Blogging can be quite challenging. It has taken me a while, but I posted a new Gallery page on my blog this morning. It carries slideshows of 10 different series of innovative and art quilts I have designed and made over the years–lots of luscious “eye candy.” Enjoy!
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One of my students at Quilt University took time out from our online quilt class Reflections to attend a Ricky Tims Super Seminar in Asheville, North Carolina. She was one of the organizers for the Seminar, so got a good firsthand look and had a wonderful time. She had this to say about her experience:
I’m just now recovering from this intense 3-day experience. The seminar was wonderful — informative, inspiring and very entertaining. As a volunteer I worked VERY HARD, but as a bonus lost a pound, mostly because there was so little time to eat.
Dena, Alex Anderson and her husband John also had very good things to say about you and your Guild (as did Ricky and Justin) — you all must have made quite an impression.
And as another bonus, they gave each seminar attendee the latest copy of The Quilt Life, which has your article in it — so 475 more people get to see the great work you do there.
If anyone has a chance to attend this seminar, I strongly recommend it!
My student was referring to the Kenya Quilt Guild‘s “Tea with the Stars” which took place in Nairobi, Kenya, last January when Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims and their tour leader Jim West of Sew Many Places visited Kenya.
Special note: The Quilt Life was selected by Library Journal as “One of the 10 Best New Magazines of 2010.” Not QUILT magazines: ALL magazines!! Well done, TQL!!
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According to Amazon, these are currently the best-selling books about patchwork quilting:
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Your First Quilt Book (or it should be!) Carol Doak $13.47 |
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The Thimbleberries Guide For Weekend Quilters: 25 Great-Looking Quilts for the Busy Quiltmaker Lynette Jensen $14.56 |
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Kaffe Fassett’s Simple Shapes Spectacular Quilts: 23 Original Quilt Designs Kaffe Fassett $23.10 |
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Little Quilts : All Through the House Alice Berg $15.00 |
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Schnibbles Times Two: Quilts from 5″ or 10″ Squares (That Patchwork Place) Carrie Nelson $17.81 |
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Stack-n-Whackier Quilts (Another Magic Stack-n-Whack(tm) Book) Bethany S. Reynolds $13.95 |
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The Farmer’s Wife Sampler Quilt: Letters from 1920s Farm Wives and the 111 Blocks They Inspired Laurie Aaron Hird $18.47 |
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Layer Cake, Jelly Roll & Charm Quilts Pam Lintott $16.32 |
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Cozy Modern Quilts: 23 Easy Pieced Projects to Bust Your Stash Kim Schaefer $13.43 |
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500 Art Quilts: An Inspiring Collection of Contemporary Work (500 Series) Ray Hemachandra $15.39 |
I’m chuffed! I have a piece in the last one, 500 Art Quilts! Look there for my Heart’s Aflutter. . .
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I have an article on patchwork quilting in Kenya coming out in The Quilt Life magazine in their upcoming October issue. You can download the Table of Contents, then subscribe! At USD $24.99 for six issues, it’s a great bargain!!
African Quilt by Christine Kibuka, Kenyan Patchwork Quilter
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An article I wrote recently called Quilting in Kenya has been published in Quiltposium, Jim West’s online and FREE magazine! I hope you will enjoy reading the entire magazine, as it’s lovely and chock full of information!
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What is your favorite patchwork, appliqué or quilting book? What’s the one book that gave you the “Ah-hah!” moment you needed to set you off on a quilter’s path, that life-changing book without which you might never have become the quilter you are today?
The one quilt book that gave me that moment of light in the mind, that opened many doors and gave me both understanding and permission to move forward, was Freedom in Design by Mia Rozmyn, from That Patchwork Place, Bothell, Washington, 1995–ISBN 1-56477-1-2-4. In her book, Mia showed me that piecing is not limited to straight lines, nor to rotary cut shapes. She taught me that I could piece any shape, and that opened my mind more than has any other book.
Freedom in Design by Mia Rozmyn
I was also impressed by Jinny Beyer’s Color Companion for Quilters, The Quilt Digest Press, Lincolnwood, Illinois, 1992–ISBN 0-8442-2639-4. This book pulled together everything I had learned in a couple of color physics courses in university, and made it practical. Jinny’s system of developing palettes of color works beautifully and is easy to master.
Color Confidence for Quilters by Jinny Beyer
Won’t you share with us your favorite, or the most influential in your life as a quilter, quilt book? Leave a comment below to tell us about your favorite book. Thanks!
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Want to see Kenya through my eyes? Learn about my life as a studio quilt artist living in a remote part of the world. My days are full of adventures with wildlife and the natural environment. Hippos, monkeys, elephants, cobras and pythons--they all play a part in the vibrant experience of my life in East Africa.
Let me share my art and my lifestyle with you, along with tips, tutorials, news and insights reported by someone who sees things from a different perspective, from the shores of Lake Baringo in the Great Rift Valley . . .
The quilt photo used as background for this blog is a detail shot of "The Future is Now." Its high-tech embellishments on a silver silk skyline of Nairobi belie common notions of what is "Africa" and contrast effectively with the more natural environment we have come to think of as Kenya as shown in the blog's header photo. The face of the continent is changing in response to demand for consumer goods enjoyed by the rest of the world. Click on the photo below to learn more about this remarkable quilt.
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