C&T Publishing is a group of quilters and crafters dedicated to publishing products tailored to our audience. This blog is where we break away from book schedules and marketing campaigns to focus on what drives us to be creative and how this creativity manifests itself in our every day lives.
New eBooks
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.
New eBooks!
We’re making new ebooks available for purchase all the time on C&T’s main web site ctpub.com. Our latest additions include long out-of-print favorites like Simply Stars by Alex Anderson and Shadow Quilts by Patricia Maixner Magaret & Donna Ingram Slusser, along with popular recent titles like Fast, Fun & Easy Fabric Bowls by Linda Johansen. eBooks are great because you can view the text and images your computer (and make them LARGER), then print just the pages you need – (Continue Reading...)
Inchie Ruler Tape Giveaway Winner
Congratulations to C.L. Moxley who won last week’s giveaway. She will be receiving a package of our fabulously useful Inchie Ruler Tape.
As a special for our blog readers, for the next two weeks you can get 20% off your purchase of Inchie Ruler Tape. Simply mention discount code WG20110 when you place your order with C&T via phone (800.284.1114) or our web site (enter discount code where noted during checkout).
Weekly Giveaway: Inchie Ruler Tape
I got my first opportunity to use our new Inchie Ruler Tape in a class with our own Liz Aneloski. I was making a wallhanging for my boyfriend and the project required decorative stitching to finish the piece.
Well, the thought of that made me want to shelve the project as I’d not only need to stitch in a straight line, but the stitches would need to be evenly spaced (both of which are huge challenges for me). Then someone (Continue Reading...)
Amy Shuter Made My Day
In early February I was contacted by Amy Shuter, a quilter who was requesting permission to use a pattern from our book, Small Quilts with Vintage Charm by Jo Morton, to make a quilt in honor of her mother that would be sold to benefit the Alzheimer Art Quilt Initiative. Now, I receive quite a few permission requests, but this is the first time someone has shared the end result with me. This message made my day, and I thought (Continue Reading...)
Weekly Giveaway: A Touch of Felt
For many of us, our first tangible creations were made in grade school using felt and Elmer’s glue. What a mess that was! (And don’t get me started on those bleeping safety-scissors – ARGH!) By second grade, my grandmother had more “pot holders” than she had pots – each one more bizarre than the next. But, I had fun making them, and she loved anything I made for her. Now you can rediscover (or discover for the first time) (Continue Reading...)
Say “Hello” to the new ctpub.com
C&T is proud to unveil our new web site at www.ctpub.com. For the past couple of months, a team of us here at C&T Publishing have been working hard to redesign our main web site. Please, pay us a visit and let us know what you think. We hope you’ll like it! (If you’ve visited our site in the past, you may need to refresh your browser for the new site to display properly.)
Weekly Giveaway: Fabulous Fabric Art with Lutradur®
This week we’re giving away a copy of C&T’s new book, Fabulous Fabric Art with Lutradur®, to one lucky blog reader. All you have to do is leave a comment below and tell us of a different, unique, or unusual item you have used in your work. On Monday, February 9, we’ll choose one comment at random and let you know the winner on Tuesday.
This new release was a big hit at last month’s Craft & Hobby Association (Continue Reading...)
Postage Stamp Quilt Project
From the book, Color From the Heart by Gai Perry
Once upon a time in America, way before how-to books and design classes were available, women somehow managed to make quilts of remarkable beauty and color. Because it was necessary to use tiny leftover scraps and secondhand fabrics, they unknowingly employed two important rules for successfully combining unrelated fabric prints:
Rule #1: Most fabrics will blend in a pleasing manner if the size of the individual pattern pieces are small (2″ or less).
