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PREORDER Good Gracious by Anna Maria Horner for Free Spirit, saturated intense color, intricate floral, precut bundles, available April 2024
PREORDER Good Gracious by Anna Maria Horner for Free Spirit, saturated intense color, intricate floral, precut bundles, available April 2024
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This is a PREORDER for Good Gracious by Anna Maria Horner for Free Spirit Fabrics. Fabric is expected to ship in May 2024. We will ship out orders within 48 hours of receiving fabric from Andover.
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Anna Maria Horner's next fabric line is Good Gracious and features her signature intense, bold, and moody florals, along with some cozy knit patterns, a beautiful landscape featuring horses, and a lovely print of swimming swans. The line features two color ways, one warmer and one cooler, though both feature mixes of warm and cool colors. To tie everything together, a bold geometric teardrop/floral print features bright and deep colors from both colorways.
The line includes 19 different fabrics.
Choose from the following bundles:
Fat Quarters: 19 FQs (each approx 18" x 21") for a total of 4-3/4 yards of fabric
10" squares: 42 squares (note that some fabrics will repeat in this bundle)
2-1/2" strips: 40 strips (note that some fabrics will repeat in this bundle)
5" squares: 42 squares (note that some fabrics will repeat in this bundle)
These bundles are factory cut for precision. Factory packaging may be removed from bundles for ease of shipping.
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About the Designer:
Anna Maria Horner grew up in a house full of her dad's paintings and with a closet full of her mom's handy-work. Beds were warmed by the hand-loomed wool blankets sent by her grandmother from Greece. The busy bodies of her and her siblings were warmed by the beautiful hand-knits of their grandmother in Indiana. As a kid in the 70's, she passed up store-bought Barbie dresses and instead created them from her mother's fabric scraps.
In 1995, after graduating with an Honors Fine Arts Degree in Drawing from the University of Tennessee, Anna Maria opened Handmaiden, a clothing and housewares retail project. The shop served as home base for Anna Maria's clothing line which she designed and produced, together with her mom. Eventually, the label was offered to the wholesale market, where it sold at several stores across the Southeast
Designing clothing for five years served a lifelong interest but Anna Maria kept her hands in many mediums daily. She stayed active artistically by exhibiting in galleries regularly. Her paintings, both small and large scale, are a part of hundreds of private and commercial collections.
There have been varied stops on her path to here, but a common element in all of her work, whether fashion, quilting or fine art, is a passion for the language of color. Somewhere around 2001, her fascination with taking an idea through all the necessary steps from her sketchbook to a store shelf sparked the momentum to create a brand. Anna Maria's fresh perspectives within traditional markets and her vision of being surrounded by the work of her own hands has led her to partnering with more than two dozen manufacturers to design homewares, gift items, and textiles. Her focus has intensified in the craft, sewing and quilting community where her creativity was first planted as a girl. She has authored three sewing books, and self publishes a continuing collection of sewing, quilting and needlework patterns.
Sharing her point of view through teaching design, stitching and patchwork has become an increasingly important part of Anna Maria’s work.
Anna Maria is the mother of seven (8 to 30) and all of her creative endeavors have been sparked in the presence of her family. As one bird after another flies out of the nest, she and the younger sort recently moved from their long-time home (and home studio) in Nashville down the road to charming Historic Franklin. Reimagining a Greek Revival cottage (ca.1900) into her dream house includes plans for a new home studio.
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About the Line, in Anna Maria's words:
"My Good Gracious collection was named because of both the exclamation at the sight of beauty and for a little play on words after having such “good” and “gracious” experiences in the UK during the summer of 2022. The fabric designs were almost exclusively inspired by the sketches and photographs made as I traveled from Northern Scotland to Southeast England with my fiancé (now husband). A walk in the New Forest and a magical interlude with a herd of wild horses is a pictorial detailing of unforgettable moments. A guided tour of my new sister-in-law Beata’s home garden was a moment of graciousness and welcoming that I will never forget. Castle views, long walks, graceful swans, village escapades, wildflower explorations, and a Fair Isle sweater souvenir all floated to the top of my cherished memories of this beautiful chapter in my life."
