Merry Market Christmas Fabric by Kimberbell for Maywood Studio

Merry Market Christmas Fabric by Kimberbell for Maywood Studio

Step into the festive charm of a European Christmas market with Merry Market by Kimberbell for Maywood Studio, a delightful holiday fabric collection inspired by decorated market stalls, treasured Christmas ornaments, fresh evergreens, gingerbread treats, and the joyful traditions of the season.

Merry Market combines whimsical Christmas illustrations with elegant wreaths, cheerful holiday sayings, beautiful poinsettias, and versatile coordinating prints. Its distinctive palette of Christmas red, evergreen green, pale aqua, ecru, and warm gingerbread brown brings a fresh, playful feeling to traditional holiday quilting.

From nutcrackers, ornaments, stockings, and candy canes to gingerbread houses, Christmas trees, and evergreen sprigs, every print contributes to the collection's festive personality.

The collection also features a charming Christmas block design with wreath-framed holiday motifs and seasonal sayings, offering wonderful possibilities for quilts, wall hangings, decorative pillows, and other handmade Christmas projects.

Shop Merry Market fabric yardage and coordinating precuts, including Charm Packs, 10" Squares, Fat Quarter Bundles, and 2½" Strips.

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Merry Market Christmas Blocks — Festive Wreaths and Holiday Sayings

One of the most distinctive features of Merry Market is its Christmas block fabric, featuring 24 unique holiday designs surrounded by decorative evergreen wreaths.

The blocks showcase a delightful assortment of traditional Christmas motifs, including decorated trees, wrapped gifts, nutcrackers, ornaments, stockings, gingerbread cookies, candles, bows, and rocking horses.

Each wreath frames a charming seasonal illustration, often accompanied by a cheerful Christmas saying.

The manufacturer's catalog identifies these as 6½" blocks and shows them arranged in a repeating running-yardage design.

Christmas Quilt Blocks

Use the wreath-framed motifs as focal points in a festive patchwork quilt. Combine individual blocks with coordinating plaids, stripes, stars, and tonal fabrics to create a beautiful Christmas sampler or a quilt celebrating the traditions of the season.

Christmas Wall Hangings

Feature a favorite wreath design in a small Christmas wall hanging or combine several blocks into a festive holiday display.

Explore our Wall Hanging Patterns for project inspiration.

Christmas Pillows and Seasonal Decorations

The individual Christmas motifs also offer wonderful possibilities for decorative pillows, small quilted projects, and handmade gifts.

The wreaths and cheerful holiday sayings make these designs especially appealing for decorating throughout the Christmas season.

Merry Market Christmas Novelty Fabrics

Merry Market captures the delightful experience of discovering Christmas decorations and treats at a festive holiday market.

Its whimsical novelty prints feature beautifully illustrated Christmas favorites, including nutcrackers, gingerbread men, gingerbread houses, candy canes, stockings, ornaments, wrapped presents, teddy bears, candles, and decorated Christmas trees.

These playful fabrics are wonderful for Christmas quilts, table runners, holiday pillows, and handmade gifts.

Christmas Ornaments and Decorations

Colorful ornaments, festive bows, stockings, and wrapped gifts bring a cheerful holiday feeling to Merry Market.

The ornaments feature beautiful combinations of red, green, aqua, and warm neutral colors, creating a lively print that coordinates with the collection's more subtle backgrounds.

Nutcracker Christmas Fabric

Traditional nutcrackers add a nostalgic European Christmas market influence to the collection.

Their bright uniforms and festive details make them charming companions to the gingerbread houses, ornaments, and Christmas greenery.

Gingerbread Cookies and Gingerbread Houses

The gingerbread prints introduce warm brown tones and playful holiday illustrations.

Decorated gingerbread men, cookies, and houses are wonderful motifs for cheerful Christmas projects, particularly when paired with the collection's ecru, red, and green fabrics.

Christmas Trees, Stockings, and Candy Canes

Classic Christmas trees, striped candy canes, and festive stockings complete the collection's holiday atmosphere.

These familiar motifs are especially appealing for family quilts, Christmas decorations, and handmade seasonal gifts.

Explore our Christmas Fabrics for more beautiful holiday prints and seasonal quilting inspiration.

