A New Book Announcement - Great Granny Squared - and a Vintage Happy Giveaway!!! ...

I'm so excited to be able to announce the reason for my absence here!

I have been sew busy!!!

I have a new book I have been sewing for …

Great Granny Squared!

by Lori Holt

of Bee in my Bonnet

Available March 2014

If you did my Great Granny Along with me…

you will recognize:)

A few years ago I did a tutorial on 

my easy method to make my

 "Great Granny Block"

(so named because of the 

additional row around the outside)

This really is a traditional block that 

my grandma used to call 

"Album Block"

But us modern quilters of today

 have nick named it 

"granny square"

inspired by the crochet square

 by the same name:)

My tutorial will now be in book form…

along with other projects

and published by 

It's Sew Emma

YaY!

I love working with Kimberly and the girls!

All projects in the book ar

 centered around the

 great granny block and are 

simple and fun to make.

The book will have 4 projects...

along with 2 brand new blocks...

which I have designed for the labels:)

There will be 2 quilts in the book...

a tablerunner...

and a pillow.

This is not really what 

the front cover will look like…

it's just a mock up for the pre-order page,

but this quilt will be on the front cover.

I took several pictures to show you 

while I had it hanging in my front room:)

Next week Kimberly and the girls get here 

for a photo shoot

for the book:)

I will be able to show you every project in the book then!

I can't wait…we always have so much fun while they're here:)

My friend Helen Brutsch quilted this quilt for me…

I love how she did it:)

I wanted it to look very traditional ,

like my grandma and great aunts would have quilted it.

I think she did a wonderful job and I'm so pleased with how it turned out.

Of course I put my 

"Quilty Back Pockets"

 in the corners for hanging:)

Here is the label that I designed for this quilt.

Of course the pattern will be in the book:)

I love to embroider and so I added some

 onto the label for extra stitchy goodness!

I have also designed a new pattern called

"Stitchy Sampler"

The sampler uses my 6 favorite embroidery stitches that I always teach.

If you pre-order the book

you not only get 20% off the retail price of 13.95

but you get my Stitchy Sampler pattern for free!

Click Here 

if you would like to pre-order:)

I will be able to show it to you completed and framed in a few days:)

I'll be blogging more all next week and showing you lots of pics of what's happening during the photo shoot

I'll also be sharing things on

 Instagram as they happen.

Click here

to follow me there:)

I have used my newest fabric collection

Vintage Happy

(which will be released in March as well)

for all of the projects in 

Great Granny Squared

If you leave me a comment telling me 

that you have

 pre-ordered the book

or 

followed me on Instagram

(or both)

and I will pick a winner

 on friday of next week and send them 

 a Fat Quarter bundle of Vintage Happy:)

 I can't wait to hear from you!!

xx

Lori