Announcing the City Quilts Blog Tour!
Beginning July 12th and running through July 24th, the stars of the quilt blogging community will each take a day to host this Stash Books title. The tour will include lots of giveaways, including 13 chances to win a copy of City Quilts, a fat quarter bundle of Kona Cotton Solids and many other surprises.
Each blog host will also feature a Q&A with City Quilts author, Cherri House. Ready for the tour dates?
All of the quilters on the blog tour are connected on Twitter—during the tour they will be tweeting more prizes unique to each stop. Here are the primary Twitter links to follow:
Mark your calendars and we will see you on tour!
We’ve recently made even more titles available as eBooks, including Celtic Fantasy (the Vol. 3 pattern companion to Ricky Tims’ Rhapsody Quilts), Laurel Burch Quilts, and A Garden Party of Quilts by Joen Wolfrom, all of which are only available as eBooks. Visit the eBooks and Downloads section of our main site to see the over 200 out-of-print and new release titles currently available for download.
A while back, the quilting community received news that Yvonne Porcella was being treated for ovarian cancer. Many quilters have sent and are continuing to send Yvonne their best wishes. Several local (to C&T) organizations, the Women’s Cancer Resource Center and East Bay Heritage Quilters (EBHQ) got together to make “Happy Healthy Cells” for Yvonne. Most of the cells were made of felt and featured colorful felt and stitched embellishments. Instead of stitching the cells together, these were left unattached and put in a basket so Yvonne could look at each one and read what the makers had written on the backs.
Happy Healthy Cells for Yvonne
Several small quilts were also made using the Happy Healthy Cells and sold at a silent auction at the recent EBHQ quilt show, with the proceeds going to the WCRC.
Yvonne’s response to receiving the Happy Healthy Cells:
I received the box and was overwhelmed with the sentiment attached to each circle. What a wonderful idea to create this reminder of friends who care. I will enjoy looking at each circle in the basket and I do want you to thank the people who made the circles for me as well as EBHQ members.
The hospital where I have my infusions has an active cancer support group. I hope to share the information about the Happy Healthy Cells with the coordinator.
I look forward to seeing all my quilting friends again when I finish my treatments and can attend quilt shows around the area.
So many of us are being touched by cancer—either personally or because of family and friends who are affected. Happy Healthy Cells are easy to make and there are many ways they can be used to support and encourage those who have cancer and to raise money for organizations that research cures and groups that help and support those who are fighting this insidious disease.
A creative life is filled with challenges and rewards, puzzles and curiosities. This ongoing series of poems attempts to express the “Aha”s and “What if”s, the deep ponderings and casual observations of an inquiring mind trying to make sense of reality. May it serve, for you, as a bit of “Everyday Inspiration” along your own creative path.
When your feet
Start looking like
Your father’s
Even though
You’re his daughter
You know
You’re getting
Older…
A proportional scale is a handy tool to use when you want to figure out how much bigger to make a design drawing or pattern to fit where you want. It is a sliding scale with two wheels. The inner, smaller one gives the sizes of your starting drawing. The outer, larger wheel provides the comparable larger sizes of the drawing you want.
For instance, start with a drawing that is 8″ x 12″ and you know that you want to make it into a drawing 35″ wide instead of 8″. How big overall will the drawing be? Find 8″ on the inner wheel. Rotate the outer wheel until 35″ is directly above the 8″ mark. First, look over in the window to see the calculated percentage increase of 440%. You can then look at 12″ on the inner wheel and see that 53″ lies directly above it. Your final drawing will be enlarged 440% and will be 35″ x 53″.
This summary is taken from Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter by Katie Pasquini Masopust.
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