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LakeHouse was originally established as a design studio devoted to licensing product and surface designs to manufacturers in the craft, home textile, gift, stationery & wallpaper industries in 1988. Prior to that it's founder, Holly Holderman enjoyed a successful career in interior architecture and design with offices in Sausalito, California and New York City, devoted to small commercial and residential projects. Holly made her first quilt as a teenager and she began collecting antique quilts and quilt pieces in college. Her first quilt purchase was a Texas Star.
Today, 19 years after it's inception, LakeHouse the design licensing studio has morphed into LakeHouse Dry Goods a textile design, converting & importing business with an emphasis on quilting fabrics, baby bedding and children's clothing. In addition, the LakeHouse Design studio produces project patterns for lap & wall quilts, aprons, table runners, tote bags and bed sized quilts.
Holly's award winning designs have appeared in McCall's Quilting magazine, American Patchwork & Quilting's "Quilts and More", Fab Shop News, Home Fashion Daily, Country Home and Country Living magazines, to name a few.
Twice a year, LakeHouse displays their new creations at both International Quilt Market/Fall held in Houston,Texas and International Quilt Market/Spring held most recently in Salt Lake City Utah. Their booth design has been an attention grabber since their first show, when LakeHouse was awarded a 1st prize for booth design at International Quilt Market / Fall 2003 in Houston.
Every market, Holly works with a variety of the quilt industry’s most talented designers, like Brenda Riddle of Acorn Quilt & Gift Company ... Penny Sturges of quiltsillustrated.com ... Karina Hittle of Artful Offerings ... Tracey Brookshier of the Brookshier Design Studio ... Cindy Taylor Oates of Taylor Made Design ... Tammy Tadd of Tammy Tadd Designs ... Gina Halladay, Stephanie Goudzwaard & Jan Lutz of The Threaded Pear Studio ... Lori Allison of Allison Quilt Designs ... Mary Lou Hallenbeck of HD Designs, and Cheryl Winslow of Starshine Quilting who help her fill her booth displays from top to bottom with a variety of quilt & home sewing projects like slip covers and lamp shades, quilted items like purses, tote bags, novelty pillow cases, wall & baby quilts and and craft projects like yo-yo garlands, yo-yo edged lampshades & yo-yo filled glass lamps.
Most recently while showing at International Quilt Market in Salt Lake City, LakeHouse introduced Sweet Retreats TM Strip Quilt Kits and Tote Bag Kits. Sweet Retreats TM Kits are due to be released to Independent Quilt Shops on our about July 1, 2007. Holly is proud to announce that some of the quilt industries most influential and well respected catalogues and online stores like Keepsake Quilting, Fat Quarter Shop and Quilthome.com will be carrying both the tote and quilt kits from the new Sweet Retreats TM line.
LakeHouse Dry Goods is sold exclusively to Independent Quilt Shops, via house accounts and 4 exclusive distributors in the United States: Checker of Maumee, Ohio ... EE Schenk of Portland, Oregon ... Haik’s of Springfield, Missouri ... Needlecraft Inc of Paterson, New Jersey. Internationally LHDG is sold through Fischer Freres of Belgium ... Stof of Denmark ... Telalia of Spain ... Traditional Textile Supplier of Italy ... Tiffanies Treasures of New Zealand ... Lloyd Curzon of Australia ... George Courey of Canada