… my quilts at Landauer Publishing‘s booth at Spring Market this past May. I think something is afoot…
Incidentally, Sew in Love {with Fabric} did a really nice feature on Recreating Antique Quilts (thanks so much!!!). Click here to read the feature. Click here to purchase the book.
I am planning to re-make Ivory Baltimore in few weeks that will be a little different from the original version. Stay tuned for details.
Thank you for stopping by. I hope you have a most blessed weekend.
Hello Friends, I meant to check in yesterday, but I had an Engineer vs. Artist moment (thus the name of the quilt for now), and the Artist won. You see, when piecing is involved, I am all engineer because of the precision aspect of things. Then, when it comes time to decide what to quilt, oftentimes the engineer within me takes over for the efficiency aspect of things, due to project deadlines, and I have to be efficient with what I quilt within the amount of time I have…. but yesterday, the Artist in me won!
I was already late because the piecing took longer – piecing ALWAYS takes longer for me because I am a snail-speed piecer. I knew I had a limited amount of time to quilt the quilt. I could just quickly quilt an allover motif, and be efficient, or I could go all out and quilt fancy, and really add to the quilt. The battle raged on fiercely (!), and finally, the Artist won!
I won’t tell you how much sleep I got last night, because I will get in trouble should my Mom check in and read the post. ;) But suffice it to say all those all-nighters I had in engineering school amply prepared for a stint like last night’s!
I was glad the Artist in me won in the quilting department of this quilt. I really like the result. But the icing on the cake was when Miss Baby came downstairs and saw the quilt this morning… she said, “WOW, Mom…. this quilt is so pretty now (that it’s quilted)!” I guess she wasn’t quite sure about it before, and was too nice to say anything negative.
This quilt is now on its way to the editor. Whether they would let me officially name the quilt “Engineer vs. Artist” remains to be seen.
Thank you for stopping by! I need to start on the next few things on my list. I shall catch up with you later.
p.s. Through today only, you can still get my book Recreating Antique Quilts at a discount at my publisher’s website. Click here to purchase the book.
Hello Friends, where would I be without many of you being my “eyes” out there? QuiltShopGal just wrote and informed me that my book Recreating Antique Quilts is on sale at Landauer’s website!! Click here to purchase the book at $14.97! Would you help spread the word? By the way, if you haven’t stopped by QuiltShopGal’s website, you simply have to. I count QuiltShopGal an essential voice looking for quilters! Click here to visit her. And have fun shopping at Landauer! :)
Happy Friday, Friends! I am happy you stopped by. I received some totally unexpected news earlier this week from Landauer Publishing. Urm… you see, my book Recreating Antique Quilts made one of the three finalists for the 2015 Independent Book Publishers Association Benjamin Franklin Award, craft & hobby category. The winner will be announced next month.
WOW! Little ol’ me?! I am very excited about the news, but I am also feeling a bit self-conscious announcing it to the world. But my sister might whack me in the head if I didn’t mention anything… I have to save the story of being whacked in the head by my sister (a younger sister at that!) for another day.
Credit goes to the amazing team at Landauer Publishing, with whom I love to work! And I am grateful to my God and Savior, without whom I am nothing!
I will have more to share about Recreating Antique Quilts. Meanwhile, you may read about the book here. Also, Landauer is having sale on my book. Click here to purchase the book!!!!
Thank you for stopping by! I hope you have a lovely National Quilting Day Weekend! Come back tomorrow for a little giveaway I have for you to commemorate the day. Hugs to you all.
Hello Friends, it is good to have you visit again. I am MOST excited to announce a BLOG HOP going on today for my book Recreating Antique Quilts. You may recall we have had a blog hop for the book a while back here. It’s time for Blog Hop Round #2.
Today, four special friends are giving you their review and a giveaway of the book, as well as showing you how they have used one of the patterns in the book. I am not going to spoil it for you by giving away any sneak peeks. You just have to visit their blogs to find out.
The participants are selected to be part of the hop because I feel each of them brings something different to the table, and I want to highlight their work through the projects of Recreating Antique Quilts.
Lisa: http://lovetocolormyworld.blogspot.com/
Lisa’s style is quite different from mine, but one thing I love about her quilts is that her work is vibrantly full of life and colors. Lisa and I share similar life experiences because a huge part of our lives is dealing with kiddos. So, she and I often work late into the night! She has a cool rendition for one of my book projects. I have seen the preview – you have to trust me on this one!!
