Tuesday, January 14, 2014

A Double Giveaway

Today The Quilt Show is airing the second class in my series about making a free-standing folded fiber book.  In this class I demo how to make a page from a photo. I used one of the many photos I took of windmills as I bicycled around Holland.  You can use my technique to make a page for a fiber book or to make a pictorial or memory quilt.  Here's the link:
http://www.thequiltshow.com/os/classes.php/teacher/oyveyquilts
To see this class you need to be a member. To join, there is a cost involved, but it is worth every penny.  You get a lot of great quilting tips and info plus access to presentations by many of the best quilters around.

This week, The Quilt Show is doing a giveaway in conjunction with my second class.  If you submit a photo of a WIP to their website, you can win  a trio of fat quarters of delft looking fabric that I bought during my travels
 or a copy of my second book.  The book contains directions on how to turn "pages" into a book plus lots of tips for embellishing.

My second giveaway involves another book with a very inspirational story.  I met Mary Marks as a participant in a group of Jewish quilters.  (You know there are groups for everything.)  Mary has started a new career as a mystery writer at 70! Her first novel came out this month and it's a good read.   She modeled the heroine, Martha Rose after herself - a divorced, overweight, Jewish, quilter from LA.  The book is pretty funny and the solution to the crime is very ingenious. 
I am quoting the blurb on the Amazon page: Martha and her besties Lucy and Birdie are set to expand their Quilty Tuesdays by inviting newcomer Claire Terry into their group. Though at forty Claire's a tad younger than their average age, her crafty reputation could perk up their patchwork proceedings, especially as they prepare for the fancy quilt show coming to town. But when they arrive at Claire's home and find her dead inside the front door, and her exquisite, prize-winning quilts soon missing, Martha is not one to leave a mystery unraveled.
 
Thanks to Mary and her publisher, I am giving away a copy of this book.  Join me on Bloglovin' (see the link below) and leave a comment with your e-mail address.  I will pick a winner on Friday.


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16 comments:

  1. Your show sounds intrigiuing. Yay for Mary Marks!! I hope her book gets all kinds of quilty love!

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  2. Sounds like a great book! Please add me to the drawing.

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  3. PS: I'm already a follower on Bloglovin!

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  4. How fun. I am currently loving blue and white fabrics and I don't even own a quilting book yet. I am a newbie to quilting. I am working on gathering supplies. Thank you for the chance.

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  5. I look forward to seeing you on the Quilt Show! Your give-away prizes are lovely. I especially love those blue and white fabrics.

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  6. Its sounds like just my kind of book. thanks for the chance to win it and of course yours.

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  7. I just finished reading the book and loved it, laugh out loud funny!

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  8. I just read the book and I enjoyed it. I hope she continues the series. Don't put me in the drawing, I already have the book on my Kindle.

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  9. You're always fun to follow Cheryl - I know that first hand! Would love to win some FQ's!

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  10. Alrighty! I'm already following you on bloglovin'

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  11. I'm following on bloglovin. Thanks!

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  12. This books sounds fun! Thanks for the chance.(already subscribe by email and now following you on bloglovin)

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  13. Hi Cheryl! Great giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win! Congrats on your book.
    LeeAnna Paylor
    leeannaquilts@gmail.com

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