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Mar
31
Book-A-Round ~ Day 5
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It’s Day 5 of the Easy Appliqué Blocks Book-A-Round. Today we hop back to the continental USA and visit Kathy Mack on Bainbridge Island, Washington, in the middle of Puget Sound.
Kathy Mack’s Pink Chalk Fabrics has a gorgeous array of contemporary fabrics for quilting and creative sewing, plus unique patterns for purses, accessories, toys, and more. Kathy writes a beautiful, inspirational, and informative blog at Pink Chalk Studio. Click on over to read an interview with ‘moi’ and see what Kathy has done with a block from the book!
Kay
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Mar
30
Book-A-Round ~ Day 4
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It’s Day 4 of the Easy Appliqué Blocks Book-A-Round. North to Alaska! We leave Canada, head north and west, and land in Seward, Alaska. Marguerita McManus hosts us today.
Seward is famous for three things… the Kenai Fjords National Park with its calving glaciers and whales, the race to the top of Mt. Marathon on the 4th of July, and the Silver Salmon Derby in August. Marguerita says, “In the winter it’s as dead as a doornail, but the summer fishing, fun and daylight make it a great place to visit or live.”
Marguerita is an Alaskan quilter, teacher, and co-author of the book Crazy Shortcut Quilts. She shares her quilting studio with a pet rabbit. Let’s go visit her blog Crazy Shortcut Quilts!
Kay
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Mar
29
Book-A-Round ~ Day 3
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It’s Day 3 of our Easy Appliqué Blocks Book-A-Round. Today we head north once again, leaving the U.S. behind and entering a whole ‘nother country!
Mississauga, Ontario, the sixth largest city in Canada, is home to Maria Michaels Designs. Maria is a quilter, quilt designer, online quilt teacher at QuiltCampus.net and a web designer. Maria recently started blogging after publishing a fabulous newsletter for many years. If you never got her newsletter, you’re in for a treat, because she’s pulling a lot of her fantastic archived articles over to the blog.
So click on up to Mississauga, just across the border from Buffalo and Niagara Falls, for a visit to Maria’s Quilt Scraps, where Maria talks about the appliqué instructions in Easy Appliqué Blocks – three different kinds!
No passport required!
Kay
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Mar
28
Book-A-Round ~ Day 2
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It’s Day 2 of the Easy Appliqué Blocks Book-A-Round. Today we’re hopping north from Georgia up to Mooresville, North Carolina, a little town north of Charlotte.
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(I couldn’t resist putting in an additional place marker for my hometown, Chapel Hill.)
Susan Brubaker Knapp is a quilt artist, designer, and teacher who lives in Mooresville with her husband, Rob, and two daughters. Susan teaches quilting classes at local quilt shops and online through joggles.com.
Susan loves traditional hand quilting and needleturn appliqué, but has also embraced innovative machine techniques and makes “art quilts” — works of art executed in fabrics and fibers. Her award-winning quilts have been exhibited at national and international venues.
Today Susan tells us more about Easy Appliqué Blocks and shows some of the blocks that she’s stitched up. I can’t wait to see what she’s done with them! Here we go, off to Susan’s blog Blue Moon River!
Kay
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Mar
27
Book-A-Round ~ Launch Party
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It’s a party!! Today’s the kickoff of the Easy Appliqué Blocks Book-A-Round. For the next ten days, visit a different blog, find out tons of great information about my new book, and have a chance to win a copy. Start here each day and I’ll send you off on your virtual trip to far-flung places!
Check the Book-A-Round page for the tour schedule.
Today we’re flying through cyberspace to the hills of Jasper, Georgia.
Maria Peagler, author of Color Mastery: 10 Principles for Creating Stunning Quilts, is graciously hosting the Official Launch Party. She’s got all sorts of fun (and delicious) things in store, so go visit her blog Quilts and Creativity for a quilty good time!
See you at the party!
Kay
Mar
26
Book-A-Round starts tomorrow
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The Easy Appliqué Blocks Blog Book-A-Round starts tomorrow! Pack your virtual bags for a trip to the official Launch Party. It’s going to be quite a bash!
Then, for nine more days, start here and follow the clicks to visit another fabulous blog stop on the virtual tour. We’ll be giving away a copy of my brand-new book Easy Appliqué Blocks: 50 Designs in 5 Sizes from That Patchwork Place at each stop, so come on along!
See you tomorrow, bright and early!
Kay
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P.S. Here’s where I am… Santa Cruz, California, on the Pacific coast between Monterey and San Francisco.
Mar
21
Ruth wins the fabric
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Ruth B’s the winner! Ruth, your comment is the same as what I would say about why I love quilting. It allows me to be a creative person. I never found ‘it’ until I found quilting.
Ruth, send me your name and mailing address to topdog at quiltpuppy.com and your beautiful blue fabric will be on its way.
Thank you all for sharing what quilting means to you. It’s good to stop and think about it every now and then.
Until next time,
Kay
Quilt Puppy Publications & Designs
Mar
21
It’s National Quilting Day
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Today we give extra-special thoughts toward celebrating quilting in all of its forms.
Let’s talk about it. Leave a comment telling everyone why you love quilting.
At 7:00 p.m. California time I’ll draw randomly from among all the comments posted, and I’ll send the winner a yard of this gorgeous Michael Miller fabric “Lotus Blossoms” designed by M.E. Hordyszynski.
Your fellow quilter,
Kay
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Mar
20
Book-A-Round starts next week
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Starting next Friday, we’re going on a virtual book tour! No ticket required… we’re zooming through the blogosphere to tour ten blogs in ten days from the comfort of your own home. Don’t dress up… these tour stops are suitable for pajama attire!
The first day of the tour is Friday, March 27. Start here and I’ll send you off to the Easy Appliqué Blocks launch party! Maria Peagler is throwing the party and everyone’s invited! Loads of fun things at the party, and we’ll give away a copy of the book, so don’t miss it.
Come back here every day through April 5 and I’ll shoot you through cyberspace to the next stop on the tour. We’re traveling from the southern U.S. up the east coast and across Canada to Alaska, down the west coast, and ending up our tour in the Heartland. Check out my Book-A-Round page for more information and a really cool Google map.
Each one of these quilty blogs is fantastic to visit, and there will be chances for a prize at each stop, so strap yourself in for a fantastic tour!
See you then!
Kay
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Mar
16
Penny Haren pieces more appliqué
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Last August I did a post about Penny Haren’s Pieced Appliqué™ book and explained just a little bit about the technique.
Now Penny has a second book out, Penny Haren’s Pieced Appliqué™: More Blocks and Projects. If you like the idea of using layered prepared-edge appliqué to achieve what looks like intricately pieced blocks, then these books may be just your cup of tea!
Until next time,
Kay
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