We love our Windham Wednesdays tutorials with Debby Kratovil and this week is no exception. Here is Debby with a great hint for how to use your Forest Parade fabric: Forest Parade by Petit Collage for Windham Fabrics What did I decide to make with these sweet fabrics? Hmmm. I think I will rummage in my quilt vault and pull out a tried and true pattern that I've made twice before. Once for my first book Bold, Black and Beautiful Quilts. The quilt was stolen back in 2005 (I've told this story before). Here's a picture: 98 Dancing Squares Windham... Continue reading

We love our Pattern Partners! There are so many great pattern designers in our industry and we love to supply them with fabric to make up samples and see all our favorite Windham Fabrics put to use! Check out these latest additions from Indygo Junction. Their Spring patterns are lots of fun! Continue reading

Spring Bloom Makers Blog Hop starts today! Spring Bloom bolts arrive in stores this week! Great timing to get you inspired to sew. Because eleven very talented bloggers are sharing their #springbloommakers creations. Check out the exciting line up below and follow along with us! I can't wait for you to see it all! SPRING BLOOM MAKERS BLOG HOP SCHEDULE April 20 Windham Fabrics Snip-its, Bella Caronia Blog April 21 Leah and Bea Koch – Wintergreen and the Bee April 22 Nell Timmer - Nell’s Notions April 23 Jessica Darling April 24 Kristy Daum - St. Louis Folk Victorian April... Continue reading

This week's fabric Friday is the beautiful Spring floral, Peyton by Nancy Gere. This beautiful pattern can be found on our website: Or check out the great tutorial for this Lone Star project here. Leave a comment to be entered in this giveaway! Thanks for entering! The winner is Amy!! Congratulations! Continue reading

We are so happy to have our friend, Debby Kratovil stopping by today to share a great tutorial for us featuring the Peyton collection by Nancy Gere. This is a FAT QUARTER FRIENDLY quilt! For the 19" center star, I used one fat quarter of: -- Red -- Green -- Khaki -- Large scale floral print So, how did I make that 28" x 28" Lone Star quilt from just fat quarters? I'm glad you asked! I am using my GO-TO Lone Star pattern, which makes a 19" (approximately) block. That means I need 8 squares of background fabric: four... Continue reading

We are so excited to have Debbie Jeske from A Quilter's Table here today to talk about how she was inspired to use the new collection Lucky by Lotta Jansdotter. ********************************* I knew when I got home from QuiltCon that I wanted to make the Double Scissor Keeper from Krista Hennebury's book, Make It, Take It: 16 Cute and Clever Projects to Sew with Friends. The pattern by Amy Friend/During Quiet Time is so clever, and I knew it would be a great gift idea for my quilting buddies. It was fortuitous that I had just received a bundle of... Continue reading

We were so impressed by this story in Glamour magazine about Olivia Pavco-Giaccia and her company, Labcandy, that we had to make this our Fabric Friday giveaway! Olivia used, the collection Mosaica by French Bull for the lab coat in this photo! Win 2 yards of this fabric by sharing this post and encouraging young women entrepreneurs in your life! Continue reading

For this week's Fabric Friday Giveaway, get your hands on this adorable children's group, "Rumble" by Whistler Studios. We think this collection would be a great one to use The Fat Quarter Shop's tutorial, Charm Box quilt. Be sure to stop by their blog to see all the versions of this quilt in their blog hop. Leave a comment to be entered to win!! This giveaway is now closed. The winner is Katrin. Congratulations, Katrin! Continue reading

Click on here or on the photo below to see the current issue of McCall's Quilting featuring the great, Ebb and Flow quilt by Jessica Levitt using her new line, Cascade for Windham Fabrics! On newsstands March 31st. Cli Continue reading

