Je vous propose une série de quilts réalisés par Françoise Aubert, qui avait ouvert une boutique au sein de sa propriété du château de Bessey-les-Citeaux. Elle a confectionné ses quilts au cours des années et souhaite faire profiter les générations à venir.
Je vous propose les photos de ces quilts, Françoise leur a donné un nom et à proposer un prix.
Vous pouvez me contacter à [email protected] pour connaître les conditions de vente ainsi que les frais de port, pour poser des questions ou bien pour faire une proposition.
I have a series of quilts made by Françoise Aubert, she had opened a shop on her property the castle of Bessey-les-Citeaux. She made these quilts along the way and would love for future generations to enjoy them.
Here are the photos of these quilts, Françoise gave them a name and suggested a price.
You can contact me at [email protected] to know the sale conditions as well as the shipping cost, you can ask questions or even make an offer.
Quilt 1 : BAYOU Dimension environ 150 x 150 cm Prix : 400 euros
Quilt 2 : LES PRESIDENTS AMERICAINS Dimension environ 120 x 167 cm Prix : 200 euros
Let me tell you what I will be up to in 2020: My first online course DESIGNING A QUILT 101
For the past 12 weeks, I have been following an online course called Digital Course Academy organized by Amy Porterfield. I wanted to learn and understand the best way to present my workbook, that I have been working on for the past 5 years, into an online course. As I didn't want to do it without the proper tools, I decided to do it in a professional way.
My course is now ready, but first I have to share with you how my online course will be different from what you might think about a quilt online course might be.
Designing a Quilt 101 is not a course to just teach you the patchwork technique but a journey to the pleasure of using shapes, the satisfaction of associating colors, the comfort of hand quilting, the achievement of making a quilt telling your story.
I did a Facebook Live about Telling a Story Quilt vs Antique Inspired Quilt, you can watch it on my Lin sans l'Autre facebook page.
I have prepared some other subjects to come on Facebook Live and Instagram Live:
The 3 reasons shapes are the first thing to think about when starting a Quilt.
The 3 color aspects to take into consideration when choosing fabric.
The 3 advantages in using acrylic templates when cutting your fabric
In 2020 I have planned to do some live workshops, I will keep you in the loop about the dates and the subjects they will be about.
If there are subjects that you want me to talk about in depth, please don't hesitate to leave me a comment.
In order to receive my mails informing you about all these Facebook Lives or about the workshops coming in 2020 then please register to my Special People List by clicking here.
Have a nice week.
Emmanuelle
The PDF version of the Starter's Guide is available by clicking here: STARTER'S GUIDE
The video is just a few post down if you want to have a better look at what's inside the Starter's Guide.
The PDF version of the Beguinner's Guide is available by clicking here: BEGUINNER'S GUIDE
I think that it is cool to have one, and mine is THINK IT MAKE IT LOVE IT, let me tell you how I came up with this:
As a designer there are 3 steps to follow.
Step 1. You need to create a design, therefore you need to imagine it, visualize it, draw it, conceive it. In other words: THINK IT
Step 2. You need to create a prototype, therefore you need the material, write down the technical instructions, have the project realized. In other words: MAKE IT
Step 3. You need to find a good use for the product that you created. Because we are in the quilt design, doesn't mean that we have to only make a quilt, it can be used for many other projects. In other words: USE IT, but as I found this word too strong, I decided to replace by LOVE IT
So there you go, those are the 3 steps to follow for a designer: THINK IT MAKE IT LOVE IT
And that is my motto, but if you are not sure what a motto is, it is a short sentence of phrase that has meaning for you, that you like to repeat to yourself to encourage you, to motivate you, to please you.
If you don't know where to get it from, then do like me, put down the 3 steps of something you are passionate about and bring them down to an easy phrase to remember.
Have a nice week.
Emmanuelle
The PDF version of the Starter's Guide is available by clicking here: STARTER'S GUIDE
The PDF version of the Beguinner's Guide is available by clicking here: BEGUINNER'S GUIDE
PS: Please remember that if you wish to be on my Special People List, you need to click here if you haven't done so on the previous posts that will allow me to keep you informed about what I will be up to next year.
