So here is a full look at our next collection. First, I will explain how Noteworthy came to be. There were two ideas behind this collection. We sort of combined them.
First has to do with our love of Pinterest. I actually don't spend much time on there anymore (mostly because I was wasting a lot of time), but when we were working on this I was on Pinterest everyday. I noticed a lot of pins had to do with "Bucket List" items. I loved reading those and thinking about things that were on my bucket list. This led to the print I showed you last week: (Remember you can click on the photos to get a larger picture)
We listed a lot of our personal bucket list items and hopefully some that you find inspiring. I was this close to asking our blog readers (you) what was on your bucket list so I could include them in the design, but I ultimately decided that particular activity wasn't on my bucket list (it could have killed me) so I refrained from doing so.
The second thought in this collection is that we wanted something that was completely fun and reminiscant of doodling. Remember when we actually took notes in school? Like with pencil and paper? My high school and college notebooks were filled with swirls, lines, flowers and a lot of these:
I used to love making those curly-q things. I also remember our phone book received a lot of doodling when I was growing up. (On a side note, one of the kids asked me the other day what a "phone book" was. I had to explain that we didn't keep "contacts" in our smart phone. We actually had to look them up in a book.) At any given time, the outside would be covered in this (I call these chicken scratches):
Another favorite shape to doodle was circles or bubbles. I never knew that someday these would make terrific fabric backgrounds:
I finally got to include my favorite flower in a collection. We actually designed this print a few years ago, but didn't use it because it just didn't "fit" into a collection. I think it finally works!
Here is one of my favorite prints in the collection:
Here is a close up. The white one is my favorite. It looks so pretty in real life:
And just some more photos of the collection:
Oh, I almost forgot to mention the birds. Love the birds.
We just happen to have some pre-cuts of this line and we are willing to part with one (or two) of them. If you would like to win one, simply leave us a comment. You can comment on the collection or better yet, tell us something that is on your bucket list. That would be fun to read! It's a little late to include them in the fabric design, but I still want to read them! We will choose a winner later this week. Good luck!
Almost forgot- the fabric will be available early next year. I'm thinking about January. Perfect. I'm sure by January, I'll be needing some of this to get me through the winter!
As usual, well done!!!!! Tell us about the next NEW line? Love what you do, SEW WELL!
All of us girlfriends remember the doodles, diaries, year books, etc! Thanks for the fond memories AND a lovely collection!!!!
Posted by: Ethel Alderson | Friday, March 15, 2013 at 10:44 AM
When they feel as though they have had a hand in choosing, you can be sure that they will be more accepting of the style
Posted by: Discount Christian Louboutin | Sunday, March 03, 2013 at 10:22 PM
I love this new line! On my bucket list is to travel all over Europe!
Posted by: Kathy Fey | Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 08:57 PM
Wow! I love so many of these fabric patterns it would be hard to choose a favorite. On my bucket list is a trip to Italy. I just purchased cd's to learn Italian. Maybe in a couple of years.....
Posted by: Pam Hotle | Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 08:23 PM
I have a sewing machine in my bucket list, and to perfect this technique of Carries.. I want to buy this bundle too.
Posted by: shirley tener | Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 10:12 AM
Love the range. Going to Alaska is on my bucket list!
Posted by: Laura | Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 04:19 PM
This is a beautiful fabric line! I'm about to make a custom order quilt using some of the pre-cuts but I cannot find any info online for any solids that coordinate. Do you have any hints?
Posted by: Lindsey | Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 07:49 AM
Oh...I LOVE this fabric. I MUST have it! I WILL have it!
My bucket list...well...I was able to cross off one huge one this past year...my 35year old dream trip to Australia! I had the time of my life, beyond words actually but I am trying to put it into words and photo's and this fabric will be awsome for the cover of my album! Oh ya baby!
Posted by: Holly | Sunday, November 04, 2012 at 03:48 PM
Travel extends past boarding a plane to some new location.
Traveling should remain enjoyable and leaving. Preparing can be half the adventure of taking
a trip. Do you have what it takes? Regardless of your reply, here are a few
hints to assist you.
Posted by: Cercacasa.it | Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 10:07 AM
LOVE this line! Those birds are just so gorgeous! No bucket list here I'm afraid - I'm terrible at that sort of thing, I don't even do new year's resolutions!
Posted by: Kristy @ Quiet Play | Saturday, October 06, 2012 at 01:01 AM
Omg, might be my favorite of yours yet! Can't wait for it to come out, at least I have a little time to decide what I will use it for first!
Posted by: Gloria J | Wednesday, October 03, 2012 at 06:27 PM
i love that bird fabric. awesome collection!
