By the seaside, by the sea fabrics

Q5442 By The Sea Fat Quarter Pack

Benartex’s By the Sea fabric group wisks you off to that well-earned seaside holiday! This classic group has a handsome patchwork with scenes of sailboats, lighthouses, seagulls and more. The coordinates have seashells, ropes, nets, stars and a classy stripe to match

New Batik Fabrics

The weather has been glorious over the UK for the past few days and we have some fantastic batik fabrics to match the mood. Over twenty new batiks as well as three fat quarter packs. 

Q5681

Q5682

Retro 1930's style fabrics

Two new patchwork fabric ranges with a retro 1930's feel. Toybox II from Blue Hill fabrics and Antique Treasures.

Q5452, Antique Treasures Fat Quarter pack

Toybox II, 5453-5

Tilda Summer Blues Fabrics

There are six new Tilda fabrics from the Summer Blues range on the website as well as a fat quarter pack featuring all the new fabrics. We also have a Tilda Design Ribbons pack in the same colourway.

Q5344, Tilda Summer Blues

Tilda Summer Blues, Molly Blue (per 1/4 metre) Ref: 5344-4

Tilda Summer Blues, Rosy Teal (per 1/4 metre) Ref: 5344-1

Cream on white and other essential fabrics

As well as the more esoteric fabric such as the Central Park Fat Quarter Pack from Moda we try and provide all those essential fabrics as well. We have a new range of white and cream tone on tones Dainties as part of our Essential Lights range. These fabrics are always hard to show on the computer as they are so subtle, but we have changed the contrast a little bit so that you can get a better idea of the patterns. As well as our normal width fabrics we also have three extra wide quilt back fabrics.

Q5206, Dainties White on Cream Fat Quarter Pack

Q5339 Central Park Fat Quarter Pack by Kate Spain for Moda

Amy Butler Soul Blossoms Fabrics

Soul Blossoms the new range of fabrics by Amy Butler for Rowan fabrics is arriving soon. We will be taking the entire range of patchwork and quilting weight fabrics for Amy's new bright and colourful designs. The fabrics should be with us in early February and you can preview all the fabrics on the website already. As well as selling the Soul Blossoms fabrics by the metre we will also be doing three fat quarter packs, a charm pack and a strip roll. I will update the blog when the bolts come through the door.

Dan Bennett Patchwork Fabrics for Rowan

Fat Quarter Pack Wild Garden Q2624

Coats Crafts present a new collection of Rowan fabrics created by talented Brighton-based artist Dan Bennett. The new designs are inspired by nature and pre-history.

The intriguing inspiration for Dan Bennett's Wild Garden collection comes from Dan’s interest in the ancient geometric symbols carved into stone by prehistoric man. Says Dan, “The dots, spirals, zigzags, meandering lines, arcs and grids are a primal pan-global language which I have adapted to describe flora and fauna in my paintings.”

Dan Bennett was born in Kent in 1975, and currently lives and works in Brighton. He was awarded a full art scholarship to Epsom College in 1988, and in 1998 gained a 2:1 BA Fine Art degree from Leeds University.

Makower Fabrics

Have added a new range of Makower Fabrics called Sarasa. The fabrics feature classic floral fabrics in oranges, reds and umbers. There is a dedicated Makower Fabrics page where you can see some of our current Makower ranges such as Stash, Country Kitchen and Home Farm. Below you can see the fabrics in our Stash Fat Quarter Pack

New Robert Kaufman Fabrics, we have over twenty new Imperial Collection fabrics. This is a sumptous and opulent range of prints with a gold metallic overprint and as well as fabrics by the metre we have a new Special Collection pack S5014 and two fat quarter packs, Midnight in the East (Q2697) and Twilight in the East (Q2698).

Heather Bailey Nicey Jane Fabrics

Eight new Heather Bailey Fabrics from the Nicey Jane range as well as a Fat Quarter Pack. Bright and cheerful fabrics for the spring!

Celtic patchwork and quilting fabric

We featured intricate designs featuring Celtic knotwork back in 2006 and they were very popular. The current range of Celtic designs contrasts teal blues with warm, rich earthy tones, and highlighted with gold. Above is one of two designs from the cushion panel strip.
There is a cushion panel, a mini strip and four coordinating fabrics. Celtic illustration is a favourite of mine and I have always admired the work of Jim Fitzpatrick and the Celtic inspired works of Lloyd Alexander were a favourite when I was younger.

