**NOTE** This Giveaway has ended! Congrats to our lucky winner!
It’s HERE! And it’s finally official!
Remember when I posted on this a while back –because I hadn’t heard that the blog tour had been postponed and rescheduled?
Hey, if you tell me to post something, I will do everything I can to post it on the day you tell me to – unless you tell me otherwise!
I’m happy that the blog tour is a go ---and this time we can do it for real.
The whole look and feel of this book is glorious. You want to turn every page. You want to read it like a novel, because unlike books where quilt designs are more like “recipes” The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters enables you to create your own “SCORE” like you would in music –allowing yourself to build your quilt to the beat of your own drummer.
The groundbreaking new guide includes “scores” for visual improvisation that allows readers to create unique quilts from a set of parameters, but that will look unlike anyone else’s. Hundreds of quilters submitted “test quilts” for the book and the end result includes just 22.
As I leave for Alaska today –I’m introducing you to the beautiful Improv Handbook, with the goal of piquing your interest in trying your hand at some free-style and free-form piecing!
The photos in this book will truly inspire you.
I LOVE this…it applies to so much more in life than just our quilting --
These quilts go a step or two or three farther:
Lovely color and so much motion!
Bias curve petals! Isn’t this great?
Loads of color and fun piecing. And this one is hand quilted!
I wish I could show you all 22 quilts in the book – they are all wonderful! And not everything is curved:
I really like this color palette.
From Sherri’s Website:
Improvisation is about repetition and variation and flexible patterning. The Score For Modern Block Improv encourages us to repeat the pattern slightly different each time to expand it’s range. In this instance the Flying Geese block was the starting point.
Click to see the test samples here – they are fabulous!
I will be drawing for one lucky winner to receive a copy of the Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters upon my return home from Alaska!
Leave me a comment in the comments section below to be entered to win.
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Also on the blog hop: Check out what is going on around the blogosphere DAILY:
May 2: Sew Mama Sew – Score for Floating Squares Gallery
May 4 STC Craft – Score for Rhythmic Grid Gallery
May 4: Plaid Portico – Score for Strings Gallery
May 6: During Quiet Time – Test Quilter Amy Friend – GIVEAWAY through May 10
May 8: Wise Craft Handmade – Score for Get Your Curve On Gallery
May 11: Studio Notes – Test Quilter Penny Gold – GIVEAWAY through May 15
May 13: Quiltville – Score for Modern Block Improv Gallery
May 15: Peppermint Pinwheels – Test Quilter Stacey Sharman
May 18: Quirky Quilts – Test Quilter Kim McPeake
May 20: PoppyPrintCreates – Score for Patchwork Doodle Gallery
May 22: The Last Piece – Test Quilter Sara Fielke
May 25: Cauchy Complete – Score for Layered Curves Gallery
May 26: Diary of a Quilter – Score for Bias Strip Petals Gallery
May 28: Getting Stitched on the Farm –Score for Improv Round Robin Gallery
May 29: Spoonflower – Score for Showing Up Gallery
May 30: Fresh Modern Quilts – Test Quilter Rossie Hutchinson
And be sure to check Sherri’s BLOG as well!
This book looks like just what I need to start improv quilting.
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Just getting into my head what the modern quilting is all about and can't wait to try my hand. This book is a great inspiration--Thank you for all you do.
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Thanks so much for a chance to win this inspirational book.
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This Improv Handbook For Modern Quilters looks like a great quilt book to help make my own quilt designs. Thanks for the giveaway!
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this book looks like a great 'recipe' book for those of us who have a bit of a hard time coming up with images. i'd love to win a copy of this book. i so enjoy your commentary and photos in your blog. patti in florida
ReplyDeleteLooks wonderful! I'd love to try some of these.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry I missed your day on the blog tour (I was flying back from a visit with the daughter in Washington, DC!). Thanks for offering this giveaway!!
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I would love to win a copy of this book, it looks amazing and would inspire me to make many of the quilts in it.
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Carla
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Agree with everybody. This must be a "must-have" and it would be fabulous to win it!
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Brit - britschj@gmail.com
I love, love seeing all these photos of beautiful quilts!
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ReplyDeletelove the improv quilts.
great improv quilts
ReplyDeleteI would like to have this book, even if I don't win, I will probably get it for myself! I love that there are exercises to help get the creative juices flowing, that is something that really appeals to me since I tend to get overwhelmed at times and that leads to paralysis over-analysis! LOL
ReplyDeleteLooks like a really interesting book. Thanks for the chance to win.
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Wow how did I miss this post? There are some really cool quilts in here and I am sure plenty of new techniques to learn in the making of them. Love it!
ReplyDeleteA book to inspire - I need some inspiration - this one fits the bill - fingers always crossed :)
ReplyDeleteHi Bonnie,
ReplyDeleteImprov quilting would be way out of the box for me but what the heck.......might as well give it a try!!! Glad you are home safe and sound and with the book chaos settled. Hope you get to Quiltvilla so Sadie and Beanie can have a playdate lol!
Diane Murphy
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Fresh ideas. What fun and great opportunity to play with the smallest scraps.
ReplyDeleteDon't know how I missed this when it was originally posted. Oh yeah! I was in Alaska! What an amazing place with such indescribable beauty! This book would be a fun addition to my non-existent quilting library. Seriously, I only have a few random magazines, and having a real quilting book would be such a pleasure!
ReplyDeleteWhat fun! Time to play.
ReplyDeleteAlways looking for new challenges and ideas. This one looks like a gem. Thanks for a chance to win it.
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Would love win this book! To get inspire by looking at color in a very different way. Enjoy your time at home! Thanks for all you do Bonnie! Robin
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please put my hat in the ring to win this book.
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Looks like a wonderful book!
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Linda
Please put my name in the hat for the drawing ... I am ALWAYS open to learning a new technique, new style of quilting ... this book looks like it could help me along! Linda
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I'd love this book...I have yet to do much improvisation in quilting but would love to...the exercises would get me started!
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Oooo! It looks wonderful! thanks for the giveaway, Bonnie!
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The book has lots of inspiration in it. I could use that.
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