 This week I'm back with some new Stars fabrics. Stars are one yard cuts that are perfect for binding for quilt projects or just when you need a larger piece of hand dyed fabric. This particular batch focused on browns, grays, greens and blues because those are the most popular colors. If there's a particular color in a Shades Pack that you need in larger cuts, I can always custom dye that for you. There are 12 new Stars fabrics for you this week, including the 9 shown here. Fabric of the Week Succulents Gradient is 20% off through Sunday! The fabric of the week this week is the Succulents Gradient. It was inspired by a photo if succulent plants that I found on the web. I just love the mix of green and purple together. This fabric is 20% off through Sunday.
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 New Shibori! It's been a minutes since I made new Shibori fabrics but I got in a mood last week after I used a few Shibori bits in some placemats.  Just a little bit of Shibori can make a big impact as in these placemats.  I have a new Stash Pack (top photo) and 5 half-yard pieces. Before you take a look at them and get a little sticker shock, let me explain. I haven't dyed Shibori or Crystals in a couple of years and that was a conscious decision. Simply, they are just much more involved to make. I can make 6.5 yards of Shibori or 40 yards of other products in a day. I started my business in 2009 and haven't raised my prices. Business logic says "don't make Shibori". I've been able to compensate for the increased cost in materials by adding some efficiencies to my other processes. I eventually had to analyze the products and eliminate the two products that are just too expensive to make. But there's a problem with that approach......I enjoy making Shibori and Crystals. I decided that I want to make Shibori and Crystal again but I have to adjust the prices for those specific products. I'm sorry about that, but I hope you will understand. Ok, now you can go look at them! Vacation News For those of you who don't have the budget right now for Shibori, or any other hand dyed fabric, don't worry. Next week is your chance to win some for free! I'll be away on my annual family beach vacation so I'm leaving the blog to you with a giveaway every day. I promise that one day is going to be Shibori day with some pieces from my personal stash. For anyone ordering over the next two weeks, I will not be shipping any fabric between May 22 and 29. All orders placed after this Friday will be shipped May 30. Fabric of the Week Paradise Stash Pack is 20% off through Sunday! If you want a Shibori effect without investing the Shibori price, Stash Packs are a great alternative. The texture in Stash Pack fabrics give you very similar effects. This week I selected the Paradise Stash Pack as the fabric of the week. Paradise is a nod to my beach vacation because Hatteras, NC is a paradise to me. The Paradise Stash Pack is 20% off through Sunday.
 Shop Vacation NewsIf you have been following me for any length of time you will remember that I take a May vacation with my family every year to the beach. I don't like leaving the blog vacant os that week is also a great opportunity to go through my personal hand dyed fabric stash and share some of it with you. That time has come again! There will be a different giveaway posted every day, May 22 - 27. Be sure to visit and enter every day. That also means that there will be no shipping of orders May 22 - 27 and no custom dyeing after tomorrow (Wednesday). New Gradient! New Watershed gradient! I'm happy to have a new gradient to share with you this week. This one is called Watershed because, to me, it has a water's edge feel. I'm really happy with the way the different colors merged together in this one. Gradients back in StockI have also finally restocked these three gradients.  Peacock Gradient  Daybreak Gradient  Sassafras Gradient Fabric of the Week Bliss Gradient is 20% off through Sunday The fabric of the week this week is the Bliss Gradient. it's 20% off through Sunday.
 New Terrain Stash Pack! Today's newsletter will be short and sweet as I had to get it out fast before I left for a quick overnight visit with a friend. So let's get straight to the news. It took me three weeks to get the fabrics in this new Terrain Stash Pack just the way I wanted and I'm glad I took the extra time. I love this set of fabrics so much that I kept a pack for myself. It's a collection of browns and grays that are perfect for landscape elements. Stash Packs contain 10 fat eights (about 9" x 20") of fabric in a theme color. These fabrics are heavy on color texture to give you lots of options for fussy cutting specific elements. I love them for scrappy style quilts but I think most people use them for elements in art quilts. You can use them any way you want!
