confession: mrs. jones has developed a huge design-crush on the artist amy butler. it began with happening upon her beautiful website, reading about her home in blueprint and more on her work in country living, which featured her new book, midwest modern, all within a few days’ time. fast forward to last tuesday, when i had exactly 4 minutes to fall in love with and purchase a yard of fabric for a class. (see above entry). running in to my favorite fabric shop, broom corn, the perfect one was right there. cut, charge & wrap, please! it was then so thrilling to look at the selvage that evening during class and find that the fabric was an amy butler design. now, do you think all of this is just a coincidence?
besides designing brilliant fabrics, paper products, bags and gifts, amy creates, sells and shares (yes, shares!) patterns for sew-ables for the home. (broom corn, for those of you in memphis, carries the patterns, and her books!) all i can say is wow. she makes sewing so much cooler than we ever dreamed it could be back at evanston township high school in mrs. sabatino’s home-ec class.