Owl & Drum's Sew Very Modern — cotton + steel

  Here's a Cotton + Steel Fabrics first! Two designers, Melody Miller and Sarah Watts, have combined their skills to collaborate on an entire fabric collection from start to finish. Titled "Beauty Shop," it's a retro-inspired line featuring five cotton, 13 unbleached cottons and two canvas prints. Both designers worked on each and every print. To create this new style, Melody and Sarah passed the designs back and forth in order to edit and perfect the patterns for these unique fabrics. The inspiration behind Beauty Shop comes from Sarah's childhood and her memories of spending afternoons at her grandma's beauty shop...

Another week is coming to an end, so you know what that means . . . it's time for Fabric Friday on Sew Very Modern! This week's features fabric collection is from many customers' favorite designer - Sarah Watts of Cotton + Steel. Her latest collection, Magic Forest, features characters from an enchanted forest. From luminescent flowers to colorful bees, these prints are entirely made of whimsical illustrations. And, as with all Cotton + Steel collections, they work beautifully with their basics, plus blenders from other collections.   I hope you are feeling inspired by these beautiful prints to make...

It's always an exciting time whenever the new collections from Cotton + Steel debut. Customers eagerly await the time when they can head to their local quilt shops and see the beautiful fabrics up close. And store owners always love to offer great new designs from a company with a terrific aesthetic and sense of style.  Well, happily, it's that time again! This week we are featuring Rashida Coleman-Hale's newest Cotton + Steel collection. It's called Lagoon - and it's fab! Rashida used her immense imagination and creativity to develop a fictional tropical jungle, complete with lush colors and whimsical...