Good morning and welcome to the Blog Tour! My good friend and co-founding member of the East Midlands Quilt Group, Kerry Foster, has written a book! It's actually a bookette, and is well worth a read.
Kerry's technique is certainly unique, I haven't seen it anywhere else, and it's great fun. The bookette takes you through making 4 animal appliques for which full sized patterns are included, but you can use this technique to make other animal appliques (as I show you further down).
The bookette takes you through materials needed, there is a very informative section on selecting fabric, this is followed by instructions on the technique.
The four patterns are:
Raccoon mug rug
Grizzly bear wall hanging
Fabulous Mr Fox wall hanging
Whitetail Stag wall hanging
Each one includes tips on quilting and selecting backgrounds.
I stole this photo of Kerry from her blog. You can see the Fantastic Mr Fox wall hanging in the background and also one of her other patterns - Hank the English Pointer. A few years ago Kerry ran a workshop at one of our Quilt Group meetings. She took me through making an animal applique from one of my own photos.
You may remember this cushion I made of Colin which is still one of my favourite makes. This is also poignant timing as I lost my lovely Colin last week. He was 10 and a half, I rescued him as a young kit so we'd been together 10 years. He's left a massive hole in my heart and now I am rabbit-less. This cushion feels like a good memory of him. It was really easy to do following Kerry's instructions.
Kerry wasn't able to get all the patterns she's created into the bookette, so she's made 5 of them (including the lovely Hank, above) available in herpattern shop HERE. In the next day or so they will also appear in her Etsy and Craftsy pattern shops, however you will need to own Paint By Number Quilts in order to know how to put the pattern together
Interested? You can buy the bookette here
Follow the book tour for more views of the book and some chances to win a copy!
Monday Sept 17 – Kerry @ PennyDog
Tuesday Sept 18 – Deirdre @ C&T Publishing
Wednesday Sept 19 – Anita @ Daydreams of Quilts
Thursday Sept 20 – Sarah @ Coopcrafts *
Friday Sept 21 – Krista @ Poppyprint *
Monday Sept 24 – Elizabeth @ OP Quilt
Tuesday Sept 25 – Wendy @ The Crafter’s Apprentice
Wednesday Sept 26 – Angela @ Heart of Charnwood *
Thursday Sept 27 – Leanne @ She Can Quilt *
Friday Sept 28 – Katy @ The Littlest Thistle
* Instagram link
Kerry's technique is certainly unique, I haven't seen it anywhere else, and it's great fun. The bookette takes you through making 4 animal appliques for which full sized patterns are included, but you can use this technique to make other animal appliques (as I show you further down).
The bookette takes you through materials needed, there is a very informative section on selecting fabric, this is followed by instructions on the technique.
The four patterns are:
Raccoon mug rug
Grizzly bear wall hanging
Fabulous Mr Fox wall hanging
Whitetail Stag wall hanging
Each one includes tips on quilting and selecting backgrounds.
I stole this photo of Kerry from her blog. You can see the Fantastic Mr Fox wall hanging in the background and also one of her other patterns - Hank the English Pointer. A few years ago Kerry ran a workshop at one of our Quilt Group meetings. She took me through making an animal applique from one of my own photos.
You may remember this cushion I made of Colin which is still one of my favourite makes. This is also poignant timing as I lost my lovely Colin last week. He was 10 and a half, I rescued him as a young kit so we'd been together 10 years. He's left a massive hole in my heart and now I am rabbit-less. This cushion feels like a good memory of him. It was really easy to do following Kerry's instructions.
Kerry wasn't able to get all the patterns she's created into the bookette, so she's made 5 of them (including the lovely Hank, above) available in herpattern shop HERE. In the next day or so they will also appear in her Etsy and Craftsy pattern shops, however you will need to own Paint By Number Quilts in order to know how to put the pattern together
Interested? You can buy the bookette here
Follow the book tour for more views of the book and some chances to win a copy!
Monday Sept 17 – Kerry @ PennyDog
Tuesday Sept 18 – Deirdre @ C&T Publishing
Wednesday Sept 19 – Anita @ Daydreams of Quilts
Thursday Sept 20 – Sarah @ Coopcrafts *
Friday Sept 21 – Krista @ Poppyprint *
Monday Sept 24 – Elizabeth @ OP Quilt
Tuesday Sept 25 – Wendy @ The Crafter’s Apprentice
Wednesday Sept 26 – Angela @ Heart of Charnwood *
Thursday Sept 27 – Leanne @ She Can Quilt *
Friday Sept 28 – Katy @ The Littlest Thistle
* Instagram link
