Here are some photos I took at Quilt Market Spring 2011 this past weekend in Salt Lake City! It was a really great show and I want to thank everyone who visited our booth and attended our events.
New release Fresh Fabric Treats was featured in a Schoolhouse session conducted by Lissa Alexander … Read more.of Moda, our own Susanne Woods, and
It’s indisputable fact: When it comes to pre-cuts, Moda Fabrics is the leader of the pack! Their savvy marketing genius (lead by the fantastic and talented Lissa Alexander… Read more.), combined with some of the greatest fabric designers in the industry, has catapulted Moda Fabric and their line of Bake Shop goodies to the top of wish lists around the world.
Do you belong to a quilting bee? How about a virtual bee? I’m going to hazard a guess that if I had asked that question 18 months ago when Alissa Haight Carlton and Kristen Lejnieks… Read more. first shared their book proposal with me, I would have received some strange and puzzled (perhaps even bordering on shocked) looks. Do they really still
Meet Countryside Softies—they’re on tour!
Once you take a look at the adorable handmade wool creatures Amy Adams stiches in Countryside Softies, you won’t be able to make just one! The tour begins Monday April 18th and the last stop is Friday April 29th… Read more.. Follow your favorite bloggers and discover just how fun and easy
It was over two years ago when I invited Bari Ackerman to bring a selection of her completed work to a lunch meeting to discuss the possibility of putting together a book proposal. She arrived with handfuls of her creations, a bunch of ideas, and a lot of questions.
I had been working for C&T Publishing… Read more. for three weeks. I
I am happy to announce the winners of the Socks Appeal Yearbook contest…
In the category of Class Clown, the winner is…Yukon Viv’s snake!
In the category of Best Smile, the winner is…Innovative Artography’s Lofy Lion!
In the category of Biggest Geek, the winner is…LittleRedHen2010′s Dr. Bradler… Read more.!
Dr. Bradler, Lofy Lion and Yukon
Join some of the most fun and talented sewing bloggers around on the Little Girls, Big Style Blog Tour! The tour kicks off Monday, December 6th and continues through Wednesday, December 15th, and is sure to inspire and entertain.
The newest title in the Stash Books family, Little Girls, Big Style brings the boutique sewing movement within reach of even the most novice sewers.
Little Girls, Big Style by Mary Abreu No one can dispute that sewing children’s clothes—especially for girls—is a hot trend at the moment. I was seeing patterns crop up with more and more regularity over the past three or four Quilt Market trade shows. I was still on the fence as to whether we would catch the trend in book form until something fabulous happened: Mary Abreu sent in her book proposal!
Instead of a book filled with random patterns, Mary’s proposal for Little Girls, Big Style was all about building a wardrobe on just four straightforward basics: A bodice, a top, a pair of trousers and a skirt. Really. Just four basic patterns and the rest is all variations and embellishments that encourage you to make endless iterations of the basics. What could be simpler than that?!
Hopefully you have all already read about the fabulously talented Samantha Cotterill of mummysam fame and her book with us, Fanciful Felties from mummysam. If you are coming to us today from the Martha Stewart Crafts Department blog: Welcome!
So far we have some great entries in our Socks Appeal Yearbook on Flickr. Clover the Cat by Elise Hubbard (below) is just one of them!