The PDF version of the Starter's Guide is available by clicking here: STARTER'S GUIDE
The PDF version of the Beguinner's Guide is available by clicking here: BEGUINNER'S GUIDE
PS: Please remember that if you wish to be on my Special People List, you need to click here if you haven't done so on the previous posts that will allow me to keep you informed about what I will be up to next year.
I did my last fair of the year, I do enjoy meeting you when I go across the country and come to see you in whatever place you live.
But since I can't go all over the world, I have decided to develop an online course to bring you the work I have done.
To give an insight of what I have been up to for the past 5 years, I have made a leaflet with useful information.
You can download the full leaflets in a PDF format at the bottom of this post.
The PDF version of the Starter's Guide is available by clicking here: STARTER'S GUIDE
The PDF version of the Beguinner's Guide is available by clicking here: BEGUINNER'S GUIDE
Emmanuelle
PS: Please remember that if you wish to be on my Special People List, you need to click here if you haven't done so on the previous posts that will allow me to keep you informed about what I will be up to next year.
I have been working on my Designing a Quilt Workbook for 5 years now, I have been improving it every time I have some new ideas about patchwork, piecing or quilting.
This new challenge that I have given myself is to put my workbook on an online digital course platform, but in order to do so in a professional way, I have joined an online course myself called DIGITAL COURSE ACADEMY, it will be a 12 weeks course and will help me prepare all my documents to be put online with videos, slides and PDFs.
To share with you what I am up to, this is the Beginners Guide I have made to give you an insight of the bigger project, amongst the other documents I have prepared are Notions (the link is already on a previous blog post), Shapes, Blocks, Colors, Templates and Quilts.
I have been putting documents on my blog with PDF links, if you are hesitating about clicking on the links as I am asking for your name and email address, so here is what you will be getting in detail, it is a Beginners Guide to create blocks to make a quilt top:
I'll present to you my other PDFs that you will be able to download next week.
PS: Please remember that if you wish to be on my Special People List, you need to click here if you haven't done so on the previous posts that will allow me to keep you informed about what I will be up to next year.
A few years back I went to live in the east of France, I did a fair in the city of Lyon, I offered to do classes in my home, a group of 5 ladies joined me, this was in January 2015.
Each week I worked on preparing some exercises for the ladies to do, I didn't just want to explain to them the basics, but wanted them to have fun with quilts, the spreadsheets included coloring, cutting and assembling.
I started with the blocks, there are 3 by 3 blocks (also called 9 patch), I decided to give them French names as I had never seen it translated in French. I decided that to make it easier to understand, a 3 by 3 block would be a 3 patch, a 4 by 4 block would be a 4 patch, and started making my document. I drew some blocks that I had found in an old book that my mom had brought back from the USA. My first exercise sheet was created, they had to indicate under each block if it was a 3, 4 or 5 patch. That was my way to familiarise them with the fact that a block didn't have the same basic base.
I went on to colors, I thought about it and drew some print designs, made some tags with the prints on them and assign a reference to each tag. The exercise was to start with a certain amount of tags (which would be the equivalent to having a fat quarter bundle) and dispatching the tags on to different piles. The purpose of the exercise was to match the prints and colors in order to simulate that with the bundle they were going to make 3 quilts, so how would they distribute the fabric out so the 3 quilts wouldn't look like one was "made" with the left over fabric of the other two.
(many thanks to Anne, Anne-Marie and Gisèle)
That way I created lots of other spreadsheets that they could have fun with, but where they would also learn about quilt making and designing.
After a few months of working on those spreadsheet, I ended up having enough material to make a book.
I worked on completing it as much as possible so that each chapter of the book would have exercise, wether it was the chapter on the seam allowance (quite tricky to imagine) as on the quilting with one "stroke" of thread (that was the most cool one I had thought about, I was really proud of myself when I came up with this trick).
I talked about my workbook to several editors, but none seamed to grasp what it was about, so I decided to have it printed, I started with 50 copies, that is what my budget allowed me to start with.
I did a few fairs and sold it out easily, because in it I was using the Marti Michell templates, and a chapter showed how to use the templates, but there were also spreadsheets that the ladies could use to make some blocks of their own.
