{"id":3692,"date":"2016-01-09T08:44:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T15:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.road2cablog.com\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2016-01-09T08:44:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T15:44:12","slug":"meet-2016-marketplace-vendor-riley-blake-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/09\/meet-2016-marketplace-vendor-riley-blake-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet 2016 Marketplace Vendor: Riley Blake Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Last year, Road introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-2015-20th-anniversary-show\/marketplace-no-middleman-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marketplace<\/a>\u00a0where\u00a0top manufacturers in the quilting industry shared their knowledge and expertise directly with our guests. Located right in the center of the main show floor, Marketplace is <\/em><strong><em>the destination<\/em><\/strong><em> for innovation and inspiration on the latest and most popular quilting products. This year, there will be 6 companies in Marketplace, including Riley Blake Designs.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/meet-2016-marketplace-vendor-riley-blake-designs\/attachment\/rbdlogo_blueframe\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3701\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3701\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/RBDLogo_BlueFrame-1024x512.png\" alt=\"RBDLogo_BlueFrame\" width=\"540\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u2018\u2019Fabric is our fun!\u2019\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0is the perfect logo to describe this\u00a0innovative fabric manufacturer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rileyblakedesigns.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Riley Blake Designs<\/a> was founded eight years ago by Bret and Cindy Cloward. They had \u2018\u2019come home\u2019\u2019 to the fabric business after pursuing careers and raising a family living in many parts of the country. Bret and his siblings grew up in the fabric business as his father owned fabric stores near Salt Lake City, Utah. His brother and brother-in-law joined the business, and it has been growing ever since. Riley Blake Designs\u2019 collections are created by a stable of creative, talented designers and features colorful, whimsical designs.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/meet-2016-marketplace-vendor-riley-blake-designs\/attachment\/blue_quilt\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3697\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3697\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/blue_quilt-717x1024.jpg\" alt=\"blue_quilt\" width=\"604\" height=\"863\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Their fabrics inspire sewists of all kinds: quilters, home decor, and clothing.\u00a0Riley Blake Designs colorful fabrics include cottons, flannels, sparkle cottons, organic cotton, knits, dreamy, and laminates in a range of designer and basic prints.\u00a0\u00a0Their\u00a0coordinating \u201cSew Together\u201d line consists of a bevy of complementary buttons, ric-rac, ribbons and lace, project kits and panels, zippers by the yard, and crocheted flowers.<\/p>\n\n\nRiley Blake Designs&#8217; Marketplace booth will be showcasing quilts that have <strong>free, downloadable patterns<\/strong> available. They are also <strong>sponsoring a mini shop hop with four stores<\/strong>. \u00a0Riley Blake Designs will be <strong>giving away<\/strong> <strong>each day of the show,\u00a0<\/strong>a Zombie Love Tote Bag for those guests participating in the shop hop.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/meet-2016-marketplace-vendor-riley-blake-designs\/attachment\/zombie_bag_night_4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3695\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3695\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/zombie_bag_night_4-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"zombie_bag_night_4\" width=\"537\" height=\"805\" \/><\/a>\nIn addition to the Marketplace, Riley Blake will be participating at Roundabout on Friday, demonstrating their exciting new collection, <em>Sashing Stash<\/em>, available in black, red,and blue.<a href=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/road-to-california\/meet-2016-marketplace-vendor-riley-blake-designs\/attachment\/blue_sashing-stash_main\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3696\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3696\" src=\"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blue_Sashing-Stash_Main300.jpg\" alt=\"Blue_Sashing Stash_Main\" width=\"509\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a>\nTo learn more about Riley Blake Designs, visit their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rileyblakedesigns.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">website<\/a>.]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,29,32],"tags":[393,723,1094,1158,1426],"class_list":["post-3692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketplace","category-road-2016","category-road-to-california","tag-fabric-manufacturer","tag-marketplace","tag-riley-blake-designs","tag-sashing-stash-fabric-collection","tag-zombie-love-tote-bag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/blue_quilt.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/road2ca.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}