It’s official. I know I’ve mentioned it before but it didn’t feel quite real until I had the book in my hand and saw for myself. My work is published.
I’m honored to have two photos of my quilts featured in the book ‘1000 Quilt Inspirations: Colorful and Creative Designs for Traditional, Modern, and Art Quilts
You can get your very own copy on amazon!
Also – to celebrate this exciting new page in my quilting career I’ll be giving away a copy to one of my fabulous readers!
All you need to do to enter to win is leave a comment answering this simple question –
Update 4/7/15 – Giveaway is now closed.
Where do you find inspiration for your quilts?
This giveaway is open to everyone! It will close at the end of the day on Monday, April 6th and I’ll announce the winner on my blog on the 7th. Please be sure to include your email address so I can get ahold of you if you win. If I can’t you will be disqualified and I’ll choose a new winner.
Thanks for all your continued support in my creative adventures!
I find inspiration in science and math. I think of the geometry I want it to have. But most of the time I am following a pattern that someone else made that catches my fancy. So I'm more often the recipient of inspiration than the creator 😀
I find inspiration from blogs online, nature walks, and strangely enough reading descriptions in novels. Hugs and thanks, Julierose
I find inspiration in lots of places — nature, buildings, online, books and magazines, fabric, etc. And sometimes an idea just pops into my head from who knows where!
I get inspired looking at quilting blogs and also by fabric collections.
Inspiration is every where…..the colors of spring, and fall…..from magazines….from blogs….from sites….it is every where…..
It frequently starts with the duck quack from Missouri Star, followed by cheery Jenny slicing and dicing her way to the equally-cheery quilt hanging behind her. After discovering a long lost stack of fat quarters purchased at a quilt show months (or years) previous, I begin my own slicing and dicing. Sometimes, it is a picture in my mind and a pad of grid paper.
Other times, it is a one word prompt, like, I don’t know, TREES, and a baggie full of homeless hexes.
On great blogs like yours! Good job! Thank you for the giveaway!
My inspiration comes from the fabric I find. If it catches my eye, I usually get an idea about the type of pattern it's to be used for.
I find inspiration in my travels! And in nature around me!
I find inspiration all over the place. Sometimes it is outside at the beach watching the seagulls. Sometimes it is in the craft room staring at my fabric. And sometimes ideas pop in my head as I dream. I like to keep my eyes open to what is around me and let it go from there. Which is one of the reasons I love project quilting, so much freedom in the challenges to be inspired!
Everywhere. Art, architecture, nature, people, etc.
I am inspired by so many things – nature mostly – flowers trees buildings tiles and colours especially. I read books too and yours looks wonderful – I love your work.
Pauline
perry94022 at hotmail dot com
While it's true that inspiration is all around me, I specifically and reliably find inspiration for quilts in tile floors and the external architecture of buildings.
Congratulations Kim! You certainly deserve it. Your work is always inspiring. I get inspired by thinking about memories I want to capture, people I want to make a gift for, and by gorgeous things I see on blogs.
Like others, my inspiration comes from blogs, books, fabric, quilts, and any other variety of places. (Congrats, by the way!)
I'm Inspired by my family, my dogs, my friends, religion, nature, books, songs and other assorted things.
hijoffe@gmail.com
Your blog……among other places. And fabric itself.
t_ktl at yahoo.com
I'm inspired by others work I see in blogs etc and colour. Congratulations on getting published!
I'm inspired by blogs, Pinterest, books and quilt shows.
Congratulations! I get inspiration from quilt books and magazines, blogs and other online sources, friends, nature, the fabrics themselves. I love to play with color and I'm getting better at combining blocks and exploring design elements.
Everywhere, including quilt books and magazines. One of my quilts is based on the LOVE stamp from the 2000's. Color inspires me
I am inspired by Nature and blogs
merryorganic@gmail.com
Congratulations! It's so awesome to hear from folks who are book contributors, especially about why and how they do the things they do. It gives the rest of us something to aspire to and encouragement to keep on doing what we love. 🙂 I find that I get inspired by patterns the most – in books and magazines, on pintrest and blogs – but I often "see" them in different fabrics than presented on the pattern. My bee friends usually say "I'd never have thought of using those colors" or "How did you pick those fabrics?" which I take as a compliment!
