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Old 12-19-2013, 09:23 AM
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RST
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Homespunhearth -- so I take it you have a shop or business?

See, I find the marketing of fabric lines so interesting.

n some cases, it seems like there is a lot of advance hoopla and bloggers get fabrics to make up inspiration quilts, and there's a lot of "chatter: -- then when the line is finally available, it feels like a letdown -- case in point for me was Sherbert Pips -- a very cute line, but I'd seen so many bloggers make up quilts before it was even in shops, I didn't feel very inspired to buy it and make it my own.

Then other times, it seems like there is a line that gets a lot of buildup online due to a tie-in to some other cultural phenomenon, Downton Abbey seems like a case in point. People who quilt and people who watch PBS show must be overlapping circles on a venn diagram? And there's a lot of build up that way, but the actual fabrics -- I look at them, say, those a nice, but I don't really know just how I would want to put them together. I've seen the patterns on the Andover site. They're ok, but a bit lackluster. I think I would need some kind of external push to want to pick these fabrics to be the ones I spend my Christmas and birthday money on, cause just sitting there on the bolt, there's not compelling me.
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