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.
Feeling crafty, feeling better
I was feeling down because I had been sick and had not felt good enough to be creative in a few months. I was looking through a bag of papers and other stuff from Quilt Market in May and I came across this wonderful Our Lady of Guadalupe fabric that I had bought. At first I could not figure out what to do with it, I wanted to make something for my Mom, but was stumped. I even considered making (Continue Reading...)
Fabric Painting with Antoinette
Another craft date with my sister, Antoinette. This time we painted fabric using C&T’s line of Liquitex® paints and inks. We did silk color washing, sun printing and then were not sure what to do next.
My sister brought over a linen table cloth that had been contact stained by being stored wet. It was about 6′ x 10′, yellow, with a red border. Antoinette had bought it at a rummage sale in the hopes of giving it a new life. (Continue Reading...)
Sneak Peek: Collage+Cloth=Quilt by Judi Warren Blaydon
I just looked through the preview pages of one of our upcoming Fall 2010 titles, Collage+Cloth=Quilt, by Judi Warren Blaydon, and it is amazing! The imagery is, in a word, rich. The concept behind the book is that artists can use collages of their own photos as inspiration for stunning, abstract quilts.
It is so fascinating to see how Judi finds just the right fabric to make things work and the quilt results are really interesting. I give Judi and her (Continue Reading...)
Fabulous Fiber Scarf Night
Question: What happens when you combine your mom, your sisters and lots of fiber?
Answer: You get fabulous fiber scarves!
A Halloween Recipe for Life Long Memories
Last weekend I spent 9 hours over two days making Pac-Man and Clyde the Ghost costumes for my 13 year old son Parker and his best friend Will. I had no pattern to work from and little idea of how to put the garments together, knowing only that the boys wanted dimensional costumes and that I was to create what they described.
Once the boys explained what they wanted, I found a patio table that was about the right size for (Continue Reading...)
Urban Burp
Who would have thought that on a lovely outing with your husband to have dinner at a simply yummy Italian restaurant, Tommasso’s in SF, you would pull your hand away from his in the middle of the cross walk, dash back from whence you came, and run into a shop called Urban Burp? Let me enlighten you that Urban Burp is stuffed to the rafters with rare and vintage fabrics for home decor and upholstery, AND tons…OK maybe 200 (Continue Reading...)
Button, Button, Who can choose just one?
Part of a series of posts on my recent trip to New York for Book Expo.
As I mentioned
I love museum gift shops!
Part of a series of posts on my recent trip to New York for Book Expo.
I had made it to 3 museum gift shops in two days, my shoulders hurt from carrying bags all over the city, but I found some fun stuff. Starting at the MOMA shop where you can find the most fun stuff, including lots of cool gift items like the hanging mobile that holds anything (I got that for Lisa to hang her artist trading cards) (Continue Reading...)
One Woman+13 Quilts+No Math=Paula Nadelstern’s Exhibit at the American Folk Art Museum
I mentioned in an earlier post that I finally got to see Paula’s exhibit at the American Folk Art Museum. It was jaw-droppingly gorgeous! I walked through it on my own and was trying to figure out why I couldn’t see where each piece of fabric started and stopped. I tried many angles and was truly puzzled.
Paula came after I had spent about an hour viewing the quilts and the amazing scopes that several of her friends loaned to (Continue Reading...)
Adventures at the Book Expo
I just spent 5 days in NYC for the Book Expo and had the best time. I traveled with Susanne, our Acquisitions Editor, and Sandy, our Sales Manager. We must have walked about 5 miles per day, seen about 25 neighborhoods, we went to Chelsea Market, the east side, the west end, Soho, Fashion Avenue, Time Square…OMG my feet were killing me! I took the subway for the first time and then a bunch more times.
So back to the (Continue Reading...)
