Book Review/Giveaway: Log Cabin Quilts: the basics & beyond

Giveaway Closed: Congratulations to Sandy Youngblood of Kearney, Missouri! It’s time for another book giveaway! This is another great Basics & Beyond book from Landauer Publishing. This one is all about Log Cabin Quilts. According to Landauer Publishing, In this new book from Janet Houts and Jean Ann Wright, you will learn traditional log Cabin block…

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Book Review/Giveaway: First-Time Quiltmaking

CONGRATS TO BETH T OF OREGON – WINNER OF THIS GIVEAWAY! I received First-Time Quiltmaking – learning to quilt in six easy lessons recently from Landauer Publishing for review and one of my readers will win it! From the publisher: One of the most popular introduction-to-quilting on the market is now available in a new…

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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…

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Another 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…

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Book 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…

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Sewing 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…

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Landauer Wall Calendar Giveaway

WINNERS: Bev and Rhonda! Congrats! Well, as promised the other day, here is my giveaway. Who doesn’t need a pretty wall calendar? I will be giving one (or maybe two) of these calendars away to one (or maybe two) of my blog readers. Landauer has published these three beautiful 2012 wall calendars –  great for…

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Thimbleberries Small Wonders Giveaway

We have a winner! Patty Dudek from North Carolina. Thanks for entering! Today’s review and giveaway is a brand new book from Landauer Publishing called Thimbleberries® Small Wonders by Lynette Jensen. This book by Lynette Jensen, creator of Thimbleberries®, includes 44 projects from table runners and wall quilts to book covers and totes. The book…

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Book Review: Threads: the Basics and Beyond

Threads the basics and beyond is the seventh title in this “basics and beyond” series by Landauer Publishing. I absolutely loved Fabric Embellishing which I reviewed earlier in the year. First of all, I really like books that are spiral-bound and this is another one of those books. This book, written by Debbie Bates and…

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