Story Time!: How I Began Designing Fabric for Moda Fabrics 

Corey I just watched Fat quarter with heather from my sew quilt life. And she showed so many beautiful quilts with fabrics by “Corey”. So beautiful.

Corey, thank you so much for sharing the story of how your career has developed. I find people's stories very interesting. I’m so glad your life's path has led you to the world of quilting. I’m sure you know, just by reading people’s video comments, how anxiously we all await your next fabric collection, your quilt designs, your QAL's, and your Saturday videos. Thank you for being the creative person we all love.

Yikes! I can’t imagine having to turn a quilt top around in 24-48 hours. That’s insane. I really enjoyed your story. So inspirational. Tell your daughter that if she can grow her trees 🌲 in containers until they are mature enough to survive outside, she may be able to donate them to the city for planting in parks. Keep us posted on yeh trees journey.

Your enjoyment of your craft shines out in every tuturial, and it is contagious! I also appreciate how you, together with MODA, support and promote your products through tutorials, programs, BOM's and BOW's, product links - just all of your combined efforts. Thank you!

I hope all the trees survive and your daughter is able to show her future children those beautiful trees some day. Thank you for sharing your story. I completely understand the feelings of being a new mommy and staying home. It was scary but, the thought of leaving my daughter with anyone else was terrifying. It was the best decision I ever made! We were blessed that I could stay home with both of our children and I wouldn’t change a thing. I am not creative by nature so I truly appreciate your talents. I can follow a pattern or copy something I see in a store but, I do not have an original thought in my head! And drawing…let’s just say my brothers laughed at my stick figures! I hope you truly appreciate your God given talents, I know we all do! Keep doing what you love and I pray it keeps bringing you joy❤

The 20 trees are right up my alley! Plant the trees as many as you can, spruce are wonderful evergreens!

You are living a blessed life. God bless you Corey.

Thank you so much for sharing your story with us! I have been talking about wanting to design fabric for YEARS but have lots of excuses why I haven't done anything. Your video is helping to nudge me along. Thanks for always sharing so much with the quilting community.

The last encouraging comments need to be made in to a panel. Your way with words are perfect. Thank you so much for this chat. I enjoy your videos so much, even without your fur- babies!

I’m snuggling my second baby right now, and I’ve always wanted to design quilts. I started a Tshirt quilt business and made enough to buy a longarm, but I am ready to make a change :)

We are so lucky to have you!!

Thanks for sharing your quilting journey…fun to hear about how you started your business…Love your fabrics and patterns,and your videos are some of my favorites…Sounds like you found your perfect job and your wonderful at it!☺️👏

Loved listening to your story this morning Corey. We need more Corey time. As a side note if you get a chance you should watch Fat Quarter Shop’s livestream yesterday with quilt designer Heather Briggs of My Sew Quilty Life. Towards the end of the video she showed her top 10 quilt patterns. She calls them her Corey Quilts because she uses your various fabric collections. It was so much fun to watch. I’m sure you would love seeing them.

Thank you, Corey! That was interesting. I’m not that creative, so I’m extra appreciative that those of you who are share your gifts with us by designing such beautiful fabrics and patterns to share with the rest of us! ❤

Great story, Corey! I think I'll stick to using your fabulous collections rather designing my own! And I hope we see a 20 Spruce tree quilt pattern soon!

❤I always enjoy your quilty chats, and I LOVED this one! Thank you!♥️

Thanks for sharing your journey with us, Corey - I’m where you were, in the thick of motherhood, trying to find my creative niche amongst the diaper changes, activities, meal planning, housework, and the list goes onnnnn…looking forward to fall 2027 when all my babies are in school full time, but also feverishly dreading it at the same time! Only another mom can understand those dueling emotions. ❤

Love hearing about your design journey from quilts to fabric. The format for this video was a delight; I felt as if you had invited a few friends over for an afternoon chat. Thank you😊❤️

Love the story of the spruces! They’re beautiful trees, especially during our bleary Ohio winters. I think I told you this at one of your trunk shows but I really appreciate your (and other designers) creativity - it allows non-creative people like me to still make beautiful things. 😊

Such fun story about the tiny trees.

Always a treat listening and watching your videos, such beautiful fabric designs, we are so lucky to have you in the quilting world. Thanks for sharing your story. 👍❤️🙂

I love your story.

Thank you for sharing your journey. How wonderful that you were able to be a stay at home mom and satisfy your creativity!

Corey, what an amazing clothing business and quilting venture to where you are now, thank you for sharing!

Thank you for sharing your story about your quilting design journey.

I always look forward to your Saturday morning videos. My Sew Quilty Life was on Fat Quarter Shop’s video. She shared how much she loved your fabric. I hope you have had a chance to see it.

Loved hearing about your beginning in the quilt design world!

Thank you for sharing your story with "us". I, like many others, had been wondering how Fabric Designing came about for you.Fascinating! Thank you for the positive words to the viewers (me) about becoming, working to the best of our ability. Surprisingly to me, even as a "Senior citizen", I'm still becoming me. After 40 years of Nursing Practice, I am becoming a Long Arm Quilter. It's such a learning curve. I need all the encouragement I can get ! I enjoy your videos ... now you are going to keep us updated on the Spruce trees just like Tigs!

