![]() ![]() Other e-Readers should choose the EPUB format and follow the instructions particular to your device for downloading. ![]() The Amazon email address is the email address you have associated with your Amazon account. Please note that the address must be entered exactly as displayed in your Kindle including in the correct upper or lower case. You can find the Kindle device email address by looking in "Settings" and then selecting "My Account" where the Kindle email address is displayed. PDF format works for desktop and laptop computers and iPads.įor downloading files to the Kindle®, you'll need to select the option to email the file to your Kindle device email address from your Amazon email address. Follow this link for installation instructions. Without this FREE software you will not be able to view your downloaded patterns. PDF Electronic Download products require that you have Adobe® Reader® installed on your computer before you can view your patterns. You can choose several formats for downloading products to your computer following completion of your purchase. Caity's comment about having made the quilt blew me away! But I still think it is a little ironic that it may always be the quilt that I am best known for, when it doesn't really reflect the work that means the most to me.There are never any shipping charges for downloaded product and you get access to your products instantly! ![]() Not so! I still get a little thrill seeing it in print and seeing that people just keep making this quilt. Postscript: Apparently some people thought I was saying I was embarrassed by or ashamed of having designed this baby quilt. To date it is, by far, the most famous quilt I never made. But it does nag at me that this pattern may be my quilting legacy. The Peek A Boo pattern includes instructions, patterns, and placement sheets to make this nine block 39 1/2' x 39 1/2' wall hanging as well as a 33' x 42 1/2' crib quilt with a patchwork center. The center spread of the mailer was Peek-a-boo Bears along with a miniscule picture of me with very big hair. (Of course none give me design credit-oh well) Several years ago Quiltmaker sent out an advertising mailer to probably every quilter in the US. A Google search this morning turned up several being sold on a web site (yikes-questionable color choices!) and one that won third prize in a Twin Falls, Idaho quilt show. People told me how much they looooooved that pattern. People sent me photos of their quilts made from the pattern. To this day I have never made this quilt, but for years I saw a version at nearly every quilt show I attended. My design for "Peek-a-b00 Bears" was accepted and appeared in the May/June 1996 issue. The nice thing about the Quiltmaker contest is that you didn't have to actually make the quilt, you just had to come up with the design. It was not, but it was business, not art. Bears or bunnies-everyone loves bears and bunnies.It should include both piecing, but not too much piecing, and applique, but nice big easy-to-stitch applique shapes.It had to be "cute" and have a cute name.My answers all added up to a quilt, the likes of which I had never made, but I was game for giving it a shot. I looked at a bunch of past issues of the magazine and I asked myself what the readers were looking for. I approached it in a very calculated way. I'm sure you've all seen the ads for their ongoing quilt design "contests". I'm happy not to be doing any of those things at this point in my life.ĭuring that period of desperately trying to make a little money to justify my total devotion to fabric and sewing and art, I designed a baby quilt to submit to Quiltmaker magazine. I've owned a quilt shop, I've designed patterns, I've taught, I've been a sales rep for a fabric company. ![]() Then a 3 1/2 wide border encloses each centre square. Each block is made out of a centre 5 inch square featuring some fabric texture such as pin tucks, smocking, shirring and the like. I have never been nearly as successful as either of them, but I have made the same discovery that the "business" of art/quilting is not the same as, and often conflicts with, the making of art. Textured blocks tutorials This is the 17th block in a series of 25 exploring texture in fabric. Today both are talking about cutting back their teaching schedules and making the time to explore new directions in their art. Both of them have been very successful in both showing and selling their work and leveraging their talents to create successful careers as teachers and speakers and quiltworld celebrities. I was reading Melody's blog this morning, and then Gabrielle's blog. Like a lot of quilters/artists over the years I have made numerous attempts to turn my passion into a paying job. This adorable, icy collection of arctic creatures includes narwhal, polar bears and penguins peeking through the windows. ![]()
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