b5media.com

Advertise with us

Enjoying this blog? Check out the rest of the Lifestyles Channel Subscribe to this Feed

Quilting and Patchwork

June 25th, 2007

Quilting & Patchwork Blogger Interviewed

It was exciting to see Yvonne Russell’s article, The Web - Your Partner in Promotion, at Grow Your Writing Business and discover it included an interview of me and one of the other blogs I write for b5media.
                          (Mary Emma)
Since many quilters are writers, or at least contribute patterns and information for books, so you may […]

By Mary Emma Allen -- 4 comments

April 26th, 2007

Quilting with Joen Wolfrom

         I look at nature and photography with different eyes and insight since watching the interview of Joen Wolfrom on The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims. 
Joen explained how she chose colors from her photos for her quilts and quilt hangings.  These weren’t landscape replicas as I had expected.  She chose the colors from her […]

By Mary Emma Allen -- 0 comments

March 22nd, 2007

Do You Have a Quilting Muse?

Writers say they have “muses” that inspire them with their work.  Once at a writers’ workshop I attended, the teacher instructed us to describe our muse, either in words or a sketch. 
 Until then I didn’t even know I had a muse or was supposed to!  However, as I put pencil to paper, a whimsical lady […]

By Mary Emma Allen -- 2 comments

March 12th, 2007

Jelly Rolls for Quilters

“Jelly rolls for quilters!” I wondered, when I first saw this term used at an online store.  “Are they selling foods for quilting bees online or sustenence for quilters when they’re working long into the night on a project?”
Further research revealed that these jelly rolls consist of fabric pieces.   They’ve been introduced by Moda Fabrics […]

By Mary Emma Allen -- 4 comments

November 12th, 2006

Creating a Patchwork Booksigning Tablecloth

You don’t need to be a quilter nor write about quilting to design a patchwork type of table cloth for your booksignings or book events.  However, if you are a quilter/author, this is a great way to incorporate your art into your book signings or book sale table.
When I read mystery author, p. m. terrell’s […]

By Mary Emma Allen -- 0 comments

September 26th, 2006

Artists & Authors - Design Quilts from Your Illustrations

Last year, second graders from a New York School invited several author/illustrators to contribute an illustration for a quilt block.   The youngsters were studying about children’s authors and reading their books.
Although my children’s stories have been published mainly in magazines and I’m a writer more than illustrator, I did sketch the illustrations for an anthology, Tales of […]

By Mary Emma Allen -- 0 comments