Welcome to my stop on the Hand Embroidery Dictionary Blog Tour! I’ve had such fun trying out this fabulous new book by Christen Brown, published by C&T Plublishing, which has just been released. I also have an eBook copy to give away so read on for details about how to win it! EDITED FOR GIVEAWAY …
I’m a huge fan of Heather Black’s quilts and loved her first book, written with Daisy Aschehoug, ‘Quilt Modern Curves and Bold Stripes’, so I was delighted to be given a preview digital copy of Heather’s new book, ‘Design Make Quilt Modern’. I have to say that I was immediately impressed by Heather’s ambition with …
EDITED on 21st September: Congratulations to Marjory Bald who won the Giveaway! Commiserations to everyone else, but thanks so much for entering, and I hope you will all order the book anyway! Marjory I will contact you by email. Carina Envoldsen-Harris is a talened and proilific embroidery designer with a number of books under her …
I’ve long been an admirer of Rachel Hauser’s beautiful quilts and a reader of her excellent blog Stitched in Color. I was thrilled when I got to meet Rachel IRL at Festival of Quilts last year. Rachel’s quilts have a wonderful sense of colour and use an eclectic mix of fabrics that always appeal …
I love a bit of improv, or ‘playtime in the sewing room’ as I like to think of it, so when Nick Ball of Quilts From the Attic asked if I would join the book tour for his new book ‘Inspiring Improv’ I said ‘yes please!’ Published by Lucky Spool, Inspiring Improv is a technique …
I have three new book reviews to share with you today! I’ve even used one of the books to make a gift and I’ll be sharing that too. The first one is a new e-book by one of my favourite embroidery designers Carina Envoldsen-Harris. Carina taught at the Stitch Gathering a few years ago and she’s …
The lovely people at Lucky Spool sent me Kristi Schroeder’s new book Southwest Modern and I’ve been feeling really inspired by it! It’s part quilt book and part travel book which definitely makes it stand out from the crowd. Kristi is a native Texan and in her book she takes us to five different Southwest …
The lovely Carina Envoldsen-Harris came up to Edinburgh to teach at the Stitch Gathering last year and at the time she was launching her second embroidery book. Well now she has published her third! Search Press sent me a copy to review and very kindly offered another copy for me to GIVEAWAY! More on this …