Hello everyone! Welcome to the 2015 Summer Book Club, where we are showing you some of our favorite quilty summer reads. Our first book this month is Jen Kingwell's newest book, Quilt Lovely.
Quilt Lovely is jam packed with 15 projects that use traditional piecing and applique. This book also comes with paper templates for you to create your quilts. Here are some of our favorites from the book.
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| For the Boys quilt |
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| Mrs. Bannister's Stars Pillow |
Our quilty staff, Nova fell in love with the Flutterby quilt in the book and decided to sew up a mini version with the Forget Me Not collection by Sue Daley for Penny Rose Fabrics.
The blues and creams make this quilt look so vintage!
Now for our 2015 BIG BOOK GIVEAWAY! We are giving away a stash of our favorite books and some surprise prizes to one lucky winner. Here is how to enter...
1. Visit our BOOK page and submit a review on your favorite book
2. If you don't have one already, you will need to create an account on the FQS page to post a review (not sure how to submit a review? here's a quick tutorial on how to do it)
2. Every review you submit will count as ONE entry and you can enter multiple times
3. Winner will be announced September 5, 2015
Good luck everyone and happy summer!
Oh, this book looks like fun! I love Jen Kingwell's designs. I can't wait to check this book out more closely.
ReplyDeleteThere are a few books that I'd love to get my hands on but the one that is on the top of my list is "Teach Me to Applique" by Pat Sloan.
ReplyDeleteI wish you were offering discounts on the books reviewed! I would love to read this book! I did two reviews!
ReplyDeleteI have been looking at this book and trying to decide if Imshoukd buy it and when so.... Thanks for helping me decide 😉💕 love FQS!
ReplyDeleteI have lots of patterns, but of all of the books, these are the ones I like the best, The Farmers Wife, 1930 Samplers Book, Quilt as you Go Book, Handful of Scraps by Laundry Basker Quilts, and the Precut Primer Book, by Me and My Sister.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun idea for summertime! I just left some reviews and realized that I had more books than I thought!
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ReplyDeleteI have this book and love it! I watched the video of how she hand quilts and thought that was really helpful. Thanks fqs!
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