We are back home from Quilt Market, in Houston, and ready to settle in for the holiday season.
But before we do, there is something VERY important I need to tell you about.
My first book!
It is called Simply Strings: A Modern Approach to a Traditional Quilt Block.
I started this book almost three years ago without knowing it.
I was over run with scraps and decided that I was going to bust them. ALL of them. So I started string piecing blocks and then quilts and before I knew it I had 14 quilt tops, a scrap basket that was still overflowing, and an idea for a book. And the rest, as they say, is history. Well, except for all of the work of writing an entire book!
My favorite project in the book is...well all of them.
But here are a few that were very popular at Market:
Hope for Tomorrow
Color Me Happy (low volume option)
Organic
And of course, an announcement like this would not be complete without a GIVEAWAY!
Leave a comment letting me know what you think and I will draw a winner next week.
(I hope it's you.)
Congratulations!!
ReplyDeleteI like them all but my favourite is Organic !
Congratulations on your book, I know it had to be a labour of love! I saw your book and I love the projects and quilts I've seen! I would love to win but I'm making it a point to get this for myself for Christmas! Thanks so much, beautifully done!
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Congratulations on your book. Love Hope for Tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! Can't wait to see it! Love your designs.
ReplyDeletecongrats on your first book! i really enjoyed your schoolhouse at market, my fave of these three is hope for tomorrow, with organic a close second!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your first book ... so very exciting! Hope for tomorrow is beautiful. I love working with strings. Thank you for the chance to win a copy of your book!
ReplyDeleteRana, congratulations!! So exciting! I was at Linda's today and she showed me
ReplyDeletethis book-it is beautiful. Nice job!
Great concept for a book! I have a lot of scraps and strings and what not! I'd like to see more of the book!
ReplyDeleteI have done some string piecing and have several projects done...and have an overwhelming amount of strings and scraps. Your ideas are fresh and exciting!
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Your book sounds like something I could really use. The scraps are threatening to take over around here! Love all the quilts shown in this post, and could see myself making all of them eventually. Congratulations on such a HUGE achievement!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilts in the book. I really like Organic.
ReplyDeleteI am so proud of you Rana. Wonderful book! Love to see that you are now doing what you love and being rewarded for it too! Love the book. Would be excited to win.
ReplyDeleteQuilting is alive and well here in Kauai.
God Bless and Have a blessed Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas to the Heredia family
Christine Gannage
This is such a great book! Congratulations! I love all that I have seen, but I really like “Organic”!
ReplyDeleteI love scraps. I NEED this book.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great book !!!!!
ReplyDeleteYour first book looks fantastic. I've got lots of greens and yellows to make your pattern Organic. Would love to have a copy to see what other great ideas you have!
ReplyDeleteSending you big congratulations. It looks like a wonderful book, and I'm a fan of strings so I'm looking forward to making some of your patterns....
ReplyDeleteWhat a great book for using strings and one that has such great patterns. Hope I'll get lucky as I'd sure love to make some of the patterns.
ReplyDeleteLove the quilts you show in this post. I hope to find your book one day somewhere in a shop here in the netherlands since I love the quilts shown here and I do have a big box with scraps. Greetings kleinevingerstussenstofjes.blogspot.nl
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