New Book by Sally Mavor

Have you seen Sally Mavor's new book: Pocketful of Posies? It is sooooo wonderful - she is so creative with her needle and felt.

Check out this fabulous tree...

Look at the piece she used to represent the foot board of the bed...

These trees are so magical...

I just couldn't get over her wonderful waves...

I have all these fancy fabrics, beads and buttons and just look what she can do with felt! I just love this book!

New Books

I got a couple of new books for my birthday/Christmas that I really like. the first one is "Confetti Naturescapes" by Noriko Endo. I wonder if any of you have ever seen her quilts - they are so wonderful. I saw one of them in a magazine and then saw it up close at the International Quilt Festival in Long Beach last year. It was amazing! She uses a rotary cutter to cut toothpick-sized slivers of different fabrics(the confetti) and arranges them in a nature scene, covers it with tulle and then machine quilts it. Her quilts look so different up close than they do from far away. The quilt on the cover of the book won Best of Show at Quilt National in 2007.

The second book,"Ribbon Embroidery: Crazy Technique" isn't really a need-to-have book, but it's full of beautiful pix of silk ribbon embroidery. I got it from Piecemakers in Costa Mesa. When I googled the isbn, it is a Turkish book. My copy is from Turkey, but it's in English.

I'm also trying to teach myself needle tatting - there are some beautiful edgings that wouldn't take long to make five or six inches of, to be used in a crazy quilt block. But it's not as easy as I thought, it's hard to tell the front from the back when you don't have great eyesight, and sometimes you need to know just where you are - imagine that! If any of you needle tatters out there have any hints, I'd appreciate it....

Happy Stitchiing,
Lin Moon

Books Books Books

There are lots of new and upcoming books to look forward to! Did you know some books are already planned to be released in 2011? We're talking 3 years away! I was Googling about and came up with these:

(But of course, don't forget to check out Pat Winter's new CQ book on her blog.)

Crazy Quilts: History - Techniques - Embroidery Motifs by Cindy Brick & Nancy Kirk, Feb 2008

Floral Interpretations for Silk Ribbon by Helen Dafter, March 2008

Kyuuto! Japanese Crafts!: Woolly Embroidery: Crewelwork, Stumpwork, Canvas work and More, April 2008

Stumpwork Seasons by Kay & Michael Dennis, April 2008

M. Joan Lintault: Connecting Quilt, Arts & Textiles, April 2008

Crazy Quilting - The Complete Guide by J Marsha Michler, April 2008

Textiles of South-east Asia by Angela Thompson, April 2008

Masters:Art Quilts: Major Works by Leading Artists, May 2008

Felted Bags, Boots & Other Things by Cendrine Armani, May 2008

Contemporary Quilt Art: An Introduction & Guide by Kathleen Lenkowsky, May 2008

Helen M. Steven's Embroidered Gardens, June 2008

Wild Women: Stitched Art Brooches by Sarah Lawrence, August 2008

Felt, Fabric & Fiber Jewelry by Sherri Haab, August 2008

Happy Booking,
Lin Moon

Books!

As some of you know, I work part-time at Borders Books. It gives me a great chance to check out all the new books that come in, especially in the stitchery/jewelry section. I got a couple of new books, one for Christmas and one for my birthday(today! yay!). The first one is a book full of fabulous pictures, that I like to peruse when I need inspiration. It can spark ideas for beading, floral, nature, design, you name it! It is just full of large, gorgeous, detailed pictures of incredible jewelry. The second photo is of the back cover.


Then there's the doll book! I didn't even realize this book existed, except that I saw someone's blog mention it. It is full of dolls of all kinds! (duh) The thing I really like about it is that some pages have a detail shot of the doll along with the whole picture. Also, it's not just avant garde dolls, but also traditional and cloth dolls. Very inspiring!
Happy reading,
Lin Moon