We are so excited to share with you these behind-the-scenes images from our recent photoshoot with "Jungle" by French Bull. Check out these ADORABLE animal appliqué designs drawn from the prints by Jackie Shapiro of French Bull and interpreted by appliqué impresario Casey York. The free patterns for these appliqués and associated quilts will be available on Windham Fabrics website. This collection will be on sale to stores on April 1st and will be in your local quilt shop in September 2015. Continue reading

This week, we are kicking off our bloghop featuring Heather Givans' (yes, you know her from her store Crimson Tate) collection "Succulents". View the lookbook here. Check out the schedule below to see these wonderful projects from this collection. March 15: Heather Givans of Crimson Tate : http://www.crimsontate.com March 16: Eric Lubrick of Eric Lubrick Photography : http://oartooar.com/ March 17: Sarah Sharp of {no} hats quilts : http://www.nohatsinthehouse.com/ March 18: Lindsay Lefevere of ellesquare : http://www.elle-square.com/ March 19: Karen McTavish of McTavish Quilting Studio :http://www.crimsontate.com/ March 20: David Barnhouse of Crimson Tate : http://www.crimsontate.com/ March 21: Meghan Eschbaugh of Calvin... Continue reading

Since Spring is in the air, today we are featuring a classic floral group by Nancy Gere called "Peyton".It features a beautiful color palette of deep rose, moss green and orchid purple. The main large floral is accented by more delicate flowers and vines, as well as tone-on-tone leaves. Harmonious colors and essential elements are here for your next romantic quilt design. Check out this beautiful free pattern by Char Hopeman called "Poseys for Peyton". Be sure to leave a comment below to win this beautiful Fat Quarter Bundle of Peyton! Tell us your favorite flower! Winner will be chosen... Continue reading

Windham Fabrics is a proud sponsor of "Selfish Sewing Week". Hop over to ImagineGnats to see all the participating bloggers, sewers and amazing indie pattern designers. The DIY sew-your-own clothes movement is growing every day and Windham Fabrics is happy to report that we are growing right along with you! This year, Windham has released a number of garment-oriented substrates, including cotton linen, jersey, voile, and corduroy. Low Country Indigo cotton linen Sunshine Serenade jersey Mouse Camp corduroy Coming later this year cotton lawn/voile from Heather Ross and Kelly Ventura, corduroy from Lotta Jansdotter and more! Let us know what... Continue reading

We are excited to let you know about a new class on Creativebug with Windham Fabrics designer, Heather Ross. Learn the ins and outs of fabric design with Heather, Denise Schmidt and Lizzie House. Class begins March 11th. Go to our Facebook page to share the video we have posted there and leave us a comment letting us know you did that. We will enter you to win a 3 month subscription code to Creativebug. Continue reading

It's another Fabric Friday Giveaway! Today we will be featuring the debut collection by Petit Collage, Forest Parade. You may be familair with their eco friendly toy and gift line. Their signature woodland animals live happily ever after in a bold assortment of patterns and coordinates featuring owls, birds, foxes and modern floral. Aligned with Petit Collage's eco-friendly mission in their own toy and gift line, Windham Fabrics is releasing all designs in 100% organic cotton fabric. Check out this beautiful free pattern by Stacey Day "Forest Clearings" using this collection. Forest Clearings by Stacey Day Be sure to leave... Continue reading

I was so excited to see this quilt by Kelly Liddle of JeliQuilts on IG last week. This combination of black/white prints with bold colors immediately reminded me of our new collection, Imagine, and the expanded colors in solid line, Palette. Imagine is on sale to stores now and will be available to consumers in August 2015. Inspired by Zentangle drawing style and minimal graphics popular in lots of packaging today, the group "Imagine" encourages you to open your mind and your rotary cutter to possibilities of a minimal color palette. But when combined with these bright POPS of color,... Continue reading

It's Friday! And that means another Fabric Friday Giveaway! We're back in the office after our wonderful time at Quiltcon 2015 in Austin, Texas! If you weren't able to make it to the show, here are some pictures of our booth! We had some really great quilt blocks designed by a few of our Modern Quilt Guild friends that we were able to display in our booth. Beautiful quilt blocks from our Modern Quilt Guild Friends Our booth was packed! Another view of our booth! Since we still have a few of our bundles left over from the show, we... Continue reading

