Kaye’s Quilting Friends Newsletter!
This week’s issue of Kaye’s Quilting Friends Newsletter is online and ready to view!
We’re previewing Kaye’s newest pattern, Chrysanthemums, several new “bunny” patterns and of course, all of your favorites. Clearance items have been added and as show items come back, our HURT inventory has expanded.
Go here to read this week’s issue: http://www.kayewood.com/newsletter.html
Be sure to let me know if you have any questions.
Terrye
Congratulations, Laura
You’ve won our giveaway of Jane Sassaman’s The Quilted Garden book. Get back to me with your name and address and we’ll get your book out.
Thanks for playing, everyone. We’ll have more giveaways coming up soon!
Kaye’s Newsletter is Online and Ready To View!
Go here to read about our blog giveaway as well as all of your old favorites!
http://www.kayewood.com/newsletter.html
Giveaway! The Quilted Garden by Jane A Sassaman
Award winning quilt-maker Jane Sassaman is known for her bold designs celebrating the energy and miraculous beauty of garden flowers and plants.
This book includes an extraordinary full-color gallery of 60 of Jane’s exuberant, nature-inspired quilts.
- Jane guides you through 2 projects using raw-edge or turned-edge applique and surface embroidery by machine
- Exercises teach how to nurture your designs, sharpen your powers of observation, and capture the animation and glory of a random field or garden.
- To be included in the contest, leave a comment letting us know about your own Nature Inspired Quilts (even if they’re still only in your head!) Hurry, contest ends Friday, Mar 5, 2010)
Easy Strip Pieced Rail Fence Placemats
Rail Fence Placemats
from the book
Everyone Can Quilt by Kaye Wood
Make four identical place mats, or for a fun casual table, choose just one fabric to keep constant in every place mat and choose different colors for the second fabric. Make your rectangle squares from as few as two strips
per square to as many strips as you want.
The PDF download is here: http://www.kayewood.com/downloads/rail_fence_placemats.pdf
Kaye’s Quilting Friends Newsletter
This week’s issue of Kaye’s newsletter is online and ready to read! Check out our new sales, show and tell, readers hints and tips and lots more! http://www.kayewood.com/newsletter.html
Designer Profile….Rebecca Anderson of Rebecca Ruth Designs
Rebecca Anderson is a talented designer with her own line of apron, quilt, and soft doll patterns, Rebecca Ruth Designs. She is a prize-winning quilt maker who loves to lecture and teach workshops. Rebecca’s quilts have appeared in local and national quilt shows, including the American Quilter’s Society (AQS) show in Nashville, the National Quilting Association (NQA) show in Chicago, and the International Quilt Festival in Houston. In 2004 she won second place in the hand quilting division of the Quilter’s Newsletter Magazine contest. She has written for Better Homes and Gardens Quilting Ideas, Country Sampler Decorating Ideas, and contributed to numerous books. She is the proud mother of three grown children and has one beloved grandson. She lives with her husband, Dave, in Washington State.
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Apron Delight Quilt pattern, one of the Rebecca Ruth Designs we have in our store. |
Strip Cut Quilts, On Sale Today!
Deal of the Day. Regularly priced at 19.95, today, just $12.00!
96 pages
Strip-Cut Quilts has over 200 illustrations, 30 projects and 23 quilt block techniques. More than 30 color photos let you see what grand projects they truly are. This book is great for the beginner or advanced quilter, with projects to suit every skill level. Enjoy a trip through the seasons with quilts like, Glacier Ice (see this project on www.kayewoodtv.com), Spring Rain, Flying Gander and Rainbow Sherbert. 
Create a beautiful Christmas table runner or be swept away as Kokopelli Plays Again (see more projects here: http://www.kayewood.com/scqpeek.html.
Techniques include fussy cuts, tree borders, flying geese, topless triangles and much, much more. Tips include everything from fabric preparation, accurate cutting, measuring and pressing tips, to squaring up your blocks, borders, sashing and mitered corners. Paper template included, although we offer and recommend the acrylic Starmaker 8 for greater ease and accuracy.
Meet Kaye’s Siberian Husky, Dawson…
Find out why Kaye is going to the dogs! And meet her Siberian Husky, Dawson: http://www.kayewood.com/content.php?content_id=1005
2 New Heart Patterns In Our Shop!
Sweetheart Tablerunner and Topper, shown left is ideal for Valentine’s Day or any romantic occasion, this table runner is based on a simple and attractive heart block. If you’ve ever wanted to learn paper piecing, this is the pattern for you. The equilateral triangle heart block is simple and attractive. Eight blocks make a 14″ by 49″ table runner and six blocks make an attractive 19″ diameter table topper. Detailed color illustrations take you through the paper piecing techniques.
Shown right, the Romantic Heart and Tablerunner Pattern is based on a simple and attractive heart block. Just six blocks make up the 16.5- by 50-inch table runner. Detailed color illustrations take you through the paper piecing techniques.
Both by Rebecca Ruth Designs and both are on sale right now. Regular priced at $7.95, now $6.00 each!