I have so much to SAY!! And it’s crazy that the only reason I get to say anything is because Bama dog has a hurt foot and isn’t getting a walk tonight as a result. Two huge work projects of mine have been completed and I couldn’t be happier about my experience at the Spring Quilt Market trade show in Minneapolis or with C&T Publishing’s Fall 2010 catalog. I’m going to talk about the catalog in this post and maybe get to Spring Quilt Market later on…doubtful though.
First, you can download the catalog and the other Fall 2010 seasonal print collateral pieces I’ve been working on from this page. All the images in this post can be clicked to enlarge.
I know print collateral is so ten years ago, but you have to understand my industry. Loyal, longtime customers of ours and even some of our authors, exist without the internet, and many many more of them still prefer print over digital. Our catalog is our lifeline to entire communities, like the Amish for example, and we won’t ever deny access (or marketing) to such contributors to the craft. After all, a google search for
Continue reading C&T Publishing Fall 2010 catalog
As much as the twice yearly catalog projects I manage at C&T Publishing tend to take over for my life for weeks at a time, it sure is great to have something tangible, beautiful even, to show for my team’s efforts. I am more proud of the new Spring 2010 Catalog than of any other catalog C&T has published since I began my employment there.
As with every project, not everything went exactly as I wanted and there are a few things I would change about it if I ruled the world. But considering how many people the catalog has to please, I’m extremely happy with how it turned out. Every time I look at it I smile and do a little victory dance in my head for the beautiful pink rhino on the cover. YES!
The pink rhino quilt on the cover is from Serendipity Quilts by Susan Carlson (page 29) and the quilt at the top is from City Quilts by Cherri House (page 26). You can download the entire catalog here on the C&T Publishing website.
catalog front cover
It’s time to tackle the next version of a recurring seasonal project. Here’s how-to beat boredom and making the most of your project management skills.
Quilt Market Spring 2009 has been on my radar for the past year through my job at C&T Publishing. My Quilt Market to-do list started quite small, but gradually gained momentum as the weeks and months went by. About a month ago, it was hard to find anything on my comprehensive to-do list that wasn’t Quilt Market related. Actually that’s a lie. There have been plenty of other items on my master to-do list but the Quilt Market tasks all joined forces and ran those other items over with the strength (and noise) I’d imagine were they a herd of buffalo.
For those of you who aren’t yet in the know, C&T Publishing authors are big in the blogosphere. Here’s a little bit about some of our blogger authors and links to some of the gems they’ve recently posted to their blogs:
Laura West Kong is the author of Fast, Fun & Easy® Fabric Cover-Button Jewelry, a September 2009 release. She designs quilt patterns and fiber art, but has dabbled in many other crafts as well– she even made chili pepper piñatas for Cinco de Mayo! Check out this great Sew-n-Go tip she recently posted to her blog, Adventures of a Quilting Diva. I knew there had to be a use for empty dental floss containers!
At the winter CHA show, C&T Publishing launched their Ready-to-Go! Blank Board Indie File Box and the packaging includes an image of the Seed Keeper project I designed. I also instructed a Stay ‘n Play of the project in our booth to a very enthusiastic group of attendees. Now the project sheet is posted here at the C&T Publishing site and I’ll have it posted here at my blog shortly.
Board books are really versatile and fun to craft with – the creativity is virtually limitless – so if you like the project, check out C&T Publishing’s entire Ready-to-Go! Blank Board Book line.
The recurring question I have been posing to myself this week at work goes something like this:
How can I possibly be running behind in planning for the CHA trade show when the shipping crate isn’t even back from Quilt Market yet?
And then I realize (again) that the image I had been carrying around in my head throughout the most stressful part of Quilt Market prep, the image that conveyed that after Market a walk down Easy Street would be my immediate destiny for at least a little while, was actually just a coping strategy, and it’s time to get real. Ah well. At least I am starting to see Easy Street on the dawn of the horizon now, coming up right after I return from Chicago. I swear it is really there this time.
