{"id":23786,"date":"2014-06-23T06:01:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T13:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=23786"},"modified":"2016-11-29T17:39:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:39:12","slug":"bfsi-question-2-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/bfsi-question-2-review\/","title":{"rendered":"BFSI Question #2 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last of the BFSI questions. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/black-friday-sew-in-giveaway-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Question #2<\/a> had to do with things that Lark Crafts wants to know about their craft books and future craft books. The original question asked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>What type of quilting book would you like to see on the market that\u2019s not already out there?<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>If you could publish your \u201cdream\u201d book on quilting, what would it cover? How would it be set up, etc? In other words, what would be most helpful to them?<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you do another kind of craft, you can answer the same question, just substitute your craft (knit, crochet, stuffies, etc) for quilt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question#2-1<\/strong><br \/>\nWhat type of quilting book would you like to see on the market that\u2019s not already out there?<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I would love to see a book called Very Hard Quilts and I would appreciate it being filled with difficult patterns, perhaps from some of the Kansas City Star quilt patterns that you never see even with the boldness of the modern quilters. A few years ago, Julie and I did a little test on a block called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/snowball-wreath\/\" target=\"_blank\">Snowball Wreath<\/a>. The pictures in the newspaper article show crazy templates. I have never seen a quilt made from this block, but it still haunts me. I want to do something with this block.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/katisquilting.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kati R<\/a> said &#8220;I&#8217;d like to see some more ideas on secondary patterns. I know there are some books out there, but most of them focus on beginners. Also I&#8217;d like to see one that teaches all the hand embroidery stitches which I&#8217;d love to learn.&#8221; I wonder if Kati has seen my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/book-review-stitched-blooms\/\" target=\"_blank\">book review<\/a> of Stitched Blooms by Carina Envoldsen-Harris<\/p>\n<p>Polly suggested &#8220;I&#8217;m a newer quilter, so there may be a book on this&#8230;but I haven&#8217;t found it yet. I need a book that tells how to DESIGN quilts. And it would need to include the elusive quilt math.\u00a0\u00a0 Yes, that is the type of book that I want now. A start to finish quilt designing book!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiptobeasquarepodcast.com\" target=\"_blank\">Pam<\/a> would like &#8220;&#8230; more on two-block quilts, which I think is in the same vein as Kati&#8217;s design book request. The Easy Street mystery that Bonnie Hunter did last year is a great example.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kelly wrote that she &#8220;&#8230; would love to see a book that lets me follow one quilter&#8217;s progress over several years. So I can see that what they are doing &#8220;now&#8221; (that is totally amazing to me) is achievable. Kind of like a five- to ten-year old blog in book form. lol<\/p>\n<p>I think it would give me hope that I could make incredible quilts, and that it&#8217;s a journey. That the person I admire had some uh-oh moments, and maybe even an &#8220;ugly&#8221; quilt or two, before they really found their quilting voice.<\/p>\n<p>Ohhhhh, or a quilt coloring book. Lots of pages of b\/w line drawings that I could color in, cut out if I wanted, and just play. Maybe clear plastic\/vinyl sheets in between pages so I could practice quilt designs, too!<\/p>\n<p>Pretty sure my &#8220;dream&#8221; quilt book would be written by many authors and made up of several volumes &#8212; right now I&#8217;d love to be using the volume on &#8216;color and design&#8217; &#8212; hmmmm. Maybe I&#8217;m describing the internet&#8230;.lol&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Daisy Wreath had a great idea. She said &#8220;I definitely agree with the coloring book suggestion! I&#8217;d love to have an encyclopedia of blocks with a CD so I could print out scaled-down blocks and color them in.<\/p>\n<p>I also wish there were more technique-focused books out there. It seems like there&#8217;s a much greater percentage of books out there that focus on entire quilt patterns. I&#8217;d love to find more books that teach a technique in detail and show different ways of applying it in a design&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Diane (DDR Quilter) said &#8220;There are many new quilters coming into the quilting fold. I&#8217;d like to see a book of step by step photographic tutorials for quilt basics like making flying geese, etc. The internet is a wonderful resource full of many resources, but I think for many, a photographic resource book for certain basics could be a winner. My dream book would be one which discusses, depicts diversity of handwork. It would include such things as hand piecing, hand quilting with differentt threads, making and using hexagons , hand appliqu\u00e9., embroidery., etc. Again, this would be a resource book with photographic or pictorial tutorials. Btw, I like all of the above comments. We all deserve to win. Whatever you bring to us, Lark Books, please keep on publishing books, real books!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question#2-2<\/strong><br \/>\nIf you could publish your \u201cdream\u201d book on quilting, what would it cover? How would it be set up, etc? In other words, what would be most helpful to them?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From me: spiral binding, index &#8211; a very detailed index, lots of photos or drawings<\/li>\n<li>From Diane (DDR Quilter) &#8211; pictorial tutorials (pictorial or photographic)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What do you think? Has anything come to mind since I asked this question last Fall?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the last of the BFSI questions. Question #2 had to do with things that Lark Crafts wants to know about their craft books and future craft books. The original question asked: What type of quilting book would you like to see on the market that\u2019s not already out there? If you could publish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/bfsi-question-2-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BFSI Question #2 Review&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[381],"tags":[188],"class_list":["post-23786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-podcast-sew-in"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}