Mini Masterpieces Book Hop Starts Today

There’s only several more days to wait until my book, Mini Masterpieces, is released, but today is the day that the book blog hop begins! It’s the 12 Days of Mini Masterpieces… because for the next twelve days, I have 24 amazing quilters sharing their makes from Mini Masterpieces.

Mini Masterpieces features 12 essential quilting techniques, with a sampler block and a mini quilt for each. For the blog hop, I asked my friends to make the sampler block. Many have also gone on to turn the block into a finished project, so that’s been fun to see how they turn the one sampler block into something else! And seeing sneak peeks on Instagram…

 

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Remember those yellow and grey scraps I had out the other day? I’ve been working on something… and here’s a cute sneaky peek! It’s a project from my darling friend @blossomheartquilts new book #minimasterpiecesbook which is coming out November 26!! Alyce and I hosted a quilt retreat together at my farm house at the start of this year and I am beyond honoured that I have now got a friend who is a published author!!! You can preorder the book now (and trust me, you will want it 😉) AND there is an upcoming book hop AND a 2020 sewalong! AND Alyce is donating a signed book copy for the main prize for quarter 4 #yearofminiquilts 😱😱😱!!! That’s a lots of AND’s. 😜 #luckyspool #justbetterbooks #quiltbook #heatherross #scrapquilt #blossomheartquilts

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This is definitely another of those “Pinch me!” moments in my journey as an author. I’ve been on many book blog hops for friends before, but for me to be asking friends to make projects from and to help share my book?! It’s a little surreal! But I’m so thankful for the generous love and support they’ve each shown me in joining in this blog hop.

So here’s the line up that you are going to want to be following!

November 18 – Simple Squares
Sarah from Sarah Ashford Studio – @sarahashfordstudio
Janice from Better Off Thread – @betteroffthread

November 19 – Strip Piecing
Molli from Molli Sparkles – @mollisparkles
Sarah from SariDitty – @sariditty

November 20 – Snowball Blocks
Ali from Arabesque Scissors – @arabesquescissors
Kitty from Night Quilter – @nightquilter

November 21 – HSTs
Andrea from 3rd Story Workshop – @3rdstoryworkshop
Caitlin – @caitlinpolden

November 22 – Flying Geese
Kirsty from Bonjour Quilts – @bonjour_quilts
Karen from Karen Lewis Textiles – @karenlewistextiles

November 23 – HRTs
Jemima from Tied With A Ribbon – @tiedwitharibbon
Rebecca from Bryan House Quilts – @bryanhousequilts

November 24 – Simple Curves
Nicole from Modern Handcraft – @modernhandcraft
Ava & Neve – @ava_and_neve

November 25 – Complex Curves
Elisabeth from Elisabew Quilts – @elisabew
Samantha from Aqua Paisley – @aqua_paisley
Christopher from The Tattooed Quilter – @the_tattooed_quilter

November 26 – Improv Curves
Aurifil – @aurifilthread
Nicholas from Quilts From The Attic – @quiltsfromtheattic

November 27 – Applique
Lauren from Molly And Mama – @mollyandmama
Sedef from Down Grapevine Lane – @downgrapevinelane

November 28 – EPP
Sharon from Lilabelle Lane – @lilabellelane
Jodi from Tales of Cloth – @talesofcloth

November 29 – FPP
Kristy from Quiet Play – @quietplay

And trust me when I say that you’ll want to carefully follow along the way, because every single person has two spools from my Mini Masterpieces Aurifil thread collection to give away. Yep, that’s right, it’s ALL THINGS Mini Masterpieces.

I will be sharing each person’s makes here and on Instagram, to make it easier for you to follow along with what’s happening. I will also be sharing all the details about the Mini Masterpieces QAL that’s happening in 2020. Plus oh yes, these fantastic amazing quilters are back in 2020 when they’ll be making the mini quilts in the relevant month! Some can’t even wait that long…

 

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The start of my sister’s Ghastlies wedding quilt. 😊 The templates and design is from @blossomheartquilts’ new book ‘Mini Masterpieces’ out Nov. 26th but available for preorder now. I made a test block a few days ago and I knew I needed to make more. I am having fun, even though I pinned every single block. #ghastlies #ghastliesfabric #blossomheartquilts #minimasterpiecesbook #luckyspool #fussycutting #quilting

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Nor could they restrict it to a mini, ha! It’s something I do encourage in the book, that if you are really just that inspired and motivated, keep making more blocks! But there is absolutely no pressure to do so. My whole belief behind Mini Masterpieces is that creating and making for the sake of creativity is absolutely valid, and especially so when you’re trying something new – making “only” a mini quilt is a great way to experiment free from the pressure of creating a large quilt. Put those new skills to work with an achievable size of project! But ain’t nobody put Elisabeth in a corner, so big she has gone for her sister’s wedding quilt with Ghastlies fabric.

So yes, it’s going to be such a fun couple of weeks, with pretty projects, great giveaways, and interesting info about getting ready creatively for 2020 #awesomealliteration

And of course, don’t forget to preorder my book! Preorders really help with the success of book releases, and especially on Amazon (and then don’t forget to leave a review once you get it!). If a signed copy is more your jam, you can click here to preorder a signed copy, otherwise here’s where else you can preorder my book around the interwebz.

 

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