Moda Designers

For Laura Muir, art is a way of connecting with joy in the moment. And she hopes that sewing with fabrics from her upcoming Brightly Blooming line will give quilters that same feeling. Laura, who hails from Utah, has been painting since she was a young girl and took art lessons, which she continued...

California girl Mara Penny is exploring the United States…in fabric. Moda’s newest designer was born in Lake Tahoe, lived briefly in San Diego, and today makes her home in the San Francisco Bay area. But her new line for Moda, Desert Song, is taking her out of state. First up is a visit to the...

There’s no better day than today—the International Day of the Girl—to “meet” Harriet Hanson Robinson, the mill worker, suffragette, poet, and advocate for worker’s rights, who inspired Betsy’s Chutchian’s newest fabric line. A lifelong love of history spurs Betsy to base her fabric lines on the...

Finding a great quilt shop can make you feel like kicking off your shoes and dancing for joy. At Quilter’s Garden in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, it turns out customers actually do dance in the aisles (although most keep their shoes on). “We play Tony Bennett radio and customers sway or sing along while...