Win this book!
[Please note: this giveaway has ended. Congratulations to Jeanne, winner of this fabulous book!]
Enter a comment below this post on the blog and you’ll be entered to win a copy of Quilting Designs From Nature by Lone J. Minkkinen (American Quilter’s Society, 2011). This book was featured in “Staff Picks” in the December/January 2012 issue of Quilters Newsletter, which is on sale at newsstands, quilt shops, bookstores, craft stores and online.
December/January 2012
The book features the Danish artist author’s continuous-line quilting designs that can populate individual blocks or stretch along borders. They can also be enlarged or reduced to create pantographs or intricate fill patterns. The designs were created for machine quilting but hand quilters can adapt them.
For your chance to win, leave a comment below by 11:59 p.m. Mountain time Sunday, December 25. One comment per person. Tell us why you love this book. We will pick a winning comment at random and that person will receive a copy of the featured book. This giveaway is open to people who haven’t won something from Quilters Newsletter in the last 90 days.
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The Nature Book would be a great inspiration to me as I would like ideas of how to make quilts more interesting. It would show different designs and patterns to make a quilt stand out among others.
Looks like a “must-have” book.
I would love this book because I have just started to try my hand at quilting my tops instead of sending them out. I would love to have some fun patterns to try.
Looks like an awesome book. Can’t wait to see the amazing patterns inside and try them out.
Looks like a book that would be fun and inspiring to have.
What a great idea for quilting designs! I could use that book!
I have been machine quilting for a while and am ready to try some new quilting patterns. This book looks like it has some interesting and challanging designs.
I was just looking for a pattern for a dog’s paw! I had to google clip art, which took awhile to find and then print. I would love to have this as a go to resource. It would save me some time. Thanks for the chance to win a copy.
I have just began to add more complicated quilting designs to my quilts. This book looks really inspiring!
I am relatively new to actually quilting but I have been piecing tops for years. This book looks like something I have been thinking about purchasing so that I can continue building my skills as a full fledged, honest to goodness quilter. Thanks for the opportunity to win it
I would love to have the book. As a new quilter, i am always searching for new patterns and techniques to learn. Here’s hoping
I’m looking for something to fill in the spaces on my quilts that is not the same old thing looks like the perfect book for me!
I’m always in the market for interesting designs for quilting, especially when they’ve been created for continuous line stitching. However, if I won it I would donate it to the library so that the contents could be shared by many quiltmakers.
Neat looking book!
Looks like a cool book that will help me bring more depth and variety to my FMQ. I sure hope I win this one!
I am a long time mostly hand quilter who just purchased a new dream sewing machine with a BSR foot. Today I took a class at the shop where I purchased it and was introduced to the world of machine quilting. Nature themes have always been in my life and quilts and I’d love to try the patterns in this new book!
Looks like a really great book giving ideas for expanding quilting skills!
Insirational!
Scandinavian quilting would be a chance to design nature in a new way. Fun.
Desire to create is there, the novice quilting knowledge is acceptable to complete a project, but the inspiration of taking the project to the next level … Santa can you help me please? I’ll be a good girl all of 2012 if you pick me!
Looks like a great book, I would love it because the quilting is such an important part of the quilt and this book has so many ideas for those more difficult quilts!
This looks like a “must have” book. It would be a great addition to my quilt library.
Nancy
I am ready to start a new project. It really appeals to me to work with a nature theme. Very excited about the book.
I would love to try using these quilting designs on the pastel quilt I’m ready to work on in the new year.
I’m ready to start a new project. This book interests me because of the nature theme, and I can visualize the beautiful colors and sewing that are in the designs.
I am sure this book would stimulate the creative juices. Looks really interesting.
Ann
Just the cover gets me inspired! I can’t wait to see what’s inside it!
I would really like some inspiration for quilting, as I don’t really know how to design the quilting and I don’t know where to start.
This book looks like a wonderful resource. I just finished a quilt and used a dove motif as the quilting design. Since I do not have a long arm and do my quilting using ‘free motion’ on my sewing machine, it took me forever to find a design that would work for me. I finally combined a couple of graphics from coloring books. This book would save me hours of searching for the perfect design and a ton of frustration!
New quilting patterns to start the New Year ? AWESOME
More creativity can be sparked by ideas shown in this new book. Continuous line quilting patterns would certainly complement a quilt. I’d be glad to add this to my resources!
The patterns are different than most patterns with the Scandinavian clean lines and the connection to the environment & nature. I’d love to have it!
I have only recently started quilting my own quilts. This looks like the pefect book to keep me going and making my quilts stand out!