Kay: http://kayharmon.blogspot.com/
Kay is one of the sweetest ladies I have ever met! Funny thing is we knew each other from when I lived in Arkansas. But we never had the time to really connect with each other until Spring Market at Pittsburgh last year! Kay is an absolutely prolific applique-r! I want to be like her when I grow up. Kay’s has had her work published in Quilt Mania as well as Primitive Quilts – very impressive!
Doreen: http://treadlemusic.wordpress.com/
Doreen loves machine quilting as much as I do, maybe even more! She is well loved by many in the blogging community. Doreen brings with her an extensive sewing background. It’s a joy to have Doreen participate in this second round of Recreating Antique Quilts Blog Hop. I have also seen a preview of Doreen’s project. All I can say is… beautiful.
Karen: http://karensquiltscrowscardinals.blogspot.com/
Karen is not a stranger in the online quilting community either. She designs projects for Moda using their precuts. Karen participated in the first hop, and asked to be included for a second time because she has innovative ideas on how to interpret one of my projects! If you haven’t seen Karen’s work, you simply have to because her designs are just darling!
Well, I just have to let you go, and visit these lovely ladies! I hope you will have a fun hop, and more importantly, you will make firm friends with these ladies! Have a great day!
Projects At-A-Glance
In my experience, one very sweet hallmark of the quilting community is the strong bonds of friendship among quilters! Honestly, my quilting journey has taken me to exciting places because of the great friends I have made at the various stages of the journey.
This snippet is from quilt.com about quilting bee:
The quilting bee was an important means of socializing for colonial and pioneer women (and men). Through the winter months, the women would piece their quilt tops. Since there was no central heating in these homes, there was usually only one main heated room that was too crowded during the winter months for a quilt frame to be assembled. When the weather became warmer, an invitation was sent to the surrounding neighbors for the quilting bee.
On the day of the quilting bee, the quilters would arrive early and begin marking the quilt top which had been put into the quilt frame by the hostess. Very often, plates, thimbles and tea cups were used to mark the quilting patterns. (Did you read that?! TEACUPS!!! You who collect fabrics and china — you are SO justified in your obsessions collections! I simply have to insert a china picture here.)
The quilters would then being to quilt the top while exchanging conversation. The quilt had to finished before the husbands and beaus showed up in the late afternoon when dinner was served to all, the hostess being given a chance to show off her cooking skills. After dinner, there was very often a square dance or country dance with fiddles accompanying the dancers. The quilting bee was an important part of the social life of these people surpassed only by religious gatherings.
My summary on things: FRIENDSHIPS
So, it is with “scrappy” friendships and block exchanges in mind that I design a couple of my book projects: namely Oh! Happy Stars and Feathery Formation. These two projects are conducive for an activity within a guild or quilting group. Members can get together to learn to make the blocks using fabrics with theme selected by the group (for example, ugliest fabric, fabrics of certain color shades, Christmas fabrics, Spring fabrics etc – you get the idea!). Members make multiple blocks for exchange — and the result is a scrappy quilt that holds memories of your quilting friends.
An additional “friendship” note on Feathery Formation. Of course you can quilt to your heart’s content (like I did) on the white patches. :) But I also thought it might be nice for a friendship quilt to have the white patches be printed recipes from participating quilters on fabric squares and pieced into the quilt, or even words of encouragement for a going-away quilt.
My Floral Fancy (you can see more pictures here) and Ivory Baltimore projects are projects that have possibilities of expanding friendships. By that I mean, the blocks can easily be adapted as the center blocks for round robin projects within a quilting group of friends. Or the same block can be made multiple times in by friends in different colorways to make more scrappy quilts. I am re-making my Ivory Baltimore in a fun way – stay tuned for details.
I hope this post will give you further ideas on how to use Recreating Antique Quilts, and not merely have the book tucked away on a shelf. And more importantly, I hope this book will play a small part in your friendships – whether you make a project from the book as a gift, or being a part of a quilting activity.
And speaking of friends, do stop by tomorrow for details on a blog hop participated by some of my special friends!
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You may read ALL about Recreating Antique Quilts here.
Hello Friends, I hope you are well! I have been working hard to resist the temptation to just dig a hole in the ground and hibernate until the weather gets a little warmer. It’s been bitterly cold where I am. I think I am just a wimp when it comes to weather.
