Monthly Archives: October 2010

October Releases Giveaway!

October 5th, 2010 in Contests
By Danielle Dews

I am so excited about our line-up of October titles and products I just couldn’t decide which one to focus this giveaway on. Then my mind wandered to thinking about Halloween and how fun it is to go trick-or-treating and come back to have a pumpkin head pail full of all different kinds of candy. I remember how as a child it seemed like the huge variety of goodies I got was the most amazing part.

Then I thought back to our line-up of books and products this month and saw that there was quite a variety in the mix—appliqué, modern quilting, sewing, gifts, surface design materials, strip-piecing… And I thought, why not give away all of them?

So this giveaway is meant to excite you the way that pumpkin pail full of different candy did, when you came home after pounding the pavement on Halloween night as a kid and dumped the pail out on to the floor to see what you had. Below is the full line-up of October books, from both C&T Publishing and our Stash Books imprint, as well as our October gift and surface design products. Two lucky commenters will win all seven new releases!!

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The Ultimate Appliqué Guidebook by Annie Smith
Elly Sienkiewicz’s Beloved Baltimore Album Quilts by Elly Sienkiewicz with Mary Tozer

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The Practical Guide to Patchwork by Elizabeth Hartman (Stash Books)
Scandinavian Stitches by Kajsa Wikman (Stash Books)

As I said, two lucky people will win this collection of our October releases and to be in the running all you have to do is leave a comment here or on Facebook telling us which of these new books and products you are most excited about and why. Comments will be closed at 9am PST on Monday, October 18th, 2010 and the winners will be announced later that day.

Extra comment entries are available to you if you want to maximize your chances at being the giveaway winner! If you take one or more of the actions listed below, enter an extra comment for each, and in that comment tell us what you did and link to the proof where that’s possible.

Place one of our C&T blog badges on your personal blog (make sure it includes the html code that links it to our blog)
Place one of our Stash Books blog badges on your personal blog (make sure it includes the html code that links it to the Stash Books blog)
Subscribe to our YouTube channel
Subscribe to our C&T Publishing Newsletter
Subscribe to our Stash Books Newsletter
Tweet a link to the giveaway & mention our twitter username @ctpublishing and/ or the Stash Books twitter username @stashbooks

A sampling of what you will find in the October releases from C&T Publishing and Stash Books.

The Ultimate Appliqué Guidebook by Annie Smith

Elly Sienkiewicz's Beloved Baltimore Appliqué Quilts

Elly Sienkiewicz's Beloved Baltimore Album Quilts by Elly Sienkiewicz with Mary Tozer

All-Star Quilts by Helen Frost & Blanche Young

The Practical Guide to Patchwork by Elizabeth Hartman (Stash Books)

Scandinavian Stitches by Kajsa Wikman (Stash Books)

Skulls Deelybopper Headband Halloween Project

October 4th, 2010 in Free Projects, Sewing
By Tristan Gallagher

It’s October…the month of Halloween! Even if you don’t “go all out” in costume throughout the month, it’s fun to show a little spirit, right? This “deelybopper” project can be found in Super-Simple Creative Costumes by Sue Astroth and is a quick and easy project. If you don’t choose to wear it to the office, shopping, or any social event, surely your kids will enjoy the attention they’ll get at school. Boo!

Skulls “Deelybopper” Halloween Headband

Materials:

Store-bought headband with antennae (party supply store)
Four 2” circles of fast2fuse prepared with circles of white fabric of the same size fused to one side of each
four die-cut skulls (or other Halloween theme)

Instructions:

Satin stitch around each of the four circles.
Using glue gun adhere a skull onto one side of each circle.
Remove any pre-attached decorations from the headband.
Using your glue gun, glue tw0 circles together (skulls on outside), sandwiching one of the headband antennae between them. Hold until the glue cools/hardens a bit. Repeat for the second antenna.

Everyday Inspiration

October 2nd, 2010 in Inspiration
By Diane Pedersen

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.

Make every day

Extraordinary!

Carol Doak’s Keepsake Frame Cards & Free Block Projects

October 1st, 2010 in Free Projects, Quiltmaking
By Danielle Dews

Carol Doak's Keepsake Frame Cards

We are super excited that Carol Doak’s Keepsake Frame Cards will be hitting store shelves this month. The set includes four blank 5” x 7” cards with envelopes that are made from beautifully textured, handmade paper that is bright white, archival, and extra heavy weight.

An example of a surface design project displayed in the card

The cards include a debossed 3″ square window which makes them perfect for framing and displaying your miniature works of art, including quilt blocks, surface design pieces, mixed media collages, paintings, drawings, and even photos. Add a handwritten greeting on the inside, and it makes a fantastic personalized gift for any occasion.

This photo shows how you assemble your artwork inside the card

As a special bonus, Carol Doak has created a bunch of 3″ quilt blocks that go perfectly with these cards and we’ll be posting the FREE instructions for the blocks over the next several months here on the blog! So keep an eye out for them and at any time you can visit the Carol Doak’s Keepsake Frame Block projects page to see a complete list of which block projects have been posted to the blog so far. A link to the page appears in the sidebar on the blog homepage under “Free Project Collections”.

Here are the first two Keepsake Frame Block projects in the series. Enjoy!