I was on a fair when a gentleman approached me and asked me about my book. He asked me if I would accept to meet with his boss, the editor was a well know French editor near Lyon. I presented my work, and she Kindly gave me feedback about it, told me that I need to break it down into several volumes, as she thought that having all that information into one book seamed to her a little too much.
I took her advice into consideration and started breaking down my book into 5 volumes: Volume 1 Shapes, Volume 2 Colors, Volume 3 Cutting, Volume 4 Sewing, Volume 5 Quilting.
A new more colorful version was created in 2017, with some new volumes: Volume 6 Log Cabin and Volume 7 Inspired Motifs. I printed some copies at home and mostly had them on CD rom as a PDF version.
I will tell you about all those volumes in next week's post.
Have a good week
Emmanuelle
Today's PDF is a BEGUINNER'S GUIDE, to getting started in making your own little quilt top, if you missed the NOTIONS document, just go back to last week's post.
PS: Please remember that if you wish to be on my Special People List, you need to click here if you haven't done so on the previous posts that will allow me to keep you informed about what I will be up to next year, with a big event that I am putting together these past few weeks.
After feeling "rejected" several times (I know that is a strong word, but that is how I felt back then), I decided to take it differently. If the fabric editing companies showed interest in my work, it was probably because what I was doing was good. My designs were based on my cross stitch, so maybe the "pixel" aspect that my fabric might have been the problem.
I knew that designers were using Illustrator as a designing tool, I had no idea how it worked, so the best idea was to take classes to learn how to use it. Well the price for just a week of training was expensive, and I wasn't even sure that I would learn what I need to design my fabric. One day as I was reading a friend's facebook page (Sandrine Franchet), she talked about an online class called Lignes & Formation, they had a topic called Textile Design, contacted them, turned out they used Illustrator in their classes. So without much ado, I registered for a 3 year class for 2000 euros.
And there I was on a 3 year journey of doing homework and turning it in (sending it by the post) to be graded by teachers.
It was a lot of work, but I finished it just a few days before the deadline and got my score of 16.4 over 20. I was really proud of my work, and really happy as I could now use Illustrator much more easily.
All that work was very useful for me as it inspired some new designs, that didn't have that "pixel" aspect anymore as I was drawing directly on my screen with a Wacom tablet.
To give my presentation a little extra touch, I went on Pinterest to find silhouettes that I "dressed" with my fabric!!
I went back to Quilt Market last year but only promises came out of it and no follow up.
So I have decided to work on my own, to give directly to my followers my work through websites such as Society6 and Spoonflower.
To edit my books myself by having them printed and selling them on fairs. And my futur project being online courses of my Designing a Quilt 101.
I'll tell you more next week on how I came up to make my book Designing a Quilt.
Emmanuelle
PS: you are going to love this week's PDF, to work in the patchwork business you need tools, those tools are called notions, and I am giving you a detailed list of all the notions I just love to use, what I think about them and what companies I use. (But please remember that if you wish to be on my Special People List, you need to click here if you haven't done so on the previous posts).
This week I want to tell you about designing fabric.
As a quilt designer, at one point I really wanted to go one step beyond and design the next best thing which was fabric. Since I had been designing cross stitch patterns, I used those drawings to build up a collection. Got to go to Quilt Market in 2010 and presented my work to different companies. My luck struck when Lecien, a Japanese company, which got interested in my work and accepted to edit a collection.
It was called "La Petite Mercerie":
My collection was made up of 21 bolts in the red, blue and brown tones.
I was featured on their list of designers on their website.
I was so proud of having a collection, I started working on the second one with Nireko, unfortunately the tsunami occurred and changed Lecien's strategy, they decided to only work with "in-house designers", so my second collection never got to come out.
This set back didn't stop me, I decided to work again on several collections and went back to the Quilt Market in Pittsburgh in 2014 to present my work. I was lucky once again to meet with Clothworks that decided to launch a collection with me called "Maison & Jardin".
Here are the videos I made, the first one was when I received the document used by the sales representatives to go around the shops to present the collection, and the second video are the strike offs that I received. (sorry both videos are in French, but you get to see the collection in full).
