Edited to add: Giveaway is closed! Thank you all for playing. I enjoyed hearing your favorite parts of carnivals. Thanks for sharing! Brenda Ackerman won this giveaway. I’ll have another giveaway soon!
Hi guys!
Today I get to tell you about a new book from Stash Books. Dresden Carnival is filled with fresh designs based on the classic and favorite Dresden quilt design. Aside from the wonderful designs, the authors Yvette and Marian have included a fantastic technique section, which includes a section of Needleturn Appliqué. Typically, I cheat (gulp!) and use a top-stitch appliqué technique, but I LOVE the look and feel of needle-turn appliqué.
There are 16 projects within the book. Each using the classic Dresden design as a starting point. I’m showing you a couple of my favorites from the book within this post. I love the Cotton Candy design (upper left pillow) and the Lemonade and Lace designs (upper right pillow and quilt below).
If you’ve always loved Dresden designs or have been wanting to try your hand at a Dresden quilt, you will love this book.
Here’s the rest of the blog hop schedule:
Dresden Carnival Book Blog Tour Schedule:
Mon. April 18:
C&T Publishing | http://www.ctpub.com/blog/
Tues. April 19:
Generation Q Magazine | http://generationqmagazine.com/
Bryan House Quilts | https://bryanhousequilts.com/
Michael Miller Fabrics | http://blog.michaelmillerfabrics.com/
Textile Time Travels | http://utahquiltappraiser.blogspot.com/
Andover Fabrics | http://blog.andoverfabrics.com/
Kitchen Table Quilting | http://www.kitchentablequilting.com/
Happy Quilting | http://www.happyquiltingmelissa.com/
Crazy Old Ladies | http://crazyoldladiesquilts.blogspot.com/
Vetmari | http://www.vetmari.com/blog
Pink Hippo Quilts | http://www.pinkhippoquilts.com/blog
Giveaway time! Stash Books is giving away a copy to 1 lucky reader. If you would like to win a copy please comment on this post. The giveaway will stay open until the 29th, the end of the blog tour. After it closes, I’ll choose a winner randomly. When you comment I’d love to hear about your favorite part of a carnival. For me I enjoy the playful flirty, twilight atmosphere. (UGH! I’m such a romantic….)
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Carnivals….the smell of hot caramel corn always gets to me…along with that sticky spun candy smell! i love the neon lights too!!! I’ve never been able to ride the carnival rides….but I do love looking at them as they spin around! Thanks for the chance!
HI, the laughter of people and the fun of an unusual treat! Thanks for sharing!
The activity and lights and food!
Cotton candy! I loved the small carnivals held at the fire station when I was a teenager. I remember walking hand in hand with my boyfriend, sharing cotton candy, on hot summer evenings. Sweet memories!
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I LOVE THE CARNIVAL FOOD.
The best part of a carnival to me, besides all the rides I remember from my childhood, is the fun food that you can only get there during the summers.
The ferris wheel is the best ride! Thank you, peterstankovich@Comcast.net
I love riding the carousel. I think the bright colors on the horses are so happy making me feel like I haven’t a care in the world.
I love getting ice cream at the carnival. It’s usually so hot and dusty and a cold ice cream is so refreshing…or an italian ice!
I love the cotton candy! thanks!
I always love a beautiful carousel at night. Then there is the one of a kind crazy food.
People watching!
I think mine would be the food, candy floss, hot dogs, the music and shrieks of laughter and horror on the rides,
My kids used to love the “grabbers”, the things that had a claw that dropped and you try to grab on to a prize. I like the fried dough!
All of the food! Especially elephant ears and funnel cakes!
When I was a little girl in Baltimore, we use to have peppermint candy stick stuck in a lemon. Ommmmy goodness. Delicious. Now its hard to find sooo I go for the Kettle Corn.
I’m excited to see a classical pattern used in a modern way in the Dresden Carnival book.
My weakness is elephant ears and corn dogs. I love the pillow. Thank you for sharing.
Carnivals are fun. I love seeing all the fun through my grandson’s eyes. The food smells, the music and bells and noise of people having fun. Lots of games and winning prizes.
Thanks for a chance to win.
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My favorite part of a carnival is the happiness on faces…the children and their parents. This looks like a great book!
Gayle
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We have an annual state fair in NC that is like a carnival and we love everything , but especially the exhibits — quilts, embroidery, cakes and pies, canning and preserving, wood crafts, blacksmithing, gardening, farm animals and pets of all descriptions. What fun!
