Books

It’s been a very colorful couple days here. (Click on the picture to go to the stop for that color.)

Some of the giveaways have closed but others are still open! Go comment!

And if you don’t win one of the awesome prizes, check out these links to buy:

Scrap Republic: Carolina Patchworks, C&T Publishing, Amazon, Barnes & Noble or your favorite quilt shop online or down the street

Scrap Republic Eco-Tote: C&T Publishing and Carolina Patchworks

Connecting Threads Essential Cotton Thread: here

Robert Kaufman Fabrics: everywhere!

Mrs. Roy G. Biv quilt pattern: Carolina Patchworks (aka me!)

Already have the book? Post your completed projects in the flickr group and/or write a review over at Amazon.

The end of the rainbow. Not a pot of gold, but how about a post full of violet?

Let’s hop on over to the last stop on our tour — Allie @ Robert Kaufman’s Swatch and Stitch and read about violet.

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Violet sky:

Violet quilts:

I’m so happy to see more and more purple and violet in fabrics. Heart me some violet/purple.

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Today is the last chance to win one of the awesome prizes we have lined up!

Scrap Republic from C&T Publishing (printed version for residents, PDF for international)

Scrap Republic Eco Tote from C&T Publishing (US residents only)

Bag o’ Scraps from Robert Kaufman (US and International)

ROY G BIV Essential Cotton Thread in Red, Pumpkin, Butter, Lime, Cerulean, Midnight, and Red Violet from Connecting Threads (US residents only)

Mrs. Roy G. Biv Pattern from Carolina Patchworks (the pattern that inspired the book!) (US and International)
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Make sure to visit all the stops!

Monday October 3: White
Rachel Griffith @ p.s. i quilt
http://www.psiquilt.com

Tuesday October 4: Pink
Kathy Mack @ Pink Chalk Studio
http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog

Wednesday October 5: Red
Kimberly Jolly @ Fat Quarter Shop
http://fatquartershop.blogspot.com

Thursday October 6: Orange
Jake Finch @ Generation Q Magazine
http://generationqmagazine.com

Friday October 7: Yellow
Pat Sloan @ {The Voice of Quilting}
http://patsloan.typepad.com/pat_sloans_corner

Saturday October 8: Green
Melissa Burt @ Connecting Threads
http://www.connectingthreads.com/blog

Sunday October 9: Blue
Scott Hansen @ Blue Nickel Studios
http://bluenickelstudios.com

Monday October 10: Indigo
John Adams @ Quilt Dad
http://www.quiltdad.com

Tuesday October 11: Violet
Allie Heath @ Robert Kaufman
http://www.swatchandstitch.com

What’s indigo you ask? Well an “official” explanation:

Indigo is a color named after the purple dye derived from the plant Indigofera tinctoria and related species. The color is placed on the electromagnetic spectrum between about 420 and 450 nm in wavelength, placing it between blue and violet.

This is where the book strayed from roy g biv. Indigo is technically inbetween blue and purple. But all of my fabric that was somewhere inbetween blue and purple? It got stuck with blue or purple. But there were tons of fabric scraps that had no where to go — the blacks, browns, greys and really dark blues (what I always associate with indigo). This is where the real world diverges from theory and we just make the quilts look good.

Let’s see what John @ QuiltDad has to say about indigo (and brown and black and grey).

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Indigo (and brown and black and grey) to me? Well, we live in Seattle. So let’s the stereotypes begin!

Dude, we rock the grey.

But don’t forget, there’s a whole heck of a lot of blue too.  But blue was yesterday — can’t talk about blue today.

Just one more day on our colorful little blog tour!

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Today is another chance to win one of the awesome prizes we have lined up!

Scrap Republic from C&T Publishing (printed version for residents, PDF for international)

Scrap Republic Eco Tote from C&T Publishing (US residents only)

Bag o’ Scraps from Robert Kaufman (US and International)

ROY G BIV Essential Cotton Thread in Red, Pumpkin, Butter, Lime, Cerulean, Midnight, and Red Violet from Connecting Threads (US residents only)

Mrs. Roy G. Biv Pattern from Carolina Patchworks (the pattern that inspired the book!) (US and International)
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Make sure to visit all the stops!

Monday October 3: White
Rachel Griffith @ p.s. i quilt
http://www.psiquilt.com

Tuesday October 4: Pink
Kathy Mack @ Pink Chalk Studio
http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog

Wednesday October 5: Red
Kimberly Jolly @ Fat Quarter Shop
http://fatquartershop.blogspot.com

Thursday October 6: Orange
Jake Finch @ Generation Q Magazine
http://generationqmagazine.com

Friday October 7: Yellow
Pat Sloan @ {The Voice of Quilting}
http://patsloan.typepad.com/pat_sloans_corner

Saturday October 8: Green
Melissa Burt @ Connecting Threads
http://www.connectingthreads.com/blog

Sunday October 9: Blue
Scott Hansen @ Blue Nickel Studios
http://bluenickelstudios.com

Monday October 10: Indigo
John Adams @ Quilt Dad
http://www.quiltdad.com

Tuesday October 11: Violet
Allie Heath @ Robert Kaufman
http://www.swatchandstitch.com

Blue.