As I was waiting for the bolts to arrive at my house as I had a deadline to turn in a quilt for the French patchwork magazine "La Pratique du Patchwork", I called Clotchworks to find out why the bolts were taking so long to arrive, they finally told me they had cancelled the collection. And that was it, no other explanation on why after being all over their website, being on the front page of the biggest distributor Ee Schenck Co, they had just decided to cancel my work.
The feeling I had that evening was terrible. I was so sad.
I decided a few weeks later that I wouldn't give up, so once again went back to the Quilt Market, went to Minneapolis in 2015, showed my work to Red Rooster, they chose the collection they wanted to work with, I came back to France, made all the changes they asked for, I worked all summer on the strike offs, and it all just stopped all of a sudden, they didn't reply to my emails, no news. Once again all that work for nothing.
In 2018, I gave one more shot, went the Quilt Market in Houston, went from one desk to another of all the fabric companies, showing my work, talking passionately about what I did and who I was. Met with Art Gallery Fabrics, she told me she loved France and would love working with me, told me what to work on, but guess what, she never answered my mails.
So what did I do?
I will tell you all about it next week!!
PS: this weeks block of Mini Quilt Fun is here: PDF,
But a little extra for you, here is the Lecien PDF of my collection "La Petit Mercerie" with the pattern that was available on their website back then.
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Continuing on telling you about making blocks with templates.
As you might have noticed, block sets have specific sizes (all my examples are based on Marti Michell templates),
if you look up close Marti Michell's set base which include squares, triangles and quarter triangles have different sizes:
Set A is a set base of 3 inches
Set B is a set base of 4 inches
Set L is a 12 inches for a 7 patch
Set M is a 12 inches for a 5 patch
Set N is a set base of 1 inch
Set Q is a set base of 2 1/2 inches
Set S is a 6 inches for a 5 patch (compatible with Set M)
Set T is a set base of 5 inches
My advice when using templates is to determine what size you need your block to mesure, in order to choose your templates.
Notice that when a template is a multiple in size with an other template they are compatible: Set M allows you to make a 5 patch block measuring 12 inches, and Set S allows you to make a 5 patch block measuring 6 inches. A 6 inch block is the half of a 12 inch block (nothing complicated about that right!!), so those two sets are compatible, you will just need to make 4 blocks with set S that will be the same size as 1 block with Set M.
Another example: Set B has a base of 4 inches, if you make a 3 patch block, it will measure 12 inches. You can also use it with the above blocks.
You will have a 12 inch 3 patch block (made with Set B)
you will have a 12 inch 7 patch block (made with Set M)
you will have a 12 inch 10 patch block (made with Set S) -> if you you don't understand the "10 patch block", it is just that a 5 patch block measures 6 inches, so if you want 12 inches (6 inches x 2) you will need 2 x 5 patch block (= 10 patch block).
If all this is giving you a headache, I am very sorry.
I made some videos on how to use these templates (some are only in French - guess your headache is even worse now!!), you can have a look on how I play with the shapes to make different squares.
Turns out that Marti Michell has a template to make 12 inch houses, so they are compatible with the Set M (video still in French - that headache is still there, kind of figures, French is not an easy language to understand!!)
One last video on the Set S that I had only made once again in French!!
When you use templates, you have to keep in mind that you can't make any type of blocks,
if you have a 4 patch block design and a 5 patch block design, the end size will not be compatible if you use the same template set, in order for those two blocks to measure the same, you will have to use to different templates.
Next week I will tell you about my experience in Designing Fabrics.
Manou
PS: Here is another block to work with for the Mini Quilt Fun, just click here to download your free PDF.
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I call traditional quilts, quilts made out of squares that are geometrical, made of shapes such as squares, rectangles, triangles, most were given names to make it easier to recognize.
The farmer's wife quilt
To make these shapes you can either draw them on a piece of paper, cut the paper template, trace it on a fabric, add a seam allowance of a quarter inch and then piece the fabrics together. That is how I started 30 years ago!!
A few years after that, I started using plastic templates, there are many available on the market, my favorite ones are the Marti Michell templates.
I like the fact that they are thick, so when you slide the rotary cutter against the side you will avoid slipping and cutting yourself, and I also like the special corners, very useful especially for the triangles.
I made lots of videos on youtube using the templates and showing how accurate they are for the intersections.
The first video was only in French, as I wanted to present the templates to the French ladies.
