Meet the Artist: Kerryn Egel of KerrynB Designs
Kerryn Egel is the Australian artist and surface pattern designer behind KerrynB Designs. Her work brings together traditional fine art, vintage decorative influences, folk-inspired motifs, and a fresh modern approach to color and repeat design.
Nature—especially flowers, leaves, and garden forms—provides a continual source of inspiration. Kerryn also draws from nostalgic textiles, traditional ornament, paper craft, quilting, and the enjoyable moments of everyday life.
After beginning as a fine-art painter, Kerryn moved into digital surface design because she wanted to create artwork that makers could use. Her own interest in patchwork and quilting originally led her to fabric design, and she now develops coordinated patterns with quilts, homewares, apparel, accessories, and interior projects in mind.
The KerrynB Designs catalog on The Textile District includes the Paper Garden and Nostalgic collections, along with coordinated fat-quarter bundles created for quilting, patchwork, crafting, and design sampling.
Every KerrynB Designs pattern is printed to order in the USA on your choice of 15+ base fabrics with a 1-yard minimum.
Traditional Art and Folk Style with a Modern Edge
Kerryn describes her creative style as a meeting point between traditional fine art and folk-inspired design with a modern edge. Her patterns retain the warmth and familiarity of vintage florals, paisleys, garden motifs, and handcrafted forms while using cleaner repeats and contemporary color.
This combination gives the fabrics broad project appeal. The designs can feel nostalgic without looking dated, decorative without becoming overly formal, and playful without being limited to children’s projects.
Kerryn also designs in collections rather than as isolated prints. Large florals and tropical leaves are supported by smaller flowers, vines, geometrics, ginghams, stripes, dots, and abstract coordinates. This makes it easier to plan a complete quilt, room, garment group, or set of accessories.
Her quilting background is particularly visible in the variety of motif scales and structures. Focal prints provide areas for fussy cutting and feature blocks, while small repeats and directional patterns work for sashing, borders, bindings, linings, and supporting patchwork.
Explore the Complete KerrynB Designs Collection
Paper Garden: Paper-Cut Florals and Modern Coordinates
Paper Garden is inspired by the layered shapes, crisp silhouettes, and handcrafted character of paper cutting and collage. Flowers, daisies, branches, leaves, vines, dots, zigzags, and geometric cutouts are simplified into bold repeats that feel graphic yet organic.
Paper Garden and Paper Daisies provide the primary floral statements, while Paper Branch and Paper Vine introduce flowing botanical movement. Paper Leaves creates a directional leafy stripe, and Paper Dots and Paper ZigZag add playful linear coordinates. Paper Cutouts supplies a clean geometric contrast.
The collection moves through black, white, silver, green, orange, pink, and purple colorways. The limited but expressive palette allows the patterns to mix easily while preserving the crisp paper-craft character of the artwork.
Paper Garden works especially well for modern quilts, children’s and adult apparel, table linens, curtains, pillows, bags, fabric storage, and colorful homewares.
Paper Garden Fat-Quarter Bundles
Three coordinated Paper Garden fat-quarter bundles simplify fabric selection for quilting and patchwork:
- Sunny Garden: A lively assortment featuring warmer, brighter Paper Garden colorways.
- Night Garden: A higher-contrast group built around the collection’s darker and neutral options.
- Purple Garden: A coordinated assortment emphasizing purple and complementary garden shades.
Each bundle includes twelve coordinated fat quarters printed on premium Cotton Quilt fabric. Every included pattern is also available separately by the yard and on other printable base fabrics.
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Nostalgic: Vintage Florals, Paisley, and Retro Botanicals
Nostalgic draws from vintage textiles, familiar garden motifs, traditional pattern, and the comforting visual language of earlier eras. Carnations, scattered flowers, gingham florals, leafy repeats, monstera foliage, paisley, stripes, and small geometrics create a collected assortment that feels both retro and highly usable.
Nostalgic Carnations and Nostalgic Flowers provide the principal floral patterns. Nostalgic Gingham Flowers combines botanical imagery with classic check structure, while Nostalgic Leaves and Nostalgic Little Leaves provide versatile allover coordinates.
Nostalgic Monstera brings a bolder tropical element to the collection. Nostalgic Paisley adds traditional ornament, while Nostalgic Mural Stripe, Nostalgic Squares, and Nostalgic Stripes introduce abstract, geometric, and directional contrast.
Selected patterns are offered in more than one scale. Nostalgic Flowers and Nostalgic Monstera include standard and Mini versions, giving customers options for large home-décor applications, apparel, quilting, accessories, and smaller project pieces.
Four Seasonal Color Stories
Every Nostalgic design is offered in four coordinated seasonal palettes:
- Spring: Coral, turquoise, green, and lively garden-inspired color.
- Summer: Pale blue, cream, beige, and softly sun-washed neutral shades.
- Autumn: Golden yellow, orange, olive, warm cream, and earthy botanical color.
- Winter: Deep blue-green, sage, ivory, muted blue, and sophisticated golden accents.
Because the seasonal palettes repeat across florals, tropical leaves, paisley, gingham, stripes, and geometrics, multiple designs can be combined without requiring an exact motif match.
Nostalgic Fat-Quarter Bundles
Nostalgic Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter fat-quarter bundles each contain twelve coordinated designs from the corresponding color story. They provide a ready-made starting point for quilts, patchwork, fabric accessories, and small home-décor projects.
Visit the KerrynB Designs Brand page to view every active pattern, colorway, scale, and fat-quarter assortment.
View All Nostalgic Patterns and Colorways
What Makes KerrynB Designs Fabrics Distinctive?
- Vintage and traditional influence: Florals, carnations, paisleys, ginghams, tropical leaves, and decorative motifs draw from familiar textile history.
