Book Review: Paper Piece the Quick Strip Way- March 19, 2007 Paper Piece the Quick-Strip WayBy Peggy MartinC&T Publishing, 2007112 pages, suggested retail $28.95 A couple of weeks ago Lynn and I did the Atlanta Shop Hop on a tour bus with 30 other quilters. It was an interesting and entertaining weekend (Lynn will be posting an account of the trip at Planet Patchwork), and one of the things we learned was the perennial appeal of a well-done book on paper piecing. One of the women on the bus bought this book on an early stop of the 13-store hop,...http://www.quiltchannel.com/2007/03/book-review-paper-piece-quick-strip-way.html Kiss me, I'm a quilter.- March 19, 2007 Froggy quilt, I: Yellow Frog. Originally uploaded by Christina. Whoops! We had some technical difficulty here. In the meantime, National Quilting Day was yesterday. Now, you could have spent the day drinking green beer and looking for the end of the rainbow, but really - we know you were quilting, rightThis year's special project is once again to make "birth day" quilts, in honor of National Quilting Day's "birthday." Follow the link to find out more, but the basic idea is just: have...http://www.quiltchannel.com/2007/03/kiss-me-im-quilter_18.html New links!- March 10, 2007 Finally. Originally uploaded by Christina. Looking for something to do this weekend Check out some of the new links here at QuiltChannel.com. It took a good little while, but I sorted through all the backlog of submitted links, and theyre all up now. I also cleaned up a little bit and eliminated (I think) all the broken links from all those cool sites that are no more. As always, please let us know if you do find a broken link.Theres all kinds of new stuff in there. A few examples:The...http://www.quiltchannel.com/2007/03/new-links.html International Quilt Festival Coming to West Coast- March 4, 2007 West Coast quilters can begin planning their quilt travel for 2008 with the knowledge that the International Quilt Association, sponsors of quilt festivals in Houston and Chicago each year, will be presenting a new annual show in Long Beach, California beginning in late July next year.We have been looking for quite some time at starting a third edition of Festivalone that would serve a different geographic area than our current fall show in Houston and spring edition in Chicago, says Karey...http://www.quiltchannel.com/2007/03/international-quilt-festival-coming-to.html |