The three following videos are in French and English (there is a banner at the bottom to indicate when I am speaking English).
I have been designing quilts with "traditional blocks" motifs:
This is my five patch design.
There are many possibilities when using the "traditional blocks":
I really enjoyed playing with the basic shapes (squares, triangles), and also other shapes such as trapeze, kite and pyramid.
But working with templates has one condition, it is that a template has a set size and you need to know something about blocks to use them properly.
I will tell you all about that next week.
manou
PS: Here is another block to work with for the Mini Quilt Fun, just click on the link, type in your name and mail and you will get the document immediately, the purpose of not accessing the PDF straight away is that it allows me to have statistics on how many people were interested by my document : PDF
Every week I will be sharing with you what I know about patchwork and quilts.
For the past 10 years I have been designing cross stitch and finding ways to use them, I have been making pillows, bags, clocks, frames, and also quilts. Some have been published in the magazine Passion Fil (which has sadly stopped being published).
The quilt with the teddy bear on it is a design of mine (notice the two ladies in the top left corner, it is the ladies from my previous post about Egypt, an article was published about my trip in this number 2 issue of Passion Fil actually!!).
Since then I have been working a lot on designing quilt patterns on their own.
Turns out after working for Passion Fil, I started designing for the magazine La Pratique du Patchwork.
After using my cross stitch to add in the patchwork top, I started transforming some of my geometrical cross stitch drawings into patchwork, as in this above quilt published in the Pratique du Patchwork number 5.
I then evolved into playing with traditional blocks.
I will tell you about that next week.
manou
PS: Here is a PDF for you to have fun with while you wait till next week!!
My name is Emmanuelle, I was born on September 2nd 1969 (I turned 50 this year!!) in Rennes.
I grew up in South America (Ecuador), in Africa (Mali) and the USA (Texas, New Mexico and Wyoming).
I started my business in 2006 under the name of Alice and Co (in memory of my grandmother Alice Bouvier Briand).
In 2009 I had the chance to go teach cross stitch to a group of ladies in Nagada in Egypt thanks to Elvira Gundi (founder of Turath).
This experience was amazing and confirmed my need to teach and share my knowledge and creating workbooks to help ladies understand better what they are doing and how to do it, even when I don't speak a word of Egyptian and they don't speak either French of English!!
Hope this year has been good for you, I have been working on lots of new projects one being to develop my experience in different patchwork techniques.
I am preparing for 2020 a big surprise, and I hope you will be part of it.
I have told you about my workbook Designing a Quilt, perhaps you have a copy of it, well it won't be just a book anymore, it is going to become videos, so that if you haven't been using your workbooks, you will be from now on.
If you don't know about these workbooks, don't worry you will know all about them in the upcoming weeks.
Cette année je vous propose de me suivre dans un projet de calendrier BLOCKS 2019, incluant des planches de patchwork, des planches d'inspiration, des planches de recherche et des planches de challenge.
A découvrir dans le prochain article.
manou
This year I have a project for you to follow a calendar called BLOCKS 2019, including patchwork boards, inspiration boards, research boards and challenge boards.
Voici mon premier livre de couture, je propose 31 modèles à coudre de sacs, sacoches, cabas et cartable ainsi qu'un plaid avec sa housse. Je propose aussi 40 grilles de point de croix pour personnaliser les projets, des pas à pas en dessin sont proposés pour faciliter l'assemblage des ouvrages.
Mon livre est disponible dans toutes les librairies ou sur le site de Tutti Frutti.
Mon tissu
Lecien - Japon
La Petite Mercerie
La Petite Mercerie by Emmanuelle Carre - Printed by Lecien - Made in Japan: Voici ma première collection de tissus constituée de 21 rouleaux ayant pour thème la mercerie, retrouver des ciseaux, des boutons, des galons. Toute ma collection est disponible dans les boutiques de Patchwork l'ayant commandée!
La Petite Mercerie by Emmanuelle Carre - Printed by Lecien - Made in Japan: Voici ma première collection de tissus constituée de 21 rouleaux ayant pour thème la mercerie, retrouver des ciseaux, des boutons, des galons. Toute ma collection est disponible dans les boutiques de Patchwork l'ayant commandée!