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Shadow Trapunto Quilts – with a giveaway!
Wait until you see the quilts in Geta Grama’s new book, Shadow Trapunto Quilts! Your first question will be (at least it was mine), “How in the world did she make that quilt?”
If you know what shadow appliqué is (appliqué on a background with a sheer fabric over the top), then you have an idea what shadow trapunto is. The secret ingredient…the fluffy white trapunto…is batting. It’s a simple supply we’re all familiar with, but instead of hiding it between the (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...)
Kim Schaefer’s Skinny Quilts—with a giveaway!
I’m always excited when we have a new Kim Schaefer book released, because her designs just make me happy. They look more complicated than they really are, since Kim knows how to design with multiples of the same image and she uses standard shapes, but in interesting configurations. I especially love the color and fabric combinations she uses in her latest book, Kim Schaefer’s Skinny Quilts.
Like a lot of quilters, I have many warm, wonderful quilts for all the beds (Continue Reading...)
Fabric give away and a little blog hop
Fantastic fat quarters up for grabs! We’re giving away one of these Artisan Batiks fat quarter bundles from our friends at Robert Kaufman Fabrics to two lucky winners. To get you inspired, here’s a fun blog hop filled with fat-quarter-friendly project ideas from lots of great designers!
To Wear…
A new apron - you’d look great in this, you know you would.
How about a headband - quite stylish and easy to match to your wardrobe.
Don’t you just love this handbag by Jennifer Ladd?
To organize…
This trim (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...)
New English Paper Piecing – with a giveaway!
In this new book, author Sue Daley teaches the fundamentals of English paper piecing and needleturned appliqué, and she shows you that it’s not just about hexagons anymore. In Sue’s words…
English paper piecing dates back to the early 1800s. While many beautiful designs could be created from the traditional hexagons, the process was very time-consuming. One quilt could take years to finish by hand. But now, with timesaving tools like precut templates and glue pens, today’s patchworkers can still (Continue Reading...)
Giveaway—Transparency Quilts
Mastering the illusion of transparency…when I look through the pages of Transparency Quilts by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr, I do indeed feel the magic! Certain areas of each quilt seem to be floating above the rest, and my eyes rest quite happily on the smooth lines, calm patterns, and perfect color combinations.
Here’s some of what Weeks and Bill have to say about their newest book…
We love color, but we love the visual relationships among colors even more…our (Continue Reading...)
Visi-GRID Quilter’s Template Sheets—Giveaway
Visi-GRID™ Quilter’s Template Sheets are here!
Paula Nadelstern helped us develop the best template sheets in town…it’s easy to read the ruler increments without any glare and the plastic has a really nice matte finish so you can mark it nicely with a pen, plus it doesn’t slip around on your fabric. Paula uses this grid-printed template plastic to get striking accuracy with each wedge of her beautiful kaleidoscope quilts.
Here are just a few ways Visi-GRID sheets make all your projects (not just kaleidoscopes!) (Continue Reading...)
