{"id":3956,"date":"2010-01-06T06:04:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T14:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=3956"},"modified":"2022-05-19T18:30:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T01:30:48","slug":"gifts-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/gifts-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifts for Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Christmas<\/a>
Christmas Gifts 2009<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here are some of the Christmas gifts I received and bought for myself this year. I don’t have reviews for them yet, because I have really only just glanced through them. I will look forward to reviewing these books in detail and you can look forward to them in 2010.<\/p>\n

I talked briefly about Journal Bliss<\/a> in a previous post<\/a>. Dolores brought her copy of this book on Thursday when we met so I had a chance to look through it. Some of it is pretty basic, but I love the bright and cheery layout. After Dolores and I parted, I stopped in at Borders and bought it.<\/p>\n

Julie<\/a> was kind enough to give me Fearless Design<\/a> by Lorraine Torrence. Lorraine gave me the rule “make visual decisions visually”. She and TFQ know each other via the quilt world, so whenever we are together and see Lorraine we are able to have a little more than a writer-customer conversation. Last time, at APNQ<\/a>, we discussed her desire to have made the book longer and I suggested putting additional information up on her blog\/website<\/a>. I don’t know if she ever did that.<\/p>\n

I received a gift certificate to Barnes & Noble. I don’t normally shop there, but decided that I would immediately sit down and buy as many books as I could with the gift card. With the card and about $3 I was able to add 3 books to my library. The first is Freddy & Gwen Collaborate Again<\/a>. I wrote up a bunch of notes to write a review during my week away, but can’t seem to find the actual review on the blog. Perhaps I never got to it! I’ll have to dig up those notes and write the review for you. Look for that sometime.<\/p>\n

TFQ gave me Amy Karol’s book, Bend the Rules with Fabric<\/a>. Angie at the Quilting Loft<\/a> had Amy Karol (of Angry Chicken<\/a> fame) here for a reading and signing and TFQ got a copy for me and got it signed!<\/p>\n

\"Amy's<\/a>
Amy's Dolls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is more of an inspiration book for me. A lot of the projects require some kind of fabric manipulation. Since I am generally opposed to messes, I don’t do that stuff at home. However! I am open to the possibilities and would work with someone else on dyeing and painting etc. The photo shows one project that I really want to try! These are dolls where you use photos of the heads of family and friends. I love this idea. My great niece, “Henry I”, lives in Maryland. She has never been out here and it is has been awhile since her parents have been out. I was thinking that it would be great to make a set of her cousins (11) using this idea. I also think that one of my nephews might benefit from a sister doll when his sister goes off to college in the Fall. Getting the heads on the body (provided) looks like it requires some Photoshop so I may need Natalie to help me. Cut and paste may work, too. In general, this project is a lot of work, so I am not committing to anything more than thinking it is a great idea. If I do it, it might be the impetus I need to learn more about Photoshop Elements.<\/p>\n

When SIL and I went to hear Kaffe Fassett<\/a>, we had some time to kill, so we stopped in at Borders. They have a wonderful selection of magazines, which I greatly appreciate. I bought a copy of Magic Patch<\/a>, a French quilt magazine to which I used to subscribe. It is the November\/December issue, #47. The Christmas tree project was really appealing. I’d love to make one!<\/p>\n

\"Magic<\/a>
Magic Patch Tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have studiously avoided stuffing things in the past, but it looks like, with the dolls above and this project, that there is a possibility that this will be the year of stuffing!<\/p>\n

My friend Faye, from New Zealand, has some kind of stuffed Christmas tree that she uses instead of a live tree. I don’t think I have even ever seen a photo of it, but I have often thought of how cool such a decoration would be. When I saw this pattern, I thought that it would be worth a try. I even thought of making 14 for the siblings and cousins, but think that may be too much of a committment. Perhaps I will win the lottery and be able to stay home and sew all the time, which would make it possible.<\/p>\n

This issue also has a journal cover pattern with embellishment, some string pieced 8-pointed stars and a inteview\/portrait of Lorraine Roy, among other things.<\/p>\n

This is mostly a project magazine, but they do have quite a bit of information on what is going on in the European quilmaking community, in which I am very interested. They announce shows in Europe and the piecing in the projects ends towards advanced quiltmakers.<\/p>\n

Finally, Julie also gave me Inspired to Quilt<\/a> by Melanie Testa<\/a>. I have to admit that I have not had a chance to sit down with this book yet, but I am looking forward to being inspired by it. One of my CQFA colleagues has highly recommended the videos on Ms. Testa’s site. Another item for my to do list!<\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a>
Christmas Fabric<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, I cannot forget the fabric. I received fabric from my mom and Julie both. Dots galore and some cute paper doll fabric that I think, if I have enough, will be a bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are some of the Christmas gifts I received and bought for myself this year. I don’t have reviews for them yet, because I have really only just glanced through them. I will look forward to reviewing these books in detail and you can look forward to them in 2010. I talked briefly about Journal … Continue reading “Gifts for Me”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[390],"tags":[315,508],"class_list":["post-3956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-390","tag-fabric","tag-gifrs-for-me"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956","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=3956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55953,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions\/55953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}