Daiwabo Japanese Fabrics

Daiwabo have produced a stunning range of Japanese fabrics with exquisite texture, detail and design. These are beuatiful fabrics and are available as a range of fat quarter packs or by the metre at £15.40 per metre.

Oodles of Noodles and Bundles of Homespun

Three new Strip Rolls from Fabric Freedom, £17.95. There are 50 Indian Batik Fabrics cut to approximately 2 1/2" by 43" fabrics on each roll. All three rolls are also available as a Summer Offer for £50.

We also have five new Homespun Fat Quarter Bundles, £11.95. Each bundle contains 8 different homespuns cut as fat quarter yards, 45cm x 55cm (18" x 22"). The bundles have some beautiful really subtle colours. There is also a Summer Offer on these Bundles.

New Fabrics for Children

We have a number of new fabrics in our Babies and Children section, including two new Paddington Bear coordinates. I note with interest that Paddington Bear is in the news with the release of the latest volume Paddington Bear: Here and Now (review).


There are also new Humpty Dumpty fabrics and some very cute Teddy Bears. We also have available a quilt kit featuring a Very Hungry Caterpillar, the star of the hit childrens book by Eric Carle.

For older children we have some new fabrics featuring Dinosaurs, Wizards and Princesses.
Fabrics are available by the metre or as Fat Quarter Packs

Fabric Palettes 2008 has arrived

Our new Fabric Palettes Catalogue for 2008 has now been printed and is being sent out. There are lots of new fabrics showcased and Nik has ben working hard to get all the fabrics and packs ready. We have lots of new ranges such as Textures, Leaves and Country Store as well as many more fat quarter packs including over 20 twenty Kaffe Fassett packs.

Strip rolls have been very popular recently and we have a number of new books which highlight projects that you can make with them. We also have a new Strip Roll template set from Marti Michell which can help you easily turn your strips into finshed quilts. Finally we have eight new Strip Rolls which focus on a number of our fabric ranges.

Tonga Batiks Strip Roll

Brief details on the fabrics and where to find them on our online store can be found here.

Kaffe Fassett Paperweight Fat Quarter Pack (Q1237, £19.20)

We hope that you enjoy our new Fabrics

Happy Easter Holidays

Well it looks as if it may be a cold and damp Easter break here in the UK, so best be surrounded by as many Easter Eggs as possible, and if that fails some of your favourite needlework projects.

Today I have put up two new fabric ranges, Lotus Hana and Passion Fruit. Both of them feature a palette of purples and lavenders but they are very different prints. Personally I think the Lotus Hana (also see the Hana range which will be one of our Fabric Palettes for 2008) is a lovely range of fabrics.

Lotus Hana 1

Passion Fruit 3 by Hoffman Fabrics

I have added a number of new Kaffe Fassett Fat Quarter Packs to the Kaffe Fassett area. If you have a favourite design from Kaffe then you can now sample his fabrics as fat quarters.

Kimino Fat Quarter Pack

Finally we have an offer for 2008 for fabrics purchased through the Bargain Basics Club. Members receive each quarter a pack of 25, 100% cotton fabrics. Further quantities of these fabrics can be purchased at the reduced price of £5.40/m from £6/m for 2008. Full details can be found on our Bargain Basics Club Page.

Oriental Fabrics

We have a new range of Oriental-inspired patchwork fabrics called Hana. Groups of the fabric are available as four fat quarter packs or as a Special Collection pack, or you can buy them individually by the metre. A lovely fabric range with a fine metallic overprint.

Zen Japanese "Taupe" fabrics

Japanese "Taupe" fabrics are one of my favourite ranges, I love the combinations of subtle, complimentary cream, fawn and brown designs. This new range of Zen fabrics may not offer the finer finish of fabrics printed in Japan, but they are still great designs and are at a fantastic price of £7.40/metre. There are thirty six fabrics in all, available as a Charm or Special Collection pack, as six fat quarter packs or individually by the metre.

Kaffe Fassett 5-for-4 Fat Quarter Packs

We have some great offers on Fat Quarter Packs featuring Kaffe Fassett designed fabrics. Buy five fat quarters for the price of four, saving you £2.40 on the pack.

There are five Kaffe Fassett packs. There are also deals on other Rowan Designers with six fat quarter packs from Martha Negley, Philip Jacobs and Carla Miller.