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.
Kristy Zacharias
My first quilt
Wah hoo! I did it, I finished my first quilt!
About a month ago my 3 1/2 year old started preschool and I was starting to feel a little bit of the empty-nester syndrome. Dramatic? Maybe, especially since I’m at C&T every day of the week, I’m not a stay-at-home mom taking her child somewhere else during the day for the first time. But I was still shaken by the reality of it all and channeled that energy into piecing the (Continue Reading...)
Sneak Peek: Tile Quilt Revival
I just love the quilts in upcoming title, Tile Quilt Revival. From the second I saw one of them being shot in the photo studio, I was in love. Smitten. I don’t know what it is exactly. The cover quilt just makes me happy.
As the book designer, I spent a lot of time just staring at my monitor in awe of how authors Carol Gilham Jones and Bobbi Finley so effortlessly put fabrics together. Colors and (Continue Reading...)
Fooled You!
Earlier this week we received an email saying that there was a box full of crafty goodies that needed homes, so I moseyed on over and grabbed these funky pieces of green and red fringe. When I returned to my desk, I dumped them in the pretty crystal bowl that I have sitting there (another fun find from our C&T give-away stash) and voila! I’ve got a salad! I love when happy things like that happen.
** I’m 5 months pregnant (Continue Reading...)
Cube Sweet Cube
Let’s face it, you’re nosy… (I’ll be honest, so am I, that’s why I read blogs!)
…and you’re not alone. I have a nosy rosy friend, Christina, who asked me to send her pictures of my workspace so she could see where I worked. She said “people love seeing that kind of stuff!”. She’s right! I LOVE when design magazines print stories on different design studios around the country or when our authors share photos of their sewing rooms.
Teresa and Casey (Continue Reading...)
Quilted Baby Bibs
Almost everyone I know is having babies (including myself)….I don’t know what’s in the water, but be careful reading this or you may be next!
In my last post I committed to creating one sewing project a week. I have a long list of things that I’d like to make but it made the most sense to get going on baby gifts for all of my friends (after all, there are 4 of them having babies!).
When I was pregnant with (Continue Reading...)
Baby Steps
So I’ve been a designer at C&T for almost 8 years, and I still consider myself a “newbie sewer”. I know! How is THAT possible? I work in an office full of sewing/quilt-making experts eager to give new sewers like me some guidance and I haven’t taken advantage of it! But you know, it can be quite intimidating. I watch these talented women share their amaaaazing projects that they literally whip out in one weekend…hand-dyed fabrics perfectly pieced together, harmonious (Continue Reading...)
How do you deal with TOO much inspiration?
This morning on my walk I was running through a list of things that I’d like to try making, that I SHOULD be making, that I NEED to be making. By the end of my walk I felt totally stressed out—completely negating the experience that I wanted to get out of my early morning exercise! I think I’m going crazy…and not the good kind of crazy, if you know what I mean.
I’m a list-maker. I’ve started a list of everything (Continue Reading...)
Gift Box Studio to the rescue!
June and July are jam-packed months for my family. Between the 6 birthdays, Father’s Day, and the inevitable summer weddings and new babies, let’s just say my head is spinning.
Yesterday as we headed out the door to my parents’ to celebrate Father’s Day and my sister Becky’s birthday, I realized that I had forgotten to wrap her gift! I found her a sweet vintage stone rose pendant that is dangling from a long, delicate gold chain. The consignment shop that (Continue Reading...)
