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.
Lisa Fulmer
Meet Allie Aller!
Let’s get to know the author of Allie Aller’s Crazy Quilting a bit better, shall we?
What was your career prior to being an artist?
This sounds weird, but my husband and I were commercial dairy farmers. After 10 years, we sold the farm and he went on to become an airline pilot while I became a stay-at-home mom. The long years when he was away for four days of each week gave me a huge amount of time to devote to quilting. (Continue Reading...)
Painting on Lutradur
Last week I taught a class on working with Lutradur® Mixed Media Sheets at Art Supply Warehouse in Westminster, CA. Everyone had a great time painting on Lutradur with Liquitex® Professional Acrylic inks!™ and Derwent Inktense Blocks. I just wanted to share some of their work with you.
What do I love most about using these particular mediums on this particular surface? The beautiful, intense colors you can get with water-based techniques, and how the colors can bleed and blend along Lutradur’s (Continue Reading...)
Getting our craft on at CHA!
I’m visiting the Craft & Hobby Association’s Winter Conference and Trade Show this week and there’s so much to see and do! Connecting in person with so many designers, resellers, and manufacturing colleagues is always such a treat. This show just oozes creativity and inspiration—from sewing to quilting to knitting to papercrafts to scrapbooking to mixed media to kids’ crafts—there is something here for everyone.
Rebekah Meier and I demo-ed at the R&M Distributors booth, showing off a very cool new art (Continue Reading...)
It’s baby day!!
We’d like to welcome a few babies to our C&T family…one of our photographers, Christina, just had a little girl, Lylia!
Our staff always throws a baby shower for our expectant parents (really it’s just an excuse to eat cake).
One of our sales reps, Tina, recently brought home a second foster daughter, Elizabeth, to join her first foster daughter, Isabella. Elizabeth and Isabella are biological sisters too…fingers crossed for Tina and her husband as they wait for the final word on (Continue Reading...)
Quilt Blocks Around the World – with a giveaway!
In a follow-up to her first book, Quilt Blocks Across America, Debra Gabel takes us on a continental tour in Quilt Blocks Around the World. Her new appliqué pattern designs for exciting places like Tokyo, Sydney, and Venice are sure to make you long for a life of travel and exploration. Her signature poster-style blocks would be wonderful as part of a souvenir quilt commemorating your vacation, or as part of a dream quilt to map out the favorite spots (Continue Reading...)
A chat with Lynda and Nancy from Possibilities
Nancy Smith and Lynda Milligan began their business together in 1981. Their venture began with a successful retail store, The Great American Quilt Factory, then branched out to online sales, to book and pattern publishing under the Possibilities name, to designing fabrics, to making television appearances…they are two busy women! Their new pattern pack with C&T was released last fall, Heartwarming Possibilities—4 Quilt Projects to Celebrate Family & Friends. Let’s get to know them each a little better, shall we?
When was (Continue Reading...)
A chat with Mickey Lawler
Let’s get to know Mickey, author of Mickey Lawler’s SkyQuilts!
What was your career prior to being an artist?
Wow, that’s going back a long way! I have been an artist/designer for the past 38 years. At one point in my young life, I was a high school English teacher and enjoyed it very much at the time.
Tell us about your first experience as an artist.
I was 8 years old. My mother asked me to “go upstairs and draw” my bath – (Continue Reading...)
Twilight Garden Quilts—a new Pattern Pack with a giveaway!
Award-winning author Deborah Kemball is back with even more reasons to love floral appliqué…Twilight Garden Quilts.
This newest addition to our Pattern Pack series is packed with elegant, flowing flower patterns that you can appliqué however you like – by hand, by machine, raw edge, or needle-turn. The packet contains a booklet of basic instructions and tips from Deborah, plus individual full-size patterns for 22 flowers that each make a gorgeous 12″ quilt block.
Also included are instructions for these two (Continue Reading...)
My new favorite pens—plus a giveaway!
We just released a really cool new product – the Faber-Castell Quilter’s Pen Set, inspired by Paula Nadelstern. This is the ultimate set of three essential marking pens with quilters’ needs in mind!
Paula uses these pens for marking her kaleidoscope designs onto templates and fabric. You’ll see how she does this in Kaleidoscope Quilts—The Workbook.
The perfect pen really does help make the process of designing quilt blocks, appliqué elements, and fussy cutting so much easier!
The Quilter’s Pen Set comes (Continue Reading...)
Simply Triangles—a new book and a new giveaway!
Happy New Year—we hope you all had a wonderful holiday! And we hope you’re ready for some fresh inspiration to kick off your creative projects for 2012.
Barbara Cline has a brand new book, Simply Triangles—11 Deceptively Easy Quilts Featuring Stars, Daisies & Pinwheels. You will love learning how to work with paper-pieced triangles to make beautiful and complex-looking designs. Barbara will teach you how to use your fabric color selections to make your quilt sparkle and (Continue Reading...)