One of my Recreating Antique Quilts projects that has been warmly received is Ivory Baltimore.
My quilty inspirations of this little 17″ x 21″ banner consist traditional French red/white monochromatic needlework sampler and the Quaker medallion sampler. You would often see stitchery of red on cream or white in French monochromatic samplers, such as the one I had stitched years ago.
So in the case of Ivory Baltimore, I reversed the colors, and have my cream applique shapes stitched onto a red and coral background. The applique is adapted from a DAR Baltimore Album quilt. A picture of the original quilt is included in the book.
Drawing from antique Quaker samplers, where sometimes only the “half” motifs were stitched on the outside perimeter of the samplers, I took one of the blocks in the original DAR and only appliqued half of the block on the left side of the banner. (I so need to get this sampler completed!)
Thus the “half” Baltimore album block in Ivory Baltimore.
I used Aurifil Mako 50 cotton thread for everything – piecing, buttonhole stitching around the applique shapes, and quilting (of course!). I cannot stress enough how much I love using Aurifil threads – my machine loves it, I love it, and my finished projects love it! The batting I used is Hobbs Tuscany Wool batting because I really wanted my feathers to show around the applique shapes. Of course, I quilt 99.99% of my quilts with batting made by Hobbs because much is considered before they bring something to the market.
Of course, I will be working with some ladies in making Ivory Baltimore in Rogers, Arkansas. Click here for contact information to see if spots are still available for the class. One thing I can tell you is that Dan and Rhonda and I are working hard to get things all ready for a really fun time in April with the participants! Click here if you haven’t read about how Dan bailed me out from trouble two weeks ago. Anyway, since my public appearances are very limited due to my family obligations, I do hope to see some of you at the event!
Ivory Baltimore is a versatile project. I would love to see you recreate antique quilts your way!
1. You can easily just take the urn block and repeat it for 9 blocks for a nice sized wall hanging. How about alternative the color scheme for the blocks – cream applique on red background fabric, and red applique on cream background fabric.
2. You can just as easily mirror image the half block to make it a whole block and use just that for another banner.
3. How about using other colors… cream on gray background, orange on a black background, cream on mocha background!
4. How about repeat the urn block three or four times horizontally for a table runner project?
5. Now, the templates in the book are printed at 100% to reflect the final size of the book project. But you can easily enlarge the urn block and use that to make pillow shams to dress up your bed!
Thank you for stopping by! Tell me what your thoughts are regarding Ivory Baltimore. Meanwhile, you can read all about the book here. It’s time for me to crawl back in bed go back to work. Tootles for now.
In many ways, my book Recreating Antique Quilts reflects my quilting journey. I have tried to incorporate some guiding principles that I have clung onto in my years of learning and enjoying quilting, with the hope that my quilting friends will also benefit from those guiding principles as I have. I had shared with you the premise of “That” first quilt that shaped my book. You can read more about it here.
Today, I am sharing with you premise #2 that shaped the book: Always Learning! I purposed from the very beginning when I made my first quilts, I would always try to learn something new in my quilts. And I can say I have greatly benefited from the habit of always learning something new when I quilt.
With that in mind, I designed one of the applique projects in the book Floral Fancy for quilters who have yet to try out applique. From time to time, I hear from quilters they are afraid to do applique projects. Instead of reproducing the entire DAR applique album quilt (picture of original quilt in the book), I selected just one block to make into the focus of Floral Fancy.
When you look more closely at the block, you will notice that aside from the leaves, there aren’t that many pieces to complete the applique block. Trust me, even the leaves hold no mystery. :)
You can refer to my machine applique tips on page 83 in the book to stitch the pieces in place. Tips on various techniques are sprinkled throughout the book to help jumpstart the learning of new techniques.
The color coded applique templates (always at 100%) and placement diagrams are probably my absolute favorite aspect of the book! To say that I am pleased with how they turn out in the book is an understatement. Kudos to Landauer’s capable team!
Here are a few more pictures of Floral Fancy. Of course Floral Fancy isn’t just for beginning appliquers. I can see the quilt center being used as the starting point of a fancy medallion quilt for the advanced quilters who also custom design their own quilts. How about using the applique block as a start for a Round Robin quilt in your quilting group?
