“WARNING: The Diamond-Free methods in this book are addictive!” So goes the first line of Nancy Johnson-Srebro’s Introduction to Big One-Star Quilts by Magic. Johnson-Srebro’s Diamond-Free method was first introduced in Stars by Magic, but her fans and converts weren’t satisfied for long. Almost immediately, Nancy was inundated with requests for instructions on how to use the method for even larger stars, which is exactly what she delivers in Big One-Star Quilts by Magic: 14 different stars in 4 different sizes; 14 patterns for incredible bonus wallhangings using the cut-offs; 28 quilting designs; 4 Quilt Maps, for easy quilt assembly; and 4 ways to make bonus backings. And all from squares and rectangles! Wow.
I feel compelled to mention that it may not be just the Diamond-Free methods taught in this book that are addictive. I’m highly suspicious of the addictive nature of the images alone. The blocks in this book are absolutely captivating and I am already planning my evening around trying my own skills on one of these dreamy stars. Consider yourselves warned!
For a chance to win a copy of Big One-Star Quilts by Magic, post a comment here before Monday, June 15, 2009 telling us about one of your creative addictions- it can be anything from collecting buttons and beads to cranking out stockings for your family (and everyone else’s) around the holidays. We’ll randomly pick one winner to be announced on Monday. Good Luck!
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I guess my addiction is making tiny quilts for Ami Simms’ alzheimer’s auctions.
Betty
I have to pick one addiction? I don’t think I can. I love all there is about quilting. Um….piecing baby quilts with all the fun bright colors. (Most likely chosen because I just finished one that I was quite proud of!!). Thanks for the chance to win the giveaway! Lisa
You mean quilting isn’t enough of an addiction? To everyone outside the quilting world, that would be enough. I’m addicted to fabric, especially all these pre-cut bundles out there right now. I can’t get enough of all the charm packs, jelly rolls, fat quarter bundles, etc. I love ‘em.
I am addicted to making fabric wall hangings with embellishments. I like to make irregular shaped ones with bangles and beads hanging off them.
My most creative addiction is that I LOVE to make the women in my family a little handmade something every Christmas. I have done pillowcases, make up bags, tote bags, grocery bag holders and this year it will be key fobs….
Right now, while my studio is incomplete and my sewing machine and supplies are stored (I know, boohoo) my addictions are being fed by acquiring more fabric.
Like most quilters, one of my addictions is buying fabric, and usually without knowing exactly what I will use it for. This feeds my greater addiction, which is trying every new quilting technique I come across, at least once. You can see the results of my addiction at my Etsy quilt shop.
I am addicted to all stars of all kinds. In fact I just made the french braid star from French Braid obsession.
Like Jen, I feel that quilting itself is addiction enough !!!
I am having too much fun with all the jelly rolls, charm packs out now etc for quick & easy projects. Best of all, my college-aged daughter and niece both appear to be well-infected with the quilting virus – thanks to pre-cuts & a little help from me. They are so appealing to new and younger quilters (and “old” ones too HA)
I guess my biggest addiction is fabric. I must have it. I think I like to refer to it as my fabric collection. Along with fabric I also collect ribbons, lace, buttons…really anything that can be sewn into a wall hanging, quilt or one of my favorite pastimes, cloth dolls. I keep journals of all my creations and swatches of all the fabrics used to create them.
I am addicted to clear plastic and organization right now as I am on a roll for all of my wonderful fabric and tools to be found a a moment’s notice.
My addiction started when I was very young, I love to sew. My addiction for the last six years has been quilts, especialy ones with stars. I love the challenge of getting those perfect points, does not always happpen, but I keep trying. Have made quilts for five Grandchildren, Goddaughter, Step-daughter, two brothers, one sister, working on another sisters, three for my husband, several for our home. Am I addicted, Yes!
I’m addicted to all fabric, antique buttons, featherweight sewing machines and most of all antique quilts!!!!!!!!!! I am sure I will be addicted to the Big Star quilt!