Windham Fabrics is a proud Platinum Sponsor of Quilt Con 2015. We have had such a fabulous time getting ready and planning this booth with help from many people, including wonderful artists in our office who designed the frames: And many modern quilters from all over the United States. Our booth just shines with the beautiful creations you have sent in. This beautiful quilt pattern by Debbie Grifka of Esch House Quilts will be hanging in our booth. Come by and IG @windhamfabrics a selfie of you with the quilt for a chance to win the kit for this pattern. Continue reading

This month, along with Generation Q Magazine we are highlighting the many sew downs that are occurring all over the country for this worthy cause. This wonderful non- profit organization,Days for Girls International ensures that every woman and girl around the world has access to sustainable feminine hygiene by sewing and distributing feminine hygiene kits to women in countries that needs them. This is the perfect event to gather with your friends and donate your time to a worthy cause. For how to get involved, be sure to check out the Generation Q Magazine's page where you too, can join... Continue reading

Today's Windham Wednesday with Debby Kratovil features the fabric collection, Mimosa by Another Point of View. Mimosa is a modern twist on tradition feedsack prints, which makes it a great match for this modern interpretation of a traditional pattern! Be sure to click over to Debby's blog for a pattern piece and instructions on making this adorable block! Continue reading

Welcome to another Fabric Friday! Download this free project at Windham Fabrics. Today we are featuring Dinara Mirtalipova's "Wild Field". Wild horses galloping across a summer meadow and wind blowing through your hair as you witness the beauty and color of the fields; these are the images brought to mind by the beautiful new collection, Wild Field by Dinara Mirtalipova. Following up on her exquisite debut collection, Swim Team, Dinara brings us another unique and modern collection with a sweet conversational story and gorgeous coordinating fabrics. second fabric collection Wild Fields. Leave a comment here to be entered to win... Continue reading

If you are in cold place, like us, this week's Fabric Friday Giveaway will be sure to brighten your cold days. Sunshine Serenade by Iza Pearl Design Click on the link to designer Melissa Ybarra's blog above to see picture of her booth at Quilt Market. Check out all the amazing projects designer Melissa Ybarra had sewn up in her lookbook here. This beautiful patriotic quilt is available as a free project on the Windham Fabrics website. Find this amazing word quilt pattern on Erin Schlosser Designs. Tutorials for these great projects can be found on Silly Mama Quilts. Leave... Continue reading

We're pleased to announce the lucky winner of our first Fabric Friday of the New Year featuring Sarah Fielke's Snippits: Congratulations Lynne! She said she would use the bundle for a baby quilt for her family. Lynne, we have sent you an email. Please reply back with your mailing address. Thank you all for commenting and please look for our next post and another opportunity to win! Continue reading

Artisan Cotton Blog Hop We are so excited to get Artisan Cottons in the hands of some amazing quilters and sewers this week to show you how this fabulous shot cotton sews up! If you are wondering what a shot cotton is, we are happy to help!! Shot cotton is special because the warp and weft yarns are 2 different colors woven together to create a special depth, a “shot” of color. When the edge of this fabric ravels, you can see a bright contrast to the body of the fabric. The "savory" colorway you see above features two different... Continue reading

Fabric Fridays That’s right! For the New Year, we will be hosting Fabric Fridays where you will see a sneak peek at our latest collections shipping to your local quilt shop! Plus, you’ll be able to win a Fat Quarter Bundle of the collection! You’ll be saying TGIF in no time! Thank Goodness it’s Fabric (Friday)! This week we are showcasing the delightful second collection from Sarah Fielke “Snippits”. This collection is sure to let your imagination run wild. The sharpest scissors, the straightest seam, the perfect buttons and a great thimble print along with mini dots enliven this pastel... Continue reading