I'm packing my bags and getting ready to head on over to the International Quilt Market, held in Salt Lake City May 13-15th. I'll meet up with the wonderful Moda team and be visiting the French General designer booth on both Friday and Saturday. The Spring Market debuts our Fall 2011 line, Panier de Fleurs, a collection of faded French red, navy blue and grey botanical prints - complete with ticking stripes. This new group of quilting fabric was inspired by the bountiful baskets of flowers and herbs I see at the markets in the South of France.
If your coming to the show, come by and say hello - we'll have a fun giveaway and I'll be bringing my market basket filled with some new ideas, including our county fair prize ribbons and Panier de Fleurs charm bracelet kits. If you can't make it to Salt Lake City, (thousands of quilters and I will miss you!) enter your name in our giveaway and you can choose your prize!
123 comments:
I live in Salt Lake City, but cannot go to Quilt Market. Sadness.
I'd love to win something from you and I just adore your new fabric line! I met you last April in St Louis and had a marvelous time!
I would love to go to market, but unfortunately its just a bit too far!(Crossing the Atlantic is the problem!) Your new line looks beautiful, have a great time!
I cannot wait until your new line comes out. I hoard the fabric you come out with as it's perfect for wedding gifts for our South Louisiana friends and family.
Have a safe trip!
Please enter me. I can't get to Utah, but I haven't met a French General fabric that I didn't love.
I would love to go to Market, but there's no chance. Your new line looks absolutely gorgeous -- as all your lines are!
Just too far this time. Would love to meet you as I absolutely love your fabric. Tell us all about Market on the blog.
Wishing I could come but unfortunately, school interferes! Please enter me in the contest!
Thanks!
Ruth Ann
Yes I'd love a chance to win. Wish I could make the this event!
Maybe someday I can go to a market-but meanwhile, I'll live vicariously through your descriptions. Maybe I'll even be lucky enough to win one of your giveaways!
I wonder how you can keep such great fabric designs coming!! They look just as wonderful as my favorites from before...have a good trip.
i just attended the quilt show here in paducah ky "quilt city usa" ...sure wish you would have had a booth here, maybe next year!! :)
I would love to attend the quilt show but sadly cannot. Winning a treasure from you would (almost) make up for missing the event.
I would love to be there, but there's always the local quilt show in San Antonio in September to look forward to!
Oh I'd so love to win a prize from you! Thanks for the chance!
I love the description of your fabric, Panier de Fleurs. Looking forward to seeing the fabric! Wish I was going to Salt Lake City! ENjoy!
that's two lines i am waiting to get my hands on now...fa lalalala and panier de fleurs! does this mean the shop will be closed this weekend?
Please enter my name in your giveaway. I'd love to go to Quilt Market some day.
I hope to be at Quilt Market as a designer someday but it's not in the cards for me right now. Please add me to your drawing!
Very nice fabric line...wish I could see it in person. The bracelet is cute as well!
Can't get to market this time. Those charm bracelets look gorgeous.
Your fabric lines have really caught my imagination. The colors are soothing but exciting.
The projects that float through my mind every time a new line of your fabric comes out....and the jewelry is the icing! Can't wait
No invite to the dance but I can admire from afar. The amazing fabrics just keep coming, one collection even more fantastic than the one previous.
Lovely article on Elizabeth Baer in Quiltmania, through your writing it's like I had been there before.
this line looks awesome, Kaari, can't wait to own some. Have fun at quilt market - i would have loved to have gone but didn't know it was there til too late. darn!
I've seen a preview of the new line, looks fabulous! Have a great time in SLC! Miss you!!
I would love to win the bracelet kit! I love the new line. I can't wait to make a quilt with it. The colors would work great in my bedroom!
The new line sounds gorgeous. I'd love to win some.
I'd love to go to Market some day! Your new line is just awesome, and your charm bracelet is great fun! Thanks for the chance to win one of your generous gifts.
I love your fabric!
nancyclark305@comcast.net
wish i could be at market but just got home from paducah, kentucky, love the braclet.
Just when I think I cannot possibly love a new FG fabric more, you come out with another line. Have a great time at Market - the new fabrics are beautiful!!
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to win this beautiful charm braclet. I got a thing about charm braclets and love French General.
Oh how I wish I could go! I think I live way too far away!!!!
Have fun and enjoy it!
Hugs,
Margaret B
I'm not going to quilt market so I'll just have to read lots of blog reports!
Lovely fabric, lovely bracelet. Thanks for hosting a giveaway.
Thank you for the opportunity. The new line is lovely!
More lovely fabric, always a new treat!
Oh how I wish I could go to Market! Love seeing the new French General fabrics because they are all gorgeous!
Look forward to seeing the new line. Quilt Market is such fun. I went to last spring's and had a wonderful time.
I'd love to be there someday, but not any time soon, probably. Would you enter my name to your giveaway? Hope you will have a wonderful time there...
