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Modern Quilt Perspectives (the meta data)…

Books are amazing things. I have spent my entire life surrounded by them, loving them, investing myself in them. I have read them, written about them, made them, and now written one. The lion’s share of my life has seen … Continue reading

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Modern Quilt Perspectives (marketing and stuff)…

I’m not very good at marketing, which shouldn’t be surprising. There are parts of it I like doing, and others that are even worse than having teeth pulled. On of the things I rather enjoyed doing was putting together the … Continue reading

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Modern Quilt Perspectives (the quilts)…

We all know that I love words, and few more than the thousands of words that went into the book. I worked at them and reworked them, labored over them, swore at them, erased them, and eventually loved them. But … Continue reading

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Modern Quilt Perspectives (words, words, words)…

With four days to go before the book is officially for sale I’ve started to notice a trend; there seem to be two kinds of emails I get about the book from people who have seen early copies (yep a … Continue reading

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Modern Quilt Perspectives (my favorite page)…

This is my favorite page in the entire book: the dedication… There are actually two stories to this page: the words and the design. First the words… Whenever I finish a quilt, Bee asks me who the quilt is for, … Continue reading

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Seven days (and look what I got)…

Seven days until the book is officially out there!!! I can’t believe it. But if you want a sneak peek next weekend and are heading to AQS Quilt Week – Lancaster, you can stop on in at Ladyfingers Sewing Studio … Continue reading

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Early reviews…

While I have yet to properly figure out just why I am meant to be worried about Amazon 5-star reviews (or whatever they are), I must admit that I am profoundly pleased that the few people who have seen the … Continue reading

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Fear…

It’s just two weeks until the book goes public and I am terrified… You’d think I’d be used to it by now, but this whole people buying what I do thing still seems entirely foreign. It wasn’t an accident that … Continue reading

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