There are a few other projects in the book that are conducive for “trying out something new”. For example: Gingkos on Prince Street pillow uses my “mark without marking” freezer paper quilting method; Priscilla’s Garden Party uses template piecing method; Feathery Formation deals with piecing with small pieces and quilting asymmetrical feather wreaths; Patches & Crosses teaches on-point setting, and more!
Projects At-A-Glance
Speaking of learning opportunities, I will be teaching my painless, seamless, almost effortless fusible machine applique method at Rogers Sewing Center in April 2015! We will be making Ivory Baltimore wallhanging from the book.
I will also be having two separate classes to make Ginkgos on Prince Street pillow, as well as a lecture/show and tell. Click here for more details. I love to interact with quilters in a class setting, but because of I am a Mom and wife first, at this time of my life, I teach very minimally. But even when I teach, I always end up learning something from the attendees. Isn’t that just so with the quilting community – always giving, always learning, always teaching?
If you are in the Northwest Arkansas area and plan on coming, would you drop me a line? That way I can be sure to be on a lookout for you and give you a REAL hug, instead of just a bloggy virtual one.
Thanks for stopping by, Dear Friends! I shall catch up with you later.
Happy Friday, Friends! I feel like this week has zoomed by all too quickly. I am not out of the woods with my sewing saga…. but I hope to be able to share some snippets about the saga with you before too long.
At my 2014 Fall Quilt Market Schoolhouse presentation about my book Recreating Antique Quilts, I shared about the premises of the book, as well as how the book can be used by quilters in group or individual settings. I thought I would share my thoughts here as well. At least I have more than 30 minutes to cover thoroughly the various aspects of the book.
My main purpose in Recreating Antique Quilts is to connect present quilters to the quilting treasures of the past – the quilters as well as the quilts!
In many aspects, the book is a reflection of my own quilting journey ever since I started quilting back in 2005. You can read about my very humble start to quilting here. The following is a picture of my first quilt – with no prior sewing experience.
I credit my dear friend and mentor Barbara for getting me started in quilting. You see, she did not insist on me making her “standard” beginner’s quilt. And I will forever be grateful to her for being gracious and patient enough with me when I showed her the quilt I wanted to make for my first quilt. Keep in mind — at that point in time, I didn’t know how to sew. YET, Barbara took me under her wings and showed me everything!
After that first quilt, I kept on quilting because of how much I had enjoyed THAT first quilt!
BOOK PREMISE #1: Many quilt because of that first quilt, and many do not quilt because of that first quilt.
In my designing career, I have always striven to come up with easy to construct designs with the illusion of “difficult” – because I think making a really nice looking but easy to make quilt as a beginning quilter will encourage the beginner to keep quilting. At least that’s my personal experience.
So naturally, I included such projects in Recreating Antique Quilts. Calico Trail, Ginkgos on Prince Street, and Garden Lattice make the “That First Quilt” list!
1. CALICO TRAIL
Calico Trail is made with just one block colored by a variety of fabrics in two colorways, and different block orientations give the overall quilt design a very polished look.
In a teaching setting:
A quilting teacher can easily use Calico Trail, spread out over 4-6 weeks, to teach essential quilting techniques: accurate cutting, HST construction, color values – dark and light, block orientation etc. There are quite a few blocks to construct to be sure for Calico Trail, but a beginner doing repetitive piecing will soon find improvements in her piecing skill, and start coming up with tips and tricks of her own. I remember that’s how I learned, through many repetitions. But, I think one thing going for Calico Trail is that the quilter will not find the repetition boring because it is a design that uses more than just 2 or 3 fabrics.
Taking it further:
A teacher (or a self-taught quilter) can also use Calico Trail to explore the effectiveness of the various techniques used to construct HST units – Thangles, Rulers, Chain Piecing etc. There are many HST units to make, why not spice things up a bit by constructing the HST units using different techniques and see which one makes the most beautiful HST units.
2. GINKGOS ON PRINCE STREET
I also included an easy pillow project that uses fewer blocks (constructed the same way), but with a asymmetrical twist to the setting and layout for a totally different look – my Ginkgos on Prince Street pillow.
Ginkgos on Prince Street can easily be a meet-and-greet project. For a social and “work” quilting get-together, quilters can easily chat and sew up this pillow in no time.
For the individual setting, Ginkgos makes a quick home decor or gift project.
I included the directions on how to quilt the Ginkgo motifs (easily adapted for other motifs) in the book. Traceable Ginkgo motifs are also printed in the book.
