#C&Tpublishing

[professorpski]

More Stunning Stitches for Crazy Quilts by Kathy Seaman Shaw

Quilter or not you will find something useful and inspiring in this book. 

Shaw first offers a section on the basics. These include information on needles, floss, and ribbon widths and choices. Then, clear sketches show how to make stitches with floss embroidery and with ribbon embroidery including little flowers, leaves, etc.. Then she has over 100 pages of photographs and sketches of various combinations of stitches, beads, even small buttons. Plain templates are included. 

As a dressmaker, I am thinking of how to use one of these lovely combinations on a garment, Maybe to outline a collar on a blouse?  the yoke of a child’s dress?  I am pondering possibilities to save time…. use my sewing machine’s many embroidery stitches... try a variegated thread... add silk ribbon via hand embroidery? A little handwork can go a long way. 

This is the second book of its kind, and you can find them both here: https://www.ctpub.com/more-stunning-stitches-for-crazy-quilts/

[justwannaquilt]

Jenny Lyons, who was a previous guest in 2019, https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16858661, catches us up on her life since that interview, including her experiences during the early days of the Pandemic, and now, as she jets to different teaching gigs, and is living the dream. For more on Jenny, including her schedule and how to book her, go to https://quiltskipper.com. For more on her Creative Spark course, “Yes you CAN free motion quilt,” see https://creativespark.ctpub.com/courses/Lyon For more on her book, Free Motion Quilting from Ordinary to Extraordinary: 3 Steps to Joyful Machine Stitching in 21 Days, go to https://amzn.to/3lPVMic. Jenny is a fiber artist, author and teacher from northern California. She uses her domestic sewing machine to create quilts, art quilts and wearable art. She has sewn since age 6 and began to free motion quilt in 2000. Her work focuses on free motion quilting on whole cloth and her work has juried into the Paducah and Houston shows, Pacific International Quilt Festival, SAQA exhibits and several art galleries. She appeared on Quilting Arts TV as well as The Quilt Show (Feb, 2019). She authored a book published by C&T designed to encourage experienced beginners, Free Motion Quilting, Ordinary to Extraordinary. Jenny has been teaching and lecturing on the art of quilting since 2006 and travels to guilds, shops and major shows. She brings her passion and joy to the classroom and loves to inspire her students to free motion quilt their own quilts!.She lives near Sacramento, California with her Husband and their Australian Shepherd. Their boys have left the nest, giving Jenny more room for quilting.

[justwannaquilt]

Thomas has a new, most magnificent book out, Quilt Out Loud: Activism, Language and the Art of Quilting (C&T Publishing, 2023), available at https://amzn.to/3KkTDVP.The last time we spoke to Thomas in 2019, he was discussing his previous book, Why We Quilt. Listen to that podcast at, https://www.spreaker.com/episode/19599876. He discusses the process of writing this book, his life during the Pandemic, and his thoughts on the beauty he makes with activism messaging. He also talks about the influence of punk on his thoughts and process, and even the look of the book! Thomas Knauer holds Masters of Fine Art from both Ohio University and the Cranbrook Academy of art. Before he started designing fabric and quilts he was a professor of art and design at Drake University and the State University of New York. He began sewing in 2010 after leaving academia due to health concerns, and soon thereafter sat down at a sewing machine for the first time to make his wee daughter a dress. Since then he has designed six fabric collections for Andover Fabrics, writes an ongoing column for Quilters Newsletter, has published quilts in numerous magazines, and is exhibiting in quilt shows and museums. But in the end he loves making things for his daughter and new son the best. For more about Thomas, go to https://www.thomasknauersews.com/.