bom hub test – Month 4
2023-2024 Block of the Month
Introduction - Month 4
(July 2023)
Interpreting Book Covers: create a new design
Prompt: A book that made you laugh out loud
- Cutting mat
- Rotary Cutter
- Quilting Ruler
- Snips
- Sewing thread
- Sewing machine or sewing needle if working by hand
- Pins
- Iron
- Fabric of your choice to match your chosen book cover
- Patchwork & Prose notebook and pencil for sketching or jotting notes of your ideas.
lessons with margaret
Create a New Design pt 1
Create a New Design pt 2
Create a New Design pt 3
Create a New Design pt 4
Tutorials with jenni & Kay
Strip Sets
Dresden Ruler Block
Zipper Block
Lecture 4 - Grace Snyder with Mary Fons
Galleries
resources
In this section you can find all resources mentioned in any of this month’s videos, from the live session to the book recommendations and even resources from our magical meet ups with Margaret Fleisher. Click on a section to expand and to read more!
Olga Dies Dreaming – Xóchitl González
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks – Rebecca Skloot
Cover design: Rodrigo Corral
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
Cover design: John Gall
H is for Hawk – Helen Macdonald
Jacket illustration: Chris Wormell
Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi
Cover design: Jean-Christophe Menu
Cover illustration: Marjane Satrapi
The Intuitionist – Colson Whitehead
Cover design: Linda Huang
Cover photograph: @Unite Images/Stocksy
The Flag of Childhood – Naomi Shihab Nye
Cover illustration: Suleiman Mansour
The Watch – Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
Cover design: Ben Wiseman
Ants at Work – Deborah Gordon
Designed by: Pei Koay
Illustrations: Michelle Schwengel
Balm in Gilead – Sara Lawrence Lightfoot
Cover design: Copenhaver Cumpston & Dorothea Sierra
Gillespie and I – Jane Harris
Cover design: Faber
Cover illustration: Petra Borner/Dutch Uncle
Less Than Angels – Barbara Pym
Jacket design: Jacqueline Schuman
The Water Dancer – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jacket design: Greg Mollica
Jacket art: Calida Garcia Rawles
I Love Me, Vol. I – Michael Donner
Cover design: Paul Gamarello
Cover illustration: Tim Robinson
Instagram: @quiltfolk and @jennismithsews
Hashtags: #quiltfolkbom #patchworkandprose
Live session recording
Live Session Chat
19 Jul, 2023 04:46:44 PM – Jill Huntington – “Hi from sunny, not-too-hot Portland, Oregon! “
19 Jul, 2023 04:49:12 PM – Josephine Franc – “Hello from Brooklyn, New York”
19 Jul, 2023 04:49:47 PM – Anna Marie – “Hello from Northern Minnesota!”
19 Jul, 2023 04:57:08 PM – elizabethjanzen@gmail.com – “Hi from Vnacouver, british Columbia”
19 Jul, 2023 04:57:09 PM – Claire Phillips – “Hello from Northern CA!”
19 Jul, 2023 04:57:12 PM – Cathy Hancock – “Good morning from sunny Idaho City, Idaho.”
19 Jul, 2023 04:57:29 PM – elizabethjanzen@gmail.com – “Hi from Vancouver, British Columbia.”
19 Jul, 2023 04:59:15 PM – Barb S – “Hello from Central IL”
19 Jul, 2023 04:59:35 PM – Vicki Drake – “Hello from Colorado”
19 Jul, 2023 05:00:09 PM – Vicki Drake – “Vicki Drake. Hello from the Rocky Mountains”
19 Jul, 2023 05:01:01 PM – Emily H – “I’ve enjoyed the community. Everyone is supportive, and the photos are inspiring”
19 Jul, 2023 05:01:07 PM – Michelle – “I love learning new skills and being able to immediately use them to make a small project”
19 Jul, 2023 05:01:34 PM – Anna Marie – “I have especially enjoyed the creativity, experimenting on my own ideas and designs.”
19 Jul, 2023 05:01:42 PM – Emily H – “Agreed, Michelle! One block a month makes it less threatening to jump in!”
19 Jul, 2023 05:02:03 PM – Barb S – “Learning the new skills each month as well as being inspired from everyone’s work”
19 Jul, 2023 05:02:08 PM – Eileen Wright – “Hello from Atlanta, GA!”
19 Jul, 2023 05:02:21 PM – Hello from Grasonville, Md – “Hello from Grasonville, Md”
19 Jul, 2023 05:02:26 PM – sherry kasper – “Hello from East Tennessee! The best part of this BOM is learning new techniques and challenging my creativity”
19 Jul, 2023 05:02:35 PM – Claire Phillips – “I need to catch up, but I love seeing what other people are doing on the FB page, and working on new skills!”
