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.
Category Archives: Behind the Scenes
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 for a friend
We had an occasion to commemorate—Carolyn was retiring from C&T! Well, not retiring exactly; more like transitioning into retirement. She went from being a very-valued full-time employee to a very-valued freelancer. But we were going to miss seeing her in the office every day. She’d worked for C&T for 13 years and was a great resource as she knew everything a technical editor needed to know, plus some. Carolyn is the type of person who is (Continue Reading...)
The story of the stamp
The saga of my signature stamp quilt patterns started with a guild challenge in September 2005. We were all given a fat-eighth of bright, patterned fabric that looked very much like the Rubik’s Cube toy…you can see it in the center of the quilt.
Since I am a representational artist, I tend to gravitate to realistic imagery…so what did that fabric look like to me other than a puzzle cube? Maybe a telephone keypad or a graph or a structure? I (Continue Reading...)
My great granddaughter’s first quilt
Ruthmary, my friend and co-worker here in the office, surprised me with a lovely quilt for my beautiful new great granddaughter, Leilani. Unfortunately I am not a quilter, but I am blessed to have friends who are. Thank you, Ruthmary…and Leilani thanks you too!
Spring cleaning bonanza
Every year we do spring cleaning at the office. This year we barely made it–cleaning day was June 15th, one week before the official start of summer. Everyone is responsible for cleaning their own office or cubie plus helping out with all the common areas.
The counter in the reception area becomes the “dumping ground” for anything you don’t need, but think some one else might be able to use.
Would you believe that almost everything you see here was snatched up (Continue Reading...)
Why I Like Working at C&T
Like at many companies, people often bring in food left over from parties and such.
But, at how many companies, do you find a note like the one above?
Behind the Scenes with Deborah Kemball
As Deborah Kemball set about promoting her new book, Beautiful Botanicals (released in March) to the world, she was feeling trepidations. “Promoting” was a territory Deborah had never set foot in and she was feeling a bit intimidated. But, after just a few months she was rolling like a pro and loving it. She’ll tell anyone new to this, “have no fear, if I can do it certainly you can.”
Even the task of setting up her website has proven to (Continue Reading...)
The City Quilter Shop and Gallery
If you ever get to NYC you MUST go to the newly expanded The City Quilter. Not only have they added more space for books and fabric, they have also added a gallery dedicated exclusively to art quilts (click the pics to zoom in). Their first exhibit is Daphne Taylor.
Her work is primarily silk and the imagery is graphic and elegant.
Even though I LOVED the gallery, my heart skips a beat when I see a terrific quilt shop, and (Continue Reading...)
Finding inspiration at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
I try to go to a new museum whenever I travel (which I tend to do quite often these days) but the Met keeps calling me back. When I was in NYC for the Book Expo in late May I spent a few hours immersing myself in several of the exhibits. It is massive and although I may have gotten lost three times, I found many beautiful pieces that inspired me.
I love the door because the wood carving (Continue Reading...)
Next C&T Group Quilt?
Now that we’re done with the Van Gogh Slice Quilt (which by the way, raised over $3,000 for the NAMTA Foundation) we’re trying to decide what to do for next year’s raffle quilt, and we want your suggestions.
The criteria are:
It must be a familiar / recognizable / iconic work of art.
It needs to be in the public domain (generally meaning it was created over 100 years ago)
It needs to reasonably translate to fabric.
That’s it. Leave us your comments (Continue Reading...)
