CraftWinter2024

ALSO AVAILABLE ISBN: 978-0-7643-6807-3 Size: 8 1/2" x 11" (216 x 279 mm) Pages: 240 Price: $39.99, £36.99, 56.99 CAD UK Pub Date: September 2024 Illustrations: 300 color photos, diagrams, and patterns Binding: hardcover BISAC: CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Quilts & Quilting CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Fiber Arts & Textiles AVAILABLE JULY 2024 The Quilting Experience A Celebration of Community and Patchwork Patterns By Victoria Findlay Wolfe, Foreword by Meg Cox Craft your story by making life-theme quilt blocks, and enjoy your place in the quilting community Make 12 quilt block designs to combine into a personal Experience Quilt and 11 other projects Poignant, sometimes funny stories shared by quilters highlight how we harness creativity to navigate life events Internationally renowned teacher Victoria Findlay Wolfe invites quilters to treasure their vibrant community while making blocks for an Experience Quilt. These complete instructions and patterns for 12 original quilt block designs, each representing a profound life theme such as “Friendship,” “Aging,” “Celebration,” and “Grief,” let readers create an Experience Quilt rich with their personal narrative. • Each of 12 original block designs by Victoria includes clear instructions with multiple sizes and colorway variations. • Includes 11 additional projects—quilts and pillows—that your blocks can build. • Victoria Findlay Wolfe welcomes quilters to claim their place in the diverse community that includes many ages, backgrounds, skill levels, and life journeys. • With the power of a quilting-bee conversation, thought-provoking, poignant, and amusing stories shared by diverse quilters illuminate each theme. • In Victoria’s signature way, these designs appeal to historical-, traditional-, and modern-focused quilters alike. • A foreword by Meg Cox emphasizes how diversity among quilters offers strength to all. About the Author Award-winning quilter and artist Victoria Findlay Wolfe teaches and designs quilting patterns, templates, and other supplies at her quilt store vfwquilts .com. Her quilts are in museum collections worldwide. She has served on the board of the International Quilt Study Center and the Quilt Alliance. Her previous books include Double Wedding Rings: Traditions Made Modern . www.vfwquilts.com ISBN 978-0-7643-6807-3 HERSTORY QUILTS 978-0-7643-5460-1 240 pp. | 8 1/2" x 11" (216 x 279 mm) | hardcover $34.99, £31.99, 48.99 CAD PORTABLE PATCHWORK 978-0-7643-6202-6 192 pp. | 8 1/2" x 11" (216 x 279 mm) | hardcover $29.99, £27.99, 42.99 CAD NEW THIS SEASON | 3