I have really fallen in love with surface design – playing on top of fabric. Interweave’s new emag, Surface Explorations, is the perfect resource to inspire me to continue. Here are just some of the lessons you’ll find in this new emag: The Great Dye Experiment: Cotton vs. Silk with April Sproule Thermofax® Screen Printing:…
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Giveaway: Utility Quilting
GIVEAWAY ENDED! CONGRATULATIONS TO TONI ADKINS FROM INDIANA Good Morning! Today we have another giveaway at Bloom, Bake & Create. But first, let me tell you about this book. The publisher Landauer describes this book as follows: Author, teacher, and quilter Carolyn Forster introduces you to this timeless method of hand quilting – the ideal…
Read MoreAnother Giveaway: Quilting-on-the-Go
Giveaway Closed! Waiting on hearing from winner. Here’s another giveaway. Read on for deadline and how to enter. In Quilting-on-the-Go, author Carolyn Forster explains how to break large quilt designs down into small, manageable sections that can be easily quilted by machine or hand. With her instructions, quilters can piece a block, quilt another and…
Read MoreBook Review and Giveaway: Fresh From The Garden
Congrats to Jane, #2 comment! If you didn’t win, check out my new giveaway today! Thanks for dropping by. GIVEAWAY!! CHECK THIS OUT! It’s been a while since I’ve had any giveaways. However, in the next couple of weeks I will be catching up with all of my book reviews and will be giving some…
Read MoreReview: Inside The Creative Studio
Creative Studio – Inspiration and ideas for your art and craft space by Cate Coulacos Prato is a new release from Interweave. I’ve said this in past posts, but if a book can get me motivated to make something or in this case, look at reorganizing my craft/woman cave area, it’s a keeper. Here are…
Read MoreCollage in Color Review
This is one of those emags from Interweave – the first one about collage. As I’ve said before, I love regular magazines I can hold and drool over, but I also enjoy these that have videos embedded of some of my favorite artists and pdfs I can print and save. Some of the articles in…
Read MoreBook Review: Cloth Paper Scissors Book
I was introduced to the Cloth Paper Scissors magazine from Cathy Smay, one of the first artists I interviewed for my “Telling Your Story” newspaper column. After subscribing and reading a couple of issues, I ordered a couple years of past issues. I often refer to them for inspiration. When I heard that Interweave was…
Read MoreSewing Home Decor – Book Review
Well, Landauer Publishing has done it again. Here is another in their Basics and Beyond series. This 128-page book, written by Shannon Dennis has that wonderful spiral binding that lays flat. Love that in a book! In the first section Shannon includes over 50 fundamental techniques including stitching, hemming, construction, trims and embellishments, closures and…
Read MoreBook Review – Sew Wild
When I first saw this book in publicity sent out by Interweave, I immediately loved the book’s cover image! When I received the book the other day to review, I could not put it down. Sew Wild – Creating Stitch and Mixed Media is written by Alisa Burke, a painter and mixed-media artist who returned…
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