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Friday, June 16, 2017

MMF & MQG Fabric Challenge!

We are SO EXCITED about the challenge for QuiltCon 2018 in Pasadena! We're featuring Our Yard by Sarah Campbell.

Each participant will receive fabric in the cloud colorway, a few prints from the line, plus a coordinating Cotton Couture solid. Entrants can use either colorway. Like previous fabric challenges, we have many more members than available fabric. We wish everyone could get one, but the bundles are first come, first serve for MQG members. That said, everyone who signs up for the challenge should submit their final quilt to the Fabric Challenge category at QuiltCon - like other categories, this category is eligible for judging and awards up to $1,000.
*Quilts can be any size that you'd like!
For more challenge info, please click here.
*You must be a member of the MQG to enter a quilt into the challenge.
If you'd like to join the Modern Quilt Guild, click here.

TO BE ELIGIBLE

Participants must use at least two fabrics from the Our Yard collection. However, participants may use as many Our Yard fabrics and Cotton Couture solids as desired. Binding and backing can be any Michael Miller fabric. Once completed, these quilts will be entered into the Michael Miller Fabric Challenge category at QuiltCon. The top prize for this category is $1,000!

OFFICIAL MICHAEL MILLER FABRIC CHALLENGE CATEGORY DESCRIPTION

Eligible quilts must use a minimum of two fabrics from the Our Yard collection and any number of Cotton Couture solids. additional Michael Miller prints or solids may be used on the backing and binding. All fabric will be shipped by mid-July. Quilt entries will be open July 31 to November 30, 2017 (the same as other QuiltCon quilt show entries). Quilts can be submitted via the form at quiltconentry.

A list of shops carrying Our Yard will be posted HERE soon.

Each bundle (of fat 1/8's) contains the following sku's

1. DC7556 Backyard Friends, Col: Cloud

2. DC7561 Little Orchard, Col: Garden

3. SC5333 Cotton Couture, Col: Gold

4. DC7562 Lime Tree Leaves, Col: Robin's Egg

5. DC7558 Cadence, Col: Cloud

*Signups for MQG members will happen June 17-24

List of stores that carry Our Yard

Cotton Couture coordinates for Our Yard
Cloud Colorway
Clay
Fog
Mint
Mermaid
Meadow
Starfruit
Gold
Lipstick
Petal
Metal

Midnight Colorway
Ink
Blue
Meadow
Gold
Orange
Canary
Peony
Rose
Clementine
Fog
Cream

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Friday, August 7, 2015

Behind the Scenes with Sarah Campbell!

By now, I'm sure you've heard about our newest licensed designer, Sarah Campbell. Her first collection with Michael Miller is called Melodies.

We want you to get to know her, so, for our next "Behind the Scenes" segment, we've interviewed the one and only, Sarah Campbell!!

Q: Can you please give us a brief intro to who you are and what you do for Michael Miller?

A: I'm a textile designer and painter of patterns and my first range for MMF, "Melodies" has just begun to ship to stores. It's built around a favourite theme of bright birds and leaves with small geometrics and spots.... my second collection is being sent to the mill as we speak and the third is busy hatching...

Q: What's your favorite piece of work that you have created, your favorite project or your favorite part of the work day?

A: I love the early morning, especially when I wake with an idea that just has to be painted down before I do anything else - it happens!

*at home with Sarah...

Q: What are you working on at the moment?

A: Recently, I traveled to Guadalajara to run a course at the HardToFind art school - "adventures in painting patterns". I also work with West Elm on a regular basis so there are always exciting projects to develop for them, and then there's the new collection for MMF to be painted.

*HardToFind Art School - Adventures in Painting Patterns

Q: What are your goals for the future, both work wise and life?

A: My main goal is to stay on the planet making new and interesting work for as long as possible..

Q: What are you doing when you're not creating or at work? What hobbies do you have?

A: I dig my allotment when I can... and cheer on my grandsons at their football matches.

Q: What would people be surprised to learn about you?

A: I have a habit of making terrible puns - and laughing at them!

Q: Do you have any tips or inspiring words for others?

A: For me, faced with a new project or challenge - my first instinctive response is usually a good signpost.

Q: Do you admire any artists?

A: Very very many - in textiles, the designer and painter, Sonia Delaunay, is pretty high on my list, I love the inventiveness of Alexander Calder, the sensuous colour and forms of Matisse, the brilliant wit of Picasso, the dancing lines of Dufy, the poignant portraits of Rembrandt.... I could go on - and on!

Closer to home there are many makers whose work I admire and enjoy - it's a double treat to put beautiful flowers into a jug made by a friend, to sew a pal's hand-made ceramic buttons on my jacket.

There are also all of the 'unknowns' - the designers, makers, embroiderers, weavers, cloth-workers, lace-makers, knitters - that have clothed our world over the centuries.

*two of Sarah's favourite jugs...

Q: What is your favorite...

Color: How could I choose?

Animal: I like making my own creatures!

Season: Maybe the Spring, but they all have their charms.

Movie: So many - but I always love that last line in 'Some Like it Hot' - "So what - nobody's perfect!"

Book: George Eliot's 'Middlemarch'

Vacation spot: Vacation? That's an interesting idea...

Food: a tomato sandwich - made with tomatoes that have been warmed in the sun, fresh bread, butter, salt and a basil leaf - and left to stand for about a half an hour on a pretty plate so the juices permeate.

Q: What else should we know about you and your work?

A: I love new commissions and collaborations - I've been invited to be a part of a human library as part of a new project in London, the Museum of Empathy - I'll be a sort of talking reference book!

And, last year I made a greenwood table from start to finish!

*greenwood table

Q: Where else can we find you?

Blog: sarahcampbelldesigns.wordpress

Website: saracampbelldesigns

Twitter: SarahCamDesigns

Facebook: Sarah Campbell Designs - SCLtd

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Thanks so much, Sarah! We can't wait to share some sneak peeks of your next line!!

To view the Melodies collection by Sarah Campbell, click on the image below...

Melodies is in stores now!

http://www.michaelmillerfabrics.com/shop/collections/melodies.html

Happy sewing and have a great weekend everyone!

xo,

Kait

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Friday, May 22, 2015

Spring Quilt Market Round Up- Part 1 :)

We're back from Minneapolis and Spring Quilt Market was amazing-- I met some fantastic and talented makers and we unveiled some really great new collections and SO MANY QUILTS!! I can't wait to share what's happening with Michael Miller this season! But, for now, I'm going to give you a sneak peek into the QM booth...

Here we are after a few days of setup in front of Violet Craft's infamous Jungle Abstractions Lion quilt...

...and, you know I love to post "before pics", so here's the blank canvas...

And Rob Appell (of Man Sewing) on our way home from shopping in IKEA. I think we were there for four hours... we were all shopped out and tried to get in the wrong mini van. Ha!