ARTISTIC QUILTS WITH COLORS BLOG AND NEWS

Nourish: A Lone Star Quilt Pattern - is a lone star quilt made without Y seams. Solids, small scale prints, blenders or batiks for the featured fabrics make this quilt shine.

WILLIAM REUE - LOG TAVERN ROAD collection celebrates everyday life in small-town America. It is a real place – a beautiful drive that connects small communities in the forested countryside of the Delaware River Valley. It inspired a collection of hand-drawn human figures, exuberant abstractions derived from nature, and the shapes, colors, and textures found in modest domestic architecture.

Introducing Spider Lily — month 12 of our 2022 Flora BOM. This box includes 2 of our gorgeous variegated hues + 1 complementary solid.

Artistic Quilts with Colors is proud to bring this Aboriginal Fabric line to our store

Aboriginal Art is one of the more ancient traditional arts in the world, going back approximately 50,000 years. In early days, Aboriginals did cave painting, rock painting, and sand or ground painting. The newer generations use acrylic paints on canvas to portray their Dreamtime.

AURIFIL - 85 & Fabulous by Kaffe Fassett new thread collaboration between Kaffe Fassett and Aurifil.

KAFFE FASSETT - QUILTS IN WALES With his unerring eye, Kaffe has succeeded in finding the perfect location for his exquisite new collection of quilts, featuring both his scintillating new fabric designs and his classics, all in his unique color palette. 

ANNA MARIA HORNER - FLUENT features 18 designs and 1 wide back. 

As a first-generation Greek American who has never quite reached fluency in Greek, Anna Maria Horner recently embarked on reconnecting with the language through audio lessons while also creating the beginnings of this collection.

The Tropicalism collection by Odile Bailloeul invites you to venture into virgin and unknown territories and dense jungles where the vegetation is prolific and exuberant. Here everything is extreme: the colors, the richness of the textures, the fragrances, the profusion of patterns. Insects, birds, frogs and wild animals come out of their hiding places to meet you, merging with the leaves and flowers in full bloom. 

The Eclectic Elements Alchemy collection from Tim Holtz was inspired by alcohol ink, an art medium often used to create free-flowing textures. This magical group of designs is filled with fluid movement and bold colors, adding depth and texture to your projects.

AURIFIL - VARIEGATED threads contain multiple colors or multiple shades of one color. The spacing and repetition of the threads depends on how the thread is dyed. Aurifil produces 36 variegated thread colors that are prepared using three unique processes

Aurifil’s Cross River Gorilla thread set was created in tribute to this elusive and regal creature. It features 3 large spools of our 40wt thread in 3 hues of purple— a warm, a medium, and a dark— 2562, 2520, & 2545.

Tula's Premium Collections were her very first for Aurifil, dating back to 2013. They included 12 Large Spools or 10 Small Spools of our variegated hues in Aurifil 50wt. They are truly designed for versatility-- something that makes a huge difference when working with bold print and color as is Tula's design genius. These spools perfectly complement her fabrics and have been doing so for years.