Merry Market Poinsettia Fabric — Christmas Red and Pale Aqua

The poinsettia designs bring an elegant floral element to Merry Market.

Alongside traditional red poinsettias and evergreen foliage, the collection introduces a distinctive pale aqua colorway with soft aqua and white floral details.

This unexpected Christmas color combination gives Merry Market a fresh, modern appearance while retaining the warmth and charm of traditional holiday fabrics.

The ecru backgrounds provide another beautiful option for quilters who prefer a softer, lighter Christmas palette.

Use the poinsettia fabrics as feature prints in Christmas quilts, table runners, decorative pillows, and festive home décor.

Explore additional Poinsettia Fabrics.

Merry Market Christmas Plaids, Gingham-Style Checks, and Stripes

Merry Market includes a wonderful assortment of geometric coordinates that complement its more detailed Christmas prints.

These designs help balance the collection's wreaths, ornaments, gingerbread motifs, and poinsettias.

Christmas Plaid Fabrics

The festive plaids combine traditional Christmas colors with small seasonal details, including Christmas tree motifs.

Plaids are particularly useful for patchwork quilt blocks, borders, and projects that benefit from a classic holiday appearance.

Gingham-Style Checks and Checkerboards

The collection's small-scale checks and checkerboard prints offer subtle geometric texture.

Their repeating patterns provide attractive contrast to larger Christmas illustrations and can help create visual balance in patchwork quilts.

Christmas Stripe Fabrics

Merry Market features coordinating stripes in festive colors, including red, green, and warm neutral shades.

Stripes are wonderful for borders, binding, pieced blocks, and decorative sewing projects.

Explore more Striped Fabrics at Shabby Fabrics.

Merry Market Tonal Fabrics, Stars, and Small-Scale Coordinates

The collection's tonal and small-scale prints are essential companions to its larger holiday motifs.

Subtle red-on-red, green-on-green, aqua, and ecru designs offer beautiful background and coordinating options.

Delicate scattered stars and small repeating prints provide additional texture without competing with the collection's more detailed illustrations.

These fabrics are especially useful for sashing, borders, pieced blocks, and areas where a quieter print is desired.

Explore our Tonal Fabrics for additional coordinating options.

Merry Market Charm Pack — 5" Squares

The Merry Market Charm Pack by Kimberbell for Maywood Studio includes 42 precut fabric squares measuring 5" × 5".

Charm Packs are a wonderful way to enjoy a coordinated assortment of Christmas prints without cutting individual squares from yardage.

The Merry Market assortment brings together festive ornaments, poinsettias, gingerbread motifs, plaids, stripes, and other cheerful holiday designs.

What Can You Make With a Merry Market Charm Pack?

Charm Packs are ideal for patchwork quilts, small holiday projects, table runners, and other designs that use 5" squares.

Use the precut squares to create simple patchwork blocks or combine them with coordinating background fabrics for more detailed quilt patterns.

The collection's variety of print scales makes it especially appealing for festive patchwork.

Charm Pack Friendly Quilt Patterns

Explore our Charm Pack Quilt Patterns for projects designed to use 5" precut squares.

These patterns offer wonderful inspiration for turning Merry Market Charm Packs into beautiful Christmas quilts and handmade gifts.

Merry Market 10" Squares — Christmas Layer Cake Precuts

The Merry Market 10" Squares by Kimberbell for Maywood Studio include 42 precut squares measuring 10" × 10".

These larger squares are a convenient choice for patchwork projects that showcase the collection's festive artwork.

The assortment features coordinating Christmas prints in red, evergreen green, pale aqua, ecru, and warm gingerbread tones.

What Can You Make With Merry Market 10" Squares?

Ten-inch squares are especially useful for quilt patterns featuring larger patchwork blocks.

Their generous size provides flexibility for cutting squares, rectangles, triangles, and other shapes.

The larger cuts can also help showcase Merry Market's colorful ornaments, poinsettias, and playful holiday illustrations.

Layer Cake Friendly Quilt Patterns

Browse our Layer Cake Friendly Quilt Patterns for designs that use 10" precut squares.

These patterns are wonderful for creating Christmas quilts while reducing the amount of initial fabric cutting required.

Merry Market Fat Quarter Bundle — Christmas Quilting Fabric

The Merry Market Fat Quarter Bundle by Kimberbell for Maywood Studio includes 26 coordinating fat quarters.