I really enjoyed your story time. You have me very curious as to what you were design for your kids, and i would be interested in seeing that. I have a 5 year old daughter and think it would be fun to make her things, but I always need a good clear pattern to make anything. I'm so glad you started designing fabric. Each fabric line seems to have a perfect balance of colour and scale and is just so fun to work with.

Thanks for sharing your story. I hope your daughter is able to plant her trees. My mom used to say she had to plant one seed for the birds, one for the worms and one for herself.

I received my pattern yesterday. I just love it.

Thank you so much for sharing your experience. You are very talented. May the Lord bless and keep you.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🫶🏽 really loved your story.

I love your patterns and fabrics and color choices and you are so sweet. Love you Corey

Thank you for sharing your story! I love your fabric designs and patterns.

Now you have to make her a 20 Little Spruce Trees quilt to capture the memory! Lol!

Thanks Corey! It's always interesting to me to to learn how someone got to where they are in life.

Cory, you are such an inspiration. What an amazing journey you've been on. I'd love to one day design fabric.

What a wonderful story and one that is very encouraging. I really enjoyed you sharing your trail to designing fabric and how you got there. Thank you very much for taking the time to make this video, and i hope many more blessings come your way. Love your fabrics and your patterns!!

Thank you for sharing I often wonder how people get started in fabric design.😊

I loved the tree story - please let us know what happens with them! Very interesting video - thanks.

thank you for your story. I loved it and I love your quilts they are beautiful.

Corey, Thank you for sharing your story with us! I find it interesting to learn the 'how' and 'why' behind people's stories on their journey toward their goals. I could never be a fabric designer - I can't even draw a decent looking flower on a blank piece of paper. LOL But I have been enjoying your fabric lines in the past 4-5 years since the beginning of my quilting journey. Thanks again!

You are an inspiration. Thank you for sharing.

Nice story Corey. Thanks.

Thank you! You are so very inspiring! I even wrote some things down including, "You are just exactly who you need to be to accomplish just exactly what you need to accomplish." You made my day saying that in your video. ❤

Love that Story time with Corey Time. 😊

Love hearing your stories

So nice to hear how you got into this business! I love your designs and color palette! ❤

Thanks Corey for sharing your story with us. So fun and inspiring. Love your fabrics. 😂 I thought the seeds were going to be carrots!!! How funny! Glad they are trees. Hope they all survive and grow up beautiful. ❤🧵🌲

I love the tree story, they are amazing. Always family first. Thank you for sharing .

Thank you for sharing your story, and your amazing talent, with us all! ❤️

Thank you Corey! I have always wanted to do fabric design. I never felt like I could because I didn't have that background and I did not know where to start. I have so many pattern ideas in my head. I am a "senior citizen" I am too old to do it now. but not too old to sew!! I sure enjoy sewing with your fabric. I still have several of your fat quarter bundles in my stash. I hope that your journey will help someone follow their dream. p,s, keep us updated on the spruce tree story!. You should get her to take a picture by the tree every year and watch them both grow.

Thank you for sharing your design journey. Although I rarely comment on your videos-I do try to 👍🏻when I can-I often binge watch them while sewing. Your quilts and tutorials inspiring, and your easy, relaxed manner makes one feel invited into your studio. Wow! Your daughter could make a beautiful Bonsai Forest with some of the trees-either in a large shallow pot and/or in your yard. She can Google Bonsai forest images for some fabulous examples. Either way, she should carefully separate them now, or their roots will interlock and the trees won’t likely survive separation later. Thank you, and stay well! Muskoka ON 🇨🇦

Thank you for your story. I enjoyed hearing how you got where you are. Thankful you are here!!

Thank you Corey! You make me believe that I can too design fabric! Maybe soooner rather than later!! Prairie was one of the very first fabrics I bought when I started quilting!! I sure wish I had bought more... they are some of my most treasured scraps. ❤ I never bought enough for a quilt so I've made bags and such. Windflower was another favorite, but I gave that quilt away! I now make sure I buy enough when your lines come out! 😅

Thank you so much Corey for sharing your journey to fabric and pattern design. I have thought so much about going into this industry but have had thoughts of not being qualified to do it. This was so inspiring and I love that there is a free program out there to dabble! The hardest part is getting started! Happy Sunday, Corey!

Thank you for sharing your story. I love all your fabric lines. I have used 3 of you lines for 3 of my grandsons' wedding quilts. I used Spring Creek for a spring wedding, Cozy Up for a fall wedding and Sunwashed for a summer wedding. I always look forward to you new lines.

Thank you for sharing your story. I’ve been curious how people like yourself get started in fabric design. Blessings to you!

Thanks for story time with Corey!!!

I absolutely love hearing about your journey and fabric design. What I love is taking fabrics and patterns and mixing them up to make my own. So I think fabric patterns or perhaps sewing for a designer is where I would love to do. I work full time and sew just as much now that I am an empty nester. ❤

Thank you for sharing your story. It was both educational and interesting!

