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.
Jennifer Hazlewood
Getting Messy with Rayna Gillman
In the blog posting by Karen called Fiberart Musings, she talks about her recent class with our author Rayna Gillman. Karen learned how to create gelatin prints. She was a bit apprehensive at first, but it sounds like she delved right into the messy fun!
Here, Rayna is painting a mold Karen created (photo courtesy of Karen on Fiberart Musings).
Rayna is applying paint to the gelatin mold to make designs on cloth (photo courtesy of Karen on Fiberart Musings).
This shows Rayna pulling (Continue Reading...)
Reading & Sewing Machine Fun for Kids
In a recent article about encouraging children to read, sheknows.com writer Mary Fetzer recommended The Best of Sewing Machine Fun for Kids as a fun crafting book for children to read and try. The book is designed to teach children how to sew on a sewing machine, in a fun and engaging manner.
The goal of the interactive book is to expand “successful skill-building experience and to develop sewing self-confidence” for children. The authors, Nancy Smith and Lynda Milligan, claim that (Continue Reading...)
Woven quilts to blog about
San Diego quilt instructor and designer, Lisa Coulombe, recently blogged about her quilting groups’ latest creations. Her quilts were inspired by the book Simply Stunning Woven Quilts by Anna Faustino.
The quilts are absolutely gorgeous! Using the techniques from Anna Faustino’s book, Coulombe’s quilting group, Rhap, created some pretty incredible quilts.
These quilts are impressive, to say the least. Check them out at Confessions of a Completionist. (Photos courtesy of Lisa’s blog.)
The Stitchin’ Post named an Inspirational Quilt Shop
In the May 5th publication of the Bend Bulletin by Kimberly Bowker, the mother-daughter team, Jean and Valori Wells, were recognized for their inspirational quilt store in Sisters, Oregon. Jean and Valori were interviewed to discuss their quilt shop – The Sisters Stitchin’ Post.
(Left Jean Wells Keenan, Right Valori Wells Kennedy, thanks to Melissa Jansson of The Bulletin)
Bowker describes Wells’ store as having “Bright colors, fabrics and quilts hang[ing] from the walls and fill the interior of The Stitchin’ Post in Sisters. (Continue Reading...)
Grab Bag Giveaway
Who doesn’t love a good grab bag? We have a huge surplus of unopened sewing and craft supplies from various manufacturers that we have partnered with on past projects. So we want to pass these goodies on to you!
We have 16 bags up for grabs—each one is full of all kinds of cool stuff! I saw some adorable pink Exacto knives, pretty threads, nifty scrapbooking stickers, and I was tempted to snag a couple of the stamp pads. But alas, all (Continue Reading...)
Lipinski exposes his top web sites for Quilters – C&T makes the list!
In a recent article, Mark Lipinski, reviews his favorite 75 web sites for quilters in Quilter’s Home Magazine. Of those 75, one was our very own C&T Publishing, along with four of our authors’ sites. Lipinski generously reviews our site with praise,
C&T’s site offers links to authors (great for guilds trying to track down a speaker), free patterns and projects and a free comprehensive list of lesson plans to teach classes from most of its books (it’s why C&T is (Continue Reading...)