3. GARDEN LATTICE
Garden Lattice is a throw-sized project that is great for stash busting! I imagine many of us have fabrics we have saved but never used. Karen certainly did with her version of Garden Lattice!
Teaching Setting:
This project is a great primer to quilting with sewing only strips, and not having to deal with a lot of cutting and small fabric patches in individual block construction. A beginner learning how to quilt will have fun with this quick and easy to complete project, and most of all, I imagine she will have loads of fun choosing the fabrics to go into her quilt!
Individual Setting:
This project makes a great project for a gift, or a to-be-used quilt. Sorting through your stash to find just the right perfect fabrics to go into the quilt would be so fun! You have some stripe fabrics that are just laying around – they will be great for Garden Lattice.
I would like to take this opportunity to pay my tribute to all of you who have helped someone else catch the quilting bug. Please know that you have done something very meaningful when you connect someone else with the rich quilting legacy we have! It is my hope Recreating Antique Quilts will play a small part in inspiring quilters to be proud of their contribution to the continuing of this very rich quilting heritage we enjoy.
This concludes our first In Case You Missed Market Schoolhouse post. I hope you have some great ideas on how to use the projects I have shared with you in today’s post. I will have more to share with you. Stay tuned.
Now, I would love to hear your “first quilt” quilting stories – whether as a teacher or student.
Have a great weekend! I simply must get back to work. I will catch up with you next week.
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All the posts to date about Recreating Antique Quilts may be found here.
Hello Friends, I hope you have had a chance checking out the book reviews, as well as the Recreating Antique Quilts inspired projects made by fellow bloggers in the Recreating Antique Quilts blog hop. I feel honored seeing the projects in Recreating Antique Quilts being used as springboards for quilters making their versions of the projects. Let’s have a quick recap of the hop, shall we?
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One major thought going into the projects featured in the book is versatility. I think the blog hop ladies very effectively communicated that thought in the versions of their projects.
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Patches & Crosses, Recreating Antique Quilts
1. Vicki made Patches & Crosses in a gradating colorway. Vicki’s use of green and orange is absolutely brilliant.
Read more about Vicki’s runner and book review here.
If you want to make your own version of gradating colorway, please please email Vicki, and she will help you out in picking out your fabrics. You see, Vicki sells quality hand-dyed fabrics here.
Vicki has also included a separate set of cutting notes to be used with her gradating fabrics here.
Ginkgos on Prince Street Pillow, Recreating Antiques Quilts
2. Mary found seashell fabrics to make a nautical version of the pillow. She even quilted beautiful seashell motifs on the pillow — very cleverly done.
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Read more about Mary’s pillow and book review here. While you are there, don’t forget to look at Mary’s quilt projects. She works on the most fun and interesting projects!
Garden Lattice, Recreating Antique Quilts
3. Karen was able to adapt Garden Lattice to make a totally different looking quilt by not including the stripes in the quilt center, and her quilt turned out marvelous!
Read more about Karen’s quilt and book review here.
Karen is also going to be teaching classes using the projects in Recreating Antique Quilts, woo hoo! Click here for Karen’s class schedules.
Ivory Baltimore, Recreating Antique Quilts
4. Cathi, a hand quilter, made her version of Ivory Baltimore. Cathi used the method of fusible applique method for the first time for her version of Ivory Baltimore.
Read more about Cathi’s banner here. Be sure to check out Cathi’s Inklingo’s posts. She is an Inklingo expert!!
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I want to thank these very special ladies for a successful blog hop! It wouldn’t have been possible without their friendship and support.
Next week, I will be posting a series of In Case You Missed My Market Schoolhouse posts with a few thoughts on how to use my book Recreating Antique Quilts to meet the needs of quilters in individual and group settings. AND… all the projects are back with me from the publisher. So, I will be posting about individual projects in future posts. So stay tuned!!
Meanwhile, you can read all about the book (posted so far) here.
You may purchase the book here and here (signed). For non-US quilters, you might check with your patchwork shops to see if they carry the book, or you can also order the book from Amazon. Overseas quilters have emailed to tell me that ordering from Amazon has been painless.
Thank you for stopping by! Many of you are experiencing the cold weather at the moment — do stay warm!
Happy Monday, Friends! Here is to a lovely week for all of us. I am MOST excited to announce a BLOG HOP going on today for my book Recreating Antique Quilts.
