A Book Worth Blogging About

Nearly a year ago, I wrote a series of blogs about art quilting. I have never lost my desire to create one, but it seems I always have orders to attend to and they took up most of the remaining 10 months from August to June of this year. I had about 3 weeks of a break, then right back into fulfilling orders. Not that I'm complaining, but sometimes it would be nice to have time to create something new. An art quilt, for instance.

So I keep fueling my desire with images, information, and yes, books. I recently stumbled on a book I thought would be interesting through Interweave Press' Hurt Book Sale. (It ends July 25, 2013 so get there while you can!) I looked through the books being sold at a fraction of their original cost and found The Quilting Arts Book. I only paid about $5 plus shipping for it, but it is also available on Amazon. 

 This book not only inspired my imagination and fueled my desire to create, but it is packed with tips on creating collage, painting, thread painting, making fabric from paper, applique, and reverse applique. I probably missed a few, but it is literally everything you ever wanted to know about art quilting in ONE book. It has projects to work through, beautiful quilts to admire and draw from, and step-by-step how-to on nearly every technique. The only area they lacked in was whole quilt creation, but I think that is really out of place in this book anyway. Whole quilts are more of an artistic area all their own.

So I'm hoping with this new nudge I'll soon be taking you on a journey with me through creating my first art quilt. Step 1 is complete, and that was to buy a sketchbook with paper heavy enough for acrylic, watercolor, charcoal, pencil and collage. I found one fairly inexpensively at my local Hobby Lobby. With the coupon I paid a total of $4. It has 140lb paper safe for all media. You can also get it at Amazon for a little more, but if you're a Prime Member or don't have a Hobby Lobby nearby you save on shipping!

I hope you'll join me and maybe give me some thoughts and pointers of your own on creating art quilts. You can find all relative posts on my new page Art Quilts.

Homeschool Books for Sale

Hello. We have recently placed all but one of our children in public school due to unfortunate circumstances. We are selling out our stock of homeschool books on Amazon. They are very reasonable, most in excellent or like-new condition, and immediately available. Check out my storefront @ http://www.amazon.com/shops/A3PYJA6KCKYO22
Most are older A Beka books and BJU Press books.

• I have all of the 1st grade and 4th grade teacher editions, charts, manipulatives, etc from BJU press available as an entire package. Sorry - no unused workbooks. These would originally cost $351.50 for all of the first grade teacher materials and $389.50 for the 4th grade books. I am asking $200 for each set. They are less than 3 years old and stored flat with very little wear or markings.
• I also have double student books for the 1st grade set (retail $284.50 including workbooks) that I am selling for $50 for the set. This includes reading books A-F, Heritage 1 student text, Science 1 Student Text. No workbooks are included.
• I have a single set of the Grade 4 Heritage studies student text, English, reading, math, and science texts. I am asking $75 for all of these.
• Because all of these will be listed on Amazon over the next few days, you will need to act quickly to avoid the breakup of the set.

Leave a comment and contact info to inquire about the sets and arrange shipping. Thanks.