Designer Spotlight: Anni Downs

[Photo: Martingale & Co.]

Australian designer Anni Downs of Hatched and Patched is known for her whimsical embroidery and quilt designs. Today Martingale & Co. interviewed Anni about her new book, Season's Greetings. It is a book full of, you guessed it, fun designs to celebrate Christmas.

Anni's fabrics are adorably quirky and her patterns reflect that same sense of fun. We have selected a few of our favorite designs from the book to share with you today.

[Photo: Martingale & Co.]

Have you been naughty or nice so far this year? We won't tell. Promise.

[Photo: Martingale & Co.]

[Photo: Martingale & Co.]

Martingale has generously offered a copy of the e-book to one lucky winner. Tell us about your favorite holiday memory. We will pick one winner randomly next Thursday, July 23, 2015 to win a copy of the book and our assortment of Anni's fabric. 

If you can't wait to see if you are the winner, ask your local quilt shop for this beautiful book by Anni and check out the rest of the projects on the Martingale website.  

While you are visiting, make sure that you enter our other giveaways. It has been a busy week!

Good luck!
- HG

One S1ster

Janet Nesbitt formerly of Buggy Barn debuted her new design house, One S1ster. She had a booth at Quilt Market recently and showed us her new book and fabric collection, Note To Self. We dropped by her booth to check out her new designs. Watch the interview by clicking the image below: 

We look forward to seeing her new collection, Note To Self, in quilt shops everywhere later this year.

Janet has designed a few spectacular quilts for you to download from the Henry Glass website for free.

[Note to Self Quilt 1]

[Note to Self Quilt 2]

Have a great weekend and Happy Father's Day.

- HG

ONE S1STER Design

One of the big moments for Quilt Market for Henry Glass & Co. was the return of Janet Nesbitt. In Minneapolis she launched her new company, ONE S1STER Design with the debut of a new book, Down This Country Road and a new fabric collection, Note To Self. We will give you a sneak peak at the book with photographs from her Schoolhouse Presentation at Quilt Market. This one-day event happens the day before the show actually starts. Stay tuned for more on the blog. We will be visiting Janet in her booth next week.

Janet shared her Schoolhouse time slot with fellow Henry Glass & Co. designer, Mary Ellen Von Holt of Little Quilts.

Have a great weekend!

- HG

"A Flair For Fabric" Blog Hop - Little Quilts

Little Quilts is the guest blogger on the "A Flair For Fabric" Blog Hop hosted by Martingale & Co. Mary Ellen Von Holt, owner and designer of Little Quilts attended Quilt Market in Houston. She was filmed at the Brewer booth and she signed books in the Martingale & Co. booth.

You can read all about Little Quilts and their latest collections on the Henry Glass website and then head over Mary Ellen's blog to see what she and her helpers have going on.

-HG

"A Flair For Fabric" Blog Hop - Amy Hamberlin & Shop Talk!

Today, another talented Henry Glass designer, Amy Hamberlin of Kati Cupcake Pattern Co. is the guest blogger on this blog hop. You can check out her post here. She has a fresh and sweet palette. Her project for "A Flair For Fabric" is a lovely project that is quick to piece together and can show off a lot of fun fabrics all in one project.

For those of you who are new here, Martingale has been hosting this amazing blog hop for our book, "A Flair For Fabric" and all of our designers plus American Patchwork & Quilting are going to be sharing their reviews and inspiration.

The posts will feature a quilting tip and most days there will be fabric and book giveaways. We have bundled up a ton of fabric and they are all ready to go!

Tuesday, November 18: Launch at Martingale’s Stitch This! blog 

Wednesday, November 19: Dana Brooks 

Thursday, November 20: Leanne Anderson 

Friday, November 21: AllPeopleQuilt.com 

Saturday, November 22: Janet Nesbitt 

Monday, November 24: Linda Lum DeBono

Tuesday, November 25: Anni Downs 

Wednesday, November 26: Kim Diehl 

Friday, November 28: Jill Finley (http://jillilystudio.blogspot.com/)

Saturday, November 29: Amy Hamberlin 

Monday, December 1: Margo Languedoc 

Tuesday, December 2: Little Quilts 

Wednesday, December 3: Lizzie B Cre8ive 

Thursday, December 4: Heather Mulder Peterson 

Friday, December 5: Jacquelynne Steves 

Saturday, December 6: Wrap up at the Henry Glass blog 

Today is Small Business Saturday. We encourage you to shop at your local quilt shop today and always. Having a local quilt shop enables you to have a first hand feel for the fabric. It's great inspiration and we quilters and crafters are a tactile bunch. We at Henry Glass & Co. love our quilt shops. We want to share the stories of those quilt shops who buy our fabrics and to inspire you to continue to support your local shop. If you are a quilt shop that carries Henry Glass fabrics, let us know! We want to let the world know about you. [If you are not a shop owner, let your quilt shops know too!] Details below.

