Designer Fabric for Children
- John Deere is known for catering to men's needs, but now they design fabric for little boys and yes, little girls too. Their fabrics are perfect for bedding, wall hangings and clothes. They include farms, tractors, and deer. They come in several colors including pink mixed with hearts, stripes and plaids.
- For little girls, nothing is sweeter than one of the many floral patterns by the designer Anna Griffin. She combines roses with stripes and pastels rose tile patterns as part of her portfolio. She also likes animals and has created a novelty circus fabric, pink monkey fabric and bouncing bunnies. She has a gift for translating old-world designs into modern mix and match designs. Her designs can be found at many retail outlets and on-line fabric stores including warmbiscuit.com.
- Caleb Gray is an illustrator who has brought his imagination to fabric design. He creates colorful characters and uses tales of fantastic places to create fabric that children love. He has created a confections fabric collection which includes cupcakes, popsicles, circles, star bursts and more as well as a groove fabric collection which includes funky and groovy patterns in different palettes. His designs can be found at calebgraystudio.com.
- Ann Kelle creates colorful, fresh and modern designs which can be found on a number of items at Target, Barnes and Noble and Robert Kaufman fabrics. She loves big bright florals and geometric designs. Her fabric is available at many online fabric stores including fabric.com, hartsfabric.com and many others.
- Darlene Zimmerman is known as the Feed Sack Lady. She is a textile historian and gets her inspiration from vintage textiles. She has designed fabric for Chanteclaire and currently designs new fabric lines with Robert Kaufman Co. You can find her precious fabric designs at warmbiscuit.com, grandmasattic.com and several others. She has a Clothesline Club that you can join.
