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.
Gailen Runge
Christmas is coming…time for a giveaway!
Okay… yes, it’s the middle of summer. But Christmas will be here in just five months and if you start now, you’ll have a new appliquéd Christmas quilt ready to cuddle under in front of the fire.
But that doesn’t mean that Santa and his reindeer have to hit you over the head with red and green holly. The great gals at Piece O‘ Cake Designs have a new, more colorful, take on the holiday season with Quilt a New Christmas (Continue Reading...)
C&T Group Quilt—Putting together my slice
I’m one of the six people who volunteered for the C&T slice quilt for the NAMTA raffle. (See related posts below for more details.) I was so excited to do it! I have seen quilts made from sliced up photos at Pacific International Quilt Festival and other quilt shows and I’ve always been dying to try.
For me the biggest challenge was probably fabric selection. When I moved into my current house, the plan was to stay there two years at (Continue Reading...)
The Editorial Team: Technical Editors
While we spend eight hours a day talking quilts, editing quilt writing, laying out quilt books, and so forth… We still like to do it in our spare time! Here’s what we’re doing…
Technical Editors crunch all the numbers, prepare all of the illustrations for the illustrator, and oversee the how-to photo shoot. They make sure you can make what the book says you can.
Carolyn is a quilter, making mostly traditional quilts, and she has made quilts for and (Continue Reading...)
The Editorial Team: Developmental Editors
While we spend eight hours a day talking quilts, editing quilt writing, laying out quilt books, and so forth… We still like to do it in our spare time! Here’s what our Developmental Editors are doing.
Developmental Editors are responsible for working with our authors to make the content of the book as useful and interesting as possible, ensuring that the text and images match and add to the book and that the proper forms are filled out, and creating (Continue Reading...)
Staff Pick: Harriet Hargrave’s Quilter’s Graph Paper
You know what they say: Necessity is the mother of invention.* It’s true!
While working on the second book in Harriet and Carrie Hargrave‘s Quilter’s Academy series (Quilter’s Academy Vol.2–Sophomore Year), Harriet and I were brainstorming how to make the content fit into the planned 96 pages. (The authors have so much to share and are rightfully unwilling to compromise on content by cutting any necessary information, which is why the book is now 112 pages. I’m not that good an (Continue Reading...)
A Story Quilt
Here’s a quilt I just had to share. One of the categories for C&T’s blog posts is “Inspiration” and this is my inspiration. Every time I see it, I’m amazed. (Admittedly, it’s a story quilt that focuses on my life, so obviously the egocentric part of my wants to know why wouldn’t I be amazed?)
My mom created this wonderful quilt for me. (She’s also my inspiration.) In my mind, it’s a true masterpiece both because of its beauty and the (Continue Reading...)
Still Awed by Amazing Quilts
Our photo studio is always filled with beautiful quilts and projects. Almost everything for our books is photographed here, as are quilts people send us as part of our C&T Media Services program. (You can send your quilt to us and our photographers use their professional skill and equipment to capture your work!)
Everyone at the company has been drawn to the studio at one time or another to stare in awe (or in “ahhhh”) at someone’s masterpiece.
At lunch today photographer (Continue Reading...)
Nap Mats for the Office?
It was a late night/early morning for some of us at the office. No reason, just the stars aligning incorrectly. We’re a little bit tired and perhaps a little slap happy.
Here’s our plan:
The next time we all pull out the sewing machines in the office (and yes, we do get to sew in the office… I’m always pinching myself to make sure this is real), we will make nap mats like they have in preschool. We will stow our personal (Continue Reading...)
I Went to a Quilt Group Meeting!
I know many people belong to quilt guilds and quilt groups. But I don’t. Not yet. Every day (week… month…) I have every intention of joining. But between work and the not-quite-school-age kids, every “day, week, month” becomes every year. One day soon, I’m sure, I’ll join my local guild (the active and fabulous East Bay Heritage Quilters) and find a quilt group that will have me.
For now I’ve resigned myself to lone quilting.
This weekend I got to be a (Continue Reading...)
Comfort from Quilts (and Boo Boo Bears)
I recently fell down the stairs (not so dramatically, but very inelegantly, to be sure) and sprained my knee. I hobbled into the office on crutches. Within the hour I was blessed with the presence of C&T’s Boo Boo Bear.
Boo Boo Bear was here when I started years ago. Boo Boo Bear is a pink chenille-flower covered teddy bear that travels around the office to those with injuries both physical and emotional. A purple paper heart is stuck to (Continue Reading...)
