Archive for December, 2007

Art for Your Floors…

If you’re not quite in the mood for a needle & thread project, but still wanna play in your Marcus - Ellen's Floorquilt in repro fabricsstash, why not make a no-sew Floorquilt!??  We loved the concept by Ellen Highsmith Silver, and it’s all detailed in her book, Floorquilts! Fabric Decoupaged Floorcloths - No-Sew Fun

Ellen created this Floorquilt (shown at right and detail below) for our booth at Quilt Market in Houston this fall from a pleasing mix of several of our reproduction fabric collections.  It now graces our lobby wall, but it’s durable and is completely designed for use as a floorcloth!

Marcus - Floorquilt DETAIL

Ellen’s Floorquilts book is a great treat for yourself or a fabricholic friend.  Check it out at C&T Publications, and ask for it at your favorite fabric retailer.C&T Pubs- Floorquilts Cover

 

 

 

 

 

 

Season’s Greetings –

Marcus-Home for the Holidays 

  All of us at Marcus Fabrics

wish you

the very best this holiday season, and 

a prosperous & creative 2008!

 

 

More Fun With Overdyeing!

Marcus-Overrdyeing B&AMany of you have written to tell us how much you’ve enjoyed our creative tips for overdyeing your favorite black and white Marcus prints, and we appreciate your feedback! We also shared an expanded version of these tips with our editor friends at Fabric Trends magazine, for their special black-and-white issue (Winter 2007), on sale now.

This season, we’ve been experimenting with the overdye technique on our new Elements collection of white-on-white pigment dyes by Faye Burgos.  You’ll love the tonal MarcusElements tonals greeneffects you can achieve with basic household fabric dye.  Be sure to check out the easy how-to’s under Fun & Features