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.
Bonus weekend giveaway with a blog hop
You’ve worked so hard making your quilt…don’t you want your quilt label to give it that “just right” finishing touch? Here’s where the Quilt Label Collective CD comes in!
This treasury of 150 original illustrations from 17 artists gives you so many choices for making the perfect label for any quilt, any occasion.
You can customize your label by hand or on your computer with your choice of lettering and colors, then embellish it even further with paint or embroidery.
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Fabric Painting with Cindy Walter – Giveaway day!
In this new beginner’s guide, you can play with a variety of easy-to-learn fabric painting techniques with award-winning quilting teacher, TV personality, and author Cindy Walter. She shows you how to create colorwashes, use resist techniques, paint a Hawaiian quilt or a traditional block quilt, plus sunprint, scrunch, and salt to create uniquely personal fabrics.
She wants us all to experiment, be playful, and get creative…fabric painting is fun, relaxing, and slightly addictive. Cindy and I share the same philosophy…relax and don’t (Continue Reading...)
Creative Troupe blog hop!
Let’s see what some of the members of our Creative Troupe are up to!
Fannie Narte created this art quilt called “I Weep” to be donated
to the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative.
Susan Slesinger created a piece of fabric art called “California Dreaming.”
Wendy Sheppard made a new dress for her little girl.
Shirley Pando tried her hand at thread sketching a page for her fabric book swap.
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Wednesday Night Live – replay!
Tonight Victoria Crowder Payne showed off some really creative ways to combine Liquitex paints and mediums with embroidery on fabric…her work is gorgeous! She shared lots of great tips and recommendations for supplies, too. Click here for the replay.
Next week, our special guest is Jake Finch – C&T author and the co-founder of the new Generation Q Magazine. She’ll have something fun and quilterly to share! Click here for the full schedule – see you next week!
Wednesday Night Live – replay!
Welcome to the big wide, wonderful world of digital quilting. Kerby and Lura Schwartz Smith, authors of Secrets of Digital Quilting—From Camera to Quilt, loaded us up with great tips, advice and techniques for getting started…from the camera, to the printer, to the fabric paints and markers. Then designer Hilary Frye shared a terrific tutorial on making fabric beads, to go along with her free ePatterns at PatternSpot.com. Click here for the replay!
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Wednesday Night Live – replay!
Tonight, Frieda Anderson shared some great tips and inspiration from her book, Fabric to Dye For. She talked all about working outside in the summer and she answered loads of great questions about fabric dyeing from viewers in the chat room. Click here to watch her demo on our YouTube channel. Congrats to Helen, who won an autographed copy of Frieda’s book!
Join us next week for a surface design demo by Hilary Frye. Hilary is a member of (Continue Reading...)
Online quilt auction for a great cause
An online quilt auction is going on now through August 10th to benefit the Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative®.
Twenty of the quilts that were part of a recent traveling exhibit, Alzheimer’s: Forgetting Piece by Piece, were donated to AAQI by the artists – and now you have a chance to bid on your favorites and maybe even bring one home! All profits from the auction will fund Alzheimer’s research.
This exhibit of 52 extraordinary art quilts about Alzheimer’s disease had traveled throughout the United States (Continue Reading...)
What is the Creative Troupe up to?
The members of our Creative Troupe are, well, in a word, CREATIVE. And that’s what we love about them! Let’s have a look around a few of their blogs to see what all they’re up to.
Nanette was a technical editor for Susan Brubaker-Knapp’s new book, Point, Click, Quilt! Turn Your Photos into Fabulous Fabric Art. The book inspired her to create a thread-painted portrait of her dog, which landed a coveted spot in the 2012 Quilting Arts calendar. Bow-WOW, Mr. (Continue Reading...)
Wednesday Night Live – replay!
Last night, C&T author Anelie Belden shared tips and techniques from her book, Thoroughly Modern Dresden. She showed us how to get a dresden plate quilt block started, how to keep it nice and flat, and how to use the fast2cut® Dresden Plate Template.
Click here for the replay on our YouTube channel.
Congrats to viewer Beverly, who won an autographed copy of Anelie’s book plus a template!
Join us next week to learn more about dyeing fabric from Frieda Anderson.
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