About this item
Wise Craft is a guide to the homemade life, turning old things into special new objects that enhance the home. Based on the popular blog of the same name, this guide focuses on creating a homemade atmosphere that reflects your family, without spending a fortune. Instead of throwing away old shirts and boring dishes, or passing up thrift store finds that aren't quite right, author Blair Stocker teaches how to remake, adding special touches to make them work for her home - and yours . The book is divided into four seasonal chapters, with designs that reflect different holidays and the changing seasons, allowing you to update your home according to the weather outside. Many projects are portable or perfect to do during a family movie night, making the Wise Craft lifestyle an easy one to attain.
About the Author
Wise Craft Quilts named among top books of 2017 by Library Journal Magazine!
When she left a fast-paced career in the apparel design industry after her first child was born, Blair rediscovered her lifetime love of hand crafting. She started making things for her home and family when her kids were small. Out of that love came a blog, Wise Craft Handmade, as well as her first book, Wise Craft: Turning Thrift Store Finds, Fabric Scraps and Natural Objects into Stuff You Love, published in 2014 (Running Press) . In this book, she brought together all the aspects of a handmade home through seasonal color inspiration and a variety of handmade projects spanning furniture makeovers, crochet, knitting, quilting, and painting.
These days she is primarily a quilt maker, and finds endless inspiration in making beautiful new quilts out of vintage, old, or forgotten textiles. Blair uses her background in apparel design by applying those same color and styling principles towards the quilts she designs, approaching each new quilt with a focused color story, mood board, and gathered bits of inspiration. Her newest book, Wise Craft Quilts: Turning Beloved Fabrics Into Personal Patchwork (Roost) , features 21 projects that tell the stories of our lives. Whether it be baby's first clothes, or a collection of Tyvek numbers from marathons and bike races that are stored away in a box, sewing pieces like these into quilt form creates a new level of appreciation for what they represent in your life and the lives of the ones you love.
In addition to writing books, Blair also designs and produces original quilt patterns, teaches and lectures to quilts and groups across the US, teaches online classes, and designs quilting tools.
Blair hosts Facebook Live stitchalongs referencing projects from her newest book in the Wise Craft Quilts Facebook Group. Free to join and sew along. Videos are also available on her YouTube Channel.- https://www.facebook.com/groups/WiseCraftQuilts/
Born in North Carolina, Blair currently lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband, two kids, and a fat cat named Gracie.
Visit her online at www.wisecrafthandmade.com
