Seven redwork designs in new quilting pattern book
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Garden Party Stitchery™ includes seven redwork projects, incorporating 27 different designs. The book includes 48 pages of step-by-step instruction, with color photos and figure drawings for each design. It will be available in January 2012 from select stores and from the Clotilde catalog, accessible online at Clotilde.com.
Pearl Louise Krush is the designer of the book's projects. In addition to quilting projects, she designs fabric for Troy Corp. and owns her own quilt shop.
Carolyn Vagts is the editor of Garden Party Stitchery. She has more than 10 years of quilting experience, and her resume includes freelance designer, quilt store owner, writer and quilt-pattern proofer. Her freelance designs have been included in a number of magazines.
In the spring of 2011, Vagts was named editor of DRG's Quilter's World magazine, and her personal patterns are available through her store, The Village Quilt Shoppe, located in Lake Orion, Mich., and through DRG's Clotilde catalog.
House of White Birches became part of the DRG family of brands in 1985 and is a leading voice in the enthusiast categories of crochet, knitting, quilting, paper crafting, plastic canvas, beading and nostalgia. Other leading DRG brands include Annie's Attic, American School of Needlework, Clotilde and Good Old Days.
DRG publishes special-interest magazines, books, pattern booklets and related products sold direct to consumers through catalogs and the Internet and through wholesale and trade channels.
Quilters and needlecrafters can access additional DRG publications from the company website at DRGnetwork.com.
About DRG: DRG (DRGnetwork.com) is in its third generation of Muselman family ownership in Berne, Ind., near Fort Wayne. A leader in the craft and nostalgia markets, the company is well known for its iconic brands, which include House of White Birches, Annie's Attic, Clotilde, American School of Needlework and Good Old Days. The company publishes magazines and books, and also offers its own and others' kits, supplies and Web-deliverable products in print catalogs and on more than 40 DRG websites. Magazines and products are also available on newsstands and in retail chains and stores nationwide. One of DRG's divisions, Strategic Fulfillment Group (SFG), provides state-of-the-art fulfillment and database marketing services out of a 140,000-square-foot facility nestled in the rolling wooded landscape of East Texas, centered between Shreveport and Dallas. The DRG story began in 1925 with the founding of Economy Printing Concern in Berne. EP Graphics, as it is known today, is still owned by the Muselman family. It specializes in high-quality, four-color web printing for catalogs and magazines.
