LINEAGE is the fourth fabric line I’ve made in collaboration with
@freespiritfabrics , and this one has been harder to talk about because at the core of this one is really just love… well love and stripes. There aren’t any real big research processes to discuss, it was simply born out of a simple request by my cousin Sarah (
@slbphilly )— to make a stripe pattern because she loves stripes and uses them a lot in her quilts. It was such a simple request yet every time I tried to get a stripe pattern into a previous collection, it just never made it to the final cut. But this time something clicked.
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I tend to lean toward organic more circular shapes but I do really love lines so when I started playing around with ideas for a collection the one question that kept circling around in my head was, ‘well when does a line become a stripe?’
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And much of what I discovered in exploring these drawings & mono prints was that becoming a stripe was all about relationality. The spaces between the lines really make them stripes, a line multiplying makes it a stripe. You can’t really be a stripe all alone. It’s kinda like love, or life, or community. Stripes happen when lines decide to come together.
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So anyway, this collection is born out of a request & a whole bunch of love. Sarah asked for one stripe pattern many years ago and now she’s got a whole collection. Then subsequently I named the rest of the patterns after the lineage of women who come together around me and make my life. And luckily, recently I was back east and got to see, hug, kiss, talk to, walk around with at least half of the women who inspired the patterns so it only felt right to photograph them with their fabric. Again, this is only half, so I’ll keep photographing them as I see them throughout the summer.
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The collection LINEAGE is available to order now, through July which is coming to an end so quickly. Please tell your quilt shops and fabric shops, any kind of shops to order quickly for a November arrival to stores this year. xoeb
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