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.
Agree with you about the fresh new colors! Love their lines and look forward to seeing more! I’m hoping to work in some handmade gifts this weekend — maybe the bedside book holder from 101 one-yard wonders for my grandmother and a stuffed animal for a friend’s new baby girl. Happy Thanksgiving!
I’ll probably work on some Christmas gifts this weekend. I want to make an apron for one of my friends and I found the perfect pattern! Now I need to find the perfect fabric…and there’s lots of choice!
Wonderful photos of pretty fabric lines! Thank you for the giveaway.
I don’t know if I’m going to make anything (maybe finish Little Wallet now that I have the pearl button snaps). I’ve been practicing my hand piecing to finish some blocks from my grandma. Love the Palladium collection – I’ve been collecting grays now that they are popular.
Carol, check back on Monday for some great Little Wallet inspiration!
The anchors away fabric looks fun. A cruise is in my future. That would be perfect. Thanks for the giveaway.
I have so many projects on the go that need to be finished. Plus have several floating around in my head.
I love those quilts on display. Modern, yet controlled. Really nice, thanks for sharing!
I love this Stella line! Thanks for offering this giveaway.
The ultra-cute Eloise is on my “To Be Made” list. Thanks again for sending me the pdf.
Love the colors in this line. Love the pictures in this blog. Thanks for the giveaway.
Well, this is the first time I have tuned into your fq tuesday. HOw fun!
Thanks for the pictures. Love the colors in this fabric line. thanks!
Ohhhh, I just love Anchors Away! That will be a very lucky winner to open their mail and find that bundle of joy! This weekend I am going to be doing my Christmas baking. Sugar cookies, shortbread, fruit tarts. It will go into the freezer, where we will all take turns sneaking it over the next month!
LOVE the sail boats! What fun!
love the boats. love the boats.!
pictures are great! fabrics and quilts look fresh !
I’m a middle aged (read old) woman, new to quilting, but have done garment sewing and needlework all of my life. I’ve discoved that along with the more traditional fabric & quilt designs, I’m also just LOVING the more modern quilt designs & fabrics that are becoming more popular now. I think I’m just a fabric junkie!
Love the new Dear Stella line & can’t wait to try something with it.
I love the Dear Stella Line. I have truly been attracted to greys the past two years. I needed some inspiration for a new quilt for my daughter’s room. Thank you for the help!!!
I love the grays! All the new fabrics are so beautiful. I hope to work on my granddaugher’s Christmas outfit.
This looks like a terrific new fabric line. I would love to incorporate it into some new projects! Jamie V in MT
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Lovely fabrics, thanks for a great giveaway. I’m probably going to be doing some knitting this weekend. Hats and mittens for the grandkids for Christmas. Both are very easy to make.
Love this new Dear Stella Line! There are simply not enough hours in a day to sew all the fabulous fabrics available…so many projects so little time. In the meantime, we collect beautiful fabrics.
Really love the Dear Stella line, especially all the ikat prints! I’m (hopefully) finishing up a baby quilt and making some headway on another WIP this weekend!
I love the bright Dear Stella colorway! I’m crazy about dots too, and those stuffed elephants are adorable!
Everything in the Dear Stella booth looks so nice. I’ll be checking out their website later. This weekend I will be madly sewing Christmas gifts, trying to stay on my schedule so that I can finish everything. Thanks for the giveaway.
Great fabrics! I love the elephant!
Too many things to do, a loveseat cushion for my kids, bunny slippers, bags, bags, bags for Christmas giving. I love making bags for gifts, because you can fill the bag with candy, a book, a DVD, and even a little bottle of wine! A fun present.
Also my Lab/Border Collie is Stella so I know she’d like a fabric collection in her name!
Cheers and Happy Thanksgiving,
Jo
wow, every picture had somethign yummier than the previous one. What a great booth, quilts and fabrics
Love, love, love those cathedral window pillows, saw their booth at market and it was smashing!
oh swoon-
inspiration overload!
Lovely fabrics and pillows!
These fabrics are wonderful – I can’t decide which I like the best – Everything on display looked amazing!! The grays are some of the best ever – I’d really like to work with them for a new, exciting quilt.
love the cathedral windows!
I could certainly have fun playing with that Dear Stella fabric. Thanks for sponsoring another great giveaway.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Nice to see the giveaway.On this moment I am a proud grandma from my first grandchild.It is a boy with a real Dutch name Jurre.It is difficult to find modern fabric for boys.These fabric like a verry much.Greatings from Holland.Corry
These fabrics are really gorgeous. The blue and white zig-zag quilt is so calming to look at, it’s inspiring me to make a new quilt in those colours, and quite very possibly in the Dear Stella fabrics I think
What a great collection and I love how Dear Stella shows off their ranges in projects that they have created. That elephant is just too cute
I will be making a load of little gifties this weekend. A load of friends and family have their birthdays during November, so I am catching up with some of those and then getting started on my Christmas sewing as well. The tuts competition is coming in vry handy indeed.
Marilize
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the darker colours are my favourite.
I love the Palladium Bundle. This weekend after sewing many quilts during the year for other people, I’m going to try and make one for myself! I’m going to make a flannel quilt using the Giant Star Quilt tutorial by JeniB, looks pretty easy and straightforward.
Terrific giveaway (as usual)!!!
dear stella… i love everything about you. you beautiful, beautiful fabric you).
After my turkey begins its 5 am journey in the over, I hope to finish up a quick (did I say quick?) Christmas quilt I started last Saturday for myself. I really want it on the sofa after this Holiday weekend!
Ooh, I really love that dear Stella fabric! Thanks for another great giveaway.
I am making Christmas ornaments for a market next weekend. I make them every year and I really love them!
Love both bundles but especially the gray. This weekend will be a quilting extravaganza–many tops lined up for finishing.
I have one fat quarter of gray in my stash. I was just thinking how I need to add some. I think most of the other colors are pretty well accounted for. This weekend I will be working on BH’s mystery quilt and quilts I am making for Xmas presents.
I love both bundles it would be nice to make myself something with them like a lap quilt. I make things for others but none for me. I like to give it makes me happy. Thanks for the giveaway and Happy Holiday to you and yours.
This weekend we will probably put up our Christmas decorations. If I get time for crafting I will be working on a quilt for my sister and another one for my dad, eep!
Love this new fabric line!
I will be making memories with my family! We are out of town visiting family and will treasure every minute. Next week I’ll be working on some Christmas cushions!
Both Dear Stella FQ sets are lovely – just gorgeous…thanks for the chance!