Horray!! I SHALL go the ball...

...well the 'book signing' ball. Yesterday it was confirmed that my publisher will deffo have copies of my 'b-word' available for me to sign at the Festival of Quilts in the NEC in August. I'll be on The Cotton Patch stand.   I'm sooo utterly excited!  I'll be sure to post days and times as soon as I can.

  Here's a teeny weeny sneaky peeky inside The Bag Making Bible (I thought I'd better not show too much in case I might get told off!).

I bet not too many of you have seen a craft book laid out in pages like this before.  Before going to print the book is laid out in A3 page form (catchily called 'pages').  The pages are sent to the author and the proofreader to check over and correct.  Usually 2 set of 'pages' (the "1st pages" & "2nd pages") are created  (with the 2nd set being an improvement on the 1st set). When edited and corrected the book is finally sent off to print.  What you see in the pic above are the 3rd pages. They created a 3rd set of pages to edit thru because there's just sooooo much going on in my book.  David & Charles have done such a brilliant job of rendering my designs and my scrawl into this book.  They do rock!

Besides my publisher, myself, my close friends and family, one other person has read my book; and that is Amy Butler.  I'm sure you'll have figured out by now that I have this big 'craft-hero-girl-crush' thing on her (and I'm guessing I'm not the only one).  So to have Amy give my book the coolio-thumbs up in her foreword is...um...er...I'm lost for words!

Sooooo I will be book signing on the same stand as the fabled Kaffe Fasset and Amy Butler.  No wait, that didn't come out right let me re-phrase: "I will be signing on the same stand as the fabled Kaffe Fasset and Amy Butler (and other craft rock star legends)".  Holy Moses!  Our planet must be going thorough a phase of misalignment because I am going to feel very wonky when I not only to see them in person, but...y' know...do the book signing thing...just like they will be?!   Because I'll be new gibbering-fool-idiot-girl on the block I'd love to have your support.  If any of you are in that neck of the woods in Aug it would be really lovely to see you and have a crafty chin-wag.  Previous owners say that I have a good temperament, I'm very approachable and I don't jump up on people  :)

Squeal! What am I going to wear?

PS: New development!!  I have wangled it so that readers are permitted to HAND make designs from my book to sell if they so wish.  I know loooads of you asked me about this - so that's good news eh?  Full copyright details are outlined in the book.