Christine Lindner

I thought you might be interested in knowing that we’ve (enthusiastically) entered the fabric-making business, and recently released the first two designs to launch our “New York Collection.”

The City Quilter brings “Olde New York” to fabric life in this City Quilter-designed fabric. Scattered stylized picture postcards from the 1930’s feature the “sights” of New York as they looked then: St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Pennsylvania Station, the Empire State Building, the American Museum of Natural History, the Brooklyn Bridge, Chrysler Building, Flatiron Building, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Grand Central Terminal, and more. Available in three background colorways. Here is just the black variant:

The second fabric is “NYC Subway”, which features our all-over version of New York City’s famous subway map, licensed from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Striking in black, white and map-natural beige background colorways, this fabric is instantly recognizable around the planet. Here are 2 of the 3 colorways:

We are a daily destination shop for people from all over the U.S. and the world. Most visitors–as well as New Yorkers–have always loved our extensive selection of New York-related fabrics. But we could never predict when a great design would come in, nor control how long it would be in print. So this is a logical move to control our own fabric destiny, as well as let us offer a unique product featuring our favorite city. It was a lot of work but we learned a great deal. And we are pleased with the results.

More designs are in various stages of development, with the next addition to the collection expected by Spring, 2010.

All of the “City Collection” fabrics are owned by and exclusively available from the City Quilter–online, by phone and in the store.

“Olde New York” and “NYC Subway” join other City Quilter-exclusives in our ever-popular “City Bundle”, an attractive package of six New York-themed fat quarters. These other fabrics currently include: “Statue of Liberty in Batik,” which was co-designed by TCQ with Hoffman Fabrics; and reprintings of In the Beginning’s “New York Retro” and Alexander Henry’s “NY Skyline.”

Dale Riehl, The City Quilter, New York
www.cityquilter.com