Thank you for sharing your fabric and quilting journey, you are truly an inspiration!

Thank you for sharing your journey in this business. I love to hear how everyone ends up on their chosen path. ❤

Wonderful journey, Corey. You're talented and so creative. ❤

Thank you for sharing. I must say I know I feel I am thrilled that you arrived at your destination as a fabric designer as you are one of my favorite designers. I absolutely adore the new collection with the sheep. Just precious. You don’t stay in one genre but stay fresh with new releases. Great imagination and designing. My fabric store sold out almost immediately so loads have the same opinion. Just keep it going. I love it ❤

Hi Corey, thank you for sharing this. I found it very interesting. It's so cool that you got to work from home so you could be there for your family if they need you. I missed a lot of my daughters things when she was in school, but thankfully my sister was close by. Thank you for sharing.

Corey, thank you so much for sharing your journey. This was a fun and informative video. By the way, I absolutely love the story of the 20 spruce trees in the tiny mug. I think that has the makings of a great children's book.

Thank you so much!! This was such a wonderful story. Everyone starts somewhere and we all get there via different paths. Thank yo for sharing yours. Love your fabric lines and enjoy watching your videos. Have a blessed day.

Fascinating! 20 minutes well-spent watching this video. I love your openness in sharing your fabric design career. Thank you ❤

I love that you shared this with us. Thank you! I love your fabric and have made quilts with it.

Thank you for sharing your story. I agree that Moda has a very good range of collections.

I love your Saturday videos! Thank you for sharing your story!

Good morning, and thank you for sharing your story! I think it is always interesting to learn what inspires people to follow a certain career path. I also enjoyed the story on your daughter's seeds. How odd that they didn't label the seeds! I would have also assumed they were flowers of some sort! I hope at least a couple make it to full size!

Thank you so much for your thoughtful sharing. I would love to hear more about how you structure you days around sewing. Tips on fitting more time into your life.... Another thought I had was, I bet you have a wealth of advice that would work for the rest of us when we want to get a project done quickly, such as for a gift-----because you need to turn around your quilts very quickly when you get your original pieces of fabric. And now that you mentioned you used to have to put a quilt top together in under 48 hours, more often 24, you much have organization tips, and focus tips, and other useful ideas that would be useful to us. You seem to be a very organized person, so, would love to hear more about that too...I need clear counters to start a project, or to do some mending. Thank you again. Love this idea.

Thank you for this story. It us interesting to hear how you got to this place. 20 trees, a great gift😅

Corey I love your fabric and patterns. I’m so glad you got into this field!! Great story!!!

Thank you for this. This was a blast to hear your journey! Way to go Corey!

Great video-would like to see the progress of the spruce trees😊. Enjoyed today's video as always.

What an interesting story! Thank you for sharing, Corey!

Growing plants is fun. Elany can learn lots of science stuff caring for these. I remember buying your 1st line. Karen still has some. It's been fun seeing all of your work over the years.

I got my patterns in the mail yesterday! I am so excited to be making a couple more of your cute quilts. Now I have to wait for your next Christmas line to come out so I can make that CUTE Sheepie quilt! I love your story!

Corey, thank you for sharing😊 I love your colors/prints/style. Enjoy every new line! Keep creating for us😊

Enjoyed hearing about your journey into designing and learning about your background. Thank goodness everyone does something different- it would be boring if everyone designed the same path! My only complaint about this video (as I am sewing) is it was too short!!! Maybe the 20 spruce trees in the mug will be an inspiration?!!😙🤣

Thank you Corey for sharing your story. I found it very interesting and it really lets us be informed and more connected to you as a person and a designer. Best wishes for continued success in all that you do.

Loved your story! And I love your fabrics. Keep designing! Thank you!

Corey...love your fabric designs...best wishes ❤❤

Loved this chat with you Corey! Always so faithful and encouraging. Thank you 💕🧵

Thanks for doing this video Corey! It was fun to listen to!

Interesting you’re talking about this today since last night I was looking at the May/June Love of Quilting with your scattered pinwheels design. I did a double take when I saw your picture with long hair.

Thanks for sharing the story of your journey! I love your fabric designs!

Thanks so much for sharing. Your passion shows. Also I love your starberry line!

Cory I loved hearing your story! Thanks for sharing!❤

Thank you for sharing! I’m going to have a look at that program…just for fun!

Thanks for sharing, I really enjoy watching you and all your projects and designs

I enjoyed this so much. It’s so interesting to hear how people found their way to where they are. I am nearing retirement from my job and I find myself thinking about what I can do next. Just like you transitioned to be a stay at home Mom, I think retirement can be a transition to something different. I hope I find my way to something I really enjoy like you did. Your designs are so beautiful. 🌷

Thank you for sharing your story you are such a beautiful person I love your fabric!!

Interesting journey and a gifted talent you have. I love Moda Fabric. My favorite for sure. Thank you for sharing your story. Was meant to be. You add so much to all of us. Thank you

Wow what a fun journey now look at you ☺️ can’t wait to see what you do next

Cory thank you so much for sharing this! Your message is one so many young people (of all ages) should hear - do what you are meant to do and enjoy. ❤