tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65216776824747756822024-03-14T16:51:40.098+00:00Blueberry ParkKaren Lewis Textileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471011912154358889noreply@blogger.comBlogger744125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521677682474775682.post-84636366942458256102015-11-12T10:37:00.000+00:002015-11-12T10:53:56.647+00:00Quilting From Every Angle...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Title:</strong> Quilting from Every Angle<br /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Author:</strong> Nancy Purvis<br /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Publisher:</strong> Interweave<br /><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ISBN: </strong>978-1-63250-086-1</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Welcome to Day 3 of Nancy's book tour!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I am delighted and honoured to have been asked by <a href="http://owensolivia.blogspot.com/">Nancy</a> to be a part of her book tour...have you seen the list of incredible quilters on there?!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I have known Nancy for quite some time via Instagram and have had the pleasure of having her and her lovely family come and visit me. I have long since been a fan of Nancy's work. She is on my Top 1</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">0 favourite quilters...actually higher than that but I don't want her blushing too much.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nancy's style is bold, graphic but with a limited colour scheme...exactly what I am drawn to in a quilt design.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nancy's book, Quilting From Every Angle, is a true reflection of her style and is consequently one of my favourite quilting books ever. I do love a good quilt book but in truth they are normally lovely eye candy full of wonder but with maybe 1-2 projects that I would actually want to make. Quilting From Every Angle is full of quilts I want to make...every single one of them.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Not only is the book full of quilts that I would love to make but it is a great resource too. I love the initial chapter, Inspired Quilting. It is so interesting to read about where Nancy gets her inspiration from and also to read invaluable tips on where we should look to for quilting and colour inspiration. Nancy goes on to give such great information on techniques she uses...I am definitely going to give glue basting a try...thanks Nancy!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The projects themselves are written in a very clear way with fantastic diagrams to go alongside. Actually I have to admit to sometimes just using the diagrams to construct the quilt I made, they were that good. What can I say I am a visual learner...words baffle me!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Because I truly love all the projects in the book I struggled to choose one to make for this review but I settled on the Desert Blooms Medallion Quilt, mainly because I have always wanted to make a Medallion quilt so this was the perfect opportunity.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was inspired by Nancy's colour scheme to make this quilt as I thought the bold design could take it and would highlight the details of each border to the best effect. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Unfortunately with my recent house move completing the quilt centre and first border was as far as I got but having said that I think it stands alone beautifully and would make a lovely mini for the wall as it is. I will finish it however as I want to see how it looks in full.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If you haven't yet got your hands on a copy of Nancy's book you really should. I am also pleased to let you know that I am having a giveaway here of a digital copy for one lucky reader. Just leave a comment here to be in with a chance of winning. I will draw a winner next Friday, 2</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">0 November. Good luck!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Don't forget to follow the rest of the blog tour, where there are other chances to win a copy of the book. Details of all the wonderful peeps are here...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">11/10- Michelle Wilkie of <a href="http://www.factotum-of-arts.com/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #21759b; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Factotum of Arts</a><br />11/11- Hillary Goodwin of <a href="http://www.entropyalwayswinsblog.com/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #21759b; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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Karen Lewis Textileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471011912154358889noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521677682474775682.post-40568438533886245252014-11-16T21:44:00.001+00:002014-11-16T21:44:24.500+00:00Time for a new start...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Blueberry Park's days are numbered. Thank you all so much for being with me on this chapter of my journey. It is time for things to move on...to find out more about the new chapter of my journey go <a href="http://karenlewistextiles.blogspot.com/">here</a>.</span><br />
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<br />Karen Lewis Textileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471011912154358889noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521677682474775682.post-20224597548643239102014-09-02T09:13:00.000+01:002014-09-02T09:13:33.743+01:00Blueberry Park Makes 3...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">There is so much to say about Fat Quarterly Retreat 2014...so many people to thank ~ first up <a href="http://flossyblossy.blogspot.com/">Brioni</a>, <a href="http://lilysquilts.blogspot.co.uk/">Lynne</a> and <a href="http://haniesquilts.blogspot.co.uk/">Tacha</a> ~ so many wonderful people I met ~ too many to mention right now ~ so many friends I remet and met for the first time ~ again too many to mention right now ~ and of course all the fantastic people I met in my classes...</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Wow it was crazy in the most incredible way ever! Grab a coffee, sit back, and slowly scroll through and get a glimpse of the most wonderful time we had.</span></div>