I’m addicted to collecting quilts since my multple scclerosis makes it very hard for me to complete a quilt. Still my love from baby quilts to king size has not gone away. I’m still trying to work on one for my new grandaughter on my good days. The way it is going I think it will be complete for one of her babies. But I’m not giving up. The star pattern is the one I’m addicted to the most, I believe it’s because that is the pattern my Granny who created beautiful quilts, made for my third daughter. I’m hoping at least one of my three daughters will be stung by the quilting bee.
I am addicted to buying patterns and fat quarters!
If I had to pick one, I would pick Baby quilts. I just love making baby quilts.
Stitching can be an addiction, but there are so many worse ones out there that I will not feel guilty.
Hi, my name is Carmen and I am a fabricholic”.
I have to say my addiction would be that every thanksgiving and Christmas for about 16 years now, I am the host. And in the mist of all the hussel and bussel of the season I do not set my table without homemade name placements. They are always machine or hand stitched and always with fabric and for me the exciting part is to try and figure out what to do for that year, Oh and on thanksgiving I make my table cloth and have everyone who attends that year sign it. Now I cannot say that I have all the table cloths because my brother is single so he gets to pick which ones he wants depending on who he brought to dinner that year but I have the rest. Thanks for the chance to win the giveaway.
Right now I have an addiction to making anything with selvages! Thanks for the chance.
I gravitate to any and all trees and houses. Most of the time, the funkier the better! Bright, bold fabrics and no matchey matchey.
I love star quilts, but the odd angles of the diamonds scare me. This sounds like a perfect solution. I’m excited to WIN the book and to try the techniques!
My addiction is quilting magazine. I am obsessive about picking up every issue of every magazine. I travel to several stores in my town to gather magazines each month. I quit several subscriptions to quilting magazines because I couldn’t remember which magazines I was receiving at my home, and Wwen I’d see a new magazine on the stands I’d automatically purchase it … and then the magazine would come in the mail [that's a pet peeve of mine, by the way .. subscribers getting the magazine AFTER it's on the stands!!], often ending up with two magazines … sometimes I’d be FORGETFUL, and end up with more than two issues of the magazine — especially if there was something interesting on the cover. ;)
I have been a quilter for so long that I have many addictions, 1930′s repro fabrics, quilt magazines and books, vintage buttons, varigated quilting thread!
I love everything a bout the hobby and have a hard time not wanting everything I see.
Put me in for the drawing. I REALLY need to get addicted to something else….LOL. Looks like a great book
My addiction is to all those wonderful quilting magazines and books available to us addicts. Can’t get enough information and ideas from them. Keep putting them out there for us to enjoy.
I have to admit that buttons are still my biggest weakness, despite having (at least!) 2 tons of them already! I’m not a serious collector, either – just a button billionaire hoarder. :-/
I love to do anything with a needle-quilting, knitting, embroidery, punch-needle! I haven’t tried tatting yet. . .
Addicted to most anything found in a quilt shop. Especially to anything to do with hand embroidery. Thank you for the opportunity – I see lots of space I could embelish with embroidery on the quilt cover photo :0)
I have an addicition to buying rulers, tool, along with books and magazines with new techniques. I admit that some I have tried and other are still sitting in the packaging. Not enough time to quilt as much as I would like
I have an addiction to fabric…I love buying it…it makes me happy…atleast for a little while : )
My addiction would be the quilting. I can’t wait to finish the top and then get started on the quilting…it’s therapy as my hands move the quilt in rhythm with the machine. As I concentrate on the pattern all troublesome thoughts are gone.
have been wanting to get that book…hope I win…
I am addicted to Quilt Sales. I keep promising myself that I am going to use the fabric I have and not buy any more. Then I see a fabulous sale and I am hooked.
