In The Beginning Fabrics has a house style you learn to spot: Jason Yenter's painterly, luminous prints that look airbrushed rather than drawn. At Linda's, two of his lines live side by side and were made for each other — Evanescence, a jewel-toned collection of florals, lace and tapestry prints, and Halcyon, the brushed-ombre blender program that backs it up.
Evanescence: The Collection ($15.49/yd)
Greens and Teals
- Bouquet, Green — the feature floral
- Tapestry, Green — dense woven-look botanicals
- Leaves, Green and Emblems, Green
- Circles, Green — the geometric counterpoint
- Grunge Floral, Teal and Lace, Teal
- Tonal Teal Halcyon ($14.99) — the crossover piece that bridges straight into the Halcyon blenders
Spice and Magenta
- Bouquet, Spice — the warm colorway of the feature
- Border, Spice — an engineered border print for medallion quilts and binding
- Floral Tonal, Magenta
Halcyon: The Ombre Blenders ($13.39–$13.60/yd)
Halcyon is Yenter's brushed gradient program — each piece shifts value across the width like light moving across silk:
How I'd Use Them Together
This pairing is a landscape and art-quilt kit. Halcyon ombres do skies, water and sunlight better than piecing dozens of solids; Evanescence prints supply the foreground foliage and texture. For traditional quilters, the Border Spice print builds instant medallion frames, and the Bouquet florals fussy-cut into stunning kaleidoscope and stack-n-whack blocks — Yenter's dense symmetrical prints are famous for exactly that. If you sew one thing from this page, make it a stack-n-whack from Bouquet Green with Halcyon Gold as the background.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who designs In The Beginning fabrics?
Jason Yenter, whose painterly digital-and-brush style defines the ITB look. Evanescence and Halcyon are both his work and share a dye palette.
What makes Halcyon different from a regular blender?
Each Halcyon piece is an ombre — the color graduates across the fabric width — so a single cut gives you a whole value range. It's the shortcut for landscape skies, glow effects and bargello.
Are these prints good for kaleidoscope quilts?
Exceptional. Dense, symmetric, multi-element prints like Bouquet and Tapestry are precisely what stack-n-whack and kaleidoscope techniques feed on.
