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​Hoffman Fabrics    Me+You  •  ZooKeeper  •  Details  

"Creating and Innovating Since 1924"
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Hoffman California-International Fabrics is a family-owned textile manufacturer in California, known for their​ classic topical prints and a wide range of quilting fabrics for the home sewist. They offer every style from authentic Bali batiks, to traditional screen prints, to high-impact digital designs.

ME + YOU  Traditional batiks and metallic screen prints

Produced in Bali in the traditional wax resist method, ME + YOU presents a fresh take on batiks, with crisp motifs and clean solid colors. With the addition of a few metallic screen prints, this series is popular with modern quilters.
For this collection, I used a combination of hand-drawn and digitally generated motifs. 
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Me+You arrayed
Me+You circle
Me+You stacked bolts

ZooKeeper   Digitally printed on 100% cotton

ZooKeeper is a children's collection with an alphabet of geometric animals. The focal fabric is a "panel" spanning the full width of fabric (meaning it is a single oversized print rather than a seamless pattern). Each of the 26 faceted animals was individually built in Adobe Illustrator. The panel can be used as-is or cut down to make quilt blocks, use alone, or together with any of its five coordinating patterns.
Zookeeper panel
The Zookeeper panel measures 44" x 36".
Cluck Cluck Sew's Zookeeper quilt
The gorgeous quilt pictured (right) is courtesy of Allison at 
Cluck Cluck Sew, an online quilting blog and shop.  
Check out #Zookeeper on Instagram to see other great projects people have made with the alphabet panel.
ZooKeeper's coordinates include tossed pencils, chalkboard, and a tossed dot with the alphabet animals from the panel.

Details  Digitally printed on 100% cotton

With Details, Hoffman highlights one of their innovative concepts called the "designer bolt". Rather than a bolt of fabric containing many yards of a single seamless pattern, the designer bolt provides eight different patterns within each yard of fabric. This way, the quilter has all the variety she needs to create a perfectly coordinated project, without having to buy several yards of many different fabrics.

​The premier series of Details contained the same eight patterns in ten different colors. Each color group had to be evaluated individually for a full range of light-dark values, making this a more technical task than at first it seems.
The full one-yard print of "Details" showing all eight designs (one fat-quarter of each).
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