The first time I saw Anna Maria Horner's fabrics, I was blown away. Her patterns are fresh, the colors saturated and fresh. Each time she comes out with a new fabric line, I am equally bowled over. She always manages to out do herself. For us, that is a very good thing. Her newest book, Handmade Beginnings, is wonderful addition to any craft book library. While the book focuses on 24 sewing projects to welcome baby, it is more than that. I love that it is so versatile! I asked Anna Maria a few questions and I am excited to share our chat with you.
E: First, congratulations! I really like your new book.
AM: Thanks, I'm so glad
you like it!
E: It has a wide range of projects and they are all so cute. What
impressed
me the most is that this book is great for new parents and it's still
fantastic for those of us who don't have babies at home. How did you
come up with such versatile projects?
AM: Well as I wrote the book I was going through
the very motions of both expecting
a baby and also wanting to provide for the rest of the family.
A new baby is a
perfect time to
not only make goods for the new one and for the mama, but its really a
celebratory time in your life when you can do a sort of preparing your
home (also known as nesting!). I think of it as sort of like preparing
for company. You might spend some time on what your new guest will
need, but also make sure everyone else in your family is provided for. I
am just very lucky to have my own big family as inspiration. The key
things I asked myself with every
project idea though is, would I make this for someone else, or is this
still useful or beautiful even when not expecting a baby? So if I could
answer yes to one or both of those questions, then it passed the project test
🙂
E: I really like that you talk about your color choices
for each project. Why did you want to write these color notes?
AM: I provide the color
notes with the hope that it provides insight into how I put things
together, which seems to be one of the more popular questions that I
get. I did this also in Seams to Me, bc I really want the reader to
feel like they're right there next to me in the studio, flipping through
piles of fabrics and hearing some color/design logic behind my
composition decisions. I think its just that little something extra for
readers to feel involved in the process and therefore, hopefully, more
inspired about their
own fabric selection.
E: It's great that you include
projects for siblings and even Dad. And everything in your book is
practical and beautiful,
too. Do you think having a large family influenced the way you
approached Handmade Beginnings?
AM: As
mentioned above, most definitely! I have thought before how different
this book would be if it were written during my first pregnancy, or even during
the third pregnancy! Every pregnancy is different and each one has
been a beautiful time, with a new wisdom all its own. For me
personally, I feel like I've really come to appreciate not only what a
new baby brings to mom and dad, but I have watched and marveled at how
it transforms the family as a unit and its left me in awe. I wanted
there to be a project for each and every need, detail, sibling,
relationship and nook that a baby transforms simply by arriving. And
one book can't do it all, but I certainly hope that it provides a
starting point and lots of home
& heart centered inspiration.
E: Thanks, Anna Maria!
AM: Thank you so much for
such thoughtful questions, and I am in love with your Sixth Times the
Charm Quilt!! Beautiful job and you didn't even have to have 6 kids to
make it. Good thinking! Have a great weekend all!
……..
I'm giving away 2 copies of Handmade Beginnings! For a chance to win, leave a comment on this post before Monday, May 17 at 3 pm EST. Wiley Publishing is also running a drawing for 1 SINGER® Confidence™ 7470 sewing
machine, 5 yards of Anna Maria Horner fabric, a copy of the book Handmade
Beginnings:
24 Sewing Projects to Welcome Baby. Details and
how to enter can be found here. Finally, you can read much more about this great book by following Anna Maria on her blog tour.
May
3 Craft
May
4 Indie Fixx
May
5 Sew Mama
Sew
May
6 Pink
Chalk Studio
May
10 Wise
Craft
May
14 House on
Hill Road
May
16 The Purl Bee
May
18 All
Buttoned
Up
May
19 Alabama Chanin Journal
May
20 Homemade
by
Jill
May
21 True Up
May
22 Oh, Fransson!
May
23 Prudent Baby
May
24 Sew
Liberated
May
25 Handmade
by
Alissa
May
26 Hazelnuts
May
27 Petite
Purls
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Enjoy your weekend.
Wow! I would love to win a copy of this book! Great interview.
oh! this would be so perfect for me. I am due with our second child some time around Labor Day (ha ha, no really). how fun!
thanks~
what a great interview! this book looks darling
I love making things for gifts as well as for myself. Looks like lots of great projects in this book. Thanks for a chance to win!
I agree — the first time I saw her fabric I was blown away as well. Love at first sight!
Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
I always enjoy the blog tours! What fun!
Yay! This looks so fantastic and I am in full baby-gear making mode!
I love that two blogs I enjoy reading have intersected. Haven’t pulled out my sewing machine for a bit… this could be the inspiration! Or at least a good bedtime read. 🙂
I would love to win a copy of this book! Sadly, we won’t be welcoming any more little ones into our home, but there are always grandbabies…..
thanks for the chance 🙂
I need some inspiration for all the new babies…
I have really enjoyed following the blog tour! I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of this beautiful book!
Oh, I know, I just LOVE her fabric, too! This book seems like everything else Anna Maria does–just awesome! I could use the new inspiration. Thanks for the giveaway!
Wonderful interview. I am so amazed every time she comes out with a new line of fabric. So much color! Thanks for the giveaway.
She does the most amazing work and i love your quilt top!
I’d love to win a copy 🙂 Here’s hoping…
I’m SO excited about this book! I’d really love to win a copy!
I’m looking forward to getting my hands on this book once it’s in at the library.
Awesome book! I’m excited about it and would love to win a copy to make things for our 8-week old boy. Of course, finding the time is another story!
Great interview Erin! I have Anna Maria’s first book, and am smitten with your quilt – so the new book will be going on my Wish List! 🙂
I Love Anna Maria’s books and would love to make the items featured.
I’m so wanting this book, it looks so beautiful!
