Busy quilters can find time to create this heartwarming beauty, because it's made one happy, easy block at a time! For added convenience, the leaflet includes a CD with all the old-time holiday images that can be printed on an inkjet printer.
** FREE DIGITAL SAMPLER FEATURING EXTENDED EXCERPTS FROM TOP NEW HOLIDAY BOOKS ** Deck the fall! Carve out a little me time and get into the holiday spirit with a sneak peek at four great seasonal books. Whether you’re looking for a Christmas romance that will whisk you off to a picturesque town, an uplifting tale of fate and redemption, or a clever family drama centered around the holidays, this sampler will give you a taste of it all. Don’t delay—download now and curl up with this fireside read today! Featuring extended excerpts from: The Sergeant’s Christmas Mission by Joanne Sims Snowfall on Lighthouse Lane by JoAnn Ross Evergreen Tidings from the Baumgartners by Gretchen Anthony The Twins’ Family Christmas by Lee Tobin McClean
Indulge your passion for color and fabric with a smorgasbord of blocks to use in a quilt that's a visual feast. The fun begins with more than 100 beautiful quilt blocks that all finish at 6" square, making them perfect for using scraps and for easy mixing and matching. Whether you prefer traditional or modern, you'll find so much to love in the varied assortment of block designs. Susan Ache (you may know her as @yardgrl60 on Instagram) shares 50 expert tips throughout, plus step-by-step instructions for making half-square triangles, flying geese, stitch-and-flip corners, and more. Once your tantalizing blocks are stitched, arranging them in the stunning sampler quilt is sheer pleasure!
More than 28,000 quilters have sewn along with the Splendid Sampler community online. Now Pat Sloan and Jane Davidson return with 100 all-new block patterns to inspire quilters all over the world, all over again! Choose blocks designed by Pat and Jane plus superstar quilters Lissa Alexander, Carrie Nelson, Jenny Doan, Susan Ache, Betsy Chutchian, and many more. Blocks made with patchwork, applique, embroidery, and paper piecing provide plenty of opportunities to try new techniques. You'll discover fun ideas for arranging your blocks in a gallery of sampler quilts. Share your progress online and experience the joys of quilting with this "Splendid" community of quilters!
Christmas is a time for love, laughter, and wonder. A CHRISTMAS SAMPLER is a compilation of twenty-three Christmas stories commissioned by the Bethlehem Writers Group to capture all of Christmas's myriad possibilities. Winner of "Best Anthology" and "Best Short Fiction" from the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, these heartwarming, hope-filled, and hilarious tales will delight readers of all ages.
Christmas is a time for love, laughter, and wonder. A Christmas Sampler: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Holiday Tales, is a compilation of twenty-three Christmas stories commissioned by the Bethlehem Writers Group to capture all of Christmas's myriad possibilities. Paul Weidknecht's "Those Things Remembered" is about a long-time mall Santa who realizes he has forgotten a child's name. Courtney Annicchiarico believes against all evidence that she is pregnant in "Mis-conceptions." Hilarity reigns in Headley Hauser's explanation of a bachelor's Christmas traditions in "A Modern Single Holiday." In Carol L. Wright's "You Better Watch Out" a small-town lawyer takes on a mystery when Santa falls from her roof three weeks before Christmas. In "Walter and Stella," by Ralph Hieb, Walter finds himself dead on Christmas Eve, but refuses to leave his beloved alone for the holiday. And in "The Perfect Gift," Emily P. W. Murphy explores that moment in a relationship when one partner is ready for marriage, and the other seems not to notice. This premier anthology also features stories by Jeff Baird, Carol A. Hanzl Birkas, Cindy Kelly, Jerome W. McFadden, Stanley W. McFarland, Sally Wyman Paradysz, Jo Ann Schaffer, and Will Wright. These heartwarming, hope-filled, and hilarious tales will delight readers of any age. The Bethlehem Writers Group is a community of mutually-supportive fiction and nonfiction writers who meet to perfect their craft in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, also known as: "Christmas City, USA."