Carli The Quilter

 "Bat Girl Goes Out" started out as the original Hexie Flower in the center. These pretty little Hexie flowers were purchased on Ebay. They are vintage and quite fragile. I placed this one on a bold lime green  background of linen scraps. Appliqued the Hexie flower on and then made it into a Snowball block. I played around two summers ago with "15 Minutes of Play" over at Bumblebeans.com and came up with the outside borders of making fabric chunks and onto the original block they went. It's so much fun to just go for it and experiment.  I am constantly inspired by Freeform style of quilts being made and that made me think of my upcoming e-book "Artisan Crazy Quilts" really does show the reader how I start and go towards an unknown, unplanned finish! I ventured on like a Sherman Tank, doggedly designing as I went, its so fun quilters! Bat Girl made her first appearance after hand drawing this bat free hand ont...

Let me apologize, I don't think I have the right settings in place on my phone to add this link into my Blogger posts. So having said this, Sujata Shaw is an American quilt book author that I just love!!

Table Runner's are great and pretty simple to make if using the Improv methods out there in Blogland. This one got started using up left over blocks from  Burkley's Quilt  which I made for my newly minted Grand Nephew. In my learning of how to create these blocks using Sujata's methods of improv methods from her book, Cultural Fusion Quilts. The blocks that didn't quite turn out correctly in my opinion, were the base of this Modern Table Runner. I had no real plan and soon these blocks became a very long table runner and I knew exactly where this new table runner belonged. But more on that later. this is going to be machine quilted today! Yeah!!

Hello quilters, wherever you are, I hope it's lovely outside! Today, I awoke very early in the morning and our cabin was a little chilly. The woodstove warmed up the inside really fast and I sat down to a coffee and a hand quilting project. I've decided to do hand quilting because this quilt has so much cream solid color in it and I thought it would be really fun to make the dark areas pop up. I've added a 5 inch border of cream solid colored cotton to the borade and now those crazy blocks just popped! But for some reason that photo will not load! I'm linking up with Needle and Thread Network today! Happy Quilting Everyone!

When you live somewhere as beautiful as the Bulkley Valley of Beautiful British Columbia, you can be overtaken with a new realization of our spectacular home. This photo shows the most prominent of all mountains, Hudson's Bay Mountain. Home to powder skiing, x-country and downhill only minutes from down town. This photo was taken in about January one year, not much ice frozen on the river this year. This photo show the Babine Range in the background and this small but lovely set of cabins is a great place to catch lake trout. Thanks for visiting!

I've had the beginnings of this modern art project sitting around for eons. I decided it would be perfect for a Halloween quilt. I love free form quilting, I really do. It leaves me open to other possibilities that don't become apparent until you sit down and focus. Now, you might think that this looks kinda crazy right? I've not decided if the Modern crazy patch making of fabric is the same as real Crazy Quilting. What do you think about making of fabric from scraps and do you think its a kinda crazy? I'm finishing this one today. Check back tomorrow for this gorgeous and creepy finish. \ Happy Quilting everyone!

Hello folks and welcome to my latest installment of my experience with online publishing. Content is very important. Its the 'stuff' makes a viewer become a buyer of your stuff.  Here's why: Content on our blogs can be successfully written in Word, crafted "fine tune like" as if you are blogging for millions of viewers, much like A Beautiful Mess. Emma and Elsie the creators of A Beautiful Mess didn't start out with millions of viewers. They were in love with their ideas and knew beyond a doubt they had something special. Many up's and down's shrouded the two in the beginning. I've been following them since the beginning. I've read the heart ache and the goals these two set all while finding love and loosing love. It was a very personal expression of their journey. For me reading all those years ago, I was studying their start and their struggle. I wanted to learn. I was one lucky reader who really worked with their early years of ...

When I started Mr. Rooster he was supposed to be a fast made Fall Fair themed decor art for my booth at the 2011 Bulkley Valley Fall Fair . It was a really fun event and one that I'd sure like to do again. I was busy trying my interest at selling organic 100% cotton. And it does contain some awesome photo's of the whole booth for your interest by going to the post published back in 2011. This summer Rooster I See You gained more attention and I decided that I didn't like it that this poor rooster had no neck and background. I began fusing feathers of all free form simply hand-drawn feather shapes onto various similarly colored prints. This is where I've got so far today. I think he looks a lot better and I'm dreaming up a Fall Fair themed background maybe. I'm not sure so if you have ideas, please share them in a comment. Happy Quilting everyone.

I first found Amanda Hocking when I was researching authors writing and publishing online. I was struck by the simplicity of writing your own way and saying what you want to say without editors steering your work towards something different. After reading about her journey from working in a group home until 2010, she went on to self publish her paranormal books online and by March of 2011, she had sold over a million copies of her book and earned herself a whopping 2 million dollars! This caught my attention. Does it catch your attention? I hope so because otherwise these blog posts about my own journey into self publishing online would be worthless. I got my information on her sales from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Hocking   and she has several web pages of information on her books. http://www.hockingbooks.com/ If you are blogging, you are already a publisher, you can decide to click on "Reply or Delete" to any comment, you ca...

Welcome to the "growing in popularity" post on self publishing, digital publishing or whatever you'd call designing and selling your own book online. I'd been trying to figure this out for several years now and I've signed up for more information on many sites. That's because there are a variety, some have tools free and others charge for using their tools. Each online digital publisher is set up differently and may not be my "Mister Right" for your publishing online quest. So be aware! This fun clock full tutorial is found at Distant Pickles ! For me it started back in 1999, when listening to the various clocks ticking over into the new year 2000, I reflected the 'what if's" in my life that had contributed to my own personal and career success. In 1999, the excitement and fear over this magnanimus change to dates, online dates, mechanical dates and whether they would just tick tock over to the New Era was real. I reflected...