SURFACE DESIGN
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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 printsProduced 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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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.
The Zookeeper panel measures 44" x 36".
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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.
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.
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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 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).