The show features items from our Spring and Summer 2010 collection sewn from prints in Denyse Schmidt’s Hope Valley line, with the addition of a School Days raincoat made from a recent Amy Butler laminate.

Here’s a list of the remaining stops on this season’s tour. Catch the show, if you can, at a retailer in your area this summer.

• July 7-18: Stonemountain and Daughter Fabrics, Berkeley, CA
• July 27-August 8: The Painted Cottage, Ashland, WI
• August 13-22: Stitch House, Dorchester, MA
• August 26-September 6: Alewives Fabrics, Nobleboro, ME

You can read more about the evening here.

I’m very grateful to have received this honor. I enjoyed meeting many of the shop owners and buyers who attended the dinner, and as I said at the dinner, you are our stars!

To those shops and buyers who attended the show, thank you for dropping by! We are so inspired by all your excitement about the our new fabric collection, about the response you’re getting from our sewing patterns, and by the feedback you’ve given us. We’re feeling energized by you and hope that we’ve inspired you in return.

Let me start by showing you a photo from after the show, when we were all packing up the booths and getting ready to leave. This is one of the vintage doll houses that inspired Moda’s booth.

I’ve really enjoyed working with Moda and can’t say enough good things about the company and the people. They are an extremely talented and professional group. And before I show you their booth, I want to highlight a few details from it that feature the doll house theme:

Cute, yes? See all that attention to detail? You know how much I love all that. Not only was the booth designed to look like a giant doll house, but the tables and chairs all looked like grass with a picket fence surrounding it! And the little red wagons filled with ginger snap cookies. Well, it’s all just too cute.

So now I’m sure you’d like to see how it all looks together, right? From where we stood, it’s quite an impressive display. (Click to enlarge the photo for full effect, taken during a quiet moment near the end of the show.)

I enjoyed getting to know many of the salespeople, learned a great deal from them, and enjoyed being part of the entire process. It was also wonderful to meet and get to know many of the other Moda designers.

And now that you’ve seen the terrific people with whom I am so proud to be working, here is our little corner of the show:

There will be lots more to show and tell about, but I’ll leave you with that for the time being and will be back soon with additional photos and information. I hope you’ll be inspired, too!

This season’s trunk show features items from our Spring 2010 and Fall 2009 collections sewn from prints in Denyse Schmidt’s new Hope Valley collection, with the addition of a School Days raincoat made from a recent Amy Butler laminate.

We’ve finalized the first several stops on this season’s tour. Here’s where you can catch the show in coming months.

• April 6-19: Quilt Essential Fabrics, Abbotsford, BC
• April 22-May 3: Plum Project Studio, North Vancouver, BC
• May 11-25: Cloth and Bobbin, Narberth, PA
• May 28-June 13: Textile Fabric Store, Nashville, TN
• June 17-27: Spool, Philadelphia, PA

If you are a retailer and would like to host the show in July or August, please contact the studio to arrange details.

This Amy Butler print is not exactly small, with bright pink and orange in a large, bold repeat. But when finished, the jacket should, indeed, look small and mighty.

If you can quickly cut your fabric in preparation, I think there is still a space left in the class! Contact Johanna for details.

Heather showed us the most amazing illustrated books of field flowers and fish (as well as a mermaid!), and Denyse shared some old quilt books and contemporary art as inspiration. I was happy to display those fashion plates I showed you on Friday, along with some materials that have been inspiring me for some soon-to-be-announced projects.

I told you we had a beautiful room? I neglected to ask anyone to take photos, so these pictures were taken by S on our way out.

Thank you to to our friend and librarian Jessica Pigza, to Crafternoon author and organizer Maura Madden, to the staff of the library, and to Heather, who organized the event. And you must see Heather’s skirt, made specially for the occasion using images from the library’s digital collection. She also includes instructions for making it using a modified pattern from her book, so visit her blog for details.

Here are some images from one book I’ve selected to talk about at the event. It’s filled with fashion plates from the 1930′s.

I spent Wednesday afternoon blissfully working away in one of the reading rooms. It doesn’t really feel like work when you’re sitting in such a beautifully appointed room, believe me.

So pages have been turned, illustrations have been gushed over, and selections have been made. We have a treasure trove of materials to show you at the library tomorrow. And we’ll be doing a little crafting (and maybe some holiday snacking?), too!

Find all the details here and here. Bring your sewing supplies, and I’ll also be bringing materials for making walnut boat ornaments (no sewing necessary).

So, as my old boss (and dear friend) used to say, “Come tomorrow. It’ll be fun!”

Signing up for the workshop will give you an excuse to visit both a beautiful little town located 10 miles outside Philadelphia and a delightful little fabric shop. (The owner, Johanna Hertz, jokingly refers to it as “a small, but mighty, fabric and notions store.”)

Cloth & Bobbin carries the high-quality, designer-focused fabrics stocked by the best independent quilt stores. They also have a selection of mid-weight and home dec cottons, in addition to a new selection of laminated cottons and “honest-to-goodness” oilcloth–perfect for making the raincoat version of the School Days Jacket.

The town of Narberth, home to Cloth & Bobbin for the last two years, has wonderful shopping: a knitting store, a Japanese grocery store, French bakery, women’s clothing, and children’s consignment shops–all located in a quaint, walkable downtown area radiating out from the train station that provides regular service to Philadelphia.

If you’re interested in joining the workshop, contact Cloth & Bobbin at (610) 667-5366 to register.

We hope to see you there. Bonus points will be awarded to anyone sporting feathered hair or a jump suit.