Fat quarters offer wonderful flexibility for quilters who enjoy combining a variety of prints in traditional patchwork projects.

The assortment showcases Merry Market's festive color palette and delightful combination of holiday novelty prints, florals, plaids, stripes, and smaller-scale coordinates.

What Can You Make With Merry Market Fat Quarters?

Fat quarters are ideal for patchwork quilts, seasonal table runners, decorative pillows, and other sewing projects.

Their versatile dimensions allow quilters to cut a variety of shapes while enjoying multiple coordinating prints.

Use the Merry Market Fat Quarter Bundle to create a festive Christmas quilt featuring colorful ornaments, gingerbread treats, poinsettias, and classic holiday coordinates.

Fat Quarter Quilt Patterns

Explore our Fat Quarter Quilt Patterns for beautiful projects designed around fat quarter cuts.

These patterns provide inspiration for creating coordinated Christmas quilts using the Merry Market collection.

Merry Market 2½" Strips — Christmas Jelly Roll Precuts

The Merry Market 2½" Strips by Kimberbell for Maywood Studio include 40 precut fabric strips.

These convenient strips are a wonderful choice for strip-pieced quilts and patterns designed around 2½"-wide fabric cuts.

The assortment features coordinating holiday prints that bring together the collection's Christmas red, evergreen green, pale aqua, and ecru palette.

What Can You Make With Merry Market 2½" Strips?

Precut strips are especially useful for strip-pieced quilts, patchwork blocks, and projects that benefit from repeated fabric widths.

Their coordinated colors and designs make them appealing for cheerful Christmas quilts and handmade seasonal gifts.

Jelly Roll Friendly Quilt Patterns

Explore our Jelly Roll Friendly Quilt Patterns for projects designed to use 2½" precut strips.

Although Maywood Studio identifies this assortment as 2½" Strips, the precuts are suitable for many patterns commonly described as Jelly Roll friendly.

Coordinate Merry Market With Kimberbell Basics

One of the advantages of choosing Merry Market is the opportunity to coordinate the collection with Kimberbell's established fabric basics.

These versatile fabrics provide additional options for backgrounds, borders, sashing, binding, and other elements of a quilt.

Kimberbell Basics

Kimberbell Basics feature versatile coordinating prints that work beautifully alongside Kimberbell's fabric collections.

Choose complementary colors and subtle designs to balance Merry Market's playful Christmas motifs.

Kimberbell Basics White-on-Whites

Kimberbell Basics White-on-Whites offer delicate printed backgrounds that can help colorful Christmas motifs stand out.

These fabrics are especially appealing for lighter quilt backgrounds, sashing, and pieced blocks.

Kimberbell Solids

Kimberbell Solids provide additional coordinating options for quilt backgrounds, borders, and binding.

Look for colors that complement Merry Market's Christmas red, evergreen green, pale aqua, and ecru fabrics.

Kimberbell Basics Flannel

For a soft, cozy quilt backing, explore Kimberbell Basics Flannel.

Flannel can add warmth and softness to a Christmas quilt, making it especially inviting for the holiday season.

Christmas Quilts and Holiday Projects With Merry Market

Merry Market offers wonderful possibilities for creating cheerful Christmas quilts and festive handmade decorations.

Christmas Patchwork Quilts

Combine the collection's poinsettias, ornaments, gingerbread prints, plaids, stripes, and tonals to create a beautiful holiday patchwork quilt.

Use a favorite novelty print as a focal fabric or incorporate the wreath-framed Christmas blocks into a festive sampler.

Explore our Quilt Patterns.

Christmas Table Runners

Create a festive table runner using the collection's charming holiday prints and coordinating fabrics.

Merry Market's wreaths, poinsettias, and ornaments are especially appealing for seasonal table décor.

Browse our Table Runner Patterns.

Christmas Wall Hangings

Feature the collection's wreath-framed Christmas blocks in a cheerful wall hanging.

These decorative motifs offer a wonderful way to celebrate the season with handmade décor.

Christmas Pillows

Use Merry Market's ornaments, poinsettias, and gingerbread designs to create decorative pillows for sofas, chairs, and bedrooms.