Posted by: knottygnome | Friday, September 28, 2012 at 08:11 AM
Love, love, love the birds! I'm so glad I found Sweetwater. I've grinned and done more oooing and ahhhing ever since! Thank you, Mams!
Bucket list includes "learning to strum a banjo".
Posted by: Patty Winchester | Thursday, September 27, 2012 at 06:17 AM
Love the new line! I want a few yards of the bucket list print right now :) My ex and I wrote out bucket lists and I would choose somethin on it for hisbirthday. It was so much fun for me too! I can't wait for this fabric to come out :-)
Posted by: Jen | Sunday, September 23, 2012 at 10:11 AM
To redecorate my bedroom. Love the new line!
Posted by: Elena | Monday, September 17, 2012 at 08:45 AM
I want to travel overseas with my husband. Fiirst stop - Italy!
Posted by: Lauren | Friday, September 14, 2012 at 08:13 PM
It's lovely and fun. As for my bucket list, a journey to Australia is definitely very high on it.
Posted by: tusen | Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 10:11 PM
Love, love the new fabric line!!!
One thing on my bucket list is to be able to run a 5K....hopefully sometime in the near future!
Thanks!
Julie
Posted by: Julie | Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 07:35 PM
As always soooo beautiful. Sigh! I would buy all your fabric if only I could! Love every single one of them! Sigh again!
Posted by: Claudia | Wednesday, September 12, 2012 at 11:59 AM
Oh My Goodness, I LOVE this fabric collection. I cannot wait to get my hands on it. So many things to sew it into. You create the most awesome fabric collections, can't get enough of them. One thing on my bucket list is to skydive. Not sure it will ever happen but you never know.
Posted by: Kathleen O'Grady | Thursday, September 06, 2012 at 04:41 PM
That Noteworthy fabric is just gorgeous. Well done!
Posted by: Munaiba | Wednesday, September 05, 2012 at 05:27 PM
Love, love love it!!! One thing on my bucket list is to live in a cottage on the beach!!!! :)
Posted by: Teala | Wednesday, September 05, 2012 at 01:51 PM
Goodness, reminds me of my school books, though I was partial to triangles joined to triangles....bucket list.....stand on the ice cap.....cruise inner b.c/alaska passage.....no idea why at all, seems cool. And go to Iceland.
Posted by: Nicole | Wednesday, September 05, 2012 at 11:57 AM
Just turned 50 and received a sewing machine for my birthday! I love, love, love this fabric! I hope I am chosen as the winner because sewing is at the top of my bucket list! I have had the "creative itch" to sew for a few years and just started taking classes. These fabrics inspire me and represent what I want to do with the next act of my life!
Posted by: Maria | Wednesday, September 05, 2012 at 05:51 AM
I love all !!!
Posted by: Ela | Wednesday, September 05, 2012 at 03:32 AM
I absolutely love this collection! It seems as if everyone you do is my favorite of the moment. My bucket list is full of unfinished quilts, lol.
Posted by: Perry | Tuesday, September 04, 2012 at 07:47 PM
Love the colors! I don't believe in a bucket list, it should be a book it list instead. Life is for living, not sitting on your bum and crossing your fingers.
Posted by: Deb | Tuesday, September 04, 2012 at 06:52 PM
Oh my goodness!!! I have never seen a collection where I liked EVERYTHING in it, until now! I have been wanting to surprise my niece with a homemade quilt as she enters her teens...this is the PERFECT fabric for that! Not to mention for the chair cushions at my daughters desks... so many ideas swirling around! Do I really have to wait until 2013?! As for on my bucket list...to visit Hawaii.
Posted by: Sharon | Tuesday, September 04, 2012 at 12:30 PM
Love the birds especially in the fabric collection. I would love to travel the world.
Posted by: Karen | Monday, September 03, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Love everything about the new collection!!! One of my bucket list items is to sail to the islands of the South Pacific with my hubby...one day...we will get there!
Posted by: Jen | Sunday, September 02, 2012 at 11:52 PM
What an awesome collection!! Love the colours.
Bucket List - trip to Paris with my girlfriend - hope I make it happen.
Posted by: Delores Wagg | Sunday, September 02, 2012 at 11:13 PM
I cannot say just how much I love this collection! As soon as I saw the first photo I suspected it was going to be a 'must have' for me, every photo after just confirmed that more and more!
As for my bucket list, my main things are a quilt for my little boy and one for me :) Along with lots of other things, a dress, some shorts, cushions, handbags etc etc etc!
Posted by: Sarah Norman | Sunday, September 02, 2012 at 06:52 PM
The Houston quilt show is on my bucket list. Love the new fabric line!!!