Such whimsy! I would love to fill my panier!
Your new line looks lovely.
Panier De Fleurs sounds so beautiful! I love your reds and greys, you use shades that are just perfect. Have a wonderful time at Market!! I'll be having fun with the Bloggers Quilt Festival, I'm featuring a quilt made with your fabrics.
Wish I could attend. Have a grand time, and tell all the Moda folks hi for all of us!
Oh, such yummy fabrics. It would be heaven to go to the Quilt Market but too far away. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
It would be fun to be able to go the the market but not possible. I would love to a chance to win any of your great items.
Hi, I love your fabrick, most Rural Jardin and La Petite Ecole. I look forward to news!
Let's hearing from Czech Republic
Please enter me for the giveaway. I would love the opportunity to experiment with your beautiful new range.
Wow! Another beautiful fabric line!! Congratulations!
I'm not able to go to market and am so jealous of all those who are! Thanks for the giveaway!!
Your fabrics are the best. thank you for the opportunity to win a bit of it.
Mary
Ahhh Quilt Market. I see shopping in my future. Love those faded reds. Please put my name in your market basket. Hope you have a lovely time!
Wish I could make it...will you be coming to Houston for the fall market?
Market sounds like a fun adventure!
Ok, now how do you expect me to make a choice when they are all beautiful?
I just love the new line!! Wish I could go to Quilt Market!! I don't think that there is a French General fabric that I haven't fallen in love with.
Thank you for the giveaway. Your new fabric line, Panier de Fleurs, sounds lovely. Can't wait to buy some. Have a safe trip to Salt Lake.
Throwing my hat in the ring. Each collection somehow is better than the last!
Sadly I'll be one of the quilter's left on the home front to admire all the photos of market and oogle over what I want to purchase and sew up next, especially with your fabric. I'm working on a French General fabric project as we speak. But would love to win some of that fall fabric in red, blue and grey..
love your fabric...can't wait to see the new fabric line!
please include me in your exciting giveaway...
Ah, work keeps me from all of the fun!
Kaari, I think I'm going to just have to start quilting, as the fabrics you are creating are over the moon! Have fun at quilt market! Can a person own to many quilts?
Julie B.
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I'm a French General fabric hoarder too....lol....I love it all!
I would be thrilled to win a prize from you. Enjoy Market!
Wish I could go, and wish I could win. Thank you for the contest!
To market, To market - Not. My pocketbook is happier, but I am not. Shucks.
I love your fabric! I have 2 of your collections for 2 separate fantastic quilts waiting for their turns to be made. Now it looks like there may be a 3rd?! I'd love to enter your giveaway, BTW! Thanks and have a wonderful time at market.
I would love to attend the Quilt Market, but NY is way too far away. I will just surf the net looking for new fabrics. Love your new line! The colors rock!
I would love to enter your giveaway. Thanks for the chance.
Pam
I love the colors of your new collection and I can't wait to see more of the line. Hope you have a great time at market and wish I could be there.
Hi Kaari - I love the bracelet!! Great class this weekend - we love our necklaces! Celeste & Valerie
Oh I don't know when you will pick names but please put my name in the hat. Have a great time at the event!
I wish I was at Quilt Market. Have fun for all of us that cannot go.
Love your fabric!
I will be thinking of the wonderful quilt market and wishing that I was there!
I'm getting married this Friday, the 13th of May. We were just discussing tonight whether or not we were going to exchange gifts and decided that we weren't. I ask you...what better gift to myself than winning? Good luck everyone!
I'm a big fan of FG and would love to win something from the new line. Have fun in Salt Lake.
Sounds like fun! I'll have to make plans to go next year!
Would LOVE LOVE LOVE to receive the new fabric coming in the fall. Just finished a quilt with Pom Pom Paris and love it!
Beth
I cannot make it to market. I would love to win something. I love your fabrics!
Have a wonderful time and I am soooo jealous of all the lucky folks who will get to spend time with YOU!!!
Although I was lucky enough to meet you at Silver Bella and take a class from you.
Thanks for the give away opp, hoping you pick me : )
Catherine
I'm so close to SLC but have something else to attend! So sad! The new fabric line is fantastic. I already have ideas for it! Jamie V in MT
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Although I won't see you at Market, I'd love a peek into your market basket. :) Hope your journal and markers are in there, too!
Wish I could be there!
Just made a wonderful slip cover for my piano stool with your fabrics. Used 3 of them. FABULOUS. Have a wonderful time at market.
Sandy M
Kaari,
I'm in Virginia so I won't be there. I have to say that you just blow me away with your designs. They just get better and better. And the bracelet, my gosh, it's just wonderful.
Sad Robin because I can't be there. Post a lot of pictures.
I would LOVe to be there in SLC, but, alas, it's not meant to be, but thank you !!! for such a great sweet giveaway! Susan purrpage3 at verizon dot net
Will look forward to seeing the new fabric!
