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Have you been busy, too?

  • November 15, 2017
  • Posted by: janelleamacbeth@gmail.com
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Have you been busy?

Yeah…. me too….

I’ve been on a whirlwind of speaking engagements, finishing client quilts on the long arm, collecting (and making) the shop hop quilt from the Eastern PA Shop Hop for a charity auction, and you know…. attempting to remember to send out emails once in a while.

But, I’m not the only one who has been busy this month!

My friend Bob came out with a new quilting book YESTERDAY!!!

I was SO excited when he emailed me about his book that I went right over to Amazon to buy my copy.

I read it immediately (maybe that’s why I’m falling behind on my deadlines?), and I fell in love with the patterns that Bob has shared in his new book, The Baroque Tapestry Quilt Book.

Bob and I had talked about the concept of his book a few weeks ago, but we mostly focused on the behind-the-scenes details pertaining to the publishing process.

Reading his book last night was SO MUCH FUN! I really can’t wait to try some of these patterns out…

Anyway, I emailed Bob this morning with my heartfelt congratulations, and to ask if there was anything he would like me to pass on to you.

He sent me a LOVELY email about his book:

Janellea,
The Baroque Tapestry quilt book is both serendipitous and improbable. A classic example
of how something good can come from something bad. My wife and I are both quilters
and as such have almost every object in the quilting world. We have six sewing machines and
one quilting machine. I am a mathematician and so have every ruler ever invented. I have only used
a small number of them and half are still in plastic. My wife is an appliquer and I am a piecer so we
have almost every quilting book ever written. We were forced to put a stop to all buying up to and
including the silent auction at our quilt guild. For the most part I totally ignore the silent auction
as we have enough stuff and I was trying to be good. Now you know how boys will be bad when no one,
the wife in particular, is watching. That is what happened. I drifted over towards the silent auction
table and that is when I saw it. A small book with a graph paper cover. As a mathematician, graph
paper is almost sacred so I immediately bought it and snuck it home. The book was from 1604 and
consisted of dozens of Baroque needlepoint designs in black and white. For a while I thought there
was no way to get a quilt out of this, without cutting a million small rectangles. The more I studied,
the clearer it became. These where straight forward graphical constructs that you could make with
strip sets-no cutting small rectangles! As graphically complex as they were, they were easy to construct.
I called Dover and got permission to convert all the needlepoint designs into quilts. Thus, the book.
Thank you again for all the help and you all go gently in this not so gentle world.
Bob

Bob and his wife are truly wonderful people- and very talented quilters to boot!

Go take a look at Bob’s book on Amazon, and remember…. reviews are the lifeblood of any author. Your candid and honest reviews make the difference between the failure or success of an author. You can see my review posted on Amazon!

Happy Quilting!

Jan

PS. Check out my friend, Bob’s new quilting book!