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I ship all packages USPS and always double wrap to better protect against potential damage during shipping.
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Anna Maria Horner's next fabric line is Good Gracious and features her signature intense, bold, and moody florals, along with some cozy knit patterns, a beautiful landscape featuring horses, and a lovely print of swimming swans. The line features two color ways, one warmer and one cooler, though both feature mixes of warm and cool colors. To tie everything together, a bold geometric teardrop/floral print features bright and deep colors from both colorways.
The line includes 19 different fabrics.
Choose from the following bundles:
Fat Quarters: 19 FQs (each approx 18" x 21") for a total of 4-3/4 yards of fabric
10" squares: 42 squares (note that some fabrics will repeat in this bundle)
2-1/2" strips: 40 strips (note that some fabrics will repeat in this bundle)
5" squares: 42 squares (note that some fabrics will repeat in this bundle)
These bundles are factory cut for precision. Factory packaging may be removed from bundles for ease of shipping.
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About the Designer:
Anna Maria Horner grew up in a house full of her dad's paintings and with a closet full of her mom's handy-work. Beds were warmed by the hand-loomed wool blankets sent by her grandmother from Greece. The busy bodies of her and her siblings were warmed by the beautiful hand-knits of their grandmother in Indiana. As a kid in the 70's, she passed up store-bought Barbie dresses and instead created them from her mother's fabric scraps.
In 1995, after graduating with an Honors Fine Arts Degree in Drawing from the University of Tennessee, Anna Maria opened Handmaiden, a clothing and housewares retail project. The shop served as home base for Anna Maria's clothing line which she designed and produced, together with her mom. Eventually, the label was offered to the wholesale market, where it sold at several stores across the Southeast
Designing clothing for five years served a lifelong interest but Anna Maria kept her hands in many mediums daily. She stayed active artistically by exhibiting in galleries regularly. Her paintings, both small and large scale, are a part of hundreds of private and commercial collections.
There have been varied stops on her path to here, but a common element in all of her work, whether fashion, quilting or fine art, is a passion for the language of color. Somewhere around 2001, her fascination with taking an idea through all the necessary steps from her sketchbook to a store shelf sparked the momentum to create a brand. Anna Maria's fresh perspectives within traditional markets and her vision of being surrounded by the work of her own hands has led her to partnering with more than two dozen manufacturers to design homewares, gift items, and textiles. Her focus has intensified in the craft, sewing and quilting community where her creativity was first planted as a girl. She has authored three sewing books, and self publishes a continuing collection of sewing, quilting and needlework patterns.
Sharing her point of view through teaching design, stitching and patchwork has become an increasingly important part of Anna Maria’s work.
Anna Maria is the mother of seven (8 to 30) and all of her creative endeavors have been sparked in the presence of her family. As one bird after another flies out of the nest, she and the younger sort recently moved from their long-time home (and home studio) in Nashville down the road to charming Historic Franklin. Reimagining a Greek Revival cottage (ca.1900) into her dream house includes plans for a new home studio.
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About the Line, in Anna Maria's words:
"My Good Gracious collection was named because of both the exclamation at the sight of beauty and for a little play on words after having such “good” and “gracious” experiences in the UK during the summer of 2022. The fabric designs were almost exclusively inspired by the sketches and photographs made as I traveled from Northern Scotland to Southeast England with my fiancé (now husband). A walk in the New Forest and a magical interlude with a herd of wild horses is a pictorial detailing of unforgettable moments. A guided tour of my new sister-in-law Beata’s home garden was a moment of graciousness and welcoming that I will never forget. Castle views, long walks, graceful swans, village escapades, wildflower explorations, and a Fair Isle sweater souvenir all floated to the top of my cherished memories of this beautiful chapter in my life."
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I ship all packages USPS and always double wrap to better protect against potential damage during shipping.