- Folk-modern character: Simplified shapes, handcrafted details, and playful color give traditional subjects a fresher contemporary finish.
- Quilter-designed collections: Focal fabrics, small repeats, stripes, geometrics, and supporting coordinates are developed to mix across patchwork projects.
- Paper-craft inspiration: Paper Garden uses layered silhouettes and cut-paper forms to create crisp florals, botanicals, dots, and geometric patterns.
- Coordinated seasonal palettes: Nostalgic repeats the same Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter color stories across twelve related designs.
- Useful scale variation: Standard and Mini versions of selected Nostalgic patterns support both large applications and detailed sewing.
- Broad project versatility: The collections work across quilting, apparel, curtains, table linens, bedding, pillows, bags, upholstery accents, and handmade homewares.
- Ready-made fat-quarter assortments: Seven curated bundles make it easier to begin a coordinated quilt or sample multiple designs before ordering yardage.
Project Inspiration for KerrynB Designs Fabrics
Coordinated Quilts and Patchwork
Choose Paper Garden, Paper Daisies, Nostalgic Flowers, Nostalgic Carnations, or Nostalgic Monstera as the focal fabric. Add leaves, gingham, dots, stripes, paisley, squares, vines, or geometric cutouts for blocks, sashing, borders, binding, and backing.
Working within one bundle or seasonal color story creates cohesion, while mixing floral, geometric, and directional patterns keeps the finished quilt visually interesting.
Fussy Cutting and Feature Blocks
Kerryn’s larger flowers, carnations, paisley forms, paper-cut botanicals, and monstera leaves can be isolated through fussy cutting and positioned within quilt blocks, medallions, appliqué, fabric collage, and decorative accessories.
Use smaller leaves, dots, ginghams, stripes, and geometric repeats around the feature motif so it remains the visual focus.
Apparel and Wearable Vintage Style
Print florals, paisleys, monstera leaves, paper-cut daisies, or directional coordinates on lightweight cotton, cotton sateen, linen, stretch fabric, or another appropriate apparel base for dresses, blouses, skirts, shirts, robes, scarves, and children’s clothing.
Mini and small-scale patterns work well for detailed garments, while larger florals and tropical designs can create stronger movement across simpler silhouettes.
Curtains and Coordinated Homewares
Use Paper Garden, Paper Branch, Nostalgic Flowers, Nostalgic Monstera, or Nostalgic Paisley for curtain panels, Roman shades, bedding, tablecloths, and larger decorative projects.
Repeat the palette through smaller leaves, stripes, ginghams, dots, or geometric coordinates on pillows, lampshades, fabric baskets, napkins, and upholstered accents.
Table Linens and Kitchen Sewing
Paper Daisies, Paper Vine, Nostalgic Gingham Flowers, Nostalgic Carnations, and the coordinating stripes work naturally across table runners, placemats, napkins, aprons, tea towels, chair pads, and café curtains.
Use a floral or tropical pattern for the principal piece and reserve dots, gingham, leaves, squares, or stripes for borders, pockets, ties, and reversible backs.
Bags and Handmade Accessories
Paper Cutouts, Paper ZigZag, Nostalgic Squares, Nostalgic Paisley, and the smaller florals are well suited to tote bags, zipper pouches, book sleeves, fabric baskets, cosmetic cases, and travel accessories.
Pair a feature pattern with a contrasting coordinate for linings, handles, pockets, bindings, and side panels.
Pillows and Layered Decorative Projects
Use a floral, monstera, or paisley pattern on the front of a pillow and add gingham, stripes, leaves, dots, or geometrics on the reverse, piping, or gusset.
The same approach can be extended to bench cushions, lampshades, storage accessories, upholstered panels, and coordinated bedroom or living-room accents.
Find a KerrynB Designs Fabric for Your Project
Discover More KerrynB Designs Quilting Inspiration
Explore the Paper Garden quilt feature to see how Kerryn curated coordinated color stories from the collection for patchwork, quilting, and home-décor projects.
Explore Paper Garden Quilt Inspiration
Review our fussy-cutting guide for ideas on isolating KerrynB Designs flowers, leaves, and decorative motifs within quilt blocks and patchwork projects.
Read the Fussy-Cutting and Fat-Quarter Guide
Printed to Order on Your Choice of Fabric
KerrynB Designs patterns are available by the yard on 15+ base fabrics, allowing you to select the weight, texture, drape, and performance best suited to your project. Options include cottons, linens, natural-fiber blends, performance fabrics, fleece, and specialty textiles for apparel, quilting, curtains, bedding, upholstery accents, table linens, and accessories.
- Printed to order in the USA
- 1-yard minimum
- Vintage floral, folk-inspired, tropical, paisley, geometric, stripe, and paper-craft patterns
- Paper Garden and Nostalgic coordinated collections
- Standard and Mini scales available for selected Nostalgic designs
- Seven coordinated fat-quarter bundles printed on premium Cotton Quilt fabric
- Multiple colorways available on individual product pages
- Natural-fiber fabrics are steamed, washed, and dried after printing for a soft hand and durable, colorfast results
- Detailed digital printing preserves crisp paper-cut shapes, floral details, vintage ornament, and nuanced color relationships
How to Order
- Browse the KerrynB Designs Brand page and select a pattern or fat-quarter bundle.
- Choose the collection, colorway, and available scale that best fit your project.
- Select the base fabric you would like us to print.
- Enter the number of yards needed and add the fabric to your cart.
Need help choosing a fabric? Compare specifications and recommended uses in Our Fabrics, order a Ground Fabric Swatch Kit , review our Frequently Asked Questions, or contact The Textile District for personalized assistance.
You can also browse the Fat Quarter Bundles collection for additional coordinated quilting assortments by independent artists.
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