| Free Spirit Fabrics - Solids |
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Lovely 100% high quality cottons in solid colours! These match the shades used in Free Spirit fabrics so you can mix and match prints and solids easily.
Shown below are the shades we have in stock.
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| Jenean Morrison |
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Jenean Morrison says about herself
I’ve been a creative free spirit since early childhood. I always found it easiest to express myself through a drawing or a craft project. Today, I enjoy a life as a painter and graphic designer living with my adorable husband (we were married last year!) in Memphis, Tennessee. I describe my style as eclectic modern. I’m drawn to modern design but love the randomness of eclecticism and intricate design. I’m inspired by classic design form, which I strive to modernize with a unique and interesting twist.
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| Martha Negley |
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Not strictly Freespirit Fabrics, but these have been designed for Rowan.
For nearly 30 years, Martha has been painting decorative patterns. She started with a small textile company in New York in the late 70's working repeats and colorways and then relocated to the Midwest to work for a greeting card company designing gift wrap and paper plates. Martha lives and works in Kansas City.
Martha has designed two fabulous collections for Rowan and we are pleased to have some of her Poinsettia and Holly collection in stock.
Prices range from £2.50 for a fat quarter to £9.20 for a metre,.
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| Felicity Miller |
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Felicity Kate Spencer was born in Hong Kong to English parents. The family sailed for England a year and a half later and Felicity Kate grew up in Cheltenham, one hundred miles west of London. As part of a bachelor's degree at the University of Bristol she lived in Paris for a year, teaching, studying art history and doing journalistic translation...all the while drawing and designing greeting cards, theatrical posters and tapestries.
Prices range from £2.50 for a fat quarter to £9.20 for a metre,.
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| Joel Dewberry |
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In 2000, Joel graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design from Brigham Young University. During his studies there he cultivated an appreciation and love of all things tactile. Following his design training he pursued a brilliantly exciting career in brand development and corporate identity in the Northwest. His attention to detail, quality craftsmanship and respect for design antiquity poised him as an outstanding talent among his peers. After acquiring more than 10 years of brand development experience in a wide variety of industries including the home and textile market, Joel realized his ultimate reward by launching his own textiles brand, Joel Dewberry Eclectic Modern, in May 2007.
As a prolific designer, artist and craftsman, Joel is thrilled to express his passion for design on the medium of fabric. Joel's superb sense of harmonizing an eclectic mix of design styles into a cohesive collection has drawn him respect and attention as it delivers a modern yet timeless style.
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| Erin McMorris |
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Erin McMorris worked at her first quilt show with her mom in grade school, where she witnessed firsthand the growing Art Quilt movement in the 70s. She grew up in Northwest Ohio around fabric, quilts, and art, and always knew she’d work in the arts someday. She graduated with a degree in graphic design at the University of Cincinnati, and then decided to blend her love of art and fabric, getting a textile design degree at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She has doodled, drawn, and designed in London, San Francisco, and New York and currently designs from her home in Portland, Oregon. Her patterns have popped up on a variety of products, including bedding, women’s and children’s apparel, paper products, and towels, for companies such as Jo-Ann Stores, Lands’ End, Target, Macy’s, The Children’s Place, Ann Taylor, and GapKids
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| Denyse Schmidt |
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Denyse Schmidt Quilts...a modern take on the classic quilt. A former graphic designer and graduate of Rhode Island School of Design, Denyse Schmidt has been sewing since she was a young girl. Denyse reinterprets tradition to make modern functional quilts that are fresh and offbeat. They are characterized by simple graphics, rich color, and quality workmanship.
In 2006, Denyse introduced her first fabric collection in partnership with FreeSpirit Fabric. Her fabric designs reflect her unique talent for bringing a fresh perspective to vintage style and color.
Denyse Schmidt was born in 1961 and grew up in central Massach usetts, surrounded by the textile mill towns prevalent in that area.
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| Tanya Whelan |
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For Tanya, creative inspiration comes from her passionate love of old houses, historic architecture, antique furniture, vintage objects and artifacts of all kinds, and most especially antique textiles (she's a girl who can literally go weak in the knees at the discovery of the "perfect" rose strewn antique quilt). Her childhood in the grand old city of Manhattan, her travels to historic places around the world, and her time living in an ancient Italian town have all informed her vintage chic aesthetic and provided inspiration for her designs.
