Back to the Future….

It’s hard to believe that in a few short months we will be headed back where it all began some 14 years ago….back to the Houston Quilt Market trade show…..but this time under our new design company….Colourwerx.

We booked our very first trade booth at the Kansas City Quilt Market in the Spring of 2001….we debuted with just six Linderella patterns…it was a monumental task for two individuals who knew nothing about the industry and who were really going because it “sounded like a fun thing to do” (oh my!)   At that time, we were both working full time at our “TV jobs” in Hollywood – we designed in the mornings and made quilt samples in the evenings…we drew the illustrations by hand and scanned them into Adobe Illustrator without having a clue about how to use the program – we must have set up and auditioned and re-auditioned the booth in our backyard about 20 gazillion times – we direct mailed to quilt shops across the country inviting them to see out booth and enclosed free patterns for them to test (can you imagine?) Instagram and Facebook would have been great assets but at that time, they weren’t even invented! – in short, we jumped in head first and never looked back.  Our patterns were a hit and we were on our way!

Now we’re headed back to where it all began – to Quilt Market and the funny thing is, it is under very similar circumstances… our full time job is running our quilt shop (Linderella’s)  but at the end of each day, our attention turns to Colourwerx and the patterns and design process….we collaborate each evening….free moments are usually spent designing, sketching or feverishly sewing up a new quilt sample for our booth….Sunday is no longer a day of rest  but rather a day to squeeze in all that Colourwerx needs doing….we are essentially headed back to our future, and it feels great!  Colourful things are coming – see you in Houston!

Until your next colour fix~Linda & Carl

Back to the Drawing Board…

Well, we are back at the drawing boards…After an eight year absence from design, the creative juices are flowing and Carl and I are back to designing…..it feels great!

Our goal was always to get back to it someday, but we never intended our absence from designing to be this long.  In our defense though, these last eight years we have been a bit busy – we have moved house twice and opened and still operate full time our quilt shop in Southern Pines, NC, called Linderella’s Quilt Works.  Running the shop by itself is a “48 hour/7 day” a week job times two…but we’re not complaining though…our customers are super and best of all, we love our jobs – what could be better than that!   But now that the quilt shop is established and in a routine, we are ready to get back to designing fabrics and quilt patterns….

The exciting news is that we decided to form a new company and call it Colourwerx…….. Why a new company?  Well, we could have stayed with the name Linderella’s and why not?  Linderella’s is well known, there is an established quilt shop and website to accompany it and a portfolio of dozens and dozens of popular quilt designs and illustrations that have been published under that name….but Linderella’s is also known for playful, whimsical and character driven designs and graphics…although those fun designs will never go away – and some may even pop up in new colourways under the Colourwerx name – we felt that going forward we needed a new vehicle and a new name that embodied our goal of creating bold surface design that was more stylized, graphic, and contemporary….a fresh start….hence the name Colourwerx – mixing our love of colour with the industrious nature of our spirit for design….. Now to get back to the drawing boards where the creative mojo, we’re happy to report, is overflowing! Until your next colour fix ~ Linda & Carl

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