Designer Spotlight - Amy Butler

In July we're celebrating Amy Butler all month long - around the office we're even thinking about changing the name of the month from "July" to "The Month of Amy Butler" Stay tuned for giveaways, videos, and great posts about one of your favorite designers and don't forget to check our Facebook and YouTube pages, along with our Instagram page, for more great stuff about Amy! #DesignerSpotlight #iamafreespirit

Amy Butler is a creative designer known for her sophisticated yet relaxed modern approach to printed fabrics and products for home, fashion and craft. She grew up in a family of creative women that were always painting, drawing, sewing, quilting, crocheting and knitting. A childhood spent in a nurturing environment of "making wonderful arts and crafts" inspired her to study fashion and surface design in art school. In 2001 Amy started her first sewing pattern collection. She quickly followed up with her first range of fabrics and brought modern styling to the sewing arts– inspiring a new generation of young women to find their own style. She finds creative inspiration in travel, gardening, art, music, and connecting with people.

Amy believes that through who we are and what we do, we can inspire great change in ourselves, each other, and in the world. That we can inspire those around us to become happier & more confident through discovering our own creativity. And with love, passion, and excitement, we can find true joy in every aspect of our lives.

She works from her studio in Central Ohio with her husband David, 4 cats, and a small staff of amazing friends. Her fabrics, patterns, handbags, design and project books & home decor products are sold worldwide. Please visit www.amybutlerdesign.com to find out more.

Want to see more from Amy? Visit her at her social pages, shown below, to get a sneak peek inside her life and the great adventures she finds living out her perpetual wanderlust!

Facebook - facebook.com/amybutlerdesign
Twitter - twitter.com/AmyButlerDesig1
Instagram - instagram.com/amybutlerdesign
Pinterest - pinterest.com/amybutlerdesign
YouTube - youtube.com/user/amybutlerdesign
Flickr - flickr.com/photos/22397217@N02/

Announcing our True Colors Blog Tour

Cyndi Lauper had it correct when she sang about True Colors, “Your True Colors are beautiful, like a rainbow.” Now, FreeSpirit Fabrics has launched a new designer-driven mixer collection, with the same name, meant to serve as the perfect print complement to any quilting or sewing project.

Entitled True Colors, these initial print mixers or stand-alone fabrics were designed under the artful eyes of some the best known designers for FreeSpirit: Joel Dewberry, Anna Maria Horner, Heather Bailey and Jenean Morrison.  The prints and palettes are true to each designer’s unique signature style and play upon the fresh, modern, trend-right aesthetic of FreeSpirit.

Of course, each designer has his or her own interpretation of what is True to his or her heart when it comes to color and design.  Click here to spend some quality time with Anna, Jenean, Heather and Joel as each tells you what color means in their lives.

The FreeSpirit True Colors 100% cotton fabrics are designed to mix with any print fabric and especially each designer’s own fabric collections and other FreeSpirit fabrics – past, present and future. 

We put this to the test by enlisting some of our blogger friends, challenging them to make their True Colors shine through with fat quarters, design rolls, charm packs and yardage from each designer’s collections.  Please join in the fun of our Blog Hop and see how their True Colors are created into ideas to inspire your sewing and quilting . . . especially with FreeSpirit Fabrics!  Plus, they may each have something special to share if you visit and comment.

1/20	Sew4Home
1/21	Stitchery Dickory Dock
1/22	I'm A Ginger Monkey
1/23	The Sewing Loft
1/24	Ellison Lane
1/27	Dairy of A Quilter
1/28	Material Obsession
1/29	Craftsanity
1/30	Stitched in Color
1/31	Craft Buds
2/3	JayBird Quilts
2/4	100 Billion Stars

Come on we are so close!

Hey all you FreeSpirit Blog followers. We are lovin' that you are following us and we promise lots of goodies this year.  We are so close to 400 followers.  Come on now and spread the word and ask your friends and family to follow us.  For today only, post a comment as to who you got to follow us and we will select one random person to receive our beautiful Fall 2011 catalog as featured in the post below.  Thanks for your help!