A designer at Ruby Star Society, Rashida Coleman-Hale has been making things ever since she can remember.  Her passion includes textiles, surface pattern design and illustration.

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She studied fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Not sure if fashion was her calling, she traded her sewing machine for a computer and worked as a freelance graphic designer. 

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Her passion for sewing was rekindled in 2006 after the arrival of her first child, and she began the blog, I Heart Linen to document her re-born creative life and her life as a stay-at-home mommy. 

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A fabric designer as well as an author, Rashida has designed fabric for Timeless Treasures and Cloud 9 Fabrics.

 

Her first book, I Love Patchwork, was published by Interweave press in Fall 2009 and was awarded the 2010 PubWest Book Design Bronze Medal in the How-To/Crafts category. Her second book, Zakka Style, was published by C&T Publishing in Fall 2011and was the 2012 International Book Awards winner in the Crafts/Hobbies/How-to category. 

Rashida's work has been featured on notable design and craft blogs, magazines and books such as: 

 

Blogs

Apartment Therapy
Decor8
Design Sponge
Print and Pattern
Makezine
 

Magazines
Mollie Makes
ReadyMade
Stitch
SewNews

 

Books
Print and Pattern: Geometric
Color and Pattern: 50 Playful Exercises for Exploring Pattern Design
The Cotton + Steel Coloring Book
Signature Styles: 20 Stitchers Craft Their Look
Block Party - The Modern Quilting Bee

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