Art Gallery Fabrics - The Creative Blog

Welcome back, Makers! 

Here at AGF, we are inspired every day by the projects you share with us online! From your fabric pulls to your inspiration, and your final projects are what keeps fueling our passion for making fabrics. We work hard at AGF to gather our creative juices to come up with fresh ideas and nothing is more rewarding when we see them come back full circle! 

When the year started, Pantone released their new colors of the year, we were feeling inspired! The colors of the year 2021 were “Ultimate Gray” and “Illuminating,” a neutral pebble gray with a bright yellow that represents optimism, resilience, and hope for the new year. The team and I went straight to work to translate this into fabrics and went directly to the warehouse to choose some fabrics! Excited to share our findings, we created a newsletter with free sewing projects and inspiration to get the year started on the right foot, and to our surprise, Audrey from @skirtfixation came up with an amazing collaboration. 

Audrey, also being inspired by these colors, hosted a fantastic “Pantone Party” on her website Project Run and Play featuring tons of apparel made of Art Gallery Fabrics substrates including quilting cotton, rayon, knit, denim, and even canvas! Every week of March, she invited a talented maker that shared their creations with us and we had to come here today to give them all a spotlight. 

So without further ado, prepare to be swept off your feet by all these amazing garments! 

Starting with Audrey herself! 

*Find more pictures, details of the patterns, links, and more in her blog post. 

• Annie is wearing a Novella Pinafore dress made of “Soda Straws” canvas print. Moto Quilted Jacket featuring “Charcoal Powder” denim with “Tin Tint” knit fabric. The back of the jacket featured a paper pieced Goose Chase pattern featuring “Canary” Pure Solids. 

• Lowel is wearing a Fell & Dale cap in “Charcoal Powder” denim, Thyme Shirt in “Canary” Pure Solids, and Morocco Pants in “Wicked Sky & Charcoal Powder” denim fabrics. 
• Tina is wearing an Odeline Dress in the “Cactus Bloom Moonlight” rayon print. 
• The baby is wearing a Journal Jumpsuit in “Buck Forest Moonstone” knit print.

Next up we have Tami Peterson from @sewsophielynn 

*Find more pictures, details of the patterns, links, and more in her blog post. 

• A Story Dress made from “Striped Bold Graphite” knit print. 
• Robin Dress in “Fields of Goldenrod” quilting cotton print. 
• A Lemon Tee in “Daffodil” knit solid print and “Striped Alike” knit print.
• Prose Cargo Shorts in “Clouded Horizon” denim print. 

Then we have Katie from @madebykates

*Find more pictures, details of the patterns, links, and more in her blog post. 

• Her middle son is wearing a Georgie Hoodie featuring “Tin Tint,” “Snow White,” and “Graphite” knit solids, paired with our knit print called “Striped Sleek Sun”. His shorts are a Prose and Poetry Cargo pattern featuring “Charcoal Powder” denim. 
• Her daughter is wearing the Story Pattern, omitting the long sleeves featuring “Wire Flowers Foil” knit, and used the Metro Pattern with “Citrine” Pure Solids quilting cotton for the bottom pants. 
• Her youngest boy featured the Lemon Tee featuring “Striped Bold Graphite” & “Daffodil” knits and Cobalt Board Shorts pattern using “Charcoal Powder” denim. 

Last but certainly not least, we have Celina Bailey from @ensemble.patterns

*Find more pictures, details of the patterns, links, and more in her blog post. 

• Featuring the Georgie Hoodie made from “Striped Sleek Sun” and “Ice Cream Shop”
  knits and it’s paired with Morocco Pants using “Cluded Horizon” denim.
• This sweet girl also models a (modified) D'Anjou Dress made up in a patchwork of yellow and grey Art Gallery Fabrics premium cottons.
• Also wearing a quilted jacket using the pattern Joseph(ine) Cardigan lined with “Blooming Brook Sol” quilting cotton. 

That’s a wrap, folks! A huge thank you to all the makers that participated, we were so excited and proud to display their makes and we hope to bring you inspiration as well. Please make sure to head to their blogs, follow them on Instagram, and show them some love in the comments below! If you are a garment maker and would love to share your makes, please tag us on social media using the hashtag #artgalleryfabrics so we can see it and spread the love. 

Happy sewing!

-Jannelle