Little White Horse in Classic Stitches

Issue 87 of Classic Stitches magazine was in my mailbox today and also in our newsagent shop in West Linton. And this issue has my article about my quiltie Little White Horse which will look familiar to regular readers of my blog as a detail of the quiltie features in the banner above. I love the layout they have provided for it in the magazine as seen above and I even like the picture of me they've used.

It has some basic instructions about how the quiltie was made but also describes how I came to make it. For those of you in the US I believe Classic Stitches is available there but you can also buy it online.

The Little White Horse, a children's book by Elizabeth Goudge, published in 1946, was my favourite childhood book. I had it in paperback version and of course in Dutch. When I moved abroad it was left with my parents and had been virtually read to bits. When they in their turn moved, it somehow got thrown out and when I wanted to retrieve it neither my mother nor I could remember either the title or the author, which made it virtually impossible to find. We naturally assumed it was a Dutch book and visited many second hand shops in The Netherlands over the years trying to locate it. All I could remember very clearly was that it concerned a unicorn and also that a governess which regularly sucked peppermint played an important role.

I could recite most of the first chapter too but this did not help to locate a copy.

I had sort of given up hope of ever finding it! So you can imagine my surprise one day when I opened my Amazon homepage and as always read My Recommendations. How it happened I have no idea but there it was: MY BOOK and it had originally been published in English and in the U.K. As soon as I read the contents I just knew I had found it again. It was re-published in paperback as there are thoughts of making it into a film. Why Amazon had added it to my recommendations will forever remain a mystery. It was synchronicity at its most beautiful! Or maybe I asked and the universe offered?!

Only thing is that I now feel that Amazon knows best and whatever they recommend I should probably get it!! So far they haven't disappointed but I'm spending a fortune on books!!!

Quilties in Classic Stitches Magazine

I was Christmas shopping in a garden centre (Dobbies) today, more to admire the displays which were amazing, than to actually shop although I managed to pick up some great napkins for future collages. It was of course as busy as can be at this time of the year and there were long queues at the check-out. The magazines on sale were conveniently located by the tills to entice you to read (and buy!) something while waiting. I saw the new Classic Stitches magazine (Issue no. 84) and grapped it and loo and behold, there was the article I wrote for them quite some time ago about quilties and a quiltie swap I did this year with the theme of Favourite Artists.

They also used some of my other quilties as illustration, such as the Paperwhimsy quiltie. The quilties look wonderful in the pictures, some are actually pictured larger than life and I'm just SO PLEASED with how the whole article looks and with the entire lay-out! It's just great!I know this magazine is for sale in the US but if not, you can also order copies on their website.

Classic Stitches Magazine

There is an article about me in the new issue of the Classic Stitches Magazine, issue 79 (www.classicstitches.com). It concentrates on my mixed media work such as the Journal Quilts and other work (fabric postcards and ATCs). I'm ever so pleased with it, even the photograph of me looks good. I love having my work photographed but not me!! Esther Read, the journalist who wrote it, has done a wonderful job jotting down my ramblings and turning them into a very readable article. This British magazine is for sale in the States although I'm sure how wide spread their distribution is but they have a website (see above) where you can order online. Here is just a taster to give you some idea! And yes, that young girl on the Hope card is indeed me (age 7). My wings have disappeared with age!

I've spend today swapping out my Button Up Swap that I hosted for www.atcards.com. There were a total of 20 participants and I think they will be pleased with their cards. Here is my contribution.