Each Stash Pack has 5 streaky fabrics and 5 mottled fabrics. Here are larger views of all of them. The fabrics you receive will not look exactly like these but they will be these colors and general textures. I dye 2 yards of each fabric in the collection and the nature of dyeing fabric like this means that there's lots of variety over that 2 yards. Each fat eighth is a gem on it's own. There are so many possibilities for fussy cutting applique or landscape elements. Fabric of the Week Sun Kissed Stash Pack is 20% off through Sunday Staying with Stash Packs, the fabric of the week this week is the Sun Kissed Stash Pack. These bright golds and yellows might be just the contrast you need against the browns and grays of Terrain. You can see all of the Stash Packs in the shop.
That's all for this week. I'll see you back here next week with a new Gradient!  New Reflections! Last week I promised you a new Stash Pack but I still wasn't happy with all 10 fabrics and will give it another shot this week. But I don't just dye one thing most week. I like to get ahead when I can and this week the plan was to get ahead on some new Reflections fabrics. I actually need to dye more of them but I can only do 4 fabrics at a time with my set-up. This week I focused on blues because they are , by far, the most popular of all of the Reflections fabrics. I promise that the next batch will have more colors for those of you looking beyond blue. In this batch I have a pale gray-blue (Gagan), light sky blue (Celini) and 2 darker bright blues. The one in the upper left, Sadira, is darker than the one in the lower right, Binda. There are several other Reflections available in browns, greens, golds and purples. You can see them all in the shop. Fabric of the Week Pebbles Stash Pack is 20% off through Sunday! The fabric of the week this week is the Pebbles Stash Pack. In hindsight, I should have called this one ground cover. When I look at the fabrics from a landscape quilt POV, I see sand, tree shadows, moss, rocks, water ripples and all sorts of other landscape elements. This stash pack is 20% off through Sunday!
 Aurora Gradient I feel like it's been months since I had a shop update. It hasn't been that long but it has been a few weeks. Two weeks away were planned around my vacation trip to the beach but the last two weeks were totally unplanned due to the massive cold that Chris brought home from his vacation. But I got back in the dye studio last week and finally have a few updates. This week's news is all about Gradients and I have 3 of them back in stock. First up is Aurora. It has proven to be extremely popular and I thank you for your interest in it!  Imperial Dragon  Sugar Maple Fabric of the Week Espresso Gradient is 20% off through Sunday The fabric of the week this week is the Espresso Gradient in shades of dark gray-brown. It's great for woodland elements in landscape quilts. its' 205 off through Sunday.
I'm taking a vacation!Before we get into the fabric news this week I want to let you know that I'll be away March 19 - 25 so no orders will be shipped that week. If you need something soon, get your order in this week so I can get it shipped by Saturday. The next shipping day after vacation will be March 27. If you need something custom dyed it will have to wait until I return. I'll be back in the dye studio March 29 dyeing order to ship April 3. New Stars! This week I've added over a dozen new Stars fabrics! Stars are one yard cuts of one-of-aa-kind fabrics. These fabrics don't have recipes and can't be recreated because these are from my fun times in the dye studio playing with color mixing. These are great for all kinds of projects where you need a larger cut of one color. I can also custom dye one yard (or any cut over 1/2 yard) for you. I can, for example, dye one step of a particular Shades Pack, dye fabrics to match a Gradient, or I can match to color swatches that you send me. But often you can find just what you need in the shop. Fabric of the Week Rouge Stash Pack is 20% off through Sunday The Fabric of the Week this week is the Rouge Stash Pack. Each Stash Pack has 10 fat eighths of fabrics in a variety of color combinations and color texture. I love them for scrappy style quilts but I think most people use them for elements in art quilts. You can use them any way you want!
