![]() ![]() There were items and art that moved me enough to take notice. I found quite a few examples of when I found things around me that were more inspirational than everything else. I looked through my personal photos to see when and where I was inspired to stop. The quilt instructions are well written with supporting diagrams and the photographs are stunning! ![]() This book is appropriate for every level of sewer from beginner to expert. There are tips for everything from how to choose colors to how to care for your fabrics. Heather not only shares tips on finding inspiration but then guides you through the process of how to turn that awakening into your own piece of quilting art. Some of the most creative times are when we allow ourselves to just be. This book is about more than designs or sewing. She takes the reader through the steps of seeing things that might become overlooked in today’s world of distraction. Art and quilts are everywhere!Īrtist, quilter, and designer Heather Jones has taken the everyday inspirations and gathered them for her new book “Quilt Local.” The book opens her vision of how everyone can explore and expand their creative spirit in what might seem ordinary and turn it into something extraordinary. Their color palette is created from everyday life experiences to enhance the piece they are creating whether it is a painting, drawing, sculpture or a quilt. Just use the code QALBOOKSALE.Ask a room of artists, “Where do you find your inspiration?” and most likely the answer will be “Everywhere!”Īrtists and quilters find inspiration in bricks, walls, carpet and plants. I am offering 25% off the book for those joining the QAL. If you don’t already have the book and ruler, please ask for it at you LQS! You can find them here and here. You could also uses up leftover strips that are just laying around. If you are wondering if you happen to have the right fabric in your stash, the wall quilt uses 1 Layer Cake and the Runner uses a minimum of 5 – 10″ squares and some 3″ x 20″ strips for the border. Is anybody interested? If you are, please leave me a comment or send me an email at This will help me know if I should write up the cutting instructions for the runner or not. I will put together a cutting list for the runner, and you can follow along in the book for the instructions. ![]() For those who would like to quilt along with me, you can make either project (or both). The runner pattern isn’t in the book, because I finished it well after the book was published. If anybody is interested in this pattern, it can be found in my Angles With Ease 2 book and uses my Triangler ruler. No matter if I set the runner on the floor or table, he is all over it! It looks so cheery on my table, despite the bleak winter outside right now.Īnd – if you wonder why I have trouble getting blog pictures – This is why. I like how this runner can be used for Christmas, but can also be kept out for the Winter. Winter is so dreary in Minnesota, that I find I make an abundance of winter quilts to help cheer up my house at this time of year. It was really fun to be able to make something with those extra blocks. I had a few tree blocks leftover, so I made them into this runner I also thought I would do a little QAL (quilt along) – if anybody wanted to join me. In between, I am busy being a mother and finishing my newest book that I am working on. I will still be posting on Instagram a little bit. So what does that mean for the new year? I will still by stopping in here and there. I guess that makes me very bad at marketing, but I have a lot of fun while being bad at marketing □ I get so overwhelmed by all of those things I should be doing that I don’t know where to start and I just go back to the sewing machine. But, when it really comes down to it, I LOVE making things. ![]() Blogging, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Newsletters, Teaching, etc. As a business owner, I am constantly bombarded by all the things I should be doing. As I look around my studio, I have at least 15 quilting projects going (most of them small), a few knitting projects, and some garment sewing. I also have so many things I’m working on that I can’t share just yet. It isn’t that I’m not busy making things, it’s just really hard to find time to take photos and get them posted. Happy New Year – only 19 days late! It’s been even longer than that since I’ve posted. ![]()
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