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What's new for JANUARY 2012?
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The newly designed Value Viewer! Become an expert at fabric selection - instantly! This is the value tool I use whenever I select fabrics for a quilt. Place the tool up to your eye and look through it. This "removes" much of the color of the fabrics and you can see the value of the fabric. This tool helps you determine whether your fabrics are light, medium or dark. (To order Karen's Value Viewer, click here. )
June 10-17, 2012
Visit Glacier Bay National Park, Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan, and travel the Inside Passage to Vancouver, British Columbia. There are quilt shops in every port and an exclusive quilter's shore excursion in Juneau! For details, visit http://www.quiltcruises.com/ or call Amy at 866-573-6351
New Fat Quarter bundles from Karen's newest fabric collections, Pink Ribbon Batiks and Tuxedo!
Rainbow Star,
includes instructions in two sizes! 48' x 48" and 76" x 76". A fun
pattern, with colors that flow around the color wheel! Perfect for
tone-on-tone basics.
More exciting news, for the first time ever, I'm offering some of my quilts for sale! You can see the initial offerings on my web store here. If you are interested, don't wait, there are one of a kind, many of them display in books, magazines, Quilt Market and in my books!
You can download it to read on your ebook reader, Kindle, iPad or even on your computer. The book is filled with beautiful photographs and lots of information about creating fun scrap quilts, the designs available are almost endless! Here is the direct link to the AQS website. Wonder what the book is about??? Here’s a description - What do you do with all those scraps? In this book, the author continues her quilting magic and offers an answer - fabulous scrap quilts. Focusing on color value rather than color or texture, the author offers practical magic for using those leftover, and sometimes less lovely fabrics found in almost everyone's stash. Using only light and dark basic Nine-Patch and Split Nine-Patch blocks, you can create eye-catching designs to enhance any setting. Included are dozens of design possibilities and 18 projects.
 This is very exciting news! Due to popular demand, the American Quilter’s Society has re-released my book, “Optical Illusions for Quilters” as an ebook! You can download it to read on your ebook reader, Kindle, iPad or even on your computer. The book is filled with beautiful photographs and lots of information about creating illusions. Here is the direct link to the AQS website.
Click here to see what others are saying about Celtic Pieced Illusions!
This is Karen's unique design. . . created by a quilter, for quilters! It's all here on one bolt! Each fabric gradates from light to dark across the bolt, each stripe is 11". It is useful in piecing as well as appliqué. It will give a realistic look to appliqué patterns and is useful in creating illusions when piecing quilts. It solves the problem of "finding" a light, medium and dark fabric within a color family. It's all there within one fabric! Available in 1 yard cuts on Karen's Online Store.
Let Karen show you some illusion tricks and piecing tips from her new book, Celtic Pieced Illusions! Let Karen show you some more illusion tricks, piecing tips and fabric magic with her book, 3-D Fun with Pandora's Box and her fabric, Shade Cascade™. Let Karen show you some piecing tips and the illusion of transparency with her pattern Transparent Stars . (Note: this clip requires a high speed connection and Windows Media Player.)
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