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LakeHouse was originally established in 1988 as a design studio devoted to licensing product and surface designs to manufacturers in the craft, home textile, gift, stationery & wallpaper industries.
Prior to that it's founder, Holly Holderman enjoyed a successful career in interior architecture and design devoted to small commercial and residential projects with offices in Sausalito and New York City.
Holly has loved quilts for as long as she can remember. She made her first quilt as a teenager and began collecting antique quilts and quilt blocks in her late teens. Her first quilt purchase was a Texas Star, it remains one of her favorites to this day.
Twenty 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 fabrics for quilting, 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 best-selling designs have appeared in numerous magazines like McCall's Quilting, American Patchwork and Quilting, Quilts and More, Fab Shop News, Home Fashion Daily, Country Home, Country Living and Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion.
Twice a year, LakeHouse displays their new creations at both the International Quilt Market / Fall held in Houston,Texas and International Quilt Market / Spring held most recently in Portland, Oregon. The LakeHouse booth design has been an attention grabber since their first show, when Holly was awarded a 1st prize for a double booth design at the 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 ... Cindy Taylor Oates of Taylor Made Design ... Gina Halladay & Stephanie Goudzwaard of The Threaded Pear Studio ... Anne Sutton of Bunny Hill Designs ... Cyndi Walker of Stitch Studios ... Penny Haren of pennyharen.com ... Cheryl Winslow of Starshine Quilting ... who help to fill the LakeHouse booth displays from top to bottom with an assortment of home sewing projects like aprons, novelty pillows, pillow cases and easy-to-sew kids clothing; and a variety of quilted items like purses, tote bags, wall, baby and bed quilts.
Most recently while showing at International Quilt Market in Portland, LakeHouse introduced Lake Cakes™. What's a Lake Cake™? Inside a cellophane corsage bag (easily purchased at a Florist wholesaler) is adorable cupcake-like novelty, made of enough strips of LakeHouse fabric to make a Charm Party ™ tote bag. A FREE downloadable"Click & Print" .pdf with how-to instructions to make your own Lake Cakes™kits will be available July 1st on the LakeHouse website: www.lakehousedrygoods.com.
The LakeHouse Dry Goods quilt fabric line is sold exclusively to Independent Quilt Shops, via it’s 4 distributors in the United States: Checker of Maumee, Ohio ... EE Schenk of Portland,Oregon ... Haik’s of Springfield, Missouri ... Needlecraft of Paterson, New Jersey. Internationally LHDG is sold through Lloyd Curzon of Australia ... George Courey of Canada ... Fischer Freres of Belgium ... Stof of Denmark ... Telalia of Spain ... Traditional Textile Supplier of Italy ... Tiffanies Treasures of New Zealand.