Beginning October 27th and running through November 6th, the stars of the quilting and sewing blog community will each take a day to host this Stash Books title.
The tour will include lots of giveaways, including 11 chances to win a copy of The Practical Guide to Patchwork… Read more., and many other surprises. Each blog host
I love the website Alltop.com because it’s a fantastic tool for finding the top sites on pretty much any given topic. The blogs of a few of our own Stash Books authors show up under the Quilting topic, including Camille Roskelley’s blog Simplify and Cherri House’s blog Cherry House Quilts… Read more.. There are many more great blogs listed, but I
Elizabeth Hartman is the talent behind the prolific and wildly popular blog, Oh, Fransson! For most of those who read her blog, that is probably all the introduction you need. In the 18 months since we started working on this book together, she has grown both her own profile and taken awesome strides in introducing a whole new community of fabric addicts who would probably never have fallen in love with patchwork if it were not for her inspirational designs.
Camille is an amazing person. Initially, I was attracted to her fresh quilt designs (who wouldn’t be) with classy color choices. I love that her designs consistently manage to have a playful, yet classic feel to them (you can see all of her individual patterns not included in this book here).
So when I went to Quilt Festival in Long Beach this weekend, I picked up a nice selection of Kokka fat quarters and some gray fabric that I seem to be addicted to collecting at the moment. Of course, I had no idea what I wanted to make with the linen when I came back from Long Beach on Saturday, but come Sunday afternoon I decided that I needed a few more sandwich bags (bagel breakfast bags to be more specific).
Cherri House, along with her daughter Lizzy House, is the talent behind Cherry House Quilts. Cherri has an established pattern company as well as a popular website and blog.
Her upcoming book, City Quilts… Read more., features 12 projects that explore the subtlety of color and the variety of pattern found throughout the urban landscape. Cherri uses these views as
