The Vintage Touch: Tim Holtz Painter’s Palette in Every Hue

 

A Perfect Pairing of Creativity and Style!

The Cotton Cuts program featuring Tim Holtz fabrics offers 12 months of stunning color variations, with pre-cut fabric sent directly to you to create beautiful quilt blocks or a stylish pillow. Get ready to stitch up something truly unique with these carefully curated, vintage-inspired designs!

 

If you're just discovering Tim Holtz and his unique vintage style, you're in for a treat! His signature designs blend nostalgia, texture, and rich, distressed details that bring character to any project. Here, you'll learn all about Tim Holtz and his incredible fabric collections—then explore our fantastic Cotton Cuts program. With 12 stunning color palettes to choose from (or collect them all!), you’ll receive pre-cut fabric each month to create quilt blocks or a stylish pillow. Get ready to be inspired!

Who is Tim Holtz?

Tim Holtz has made a significant impact on the world of fabric design with his signature vintage, industrial, and distressed aesthetic. Known for his ability to blend nostalgia with modern creativity, his fabric collections feature rich textures, layered prints, and unique color palettes that inspire quilters and crafters alike. He collaborates with FreeSpirit Fabrics, a company known for its high-quality textiles and innovative designs, bringing his distinctive style to sewists looking to add character and depth to their projects.

 

Cotton Cuts has partnered with Tim Holtz Designs to bring you his signature distressed fabrics in a stunning rainbow of colors, delivered to your door each month—each shipment spotlighting a unique hue. These fabrics embody the unmistakable vintage aesthetic of Tim Holtz, featuring salvaged ephemera, bold typography, nostalgic prints, antique wallpapers, and beautifully aged textures. Each piece tells a story, blending history and creativity into a fabric collection like no other.

 

 Four foundation prints are the cornerstones of each Palette color story.

 

 - Collage strips capture Tim’s love of random vintage photos, with true legacy aspects and a nostalgic vibe. 

 

- Stamps worn, authentic, collected from all over the world translated in great detail for each color. 

 

- Maps taken from vintage school geography books and atlases, some dating back to 1887, offering creative and historic value.

 

- Tickets inspired by the world of Ideology and a penchant for collecting old tickets.

Plus, six additional, uniquely designed prints—perfectly coordinated with each color palette—complete your monthly order.

 Of course, it wouldn’t be Cotton Cuts without our signature pre-cut fabric pieces, ready for you to simply sit and sew! Choose a complete kit to create a stunning pillow, or opt for a beautifully curated set of pre-cut squares—just waiting for your creativity to bring them to life as a unique quilt block. Pick your favorite color (a new one is featured each month), or collect them all for the ultimate creative adventure. All options are available in our shop—so dive in and start stitching!

 

 You will find all of our Tim Holtz options in our Cotton Cuts Fabric Store: Tim Holtz Painters Palette. You can order the complete pillow project in your favorite monthly color, or a selection of squares and triangles to create your own unique quilt block. Or dive in and order the entire set. We've done our best to make it easy for you to select exactly what appeals to you the most. Each order arrives with more fabric pieces than you will need to complete your project so that you can create your block your way, using your favorite Tim Holtz fabrics, the ones that speak to you.

Still seeking reasons to get in on this fantastic project? Here are a few completed blocks from our Cotton Cuts fabric enthusiasts who are already hard at work finishing their Tim Holtz monthly orders. Take a look at how others have been inspired.

 

 Lori Huffstutler

 

Sarah Edwards

 

Heather DeLeeuw

 

And this really is just the tip of the iceberg. The possibilities are endless. Pick and choose your favorite colors, knowing that you will receive enough squares and triangles to put together a block from your very favorite fabrics designs. From there, you can create the most unique pillows or blocks for the perfect quilt, throw or even a wall hanging.

 

Currently, red, orange and pink have been released, with nine more color palettes to be released. (Here's a hint: yellow, neutral and green are up next.) You will find the list of colors on our Tim Holtz FAQ web page. We will release the colors three at a time so that you can peruse and then get your orders in. Right now, there is still enough fabric available to order already released colors, but how long do you think that will last? If you are excited and inspired, now is the time to go ahead and order.

This unique program is a celebration of vintage charm, artistic texture, and timeless design—all delivered in a stunning array of colors throughout the year. Whether you're drawn to a single hue or eager to collect them all, each monthly selection offers a beautifully curated experience, complete with pre-cut fabrics ready to bring your creativity to life. Don’t miss the chance to sew with these one-of-a-kind designs—explore the collection and start stitching your own masterpiece today!