Four quilting bloggers, for whom I have great admiration and respect, are giving you their review and a giveaway of the book, and showing you how they have used one of the patterns in the book. I am not going to spoil it for you by giving away any sneak peeks. You just have to visit their blogs to find out.
The participants are selected to be part of the hop because I feel each of them brings something different to the table, and I want to highlight their work through the projects of Recreating Antique Quilts.
1. Cathi of Quilt Obsession (http://quiltobsession.wordpress.com)
Cathi is a hand quilter. She hand pieces, and does hand applique, as well as hand quilts her quilts. Cathi will be reviewing the book and the projects from her hand quilting background. It ought to be very interesting!
2. Karen of Karen’s Quilts, Crows and Cardinals (http://karensquiltscrowscardinals.blogspot.com)
Karen is a great designer with wool. But her talents extend beyond wool. Look for her to shine, not that she isn’t already shining!! Karen loves birds – you have a friend in Karen if you love birds too.
3. Mary of Needled Mom (http://needledmom.blogspot.com)
Mary is a happy quilter – I would describe her sense of colors as striking! She sews to bless others. I have been blessed by her work. She is traditional in her pursuits, but she pursue her pursuits with lots of spunk.
4. Vicki of Field Trips in Fiber (http://vickiwelsh.typepad.com)
Vicki is a very clever and innovative quilter. To me, she is scientific in her approach to quilting, but with a lot of art! Vicki does beading, glass making, needlework, hand applique, fancy basket weaing and more — like fabric dyeing! Vicki sells her hand dyed fabrics through her store. Click here to see Vicki’s beautiful offerings.
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Meanwhile, I saw this picture of moi’s book signing at Landauer’s booth this last week at Fall Quilt Market in Houston. Click here if you would like to have a signed copy of the book. I have a limited number of copies available.
Oh, before I forget, did you check if you won the giveaway on Landauer’s Blog at http://quiltbooksandbeyond.com/author-wendy-sheppard-shares-inspiration-behind-3-projects-recreating-antique-quilts/?
Image source: Landauer Publishing’s Facebook
Alrightie, Friends. I hope you have a most fun blog hop!! Have a great week ahead. I will catch up with you later.
Dear Friends, I hope you are well. I am slowly getting back to the swing of things. I didn’t know just how exhausted I was from Market. I made some blocks yesterday, and hope to finish up the entire quilt by this weekend. This is going to be a very fun “on the fence” design. :) Stay tuned for designs.
I am now able to ship you signed copies for my book Recreating Antique Quilts. However, I am a one-woman operation – I hope you understand. And I have a limited number of books.
So, while I am trying to waiting for my husband (who works long hours) to work out the fancy way to speed up the checkout process for your purchase, for now, we have to do it the Mom and Pop way. If you would like to purchase a signed copy of Recreating Antique Quilts…
1. The cost is $24.95 (book) + $5.75 (shipping) — total of $30.70.
Note: The $5.75 shipping cost is what USPS charges for a Flat-rate envelope (with tracking number) that I feel will give the book some support during shipment. If you would like your book shipped via regular Media Mail in an envelope. The shipping cost is $4.
Please email me if for shipping cost if you live outside of the US.
Please also email me if you would like to purchase multiple copies of the book as that will affect the shipping charges.
2. You may send payment to me electronically via www.paypal.com to wendy2@wendysheppard.net.
Please email me if you would like to send payment using a check via snail mail.
3. Please also include a note about how you would like me to sign your book.
a. Just signature?
b. To a certain person – do spell the name clearly?
c. Date?
d. Any special message to include?
4. After I receive your order, I will
a. send you an initial email acknowledging your order
b. follow-up with another email with tracking information (if shipped USPS Priority) after I ship your book. I will include a receipt of payment with the shipment.
And of course, anytime you have any questions, just ask!
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If you live close to, or in northwest Arkansas, feel free to purchase the book from Rogers Sewing Center. I will be in the area April 2015, and I will sign your books for you then! Contact Rogers Sewing Center for further details.
And today is the last day to enter the giveaway of a free copy of Recreating Antique Quilts over at the blog of Landauer Publishing, Quilt Books and Beyond.
If you wish to purchase the book directly from my publisher, just click here.
Thanks for stopping by! Come back tomorrow for a few thoughts I have about crafting with kids. I am participating in SewCalGal‘s It’s About The Kids Craft Blogging Event!
Ivory Spring 