Look what the post man delivered today to my mailbox! My Top Ten Habits article is on the cover of the Feb/Mar Quilter’s Newsletter magazine above the masthead. Woo-hoo. I’m thrilled, proud, and humbled all at the same time. My husband and I are going out to dinner tonight to celebrate. In the [...]
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My Kindle’s Here! My Kindle’s Here!
I’m like a kid at Christmas – my Kindle’s here! After putting off buying one for too long, I’ve finally succumbed to Kindle love. I’m an avid reader, and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the Kindle once Amazon lowered the price. Now it’s here and guess who downloaded the first books? My [...]
Winners and a Call for Blocks
First, the winners:
Thank you to everyone who visited yesterday during Day 3 of the Quiltmaker 100 Blocks Blog Tour. I was so moved by your comments I selected not just one winner but two! Congratulations to:
Diane Muska
Maeve315
Send me your mailing addresses to maria@colormastery.com and your issue and Old Glory will be on their way to [...]
Art Week: Gee’s Bend Quilts
Today’s the final day in the Quilts & Creativity Art Week, and I’m concluding with a bang: quilts from the Gee’s Bend quilters. I’ve featured works of art from the Big Canoe Fine Art show in honor of my own art quilts that are on display at the Ann Litrel gallery in Woodstock. Previously I [...]
My Picks from Spring Quilt Market 2009
As I walked the aisles of Spring Quilt Market, I saw hundreds of quilts, but only a few really stood out as having an outstanding use of color. Here are two of my favorites:
This quilt is from Pamela Mostek’s Piccadilly fabric line, and it is stunning. My photography does not do it justice. The violets, [...]
Spring Quilt Market Round Up
I attended Spring Quilt Market in Pittsburgh this year as a vendor for the first time. It was a wonderful opportunity to talk with quilt shop owners and teachers to find out what they needed from publishers. Here I’m educating shop owners on Color Mastery and the twelve months of classes they can teach from [...]
Book Tour Fun
I’ve met wonderful women (and men) this week during the first half of the Color Mastery book tour. I’ll be featuring many of these creative folks in future posts and interviews, but here are a few photos first.
Debbie and Marie were so much fun. Marie used to work at Olan Mills, and she posed [...]
Everything You Wanted to Know About Color . . . .
Ok, well maybe not everything. After all, it’s only an hour. But what an hour it will be. I’ll be chatting with Morna McEver Golletz in the Professional Quilter Cafe, and of course the topic will be my favorite: color in quilts. What an artist date!
What I’m most excited about is having a one-on-one where [...]
Christmas Comes Early
It’s been a whirlwind of activity here at the Willow Ridge Press family studios. Thanksgiving was a gourmet feast, as my husband and I both love to cook. He made Emeril Lagasse’s turkey recipe from his new show Emeril Green, and I made the traditional cornbread dressing, made with whole grain cornbread.
Then it snowed on [...]
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 [...]
Lights – Camera – Showtime!
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Ready? Set? Go!
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Ever wonder what happens before all the glitz and glamour of Quilt Market? Here are two wonderful and generous ladies, Eileen Sullivan of The Designer’s Workshop, and Jennifer Armor of Jennifer Armor Garments, setting up their booth.
And here we are later [...]
Behind the Scenes at Fall Quilt Market 2008
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I’m in Houston, TX this week and I’ll be giving you a behind-the-scenes look at the giant trade show to the quilting trade: Fall Quilt Market. From this show come the new fabrics, books, patterns, and designers you’ll be seeing in your quilt shop in 2009. And you’ll hear about them [...]
Color Mastery Now Available for Pre-Order!
It’s a big day in the Willow Ridge Press studio. Color Mastery is now listed on my distributor’s website at AtlasBooks.com. You can pre-order your own copy and be one of the first to hold it in your own hands. I decided to use a distributor for book sales and fulfillment so I can concentrate [...]
New Monthly Email Newsletter
You can now sign up for my brand new monthly email newsletter and have it delivered directly to your Inbox. Each month I’ll be covering quilting techniques, news, and opening up the world of creativity and color to my subscribers. Note this is different than subscribing to this blog: the blog I update several times [...]
Which Color Wheel Did You Choose?
Thanks to your feedback, I’ll be including both the fabric and illustrated color wheels in Color Mastery. Your comments made it possible. Thanks!