Oh, I would love that book! I like stars more than anything…
If I win, I’ll be out of pocket until the 20th of June…
I think I would have a lot of sewing addictions, fabric, buttons, bows, little trinkets, anything on sale. What I really like is seeing the smiles on peoples’ faces when I hand them a beautiful quilt made from all those bits and pieces from my stash!
I am addicted to color and putting it together to make something way different than the pattern. Some of my quilting friends ask me how I do it, but I believe that it is a gift and how your eye sees things. I also do watercolors and photography and maybe those two things help too.
I’m addicted to the Internet. I started two years ago searching the Internet for Instructions on how to quilt. I now love searching the Internet for Free Patterns & downloading them for “future” use. I also love searching the Internet for bargin fabrics for the Charity Baby & Neonatal Quilts I make.
I am addicted to everything about quilting. I can’t even go on vacation without bringing something. I will bring my sewing machine and piece if possible. I need to be doing something, hand piecing, binding or reading about piecing or quilt designs. Even going to a quilt shop and touching the fabric works. Quilting is an addiction and therapy.
My latest addiction, which is always changing, is knitting, and knittting, and knitting. Another is collecting quilt books and ideas of all the quilts I ‘m going to make. I just got 2 more today. And there are about 10 quil ts in them I’m going to start tomorrow. Hopefully, th at’s enough.
I am addicted to Quilting Books, Quilting magazines, Quilting websites.Even when there is no time to quilt I still get to have the joy of quilting in the car or while waiting on appointments, etc.!!
Addition is using my scraps–I keep making strip blocks and split 9-patch blocks. When I get enough for a small quilt, I put together and quilt. Using scraps is a slow process.
My addiction would have to be described as reading every magazine, looking at every book, browsing every blog to get every idea out there and then decide which quilt I must make NOW! It’s fun, but the need to create is uncontrollable.
Needing an excuse to buy even more fabric…I decided to make totes and purses out of fat quarters. To embellish these, I would need broaches of all types and styles. Now instead of being addicted only to fabric, I am also going nuts collecting unusual broaches. This requires going to yard sales and rummage sales – which is also addicting. I am still buying more and more fabric to use for all purposes, but have not yet even made a tote. I’m too busy getting all of my fabric and broaches.
I love collecting fabric, patterns, yarn and cookie cutters.
rsgrandinetti@yahoo.com
I’m addicted to fabrics, lots of pretty fabrics. Quilting is my cover story.
I like to think of it as therapy–not addiction. I’m getting intense therapy!!! There’s just so many great patterns, fabrics and gadgets to keep us going.
My biggest addiction? I’m a studio junkie. I love seeing where people create, what gives them their inspiration.
…making charity quilts out of other folks UFOs. There’s this creative process feeding the addiction. Then once I get the pieces on my design wall, I can’t wait to put it together….an endless addiction cycle….that I sometimes have to try to put aside to work on my own projects.
My absolute addiction, since I first tried quilting, is fabric, fabric, fabric! And books!! I think my library is amazing, but I don’t have “Big One-Star Quilts by Magic.” So obviously, I should be the winner of the book!
I am a true fabricaholic. The meetings I attend for my addiction are the guild meetings and classes. However, these only encourage my addiction more. I LOVE IT! My other collection addiction would be notions. I like to have alot of gadgets just in case I am sewing a project and find it comes in handy with what I want to design.
Great website!
I am addicted to the beauty of sampler quilts, and I especially like star blocks because the variety is endless. I love the challenge of seeing pictures of complicated blocks, analyzing what shapes make up the block and duplicating it without being given a pattern or assembly chart.
My addition is that I love quilting especially the piecing. I can’t seem to do enough. Life is always in the way of my addiction. I would love to have this book and learn a new method for a one star quilt. Thank you for sharing.
My addictions are:
1. quilting
2. buying fabric for addiction #1
3. buying books about addiction #1
My addiction is baby quilts. I made one for nearly everyone in church’s baby, one or more for each grandchild, and never one for any of my own kids….weird! I like the size, it’s a quick fix for the NEED to sew and try new color combos and patterns.
