Obsessing Over Brights for Summer!!

 

 

We are just LOVING all of the BRIGHTS that are coming out this season! I know Summer is the time of year when we're usually on the look out for these brighter hues and with amazing collections like Bekko Home Décor Sateens, you can create everything from fun skirts and sturdy tote bags to recovering a vintage chair or making an awesome quilt (they're still light enough to feel amazing!)

 

 

 

Pam experimented with them in this funky patchwork quilt she created after getting inspired by the Summer catalogs! Don't think you have to stay within a collection or even a fabric type when making a quilt! She used cottons and sateens from several different collections and the result is just awesome!! Use some Cotton Couture Solids, crazy prints or tonals! Just keep the color family similar or complimentary and you're golden!!

 

 

 

 

We also have these great OMBRE'S from the Simply Color collection and they are just SCREAMING to me made into something fabulous this season! One of our Facebook friends mention creating a super trendy Ombre Skirt, and another said the gradation of these fabrics is perfect for appliqueing flowers!! How will you use them??

 

 

 

 

In case you haven't heard, we just launched our NEWEST Cabbage Rose Exclusive Block of the Month Program, BRIGHTS ALL OVER!! This sampler quilt is exactly like its sister, BLACK WHITE & GRAY ALL OVER featuring an Irish Chain and some beautiful bright fabrics! It last 12 months and SHIPPING IS FREE for US Customers! SIGN UP TODAY!!!

 

 

 

 

Want to create a quick, modern quilt this Summer but don't want to pick out all the fabrics yourself?? Try our GORGEOUS Flying Geese Quilt Kit, NOW 30% OFF until Mother's Day along with some of our other favorite Quilt Kits!! Featuring over 30 different prints, this quilt is sure to brighten up any living space you bring it into! 

 

 

How are you using BRIGHTS this Summer?? Share those projects on Facebook or in the comments! Happy Sewing!!

Come See us at QuiltCon! Booth: 501

 

Caroline is in Austin this week running the Cabbage Rose Booth (#501) at the first annual QuiltCon presented by The Modern Quilt Guild! We are SEW excited to be here for the first year and be able to see how this conference grows and evolves! It's being held in the Austin Convention Center, February 21st-24th and tickets are only $10 a day for the Quilt Show and Vendor Hall (where we are!) Or you can pay $30 and come for every day!

 

 

 

How cute is our BOOTH??? Come see all of our gorgeous modern fashion samples, quilt kits and a sampling of some of our fabulous fabrics!! We're one of the few fabric shop vending at the conference so if you have always wanted to come visit the Cabbage Rose, do the next best thing and visit us at QuiltCon!! You'll get a better idea of the type of items we LOVE and carry regularly! Caroline will be there to meet and greet new faces, answer questions and of course sell y'all some really cute projects!! Don't miss out on this amazing week of modern quilting, inspiration and more!!

Pablo Strikes Again!!

Check out this FAB quilt that Pablo just made!! He is really getting us all inspired to think outside the box all while keeping things simple, easy and totally cool!! We have had just a couple of the fun prints from Ty Pennington's Impressions 2012 collection that didn't really seem like enough to make a quilt with but leave it to a man to try and prove the ladies wrong! ;)

Pablo grabbed the few bold prints, threw in a coordinating solid or two, added an Amy Butler print for good measure and whipped out this fast and modern quilt that is just jaw-dropping good! The way he did the borders is a great trick for adding some width to a small quilt pattern to make it larger, or to build size when you're low on yardage! I also LOVE that he did a little fussy-cutting on that hexy stripe to make the center strip look like the inverse of the two strips framing the top and bottom! Such a clever move to get more bang out of a bold, large-scale fabric! 

He even got super fancy and used all the prints he had left over to make a big wonky patchwork backing instead of trying to get enough of one fabric for the whole thing!! And let me just tell you, this quilt is crazy good and it looks even cooler in person!

SO, what can we learn from this awesome project???

1. Just because there are only a few prints left, doesn't mean you can't make an AMAZING quilt

2. When in doubt, bring in the SOLIDS

3. A little fussy-cutting on a big print goes a LONG way

4. Low yardage is an opportunity to think outside the box! If you LOVE a fabric, DON'T LET IT GO!!

5. Pieced backings are economical & cool, NEVER worry about finding enough backing again!

We hope we've inspired you to use fabric in a new way or to create something fabulous with that small grouping of prints you snagged the last of! Quilts with a lot of prints are wonderful, but we also love the modern and fresh look of Pablo's and other quick quilts like it! And if you LOVE projects like this that anyone with some imagination can do, SIGN UP FOR SEW FRESH! Our first sewing night of the new year is this Thursday from 6pm-9pm and we're going to be doing tons of fun stuff like this all year long! Come and  share the inspiration!!

Happy Sewing!!