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<br />Karen Lewis Textileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471011912154358889noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521677682474775682.post-34490661002883781262014-06-20T10:50:00.000+01:002014-06-20T10:50:31.184+01:00Blueberry Park Makes 1...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">One of the great pleasures I get from designing and printing fabric is seeing all the wonderful items that you all make with them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">The day was just perfect...enthusiastic and talented ladies...beautiful weather so we could lunch on the deck...just the perfect way to spend a day. I think they all went away feeling like they had had a good successful time and I'm watching keenly to see how their screen printing progresses after the workshop and the fact that they all went home with a copy of my <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Screen-Printing-Home-fabric-projects/dp/1446304094/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402681337&sr=8-1&keywords=screen+printing+at+home">book</a>!</span><br />
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<br />Karen Lewis Textileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471011912154358889noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521677682474775682.post-62621181983157092322014-04-16T16:40:00.000+01:002014-04-16T16:40:28.375+01:00wildwood shots...<div style="text-align: center;">
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<br />Karen Lewis Textileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471011912154358889noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521677682474775682.post-49091592546936058912014-04-07T22:10:00.001+01:002014-04-07T22:10:38.978+01:00all in a day's work... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">getting ready for the next edition of the <a href="http://www.blueberry-park.co.uk/shop/subcategory-8-fabric">blueberry park fabric club</a> means there is a lot of this going on at the mo...</span><br />
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<br />Karen Lewis Textileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15471011912154358889noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6521677682474775682.post-32594239668204881242014-03-27T12:01:00.000+00:002014-03-27T12:01:05.929+00:00:: march :: in a nutshell...part i<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">it started with a birthday just a week after my sister's. here i am with one of my oldest friends...her birthday is 2 days before mine we have a lot of life to live this year as it's our last before the big one. what big one i hear you say? well let's put it this way, it was my sister's 50th the week before and she is a year and a week older than me...you do the maths.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">amongst other things this month...which i promise to come back before march actually ends to tell you about...there was the great british studio clean up. this place was a mess. actually a mess is what a teenager's room looks like. this was a war zone.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">it took me many many hours of sorting, decluttering, chucking, more sorting, more decluttering, more chucking...you get the picture, but finally i have a studio that i am proud of and delighted to be in. it has made my other resolutions of not hoarding and of finishing started projects much easier to carry out because i can <i>see</i> them. there is no hiding in this space any more.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">these are just a couple of peaks of pretty corners in my studio, but i won't show you any more as all will be revealed in a mag coming to you in the near future and i would hate to ruin your mag flicking fun.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">the tidy up uncovered all sorts of things including this gorgeous kei geodots that i had bought from the lovely aussie lasses, Danielle and Jeanetter at <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/PolkaDotTeaFabrics?ref=listing-shop-header-item-count">polka dot tea fabrics</a>. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">if you haven't come across kei fabrics before, they have that similar buttery feel to liberty lawns and voiles. divine and a joy to sew with.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">when i bought the fabric i wasn't quite sure what i was going to make with it. i bought it in the winter and being definite spring/summer fabric i put it to one side (hence getting lost in the mayhem) until warmer climes and inspiration hit.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">it is very unlike me to wait patiently to decide what to do but i was determined to with this fabric, as it needed to be right. it was a treat purchase so i didn't want to mess up.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">thanks to a translation from <a href="http://verykerryberry.blogspot.co.uk/">Kerry</a> i set to work with a bit more confidence. it was a relatively easy make...once i was reading the instructions in english rather than japanese...and was wearing my new top a day later.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">i'm really really pleased with it. the fabric was a pleasure to sew with and feels lovely to wear and i would definitely sew this pattern again...with a couple of alterations the next time, but all in all it has the tick of success. i will also definitely be heading back to Polka Dot Tea Fabrics for more of their delightful Keis and other fabrics.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">so that's a little bit of what i have been up to this month and i promise to be back before the end of the month to give you a run down of what else i have been up to in march...there i've said it...i had better keep my word.</span></div>
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