Greetings all! I am still new to the whole blogging arena, so please be gentle. A bunch of Avlyn’s fabric designers have nagged and nagged (just kidding) about starting an Avlyn blog, so here I go.

The whole company is crazy busy right now getting ready for the International Quilt Market in Minneapolis. Seriously crazy…I mean martini’s at 10:30AM crazy. Lots of shouting and screaming at the office, but this is really normal for any design driven company with a deadline. Believe me, I can tell lots of stories from my days working at Polo Ralph Lauren, that makes the craziness at Avlyn look relatively mild.

I am really excited about this market. In addition to the new fabric collections we will be introducing, Avlyn will be expanding into whole new product categories. More details to follow.

Oh, by the way–one of the schoolhouses that our designer Karen Combs will be giving at market is about the very topic of using social media like facebook ,twitter and blogging.

Wouldn’t it have been funny if Avlyn did not follow the very core of her presentation…