I am addicted to crocheting doilies. I have NO use for them, I don’t display them or use them for anything. But I LOVE thread crochet and doilies are such pretty little projects. However, they don’t fit in with my house at all so I keep them in a drawer. I take one to the fair each year and try to win a ribbon. :)
I’m addicted to quilting but in quilting I’m addicted to Baltimore Album blocks. I want to make them all!
I am addicted to buying anything that has to do with quilting! I love quilting and must have the latest and greatest!
My addiction is making art quilts.
I could write a book about all of my creative addictions! It’s been going on since I was about 5-years-old! To mention a few, of course I’m addicted to quilting! It’s all I think about. When I’m practicing free-motion quilting I tend to get carried away and spend way too many hours in my sewing room. I tend to get carried away when I”m on the computer designing patterns using my EQ6 program…oh, lets not forget shopping on-line for fabric! I’m also addicted to reading…and tending to my many collections…stamps, fabric, stationery, sealing wax, quilting threads, Jadite, heart boxes, etc., etc. I could go on and on!
I am addicted to threads—-they are my palette for quilting
Oh, my… Just about anything quilting related. Right now art quilts have most of my attention. I am also addicted to designing my own quilts. Of course I am always looking for and finding out any and all new techniques to make quilting easier is great, too.
Quilting of course! And collecting fabric goes along with that – and so does shop hopping – every time we go on vacation I do research to find the quilt shops in the area … it’s all related. And it’s all I can do to not start knitting, crochetting and scrapbooking …
I am addicted to the sateen yard of the month club from Judy Robertson’s Just Imagination (www.justimagination.com). I get a beautiful, hand dyed yard of sateen fabric in the mail, at the beginning of each month. I love everything about the yard of the month package – the tyvek envelope starts my creative juices flowing… what color family will the yard of fabric fall into? Is it like something I have already purchased? What will it inspire in me? The mystery of each piece makes me smile and try to envision actually using the beautiful fabric that feels so good in my hand. I have been a member of the YOM since Judy started with the sateen fabric. This has to be my favorite addiction. The hardest part of this type of fabric is to get over the fear that I will use up theyard and there will be a “better” project that the piece could be used in the future. Anyhow, I think everyone should have some of Judy’s amazing fabric :)
Cheers,
Lunachance
My biggest addiction is placemats for the table. I make my own complete with napkins and holders that match.
My addiction is sitting at one of my looms cranking out fabric. The physical, rhythmic, repeating motion is truly addictive. I love watching the fabric grow under my hands. My second choice is pushing fabric thru a sewing machine. As much as I love the fabric selection and designing process it seems to be the physical ‘doing’ that I crave. And I get really crabby when I’m forced to go without.
maggie
Since I had surgery on my ankle that is keeping me out of the sewing room, right now my addiction is collecting quilting fabric. Of course, I tend to collect fabric even when I can sew.
Carolyn
I would have to admit to being addicted to quilting books and magazines. My current actual project addiction is totes.
Gosh which addiction should I pick . . . . I think mostly I’m addicted to colors. I see a fabric or embellishment or bead or magazine with a color or combination and fall in love!
tee hee… I’m addicted to and have been collecting old sewing machines! People powered (treadle or handcrank) and motor driven. My youngest sewing machine is about 40 years old. (And, yes, I sew with them too.)
At one time, my holiday addiction was making pj’s at Christmas for all my neices and nephews. It required having my brothers get measurements for me for their childrn’s gifts. Not always accurate. Thanks for a chance at this book give-away!
I love magazines on quilting and other fiber arts, because they give me an opportunity to see new fabrics and new patterns, and to read fascinating interviews with master quilters.
I love fabric and aside from fabric, anything with a lid, as far as glass goes….glass teapots….sugar bowls…etc. Thanks for a chance to win this book
My addiction is collecting fabric. I have more than I can probably use in my lifetime!