19 Jul, 2023 05:02:43 PM – Michelle – “Current insight is that fabrics I wouldn’t like to use for a whole quilt can be perfect for a small part of an individual book block”
19 Jul, 2023 05:04:15 PM – Margaret Fleisher – “Hello everyone!”
19 Jul, 2023 05:04:19 PM – Cathy Hancock – “Good tip Michele”
19 Jul, 2023 05:05:17 PM – Vicki Drake – “Lots of inspiration for sure!”
19 Jul, 2023 05:06:00 PM – Pat Spence – “Hello from Redford Michigan”
19 Jul, 2023 05:06:25 PM – Cathy Hancock – “I have enjoyed the prompts because they make me think of different book I could use for the blocks. “
19 Jul, 2023 05:11:06 PM – Kathy Fedele – “in now from Syracuse NY”
19 Jul, 2023 05:12:18 PM – Emily H – “Leonard & Hungry Paul has just gone in my amazon cart yesterday, looking forward to reading it!”
19 Jul, 2023 05:13:23 PM – Barb S – “the covers are awesome – I need to create a new reading list!!”
19 Jul, 2023 05:16:07 PM – Emily H – “Oh, Thursday murder club is also in my cart. Cannot wait!”
19 Jul, 2023 05:16:42 PM – Lynelle – “Hello from Ontario, Canada”
19 Jul, 2023 05:20:04 PM – Michelle – “those seascapes are stunning!”
19 Jul, 2023 05:21:33 PM – Anna Marie – “Are the dates set for the Live Scotland Workshop?”
19 Jul, 2023 05:23:27 PM – Claire Phillips – “Oh, that is a great book! (Olga Dies Dreaming)”
19 Jul, 2023 05:23:47 PM – Chris White – “Yes, the dates are set! Scenic Scotland premieres live on the September 29-30”
19 Jul, 2023 05:24:01 PM – Anna Marie – “Yay! Thank you!”
19 Jul, 2023 05:24:23 PM – Elsie Winstead – “hello from St. Louis”
19 Jul, 2023 05:25:01 PM – Susan – “Hello from Denver”
19 Jul, 2023 05:29:29 PM – Michelle – “One thing Margaret frequently says that I’ve found to be really true is – sew bigger and cut down to size. I got really caught wrong trying to sew too small and precise and then having to add on”
19 Jul, 2023 05:31:00 PM – Jean Bailey – “Margret should try using croppers, a frame mat cut on diagonal to crop a block when auditioning”
19 Jul, 2023 05:31:37 PM – Anna Marie – “Beautiful, Margaret – thank you!”
19 Jul, 2023 05:31:48 PM – Pat Spence – “Someone suggested last session this session copying the book cover and cut it to size as a guide. It worked for me.”
19 Jul, 2023 05:35:18 PM – Gay B – “I love the new KFC black and white fabrics”
19 Jul, 2023 05:38:24 PM – Barb S – “Brandon – I use your fabric designs in many of my projects”
19 Jul, 2023 05:50:01 PM – Gay B – “I love all the different ideas and techniques you are sharing with us. It makes me take my designing in different directions.”
19 Jul, 2023 05:59:43 PM – Susan – “Hello from Illinois!”
19 Jul, 2023 06:00:56 PM – Becky Aparicio – “Hi from Tucson”
19 Jul, 2023 06:05:12 PM – Kathy Fedele – “These are exquisite blocks. So much fun and Talent.”
19 Jul, 2023 06:07:35 PM – Anna Marie – “Beautiful!”
19 Jul, 2023 06:07:36 PM – Jaci Griffen – “Inspired to keep moving forward! “
19 Jul, 2023 06:09:26 PM – Pat Spence – “Thank you!”
19 Jul, 2023 06:09:36 PM – Barb S – “Thank you for everything”
19 Jul, 2023 06:09:58 PM – Anna Marie – “Thank you!”
19 Jul, 2023 06:10:07 PM – Barb S – “love the music who is it?”
19 Jul, 2023 06:10:57 PM – Chris White – “Music is “Amos Ever Hadani – Travelling Light””
