Nifty Quilts: falling in love, U&U inspiration

Thank you to Nifty Quilts for your beautiful blog post this morning. It's exciting to hear about how so many quiltmakers have been inspired by quilts in Unconventional & Unexpected to make one based on a certain quilt or to just be "more free and unrestricted" with their own quilts. The quilt Nifty Quilts is making is inspired from page 56.

“There’s a tiny sliver of red and white. How’d that get in there?
Did I really put a scrap of bark cloth in this? I like it!

Now I really don’t care how the quilt looks overall.
It’s the stories, the connections to sweet friends,
the memories of the design process that matter.

I’m sure we’ve all experienced this.
It’s one of the greatest joys of quilt-making—
working closely with our fabrics and remembering the stories behind them.”

— Nifty Quilts

She writes about her process so poetically.

Read the Nifty Quilts blog, "Falling in Love," here.

Unconventional & Unexpected in the world!

It's so exciting to find Unconventional & Unexpected out in the world! Friends have been sending me images of the book in so many different places. Thank you for sharing, and please keep sending them!

At the de Young in San Francisco. Thanks to Kristin Shields for the image. The de Young has carried every book I have done since The Quilt Digest.

U&U at the de Young. Image courtesy of Leah Thomason Bromberg.

U&U in the gift shop at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska. Image courtesy of Leslie Levy, Executive Director at the IQSCM.

Having a new book is too much fun. Image courtesy of Luana Rubin.

I found U&U on the new arrivals table at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City!

Amazing company for U&U. Note Janneken Smucker's excellent book, Amish Quilts: Creating an American Icon -- I highly recommend it. Gift shop at the International Quilt Study Center & Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska. Image courtesy of Leslie Levy, Executive Director at the IQSCM.

Ames Gallery booth at prestigious San Francisco Fall Antiques Show

 Cooperfield's Books in Napa, CA. A thank you to Tony Spleen for this image!

Autographed copies of U&U at the booth for Julie Silber's The Quilt Complex, #937 at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Thanks to Deborah Turner Ursell for the image!

Mary Kay Davis of The Quilt Show sent this picture from Houston Quilt Festival

Book celebrations at the home of Victoria Findlay Wolfe

While I was traveling in New York this last month, Victoria Findlay Wolfe graciously hosted a book launch party for Unconventional & Unexpected. 

NEW+NEXT Tastemakers of Traditional Home features U&U

Traditional Home kindly features Unconventional & Unexpected in their October 2014 edition. They featured my yo-yo quilt by Laura Otto that pops beautifully. I'm excited that they too see that.

“…Now is the moment to chase these bold, graphic quilts by mostly anonymous makers working with patterned fabric scraps.”

— Traditional Home

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Q&A on why quilts matter via the Kentucky Quilt Project

The Kentucky Quilt Project featured me in a Q&A about why quilts matter. We talked about having "off-beat" quilts and questions like:

“What do the quilts in your own collection say about you?”

“Is it important to present the collection in the way the original collector envisioned?”

Read my answers here: "Why Quilts Matter -- Question & Answer with Roderick Kiracofe"

Quilt featured in Why Quilts Matter Q&A article

Chatting with Victoria Findlay Wolfe in NYC

I had the immense pleasure of meeting with the fabulous Victoria Findlay Wolfe while I was traveling in New York. She even graciously hosted a book launch event -- many, many thanks, Victoria!

See our conversation about U&U via her blog.

Victoria also made me the most beautiful gift, a small quilt that my friends at the book launch signed. What an amazing keepsake.

U&U "makes my heart skip a little"

“It took me awhile to actually read the essays because I was so mesmerized by the quilts, which are all from Roderick Kiracofe’s collection. This books makes my heart skip a little every time I open it. I love quilts that are ‘off’ and all of them have this quality. There is so much inspiration in here—I can only look at a few quilts at a time. It’s a very special book.”

— Amy Karol, Angry Chicken

Thank you to Amy at Angry Chicken for her review of U&U. I loved how she connected the tactility of quilting with the experience of reading the book. She took some lovely photographs of the book, which you can see to the right.

Read her review on Angry Chicken.