorgeous colors. Love the elephant as well.
Thanks for the giveaway and a chance to win.
usairdoll(at)gmail(dot)com
I love both of those collections, but I’m particularly fond of the boy fabric. I have tons of girly fabrics, but no boy fabric, and I have 2 boys! Go figure! Thanks for the giveaway!
I knew I had been out of the loop with other issues in my life right now but after reading the newsletter and seeing the pictures, I realized that I hadn’t looked at the first picture from Quilt Market. I hope I can find some still hanging around to see. I love what I saw here. Thanks for the chance to win this beautiful bounty of fabric. I’ll take either, not picky at all! Have a Blessed and Happy Thanksgiving.
I am just letting you know that I read my newsletter, look forward to receiving it.
Nice. I see endless ideas for this fabric.
I enjoy this post every week. Seeing new and beautiful fabric is definitely a joy. Thank you.
I need to go to Quilt Market next year !
This seems to be such a cool collection !
Thank you for the introduction to Dear Stella.
Thanksgiving Blessings to you and yours.
Love, love , love Dear Stella Palladium, so fresh!
I love the fabric line.
love those fabrics…^^
Gorgeous! Love that Cathedral Window and I am adding it to my ‘must do’ list, lol.
love the pillows, they really showcase the fabrics
I think that fabric is so pretty and I love the name because it was my grandmother’s name.
I am just going to work on a little applique this weekend.
You have my attention now..that Stella nautical themed fabric has caught this little fishy. Love your blog it is always on the pulse!
Love these fabrics and would love to win!
So pretty! Would love to add this to my growing stash!
YALL ALWAYS HAVE SUCH GREAT FABRIC COLECTIONS AND SUCH AMAZING PHOTOS OF QUILTS AND OTHER ITEMS. I LOVE FABRIC PERIOD!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!!!!
I would love to win these fabrics! I am making Thanksgiving dinner this weekend, then back to the craft room next week!
Love the fabric…!
I’m loving all I’m seeing of the Dear Stella fabrics! This weekend I’ve mostly nursed a cold. Good thing we in Canada already had our Thanksgiving celebration because I just couldn’t have swung a decent family gathering this weekend. I sewed yoyos, watched movies, and ate chicken soup instead.
I would love to win some fabric for my group, World of Charity Stitching, where we make lap quilts for children and senior citizens.
Thanks,
Peggy
peggy_verdongibbs@att.net
http://keepmeinstitches-peggy.blogspot.com
Wonderful fabrics – hope I am lucky enough to win!
Kathy
THAT IS SUCH AN ADORABLE BAG, CAN’T WAIT TO MAKE ONE FOR OUR QUILT SHOW BOUTIQUE!!
Looking forward to going to some of these shows!
Tree skirt is on my agenda!
I’m in love. These are wonderful prints and would love to get my hands on some of them.
Trolling the internet for quilt market photos and lo and behold, I see my cathedral window pillows commissioned by the fabric designer. Let me tell you, I was ecstatic to get a sneak peak at these beautiful fabrics from Dear Stella. I was giddy from the moment they arrived.
I had no idea they were going to Quilt Market.