Posted by: Kay | Sunday, September 02, 2012 at 03:57 PM
This is soooo cute. LOVE LOVE LOVE....My bucket list keeps changing as I am making some headway on all my quilt projects. Thanks
Posted by: Colleen Lane | Sunday, September 02, 2012 at 03:20 PM
OOO!!! This is soooo cute!! Beautiful as always! I recently ticked an item off my bucket list - I visited Buckingham Palace! It was wonderful - highly recommended. Another item on my bucket list, is to learn to speak French. Hopefully I'll be able to tick that off the list soon. :-)
Posted by: Carmen Maidment | Sunday, September 02, 2012 at 03:17 PM
I LOVE this collection! My bucket list includes a long vacation to explore Vancouver Island.
Posted by: MoeWest | Sunday, September 02, 2012 at 10:43 AM
Great fabric. I doodled hearts in school on all my books. I would love to go back to Italy where I spent some time as a child.
Posted by: Dacia R. | Sunday, September 02, 2012 at 07:08 AM
OMG!! It's all fabulous! I really don't know how you do it every time. My bucket list is pretty long, but I'd like to go back to Macchu Picchu or Italy. Both have so much history, but both in a very different way.
Posted by: Deb Cox | Sunday, September 02, 2012 at 06:47 AM
Those doodle fabrics are great but my favorite will be the birds. I don't really have a bucket list but if I were to pick one thing I really want to do it would be to go to Paris.
Posted by: Debbie-Esch House Quilts | Saturday, September 01, 2012 at 09:14 PM
I can hardly keep up with you guys! This is just so cute and lively.
On my bucket list now would be to find the right guy and get married again. Cross your ring fingers for me.
Posted by: Sequana | Friday, August 31, 2012 at 12:11 PM
You "girls" knock my socks off everytime you come out with a new line. Gift card will definitely be on my Christmas list so I can buy bunches of this fabric. Not only love the colors but the designs are great. Bucket list..uhhh...don't really have one, kind of a home body.
Posted by: Diane W | Friday, August 31, 2012 at 11:29 AM
I LUV LUV LUV this collection. Some of the designs that you doodle are the same that cover the phone books that my Grandma still has around! She is a constant phone talker and always has a pencil in had and some sort of scratch paper where she draws everything from circles to houses and flowers to barns (yes barns, she's a farmer and draws what she sees). Anyway I have so much on my "life bucket list" that I've had to split it up into smaller "leap lists" (ie things I want to do before my next big "leap" in life). Right now one of my biggies is to actually finish reading my book club book BEFORE the book club night (lol). Love the collection and can't wait for January!
Posted by: Laura | Friday, August 31, 2012 at 11:22 AM
I always find myself a such a big fan of all of your lines, but this one is just WONDERFUL! I can't wait to make something fun with this. I'm thinking the little birds are my fave! :) My bucket list includes starting a shop and selling quilts on etsy... Fingers crossed!
Posted by: Melanie | Friday, August 31, 2012 at 10:51 AM
Another fabulous fabric line!!!!
Visiting Mount Rushmore is on my bucket list....
Thanks for offering the great giveaway! :)
Posted by: Sandra Toews | Friday, August 31, 2012 at 09:43 AM
I love, love, LOVE this line! And it's ironic because my daughter just started college and I was thinking I should make her some book/notebook cover to make her feel closer to home. And this line would be so perfect for just that! Thanks for the chance to win, your kindness is greatly appreciated :)
Posted by: Terri M | Friday, August 31, 2012 at 09:34 AM
My bucket list just keeps getting bigger (designing quilt patterns and fabric) so I should probably get busy accomplishing a few of them! I love all your designs. How fun to see each new line!
Posted by: Heidi | Friday, August 31, 2012 at 09:12 AM
This fabric is beautiful. I love the doodles and the bucket list. My bucket list includes a fall trip to Maine. Thank you for the chance to win this wonderful fabric.
Posted by: viviankay | Friday, August 31, 2012 at 07:15 AM
My heart went pit-a-pat when I saw those fabrics, they are gorgeous and although I won't win any I will have to be patient till they come out. Keep designing these fabulous ranges
Posted by: Janet Keenan | Friday, August 31, 2012 at 01:52 AM
I am a big fan of your fabric lines and love your new "Noteworthy". My bucket list has a visit to Macchu Picchu on it. A giveaway...Yeah!!
Posted by: Liz Tius | Friday, August 31, 2012 at 12:25 AM
I just LOVE this collection!!! How fun!!! Going to see the redwoods has always been on my bucket list and now that I live in the northwest I'm hoping to get to see them soon :)
Posted by: Michelle Whitlow | Friday, August 31, 2012 at 12:18 AM