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| Tina Givens |
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Growing up in a multicultural African suburb in the late 60s through the seventies, tainted with an English colonial way of life. White linen tablecloths, tea & cake at four in the afternoon, candle-lit, home cooked meals on the covered veranda and bedtime tea listening to night creatures and music from the 40s.
Living a somewhat quiet family life as a child and young teenager, sewing & art was my entertainment¦ Creating everything from my dolls clothes to my wardrobe, art on my walls and my own stationery. Remember those old sewing machines with a hand-crank to make the needle sew? That was my first machine until my mother graduated me to the foot-pedal. I excelled in art at school and always believed I'd be doing something within the art world!
Tina and her family left Africa in 1982, for Toronto Canada where she finished college, married and left for the States in 1990.
A career in advertising, then sales and marketing within a corporate environment Tina always believed she'd eventually be working within a creative environment. Tina eventually left her career to pursue her own business venture.
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| Heather Bailey |
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Creative expression is one of the great joys of Heather's life and her hands are never still. Sewing and crocheting by the age of eight, and quilting by eleven, Heather has a long-standing love for traditional women’s handicrafts. Over the years, her interests have grown to include knitting, spinning, weaving, stained glass, upholstery, ceramics, bead making, faux finishing, silver smithing, painting and children's illustration. Designing for different mediums, Heather has honed a smart and lively aesthetic that infuses every aspect of her art.
Through all her adventures, sewing has remained Heather’s grand passion. This passion and Heather’s flair for art and color, have now happily married in fabric design.
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| Dena |
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A prolific designer, author and the star of her own national TV show…That’s Dena! Her creative vision has been transformed into some of the most popular consumer products in the market today. Her design and artistic abilities, a finely tuned sense of market trends and a flair for creative collaboration make her one of the most sought after and influential designers in America.
Gracing homes and families with delightful products for nearly 20 years, Dena Designs aligns themselves with industry leaders to create best-sellers the world over. Products range from dinnerware and giftware, to infant and juvenile bedding and accessories, to giftware and stationary, to fabric and home accessories, and much much more. Wanting to share her talent to Embellish, Dena is developing a publishing program on Embellishing. The first of which, Embellish Your Home, will be available Fall 2005.
From whimsical patterns to elegant florals, Dena’s award-wining work is woven from the delight she takes in blending form, color, and design. She has the unique ability to make a product, a collection, or entire home feel wonderfully nostalgic, yet always original. Tradition is revived, but with a fresh attitude!
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| Verna Mosquera |
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In 2004, Verna's creativity, eye for color, attention to detail, background in marketing and entrepreneurial spirit created the perfect storm which compelled her to launch her own business, The Vintage Spool. In just three years, The Vintage Spool's designs have earned international acclaim, and the company currently distributes over 25 designs worldwide. Verna's talent recently captured the attention of Donna Wilder, previous owner of FreeSpirit (now owned by Westminster Fibers), who signed on Verna to design her own line of fabric which will debut this Fall. These are all certainly impressive accomplishments, especially considering Verna has achieved this level of business success without sacrificing her commitment to "stay home" to raise her two young sons, Milo, 5, and Nico, 2.
Verna's recent endeavors prove that even in finding "home," she is definitely not sitting still. Fashion Designer Paul Smith once said, "You can find inspiration in everything (and, if you can't, look again)." In that same spirit Verna Mosquera is sure to bestow upon the world many more inspiring creations.
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| Valori Wells |
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Valori Wells draws her inspiration from nature, using photography to capture the images and scenes she wants to re-create in quilting and fabric design. A designer at heart, she see ideas and is able to capture them in her artistic endeavors.
A graduate of Pacific Northwest College of Art, Valori received the school's "Outstanding Photographer of the Year" award in 1997, when she graduated. Since then, she has become involved in the family store, The Stitchin' Post, in Sisters, Oregon, where she uses her talents in pattern and book design and is involved in the daily tasks of running a business.
Valori is an author of two books, "Stitch'n' Flip" and "Radiant New York Beauties," and has co-authored four books on gardening and quilting with her mother, Jean Wells. She has been designing fabric for six years. Valori finds her inspiration for fabric from her photography and the beautiful Central Oregon landscape. She finds that working in a quilt shop gives her a view into what customers want in fabric. When Valori designs she takes what she learns from her customers and her own desires for fabric to create original designs.
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