I find inspiration in color and texture. I might see a lovely texture (in nature) and that will be the start of an idea. Or I might see a color palette (almost anywhere!) that begins the process.
I find inspiration almost anywhere:) Floor tiles, carpet in a hotel, you just have to have an open mind and a good memory or take a picture:)
Congrats on being published!!! Awesome!!!!
Inspiration comes from just about anywhere…the blogs I follow, the places I see when I am out and sometimes even something on TV. So happy for you to have your quilts included in this publication. Congratulations!!
Everywhere………..but first I am inspired by the recipient and then by others like you………maybe a block or an antique quilt or a fabric or your color choices speak to me. It is like seasoning a dish with herbs and spices, a little of bit of this and that and it comes together into a whole for me. Thank you for your part in my inspiration.
I find inspiration everywhere I look – but especially at quilt shows – always blown away by the creativity I see there. Pinterest is another great source of push to do something new!
I find inspiration everywhere I look – but especially at quilt shows – always blown away by the creativity I see there. Pinterest is another great source of push to do something new!
The inspiration that motivates me the most comes from bloggers like you who post such beautiful creations they've made. I also find lots of pinned quilts on pinterest and add them to my quilting category. So many beauties, so little time!
I find inspiration in nature. Just going out for a walk is like a treasure hunt you never know what you will find.
Colors and the work of others.
Books, magazines and members of my quilting class. sru60@aol.com
I find inspiration in color and in nature. Thanks for the chance to win!
sarah123quilt@gmail.com
I get inspiration from books, magazines, internet, and quilt shows. Basically, anything that jumps out at me!
My inspiration comes mostly from my children. Books, magazines and blogs also inspire me
My inspiration comes from family and friends. I love to create quilts that reflect their interests. My nephew is passionate about skateboarding. I made a skate board themed quilt for him. My dad loves a friendly game of poker, His quilt was made using fabric that had playing cards. My grand-girls received quilts with the "Frozen" sisters. My dearest friend received a quilt in her favorite colors with inspirational sayings that I embroidered.
I find a lot of inspiration from viewing other quilters' blogs. It's so much fun to see what projects everyone is working on, the patterns they use, the fabrics and their colour choices.
lin.web.28 at gmail dot com
I find inspiration in the world around me. Some days colors will speak to me from something I see, other days it is my family that inspires me …
I tend to find inspiration from the people, situations and emotions around me. Thanks for the chance to win!
I find inspiration from blogs and my love of ethnic fabrics and very colorful prints. They beg to be made into something beautiful.
tushay3 ( at ) yahoo ( dot ) com
I like to see other people's patterns and then be moved by the different fabrics and colors and how they will look together in different tessellations.
determineddebby at gmail dot com
It comes from anywhere and everywhere for me. Nature, birds, trees, flowers, tiles on the floor, other people's quilts. It's all around me.
I get inspiration from all kinds of place – my place in the country (so many shades of green in the spring!) to creative people on the internet
I get inspiration through my children and my surroundings! Nature is always a wonderful inspiration!! maedgel @ Hotmail.com
Congratulations Kim! You certainly deserve it. Your work and challenges always inspiring.
I get a lot of inspiration online, from books, and from fellow quilters. Congratulations on being published! Very exciting 🙂
I just started quilting and am getting inspiration from pinterest mixed media pins and a quilt show I went to.
I am inspired by colors and fabric. sarah@forrussia.org
I am inspired by the patterns I find while I am traveling.
I have a LOT of fabric – much of it from my Mother's collection. ("FABLE" – Fabric Above and Beyond Life Expectancy). My goal is to use up this fabric so that I don't leave FABLE to MY daughters as their inheritance. So.. I am always looking on blogs and in books for ways to use the specific colors and quantities in my stash.
Most of my inspiration is from browsing the internet
I get my inspiration from fabric. Thanks for the giveaway. (debbie at wowilikethat dot com)
I've been known to snap pictures of buildings, landscapes, even concrete walkways cracked in interesting ways! driftedindrive at yahoo dot com Love seeing all your posts of different shows too!
I'm inspired by nature, botanicals, succulents, desert.
And Congrats KIM, on your first publication……I'm excited for you!
i find it in blogs and the wonderful things they do