Oooo! I love that yellow quilt!!! For me it’s the excitement, the atmosphere and the food 😉
The costumes is my favorite part, of course! I used to be a costume designer/maker in the student theater group in my student years.
Currently having fun with dresden plates…so this book is right up my ally!
The Food on the midway!!!!!
The food–kettle corn
It’s gotta be the food! Funnel cakes!
Luv, luv all the noise!-nothing like it!
Carnivals were always a favorite because of the fun. Waiting in lines with my daughter for she could try her first Ferris Wheel ride, buying her the first Cotton Candy oh that list just goes on and on. So much fun for everyone! These Dresden designs are superb! Just so exciting to have the opportunity to win a copy brings a smile to my morning! Have a fantastic creative day!
A carnival? Of course, the rides!
The atmosphere and the food! Love the quilt.
I love the whole happy atmosphere of a carnival and I am an avid people watcher. Thank you for the opportunity to win!
Love the Ferris Wheel but pink cotton candy is a close second at the carnival.
What a beautiful book. Love the colors. Carnivals are a mixed bag but I like to look at the booths and really love a hot dog!!
I enjoy the junk food that I normally don’t eat! People watching too!
My favourites are the ferris wheel and the food.
I love getting a caramel covered apple at Carnivals…also love to try and win a stuffed animal by tossing dimes into plates…I have been lucky a couple of times…!
Carnivals seem to be a first date spot for many folks so the atmosphere speaks young love, and it just smells romantic (sugary) I suppose from the whiffs of cotton candy and fried doughy foods in the air.
I like carnivals at night when all the rides are lit up.
Love the old rides that stay on the ground – like the TeaCup! lol
The games – I always wanted to win a large stuffed animal – alas – it never happened.
I love going on rides at the carnival and playing the games and watching people!
I love the look of joy on children’s faces as they ride the rides and eat the carnival treats. Cotton candy covered smiling faces….so precious!
The happy atmosphere–people of all ages, groups of circumstances, everyone wandering around, feeling connected and cheerful.
Corn dogs! Yum!
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It is the lights and the laughter of people having fun that are my favourite aspects of a carnival. I am loving this new release. Thanks for sharing.
I love the talent exhibit tent looking at all the things made is eye opening….That’s also why i love blog hops….Ohhhhhh and if you get there on first day the agricultural exhibit i tent is great too…. happyness04431@yahoo.com
I like seeing the small animals, the rabbits, mamma pig and her piglets, the rabbits and of course the chickens. I have 13 hens and love them. I also must have a cinnamon roll! Yummy.
I can’t resist the cotton candy!
Carnival (& Fairs!) food is the Best!! Plus the lights & sights & smells! Walking around seeing everyone having fun!
Thank you for chance to win your give-a-way too! 🙂
Definitely the cotton candy.
Pop corn and candy floss.
I am super happy with this blog hop because it introduced me to a book that I would normally probably not buy. Not because I do not like dresden quilts, but Ive always found them a little intimidating. However, I love the designs from the book that youve shown and so I would really want to try make some anyway! Thank you; also for the chance to win!
Oh, and I love carnivals for the overall atmosphere and the sound! Carnavals are usually so full of laughter and music. I dont get to think about that often, but now I do, I think that is what I love most about it!
the food, i just read the commets– elephant ears, and funnel cakes !
The food is my favorite. Funnel cakes or kettle corn. Can’t get them many places. I also like the lights all over at night.
I think my favorite part is the games. I love how all ages can be seen trying the games and having a great time even if they don’t win a prize. That and the smell of carnival food makes me happy.
The funnel cakes are the best! ?
It would have to be the food at the carnival. Love cotton candy and lemonade shakes. Thanks for the great giveaway.
I think the loud happy atmosphere is what makes a carnival fun…and the “junk” food…
my favorite part of a carnival is just wandering and having some special time with my husband.
I love this book. those pillows are fantastic. I have yet to try Dresden.
My favorite part is the food – and the low G-force rides. I can usually handle the ferris wheel 🙂
I have to go with cotton candy!
Ohhh…. the Carnival – I confess to loving the deep-fried curly fries or onion rings – yum!!!!
I am eager to see this book – the projects are so fresh and unusual – I love the modern flair to them!
Carnivals…… um I think my favorite part would have to be the food.
The best part of a carnival has to be the rides- the ferris wheel in particular! Love it! And this book looks great too!