Have a great weekend!

-HG

"A Flair For Fabric" Blog Hop - Kim Diehl

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Today we welcome Kim Diehl on the blog hop. She is the designer of the successful "Simple Whatnots" Club and her latest collections are "Heritage Hollow" and "Butter Churn Basics." We are pleased to announce the winner of the Kim Diehl "Simple Whatnots" Club Contest. Although every entry was beautiful we had to choose only one. Congratulations to Debbie Wick of Elmira, NY! We will be contacting you after the holiday. Thank you to all who entered.

[Heritage Hollow by Kim Diehl]

Welcome to the eighth day of the “A Flair for Fabric” blog hop, and thank you so much for taking this journey with us. I hope that you’ve been enjoying the designer posts as much as I have, along with the tips and tidbits that have been shared, and of course…the give-aways!

While I’m proud to be one of several Henry Glass designers who donated projects to this book to help benefit the Red Cross, receiving my copy in the mail recently was my first chance to see everything all finished up and looking like a “real” book. I was so excited to actually hold it in my hands that I ripped into the package and was completely glued to the pages as I read it from cover to cover. 

There are TONS of projects in this book, including my "Garden Bramble" patchwork and appliqué quilt.

And several more sewing and quilting projects that will leave you itching to stitch, including:

[Caboodle Quilting Caddy by Leanne Anderson]

[Starburst Maple Delight By Janet Nesbitt]

What a well-rounded collection of goodies, and the designer tips and fabric solutions that have been shared left me a little smarter than I was when I began reading. I love that!  

Here’s one more little tip I’d like to share with you – my favorite thing to do when I’m choosing prints for my scrap quilts is to include a “zinger”. What’s a zinger? It’s my nickname for a print that’s just a tiny bit “off” and doesn’t perfectly match the other prints I’ve chosen. Zingers add magic! I’ve learned to always use these prints more than once so their inclusion looks intentional, and I space them around my quilt top to give it a balanced look. In my Country Haven quilt, my zinger is the bright lavender print – if I were to take this away, some of the sparkle would be gone, don’t you think?

 [Country Haven, from Simple Appeal]

Do you have a favorite color that you can’t resist putting into each scrap quilt? Something you think of as your own personal zinger that works magic for you? Share it with me by December 3, 2014 at midnight and I’ll draw two winners from your entries – someone will receive a fabric bundle from Henry Glass Fabrics, and I’ll send someone else a bundle of 16 assorted print fat quarters gathered from my fabric collections. It’s like an instant scrap quilt waiting to happen…with any luck, your favorite zinger color will be included!

- Kim

Thank you Kim!

Happy Thanksgiving!

- HG

"A Flair For Fabric" Blog Hop - Dana Brooks

Thank you for following us along on the "A Flair For Fabric" Book Hop. Today designer Dana Brooks of My Lazy Daisy is going to show you her project from our book, "A Flair For Fabric" and she'll be sharing a fabric tip. Of course, we are going to give away some fabric and a copy of the book. There is a drawing for most of the posts each day. If you are new to the hop, all details are on the Martingale blog and on our post here. Each day there will be an opportunity to win fabric and a copy of the book.

Dana's latest collection "Steppin' Out" should be available in your local quilt shops this month. She has a couple of other collections coming out next spring. Make sure that you stay in touch by following this blog [sign up at the right sidebar], liking our Facebook page, following our Twitter page or signing up for our newsletter.

We took some photographs of Dana working her magic at Quilt Market. There one of Martingale's Chief Visionary Officer talking about Dana's pillow at their Schoolhouse.

"The Countdown To The Holidays" event is still continuing every Monday for the next while. Each Monday we have been playing Santa's helpers by giving away a bundle of fabric from our beautiful collections. Join us each week!

