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Posts from ‘November, 2008’
2008 Best Craft/Hobby Books
I adore books. Really. I would buy books before food and clothes, and when I go into a quilt shop I always look at what the new books are. So I was excited to see USABookNews.com’s picks for best Craft/Hobbies books. Take a peek and see how many quilting and sewing-related titles are here.
Looking for [...]
Some Good Financial News
As I climbed onto the elliptical machine this morning, my neighbor Sue was on the adjacent machine watching a financial news network. I couldn’t help but quip, “So what’s the good financial news?” We both had a good laugh, which is about all you can do when all you hear around you is “meltdown.”
I actually [...]
Quilters Who Twitter
I have a new tool in my blog’s sidebar: a Twitter widget. I’m now on Twitter, which is a way of following what your friends are doing. It’s a micro-blog, of sorts. I’m still figuring it all out and exactly my strategy for using it. Looks like fun – a way to keep in touch [...]
Terry Atkinson’s Keeping a Color Journal!
Terry Atkinson over at Atkinson Designs got inspired from Color Mastery and is starting her own color journal. Read the details here.
Interested in starting your own color journal from Color Mastery? Email me photos of your journal with the book and I’ll post them to the Color Mastery book blog! Send them to info [at] [...]
Holiday Goodies in My November Newsletter
The November issue is out, and I included some incredible articles:
how to keep a color journal
how to orchestrate the colors in a “blended-type” quilt
a fabulous source for free machine quilting patterns
my favorite cranberry sauce recipe
details on my Twelve Days of Christmas giveaway
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The December issue of Mary Engelbreit Home Companion arrived in my mailbox, and my favorite part of the magazine is the artist profiles. But I had to share with ya’ll how much this magazine is now about quilting and fiber arts. Almost this entire issue is about fiber art of one kind or another, profiling [...]
Quilt Project Runway: Meg Cox, Quilting Evangelist
I profiled Meg Cox, author of The Quilter’s Catalog: A Comprehensive Resource Guide, months ago here, and I attended her session at Fall Quilt Market. Meg is the new evangelist for all things quilting, her goal being to create new quilters in the 85% of American households that don’t have one. Can it really be [...]
Quilt Project Runway: Color Trends
Color trends are a dichotomous lot. They seem to diverge in different directions, with no rhyme or reason as to why they came about. 2009 will be no different, but here are the color predictions from Michael Miller Fabrics:
black & yellow color scheme (look for these in Vera Bradley handbags)
grey
orchid (a dull, [...]
Quilt Project Runway: Color Mastery’s Photo Man
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Ok, so he’s The Photo Man for The Quilt Show too. Gregory took all the gorgeous photos of the quilts in Color Mastery, and he is a large part of why the book turned out so beautifully. After all, the colors in the quilts had to be not just [...]
Quilt Project Runway: Katie Pasquini Masopust
Katie Pasquini Masopust has a new book on creative quilt design called Design Explorations for the Creative Quilter: Easy-to-Follow Lessons for Dynamic Art Quilts. All about taking inspiration from photos and artwork and using them as a source for your quilts. Katie professes not be good at drawing realistically, so she takes her photographs and [...]