Would LOVE to win the bracelet. :)
Linda
I am drawn to this fabric. Since I am in the Midwest I will not be able to attend the Quilt Market. I would love this bracelet. I am so happy to join your email list.
I hope you have a great time at Market. The new Panier de Fleurs fabrics are beautiful!
I would love my name to be entered in your giveaway.
Merci
Can't get to Utah, but love your stripes and you can't go wrong with navy, red and grey! Just hope if I win, Rachel doesn't try to take it away from me, you know she loves your lines!
Ahhh! Wish I could be there. You should plan a quilt trip to the heart of Amish country where I'm at! :) Love the beads and bracelet as well.. Just made a bracelet from newly acquired FG beads a couple of days ago and have gotten lots of compliments!
Wish I could be at Quilt Market! Enjoy your weekend and thank you for the giveaway.
To Market To Market I would love to go, but it is not so! I would love to win your giveaway though!
Deb
the line looks fabulous....congrats on another winner....and yes, i love to win....perhaps fabric would be better than jewelry, but i would love to practice a little more on that bracelet...LOL...hope it is warmer in Utah than it is in Minnesota!
I also can not go but I am hoping to go to your store in LA next month
Please put my name in the hat. I would LOVE to win!!
Thank you for the chance to win some of your gorgeous fabric... have fun at Market!
~~Panier de Fleurs
charm bracelet kit~~
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be still my Heart !
Missed the market in portland oregon. I love your designs though it is hard to pronounce . I am not proficient in french but my husband to some extent and his extended family lives in France.
What a generous thing to do, offering your giveaway to us non-attendees! Thanks so much:)
I'm green with envy, a quilt show, new fabric and a beautiful bracelet kit. Si Beau!
wish I could go..but Pennsylvania is a long way to Salt Lake..Lisa
Love the new fabric line. Maybe someday I will make it to market. It looks wonderful.
The charm bracelet kit is so cute! I have to figure out how to get one....or two. I hope you are having fun at market!
I love your new line of fabric. The colors are lovely. The charm bracelet is just that...charming! Thanks for your continued design.
Ugh, I get seriously jealous of your travels and explorations every time I visit this site! Someday . . . And in the meantime, winning this contest would be awesome -- I love the bracelet. ;>
Oh, I wish I could go!
Have fun with the new line!
Great fabrics, looking forward to seeing some photos from the booth!
Thanks for the chance to win!
If that bracelet is the prize, I would love to win it! I saw your booth in the pics Suzanne posted on Notes from the Patch.
Kaari, it was was such a pleasure to meet you at Spring Market. I can hardly wait for the new fabric line to arrive. Penny, Keiko, and I recieved sooo many comments on our beautiful ribbons. Thank you again.
This new fabric line seems to be wonderful, as always !
Enjoy the market !
Wish I could be there. Love your fabrics. Made a neat slipcover out of three of them for my piano stool. Keep the gorgous designs coming. Sandy M
That would be so much fun to be able to visit Quilt Market, but since most of us can't go you'll just have to tell us how wonderful it is! I've seen some great market pictures posted on blogs, but it does seem to pass way too quickly considering all of the work that goes into it. I'd love to see more of your new fabric line!
One day... but for the moment, I'll join you this way ;)
Love this new line as much as the others. Hope Market was a big success!
I sure do wish I could go to market--what a wonderful room of inspriation. I enjoy all the news and updates of the special lines, designers etc...Thanks so much. Do enter me in the contest too. Your line is tops!!
chosen! love love love that bracelet! hope you are having a lovely trip....come back and choose a winner!
Just found your blog and will be coming to your store soon..I'm in Long Beach. I would love to win something from you. :)
I met you in Phoenix when you taught a jewelry class at Melrose Vintage. Best class i ever took! Wish I could have gone to SLC! I have many of the fabrics from the La Petite Ecole line and have been sewing up a storm! I would LOVE to win any of your fabulous items from this new line! You are fantastic, Kaari :)
Those charm bracelets look gorgeous and congrats for your new line of fabrics!
please enter me in your contest, as i adore all that you do!
i cannot attend your show, so i would love this virtual thrill.
keep creating, karen piehl
Thanks for the giveaway. I would love to win some of your fabulous fabric!
Love the new fabrics. Wonderful giveaway. Thank you.
Can't wait till the new fabric comes in. The fabrics have a stunning subtlety to them.
I would have loved to be at Quilt Market! Sorry I couldn't be there! Thank you for the opportunity to win!
Oh, how I love this bracelet! I displayed the post card you gave me in my room. :)
I would have loved to go! I'm looking forward to your new fabric line being available!! It's perfect! I would love to be entered if not too late!
Corvallis Oregon, is far from your Quilt Market, but I am an avid fan of all French General fabrics!! Please sign me up for your giveaway!!
cathryndmk@nwlink.com
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