The Rouge Stash Pack is 20% off through Sunday. Aurora is back! Last week I introduced a new gradient that was an experiment for me. I designed Aurora inspired by photos of the Northern Lights. I wasn't sure how it would be receive so I was shocked that it was sold out within an hour of the newsletter going out. I immediately put it on the dye schedule for last week and it's the only new fabric that I have for you this week. If you missed out last week, it's back! Fabric of the Week Blue Spruce is 20% off while supplies last The fabric of the week this week is the Blue Spruce Shades Pack. This color is being discontinued so supplies are limited and this pack only comes as a fat quarter pack. It's now 20% off!
 New! Lakeside Gradient The names says all you need to know about the inspiration for this new gradient. Just imagine relaxing by your favorite lake or pond at sunset. You might even imagine your bare feet on the grass and your favorite beverage in your hand. That's where my mind was when I thought up Lakeside. I think it would make a great background for an art quilt but I'm also seeing it as a quilt border with the gold at the center of each side moving toward the blue in the corners. That would make a quilt really glow. New! Aurora Gradient One day recently I got side-tracked down an internet rabbit hole and found myself spending a lot of time looking at photos of the Northern Lights and lamenting that I had never seen them. I'm not sure I'll ever have the opportunity to see the either. I thought that if I can't go see them then I'll just make my own, and I did. I'm not sure if this will work for someone who has seen them in real life but I like the end result and it was fun to play with Aurora. Gradients Back in StockI've got two gradients back in stock for you this week. First, there's Amethyst, which has supplanted all others to become the most popular gradient of the past 12 months. (I do get one right on occasion!) There's also Oasis which meets the need for very bright, cool colors.  Amethyst Gradient  Oasis Gradient Fabric of the Week Imperial Dragon Gradient is 20% off through Sunday! With Oasis providing the bright cool colors I wanted to offer a special on some bright, warm colors. Imperial Dragon Gradient is 20% off through Sunday.
New Stash Pack New! Sun Kissed Stash Pack I'm going to the beach in a few weeks and I'm hoping for a lot of warm sunshine. It's a gamble to bet on March weather in the Southeast US but I thought that if I dyed some sunshine that I might manifest some lovely warm weather for my vacation. Do you think it will work? If not, there's still some lovely new fabric in the shop for you! Sun Kissed is a new Stash Pack in shades of golds and yellows, all the warm colors of the sun. Not a fan of yellow? There are lots of other Stash Packs to choose from in the shop. Every Stash Pack has 10 fat eighths of fabrics in a variety of color combinations and color texture. I love them for scrappy style quilts but I think most people use them for elements in art quilts. You can use them any way you want!
Each Stash Pack has 5 streaky fabrics and 5 mottled fabrics. Here are larger views of 6 of the fabrics. The fabrics you receive will not look exactly like these but they will be these colors and general textures. I dye 2 yards of each fabric in the collection and the nature of dyeing fabric like this means that there's lots of variety over that 2 yards. Each fat eighth is a gem on it's own. There are so many possibilities for fussy cutting applique or landscape elements. Chocolate Bonbon is Back! Chocolate Bonbon Gradient Chocolate Bonbon was a my one-time gradients from a couple of years ago but it's now back by special request. As my blog readers know, I am taking an outstanding machine quilting class from Bethanne Nemesh. If you are a machine quilter (longarm or sit-down) and are looking for really good online classes check out her digital class offerings. I'm taking Blooming Botanicals right now and took Freehand Feathers over a year ago. I've learned more from her than any previous longarm instructor, online or in person. She offers a few on demand classes and one is called Sweet Tooth and she asked if I had a gradient that might work for it. Well there's nothing better for a Sweet Tooth than a Chocolate Bonbon so it's back in the shop for you and her students. You can see all of Bethanne's classes here. Fabric of the Week Helios Gradient is 20% off through Sunday Let's get back to the important work of manifesting good beach karma by having the Helios Gradient on sale this week. This lovely warm gradient is perfect for sunrise/sunset backgrounds for your art quilts and it's 20% off through Sunday.
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I'm Vicki Welsh and I've been making things as long as I can remember. I used to be a garment maker but transitioned to quilts about 20 years ago. Currently I'm into fabric dyeing, quilting, Zentangle, fabric postcards, fused glass and mosaic. I document my adventures here. Categories
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