When this party was being organized, everyone got to pick their favorite colors. Except Scott and Kathy. Scott had to be blue. Kathy had to be pink. No questions asked. Thankfully they played along with my craziness.

Let’s see what Scott @ Blue Nickel Studios has to say about blue.

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Blue is many things to me. Though I didn’t think I used that much blue fabric, I ended up with one heck of a huge bucket of it.

Blue is the bottom middle. Along with white on the left and selvedges on the right. Lots of blue.

Do you like blue? I have something awesome in blue coming up… scheduled for 10/13. You have to see it.

Also coming up in the blog queue — Scott’s Quiltuberfest! I practiced for the fine occasion last night at a local pub’s Oktoberfest celebration — oompah band and all. No lederhosen though. That I would have gotten a picture of.

My day is 10/15. Stay tuned.

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Today is another chance to win one of the awesome prizes we have lined up!

Scrap Republic from C&T Publishing (printed version for residents, PDF for international)

Scrap Republic Eco Tote from C&T Publishing (US residents only)

Bag o’ Scraps from Robert Kaufman (US and International)

ROY G BIV Essential Cotton Thread in Red, Pumpkin, Butter, Lime, Cerulean, Midnight, and Red Violet from Connecting Threads (US residents only)

Mrs. Roy G. Biv Pattern from Carolina Patchworks (the pattern that inspired the book!) (US and International)
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Make sure to visit all the stops!

Monday October 3: White
Rachel Griffith @ p.s. i quilt
http://www.psiquilt.com

Tuesday October 4: Pink
Kathy Mack @ Pink Chalk Studio
http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog

Wednesday October 5: Red
Kimberly Jolly @ Fat Quarter Shop
http://fatquartershop.blogspot.com

Thursday October 6: Orange
Jake Finch @ Generation Q Magazine
http://generationqmagazine.com

Friday October 7: Yellow
Pat Sloan @ {The Voice of Quilting}
http://patsloan.typepad.com/pat_sloans_corner

Saturday October 8: Green
Melissa Burt @ Connecting Threads
http://www.connectingthreads.com/blog

Sunday October 9: Blue
Scott Hansen @ Blue Nickel Studios
http://bluenickelstudios.com

Monday October 10: Indigo
John Adams @ Quilt Dad
http://www.quiltdad.com

Tuesday October 11: Violet
Allie Heath @ Robert Kaufman
http://www.swatchandstitch.com

Today: green.

Let’s hop on over to see what Melissa Burt @ Connecting Threads has to say about green.

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Green to me is growth. Life. The grass in the spring. The leaves on a tree. The moss that grows on any surface imaginable (in Seattle at least). And the food:

(root end of some napa cabbage)

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Today is another chance to win one of the awesome prizes we have lined up!

Scrap Republic from C&T Publishing (printed version for residents, PDF for international)

Scrap Republic Eco Tote from C&T Publishing (US residents only)

Bag o’ Scraps from Robert Kaufman (US and International)

ROY G BIV Essential Cotton Thread in Red, Pumpkin, Butter, Lime, Cerulean, Midnight, and Red Violet from Connecting Threads (US residents only)

Mrs. Roy G. Biv Pattern from Carolina Patchworks (the pattern that inspired the book!) (US and International)
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Make sure to visit all the stops!

Monday October 3: White
Rachel Griffith @ p.s. i quilt
http://www.psiquilt.com

Tuesday October 4: Pink
Kathy Mack @ Pink Chalk Studio
http://pinkchalkstudio.com/blog

Wednesday October 5: Red
Kimberly Jolly @ Fat Quarter Shop
http://fatquartershop.blogspot.com

Thursday October 6: Orange
Jake Finch @ Generation Q Magazine
http://generationqmagazine.com

Friday October 7: Yellow
Pat Sloan @ {The Voice of Quilting}
http://patsloan.typepad.com/pat_sloans_corner

Saturday October 8: Green
Melissa Burt @ Connecting Threads
http://www.connectingthreads.com/blog

Sunday October 9: Blue
Scott Hansen @ Blue Nickel Studios
http://bluenickelstudios.com

Monday October 10: Indigo
John Adams @ Quilt Dad
http://www.quiltdad.com

Tuesday October 11: Violet
Allie Heath @ Robert Kaufman
http://www.swatchandstitch.com