Our UPS guy has a sore back! Wednesday he dropped off a big box from Hoffman and Thursday he dropped off 5 big boxes of new fabric from Blank. Then about a half-hour later,
Barnyard II by Blank
the Fedex guy dropped off a box from Benartex.
Our Hoffman box contained the rest of the Bali Pops, so we’re now stocked up again on all five flavors! And we also got a couple of 1895’s we were waiting for to complement a couple of the new Bali Handpaint collections we put together. So, I have to take some new pictures of those.
Our Benartex box contained the rest of our Eleanor Burns True Blue collection, except for two fabrics that are on backorder. But at least now we have several darker colors to go with all those lights. I’ll be getting the collections updated in the next day or so, meanwhile they’re on the website.
Jitterbugz by Blank
We we just got through putting five brand new lines from Blank up on the site that came in yesterday. There are so many neat fabrics, I don’t know where to start!
OK, we’ll start with the novelty fabrics. Cindy’s choice for novelty fabric was Jitterbugz. This is a very colorful collection, with bold primary colors that will appeal to babies and their mom’s alike. Cindy’s hard at work on a baby quilt design for this, so we should have a kit up soon.
My novelty choice was Barnyard II, which also contains some fabric from the Barnyard series. I just got a kick out of all those goofy-looking cartoon cows, horses, sheep, goats and pigs on these fabrics. We also got a couple of Barnyard fabrics, mixed animal faces, a barnyard scene, and some grass and straw fabrics. We’re still waiting on a couple chicken-wire fabrics to keep all these animals in. 
Moving from the ridiculous to the sublime, we’ve just added one of the lines by the bright
Casting Cats by Hoodie
new design star at Blank, Hoodie. Hoodie brings a decidedly Asian-modern influence to fabric design. Casting Cats, her latest design, features tall skinny cats with fish in their mouths, and more fish, cat scratch fabric, and several others in black, white and gold tones. We’ll be doing a really dramatic and different kit on this quite soon. Meanwhile, Casting Cats and a couple of companion fabrics from Hoodie’s Medetai line are on the site now.
Do you like Roman antiquities? If so,
Verona by Blank
you’ll probably really love Verona, another new Blank line. Verona is in sand, teal and cocoa tones and features a design that looks like cracked marble and ceramic mosaic tile, in ancient Roman designs. Very tasteful!
Finally, we dive back to the Renaissance era with Renaissance Menagerie. This line features stylized animal surrounded by elaborate designs in dark blue, cream, reds, greens. The repeat on the main fabric is around 2/3 yard so you’ll need at least a yard to make sure of getting a full repeat, which would be 2 of each of the main four pictures. There is no good way to line these up for cutting precisely, so make sure you order plenty if you want to get lots of feature pictures. There are several other lovely prints and blenders that complement and expand on this theme. This is a lovely line and we think it’ll be very popular.
Renaissance Menagerie
About 20 minutes after I got through putting these up on the website, one of our customers came in and bought a bunch of yardage of 5 of these fabrics. I hadn’t even finished proofreading the website entries yet! We managed to cut and pack it and get it in today’s mail too!
We have several other lines coming from Blank in the near future too, so stay tuned!
