Welcome!

Hi everyone,

Happy Thursday! We hope everyone is having a wonderful day!! Have you entered our Fresh Solids Giveaway yet? We’d love to know what your favorite Fresh Solid color is. You can enter here if you haven’t! :)

It’s time for this week’s Thankful Thursday!! Today we are featuring one of our lovely project designers, Melissa Stramel of Lilac Lane Patterns! Melissa Stramel is a lover of all things floral! Whether it is tending to her garden, flower arrangement, or creating with floral fabrics, Melissa is always up for the challenge. While staying at home and sewing for her children, Melissa decided to combine her love for fabric & creating patterns by starting a business called Lilac Lane Patterns. After its success, Lilac Lane grew into a store in her hometown of Colby, Kansas called Creations Gallery. A pharmacist by training, Melissa has found the industry that encapsulates her skills and her loves perfectly! Melissa creates and sells her patterns under Lilac Lane, has a blog, and also has published a book! A very busy gal, indeed!

We had the absolute pleasure of working with Melissa of Lilac Lane Patterns for a couple of projects for our Free Projects Program. Melissa has such a creative mind, and created some really unique patterns for us. The first project is her Butterfly Quilt, which has a very cool, scrappy look with adorable little “butterflies” in the quilt design. We absolutely adore it with our Botanical by Alisse Courter Collection. As well, her genius “The Sky is Falling” Table Runner with our Fruit Stand by Jane Farnham Collection is so modern and fun!

We want to thank Melissa for the incredible patterns for our Free Projects Program!! You can find the free tutorials for the Butterfly Quilt and The Sky is Falling Table Runner on our website. As well, you can find more from Melissa on her website, blog, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Etsy. Have a good one, everyone!

Happy Sewing!

Hi everyone,

Happy Thursday! We hope everyone is having a lovely day so far. We are hosting another Winsday this week and are giving away our Beyond the Backyard FQB AND 2 Westcott Cutting Tools on our Facebook Page. Be sure to enter if you haven’t yet HERE!

It’s also time for this week’s Thankful Thursday! Today we are featuring one of our incredible pattern designers, Cheryl Brickey of Meadow Mist Designs. Cheryl Brickey is a chemical engineer/patent agent by day and a quilter by night. Quilting and creating patterns involve a lot of technical skill, which in turn was the perfect hobby for Cheryl who also has a passion for sewing and fabrics. As a creative outlet, Cheryl was able to use her technical writing background to create her own quilting patterns as a pattern designer. Cheryl started her pattern company,  Meadow Mist Designs, to sell her patterns on Etsy. Since then, her success in the quilting world has grown immensely. Her quilts have been featured in quilt magazines, blogs, and her patterns are very popular!

We had the privilege of working with Cheryl as one of our pattern designers for our Free Projects Program. Cheryl created the Cracker Lattice Quilt for us, which is a stunning, geometric quilt design that reflects her technical and engineering background perfectly.  This modern quilt pattern features a lovely double lattice design with triangle and diamond elements and its simplicity works so well with a multitude of colors and fabrics, such as our Botanical by Alisse Courter Collection. We absolutely love the versatility of this modern quilt! You can find the pattern for Cracker Lattice here.

We want to thank Cheryl for creating such a stunning quilt design for us, and for the wonderful partnership. We cannot wait for what’s still to come. You can find the free PDF of our Cracker Lattice Quilt on our website. As well, be sure to check out more from Cheryl on her blog, Etsy, and Facebook. Have a great one!

Happy Sewing!

Time for another Fall 2014 Collection! We are launching two collections from Alisse Courter this season, the first that we shared is her Botanical Collection. Alisse’s second collection with Camelot Fabrics is Wildflowers, an absolutely stunning collection that encapsulates everything that is delicate and pretty. Wildflowers is the epitome of beautiful and girly, each print decorated in delicate florals and lovely leaf motifs. The color palette is soft and muted corals, chartreuse greens, and creams. We can picture an adorable little girls’ dress or spring shift dress in Wildflowers, complete with a flower crown. This collection is perfect for the ultimate girly-girl’s bedroom; tasseled pillows atop a daybed or fluttering tabbed curtains to complete the look.

We absolutely adore our Farm Stand Quilt by Anne Sullivan from Play Crafts in our Wildflowers by Alisse Courter Collection. How absolutely precious do the colors seamlessly work together in this quilt design, complimenting each pattern perfectly to create a stunning floral-infused quilt.

We hope you absolutely love our Wildflowers by Alisse Courter Collection. We would love to know what you think. You can check out all of our free projects on our website. Stay tuned for more!

Starting off our Fall 2014 Collections with our newest artist, Alisse Courter! So happy to have Alisse join the Camelot Fabrics team of creative minds and awesome people. You can check out some fun facts from Alisse here, from her inspiration to become a fabric designer to her favorite reads. We are so proud to introduce two new collections from Alisse for Fall 2014 that we are sure you will absolutely adore. The first collection is Botanical – a rich, war, collection of flourishing blooms, leaves, and ornate motifs in an emerald and golden color palette. Prints in cozy colors, this collection would make for a beautiful full skirt for the fall time, or as a pretty accessory, such as our reversible headband. The rich prints remind us all things wood-sy, mysterious, and autumn.

We absolutely adore our Botanical by Alisse Courter Collection with our Elevation by Kristy Daum Pillow. The colors work perfectly to make a perfect accent pillow for cabin-feel room. We also love Botanical with this quilt, this quilt, and this quilt.

We’d love to know what you think about our Botanical Collection! As well, we’d love to know what you would create with this warm and cozy collection. You can check out the full collection here. Stay tuned for more for Fall 2014 from Camelot Fabrics!

We are so happy to have you, Alisse!! We are super excited for what’s to come; we can’t wait to share! We will be launching Alisse’s fabric collections at this year’s Fall Quilt Market. You can find more from Alisse on her social media links:

– Facebook
– Twitter
– Instagram
– Pinterest
– Website

The Camelot Fabrics’ family is expanding…and we are so thrilled for all the new creativity and prettiness to come! We hope you have enjoyed getting to know Alisse a little bit more :)