A Week in the Life of a Fabric Designer, Part 2

KT Winner

The winner of the String of Hearts Mini Table Treats PDF pattern is...

Evelyn - Love any and all table toppers. It is a beautiful way to easily change the theme of your table decorations. Plus fun to create!!

Congrats! Please contact Robert at lynne@ktquilts.com with your email address and he'll send it right out.


In Part 1, I said that we were working with the current fabric line, Milestones, while preparing for the upcoming line, Through the Years. Both are designed to blend with KT Favorites III to provide borders and extra scrappiness for my 20 Years of KTQ block-of-the-month. I love to use a variety of KT fabric collections when making a scrappy quilt. All the lines blend beautifully, so you can collect fearlessly.

Through the Years has a couple of fresh new prints that are sure to become some of my all time favorites. Here's the swatch chart for Through the Years, available in March. Preorder now at ktquilts.com. I especially love the tan with multi-colored little swirls that we call paper clips (9625-11), the tone-on-tone leaves (9623), and the main floral print (9620) in every color. So much yumminess!

Patterns for Through the Years projects were due to Moda by the end of January, so my editors and I were reading and rereading them to ensure the best product possible. We print, fold and stuff our own patterns (rather, Robert does 99% of it), so it's always a rush to get the finished patterns and covers to him as soon as I can. Here are the three main projects featuring Through the Years. 

Cobblestone Stars - 45" sq. wall quilt or 72" lap quilt

A Layer Cake provides the scrappiness for stars and a cobblestone sashing for a 45" sq. wall quilt pieced with 6" stars. Add another border for a nice size lap quilt. Or, stitch up 9" stars and sash with cobblestones for a lap size quilt 72" sq. made with a fat 1/8 bundle.

Star Cluster

Assorted sizes of stars & churn dash blocks make this a fun quilt to piece. How small can you go? The smallest blocks are 2 1/2" sq., but go together easily. It's all in the pressing. Start with a Through the Years fat 1/8 bundle, or dig into your scraps! I'll be hosting a quilt-a-long in April, so order your pattern or kit soon!

Sew What - Through the Years charm quilt

One Through the Years charm pack plus 3 fabrics is all you need to create a delightful little quilt for your sewing room. I just love the strippy "thread" on the spools, and a special place for my pincushion. Tiny buttons are stitched on for pin heads. Moda has a boxed kit for this cute quilt, so check with your local quilt today, or go to ktquilts.com.

Next week, I'll share the Sweet Holly Christmas fabric and what I'm working on to prepare for it's arrival in June.

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