Friday, May 16, 2025

Virtual Book Tour Update / Beauties Pageant 294

The virtual book tour for Not-Your-Typical Jelly Roll Quilts is well underway, and I’d love to tell you about the participants who posted about the book so far. Be sure to check them out—many are hosting giveaways for the ebook version!

Amy Friend / During Quiet Time

Amy Friend has been blogging and designing projects under the During Quiet Time name longer than I’ve been quilting. In her latest blog post, Amy reviews Not-Your-Typical Jelly Roll Quilts and, in the process, says what I think may be the best possible compliment: “My favorite thing about [the book] is that the designs are very creative and do not have the look that we think of when we hear the words ‘jelly roll quilts.’”

Read the review here!

Lilo Whitener-Fey / Trace Creek Quilting

Lilo Whitener-Fey is the face of Trace Creek Quilting. Based in St. Louis, she and her team of longarmers quilt projects for people all across the United States. When I finished my second version of Pixelated Herringbone, I knew I wanted Lilo to give it an edge-to-edge panto treatment. There’s a peek of the quilt below. (I’ll devote an entire blog post to this project once it’s bound!)

See more pictures here!

 

Becca Fenstermaker / Sugar Sand Quilt Co.

Becca Fenstermaker is a quilter and teacher in southern New Jersey. She fell in love with Myriad, a pattern from the book that uses strip sets to make half-hexagons and incorporates them in a bold star design. If you’re local to Becca, you can make a Myriad quilt with her in the class she’s teaching at Block Party Quilts, in Medford, NJ, on June 26 and July 10!

Read the post and learn more about the class! 

Yvonne Fuchs / Quilting Jetgirl

I suspect all regular readers of From Bolt to Beauty know Yvonne Fuchs and her work. What I love about Yvonne (aside from how sweet and encouraging she is!) is how different her projects are from mine. In her latest blog post, Yvonne shares her version of Tag Sale Floral in a palette that my brain could never curate. It. Is. Amazing!

Read the blog post here! 


Lynn Woll / Create Whimsy

Lynn Woll, the artistic brain behind Create Whimsy, strives to bring creators and makers together and share their stories. I am honored to be one of those stories! Visit Create Whimsy to hear about how I started quilting, where I find inspiration, and what I hope readers take from Not-Your-Typical Jelly Roll Quilts.

Read the interview here!

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Saturday, May 10, 2025

Virtual Book Tour / Beauties Pageant 293


I spent the past few days at H+H Americas, a large fiber-arts tradeshow, and it was a blast. I got to meet quilters and shop owners and talk to them about Not-Your-Typical Jelly Roll Quilts. The road to publishing a book is a long one, and reaching this point is very rewarding. Seeing people’s faces light up while encountering my designs for the first time never gets old.

Over the next two weeks, bloggers, designers, and social media mavens from around the world will be opening up a copy of Not-Your-Typical Jelly Roll Quilts and sharing their thoughts. Some of them will be writing a review of the book. Others will be sewing up a block or two. And others still will be interviewing me about my creative process and book-writing journey. I can’t wait to read what they all have to say!

Many participants will be hosting a giveaway for the digital version of the book, so I encourage you to hit each stop!

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Friday, May 2, 2025

1-2-3 Giraffes / Beauties Pageant 292

I’m at H+H Americas this week. The usual Friday post and linky will go live tomorrow: Saturday, May 10.

Can you believe I have something to talk about today that has nothing to do with jelly rolls? It’s true! I have a backlog of projects and finishes to share, which as a weekly blogger, seems like a luxury.

But first ... A thank-you to everyone who has purchased my book or cheered me on during its first week of release!

If you see Not-Your-Typical Jelly Roll Quilts in your local quilt shop (see the cover at the bottom of the post), could you snap a picture and send it to me? I’d love to promote that store in my Instagram stories.

If you own Not-Your-Typical Jelly Roll Quilts, please leave a review. You don’t need to have purchased the book at Amazon or from my publisher to leave reviews at either site, and reviews count for a lot with book sales. The Amazon listing is here. The C&T listing is here. Thank you in advance!

And now, a finish that has zero connection to jelly rolls! It’s my Giraffe Love project, made for a fellow quilter’s new baby boy.

I wrote about this project from Sew Fresh Quilts back in January and put off the quilting as long as possible. I’ve gotten out of the habit of quilting projects myself—I prefer to devote my time to designing and piecing instead—and the ones I do plan on tackling myself grow in size and scope in my mind.

In the end, quilting this small baby quilt was fast and easy. (Isn’t that how projects we put off usually turn out?) Using my walking foot, I quilted wavy organic lines across the width of the project at 3-inch intervals. Then I quilted another line in between the originals ones. At least I think that’s what I did—a hazard of writing a blog post weeks after finishing a project is remembering the details!

I had the perfect sunshiny backing in my stash and bound the quilt with a seemingly made-for-this-project mustard fabric. Project finished and gifted ... check and check!

I am close to a point where I can start a just-because project, one without a recipient or a commitment or expectations of any kind. So, I long to see what you’re working on. Bring on the inspiration!

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