The collection's aqua and ecru coordinates can soften traditional Christmas red and green for a fresh holiday look.

Handmade Christmas Gifts

Merry Market is a delightful choice for handmade Christmas gifts.

From patchwork quilts and table runners to decorative accessories and small sewing projects, its festive prints offer plenty of inspiration.

Explore our Kimberbell Patterns & Books for additional project ideas.

Frequently Asked Questions About Merry Market Fabric

What is Merry Market fabric?

Merry Market is a Christmas fabric collection designed by Kimberbell for Maywood Studio, inspired by the festive charm of European Christmas markets.

Who designed Merry Market?

Merry Market was designed by Kimberbell for Maywood Studio.

What colors are featured in Merry Market?

The collection features Christmas red, evergreen green, pale aqua, ecru, and warm gingerbread brown, along with coordinating lighter and darker shades.

Does Merry Market include Christmas quilt blocks?

Yes. The collection features a repeating running-yardage design with 24 unique wreath-framed Christmas blocks.

How large are the Merry Market Christmas blocks?

The manufacturer identifies the individual designs as 6½" blocks. Check the printed fabric layout and your pattern requirements before cutting.

What designs appear in the Merry Market Christmas blocks?

The blocks feature ornaments, Christmas trees, stockings, gingerbread, nutcrackers, gifts, bows, candles, and other traditional holiday motifs.

Is the Merry Market block fabric a quilt panel?

The manufacturer describes it as Christmas block running yardage rather than a conventional single-image quilt panel.

Does Merry Market include Christmas novelty fabrics?

Yes. The collection features playful holiday prints with ornaments, nutcrackers, gingerbread houses, stockings, candy canes, teddy bears, and other Christmas motifs.

Does Merry Market have poinsettia fabric?

Yes. The collection includes beautiful poinsettia designs, including a distinctive pale aqua colorway.

Does Merry Market include Christmas plaids and stripes?

Yes. The collection features coordinating plaids, stripes, small checks, stars, and tonal prints.

What is included in the Merry Market Charm Pack?

The Merry Market Charm Pack includes 42 precut squares measuring 5" × 5".

What patterns can I use with Merry Market Charm Packs?

Explore our Charm Pack Quilt Patterns for projects designed around 5" precut squares.

How many squares are in the Merry Market 10" Squares assortment?

The Merry Market 10" Squares assortment includes 42 precut squares measuring 10" × 10".

Can I use Merry Market 10" Squares with Layer Cake patterns?

Yes. The 10" squares are suitable for patterns designed around Layer Cake-sized precuts.

How many fat quarters are in the Merry Market Fat Quarter Bundle?

The Merry Market Fat Quarter Bundle includes 26 coordinating fat quarters.

What patterns work with Merry Market Fat Quarters?

Browse our Fat Quarter Quilt Patterns for suitable projects.

How many strips are in the Merry Market 2½" Strips assortment?

The Merry Market 2½" Strips assortment includes 40 precut strips.

Can I use Merry Market 2½" Strips with Jelly Roll patterns?

Yes. These precut strips are suitable for many patterns designed around 2½"-wide strips.

Can I coordinate Merry Market with Kimberbell Basics?

Yes. Kimberbell Basics provide additional options for coordinating backgrounds, borders, and patchwork.

Are Kimberbell White-on-Whites suitable for Merry Market quilts?

Yes. Kimberbell Basics White-on-Whites offer subtle light-background fabrics that may coordinate beautifully with Merry Market.

Can I use flannel backing with Merry Market?

Yes. Flannel can be used as a soft, cozy backing. Explore Kimberbell Basics Flannel for coordinating options.

Is Merry Market suitable for Christmas table runners?

Yes. The collection's wreaths, ornaments, poinsettias, plaids, and coordinating prints are beautiful choices for Christmas table runners.

Where can I find Kimberbell quilt patterns?

Browse Kimberbell Patterns & Books for sewing and quilting inspiration.

Where can I find more Christmas fabric?

Explore our Christmas Fabrics for more festive prints and holiday collections.

Where can I shop Merry Market by Kimberbell?

Shop Merry Market fabric by Kimberbell for Maywood Studio at Shabby Fabrics, including fabric yardage, Charm Packs, 10" Squares, Fat Quarter Bundles, and 2½" Strips as available.