Have fun!

-HG

A Flair For Fabric

Today is the official publication date for "A Flair For Fabric." The book is a result of a great group effort and we are proud that it has finally hit the market. Make sure that you buy it at your local quilt shop. 

Two years ago designer Linda Lum DeBono was sitting at a restaurant with the HG family. Everyone was waiting for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy on the east coast. Linda and her family's home suffered little damage but many other families along the east coast were severely impacted by the storm. Soon after she called upon Henry Glass & Co., Martingale & Co. and all of her fellow Henry Glass designers to work together to publish a book that would benefit the Red Cross. We are proud to introduce "A Flair For Fabric." Stay tuned for more about the book when we have a book tour starting November 18th. There will be lots of photographs, posts and of course giveways galore.

Stay in touch by following our blog, liking Henry Glass & Co. on Facebook.

-HG

Yee Haw!

The Henry Glass crew had a great Quilt Market. Thanks to all who stopped by our booth to see the new outstanding collections that were released last week. We are back in NYC now and there's a lot of work behind the scenes to catch up on.

One of the biggest happenings for Henry Glass was the release of "A Flair For Fabric" and all of the events that helped us launch the book. Thanks to the designers who contributed and to Martingale & Co. for supporting us with the project. Mary Burns [from Martingale], thank you for working so very hard in the past few weeks to bring it all together. Look for the book on its official publication date of November 4, 2014. If you make something from the book, let us know! We can't wait to see all that you make from this book. Meanwhile, you can read a little bit about it on the Martingale blog for quilt shops by checking out this link.

The ladies had a fun and fabulous book signing at the Martingale booth to kick off the launch of the book. From left to right: Linda Lum DeBono, Dana Brooks, Mary Ellen Von Holt, Janet Nesbitt and Leanne Anderson.

See you back here soon for some more updates.

-HG

Quilt Market - Houston 2014

Howdy! Next week Henry Glass & Co., Inc. will travel to Houston for International Quilt Market. Stop by Booth #608 to see the latest outstanding collections that HG offers to the quilting industry.

Henry Glass is proud to announce the publication of "A Flair For Fabric" [Publisher: Martingale, November 4, 2014]. The book proposal developed in response to Hurricane Sandy in 2012. This beautiful collection of projects ranging from quilts to pillows and other small projects features fabric from Henry Glass & Co., Inc. The designers are generously donating their royalties to the Red Cross.

On October 24, 2014 the HG designers will be hosting their own Schoolhouse Presentations to present you with their new product information. Also, all attending designers will be present at the Martingale Schoolhouse for the launch of the book. Please join the Henry Glass designers for these exciting events.

There will be exciting demos by the Henry Glass designers at Booth #608 at 10 a.m. each morning. They will be participating in various book signings to support the launch of "A Flair For Fabric." Drop by Booth #608, take a look at the new collections and pick up your free tote bag. There will be prize drawings for fabulous bundles of Henry Glass fabric. Just attend any demo to receive an entry ticket for the drawing. Tote bags available while supplies last and only one entry per person, per demo.

Make sure you attend the book signings at the Henry Glass booth as well as at the Martingale and Brewer Distributor's booths. See details below.

See you soon!

-HG

A Flair For Fabric

We are busy getting ready for Quilt Market later this month. One of the highlights of this market will be the debut of our book, "A Flair For Fabric" that is published by our friends Martingale & Co. Designer Linda Lum DeBono, who compiled the book, received her advanced copy. It looks fabulous. We can't wait to share more with you. Make sure that you pre-order this book from your local quilt shop now.

It's Monday and that means it's our "Countdown To The Holidays" event. Last week's winner is Barbara Dillard Smith Woods. Please send us your contact information here. If you make something from our fabric send us a photography of that too!

This week we will be giving away a bundle [1/2 yard pieces] of "Crazy Like Us" by Buggy Barn. Tell us about your craziest quilting story. Did you do something crazy fun during a retreat? We know, what happens at the retreat stays at the retreat. What about the craziest thing that you have stitched to a quilt? Have you made a quilt from plastic bags? Do you have a crazy story behind a quilt that you made? We want to hear your fun stories. If you don't that's ok too. Just say hello in the comments to enter.

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Good luck!

-HG