Book Blog and Social Media Tour Details

The following hosts of the blogs and Facebook pages listed below, are offering a chance to win a free copy of the eBook. Visit each listing on the day of the tour that they are hosts, and enter the drawing for a chance to win!

Today’s host, Kitty and Me Designs, had to be canceled, but you still have four more chances this week.

• March 20, 2023: C&T Publishing Blog
• March 21: Create Whimsy, Facebook
• March 22: Kitty and Me Designs, has been canceled
• March 23: Epida Studio
• March 24: Sew Crazy For You
  •        Stitchesnquilts, Facebook
• March 25: Christen’s Creations

Don’t forget to hop on over, and good luck!

Round Robin Groups

To help me promote the book, I asked a few good friends to participate in a Round Robin Group block exchange. So, what is a “Round Robin”, and how did this project get started? I asked each artist to create a 10”- 12” pieced square, using any type of fabric and color combination. The construction could also include doilies, laces, or ribbons, and then the embroidery and embellishments stitches included in the book. Once the block was created, they sent the block to the next person in the group, including the threads and embellishments that they wanted to include on their block. Then the block traveled on to the next participant in the group, and then back to the owner.

The participants of the first Round Robin Group, Washington to Oregon to Texas were founder, artist, and teacher Lynn Woll of Create Whimsy, and her friend and colleague Chardel Gibson Blaine, an artist, teacher and owner of Flying Goat Studio, who teamed up with my friend of many years,  Patti Medaris Culea, a fiberar and cloth doll artist, teacher and author.

Here is Patti Medaris Culea’s block. Patti loves drawing people, and decided to draw and color a woman gathering flowers in her garden. Using a crazy patch design, she sewed various pieces of silk dupioni, and vintage laces from her stash, one of which was a piece from her great-grandmother’s tablecloths. Her block traveled to Chardel Blaine, and then to Lynn Woll.

The block is now back with Patti and she says: “This was soooooooooo much fun. Loved the work that Chardel and Lynn did on my block.”

If you would like to read more the details of each block see the original post that I wrote, Creative Embroidery, Round Robin 1 Washington to Oregon to Texas, for C&T Publishing.

Happy Stitching! ~Christen