Thanks for the interview – I guess I didn’t realize there were non-baby specific projects in the book – am definitely adding this to my wish list!
thanks for a chance…i love all things AMH!
Would love to see it, love the Dresden Plate in those prints.
Great interview!! I love AMH fabrics, my favourite collections is good folks, love the colors she choose.
Is the giveway oopen to international readers? If so count me in, please I would love to win a copy!!
I would love this book. I’ve got her first one and I just love it! This one’s on my Amazon wish list. Thanks for the chance 🙂
I just found Anna Maria blog and was fascinated with her creativity. Love the fabrics and the book looks fantastic for the little I saw.
Congratulations on the great interview. I would love to win a copy of this book to start my library 🙂
It looks like such a cute book and would be perfect for my baby coming in august.
Oh my! I’d love to get my hands on this book. Here’s hoping! 🙂
I’ve been enjoying the book tour, I really love Anna Maria Horner’s designs. I would love to win this book, it’s gorgeous!
I love the look of this book and the patterns would make great gifts!
This book looks amazing!!
Oh yes, please! I know so many pregnant ladies and could sew up a storm with these patterns. Plus, I am already a bonafide AMH fan. 😉
I really would LOVE a copy of this!
I would love to own this book. The projects are beautiful!
I love this book. Count me in!
I have lots of friends and relatives with new-borns or expecting soon. ‘Tis the season it seems! I’ve been wanting this book because it has so many great gift ideas!
I couldn’t agree more that Anna Maria produces some of the most beautiful fabric out there…colorful and gorgeous designs to enhance such an amazing palette.
That book looks wonderful. hope I win!
Her fabrics are truly amazing!
I would love to try some of the projects in this book!
Thanks for posting the interview! Count me in for the book drawing!
Absolutely beautiful! Would love to win her book~
What a great book! Thanks for the giveaway!
I totally love Anna Maria’s fabrics and patterns! I especially love the voile collection. I’ve been itching to get some great patterns for kids! Thanks for doing the giveaway!
LOOOVE the fabrics by Anna Maria!! I didn’t know there were patters—oh I would love love love to win this book! I have several friends that are pregnant right now–what great gifts:) THANKS for the chance to win!
I would love this book. It has a nursing top in it that I am very interested in making…Sarah
Oooo, count me in!
Oh that book looks fabulous! Please count me in for the giveaway.
I would LOVE to win. The patterns and projects are just adorable!
Throwing my name in the pot yet again because it looks like such a fabulous book! Thanks for hosting! 🙂
I really need this book! I’m expecting our first baby nov 10 which would give me some time to make some of those cute projects! Thanks for the great interview and giveaway!
this book would be great since i have so many friends having babies these days!
This book looks fabulous! I am most excited about the color notes, what a great way to understand her thought process!
Looks like a great book – count me in!
I would love a chance to win a copy of this book. I am looking forward to sewing for grandbabies soon! I am VERY impressed with all that Anna Maria does. I love reading her blog and seeing her beautiful family and designs!
Thanks so much for the fun interview! Anna Maria is my favorite designer, without a doubt!
I would love to win the book. I, too, love her fabric. Yummy!
Great gift idea when your crafty girlfriend starts telling the world at 12 weeks!
This is such a beautiful book. It would make a great gift for my sister-in-law who is expecting her third!
This book looks fantastic! I am pregnant with my first and would love to win a copy! 🙂
I’d love a chance to win! One thing I remarked on in Seams to Me is her color selection descriptions. Very insighful.
Wonderful! I would love to win a copy of the book!!
This looks like a fabulous book. Please pick me!
Would love to win a copy…
Oh, I would so love to win a copy! I always find inspiration reading Anna Maria’s blog or petting her fabric at my local fabric store.
I love a chance to win a copy. The book looks lovely and I enjoyed the interview.
Oh I want this! Have a new little one myself!
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I love her fabric line….can’t wait to see the book. Great interview Erin!
I would so love to win this book! 🙂
every time I see this book I squeal! With a third niece or nephew on the way and maybe a 4th of my own, I would be delighted to win!!
I love her fabrics!! And her other book, too.
This book looks so colourful and inspiring!!
What a beautiful book this is! And the Sixth Time’s a Charm quilt is so amazing!
Great interview! I think I need that book.
Great fabrics, and a gorgeous book! Win it or not, I simply must have it!
I love what I’ve seen of the new book! Thanks for the giveaway!!! :o)
I’ve just newley become aquained with Anna’s fabrics and totally agee with you on how amazing they are. The Voile range is sublime. Looking forward to making many, many things from her new book. Thanks for the Interview!
Awesome!!! I would love to read this book and try some of those beautiful projects.
My grand daughter Jacqueline and I are very inspired. Jacqueline wants to make “swaddled baby love” darling picture in the book. And I’d love to help her.
Thanks for the giveaway! I’m loving the thank you notebooks -perfect hostess and teacher gifts.
Ooh I would love to win this! I’m due July 1st. Plenty of time for projects to be done!
Her book looks fantastic, she always makes such pretty things. I love that there are non baby specific projects, as our baby is almost two, but there still looks like there’s a bunch of other projects that we would love.
Thanks for the interview! I’m expecting my first baby in the autumn and living in Northern Ireland, far away from my Indiana roots and family. I’m going to get my hands on this beautiful book one way or another. So many lovely projects!
I would loooove to win this book!
The book sounds great! So many nice touches.
I have this book on my wish list. Maybe I will get lucky and win it. I enjoyed your interview.
This book looks like so much fun! I too love everything that Anna Maria does.
This looks like a lovely book to own, even if my kids are already out of babyhood!
This book is on my wish list…thanks for doing a giveaway! Love her stuff!
Oh, I’d so love to win this book! Thanks for the chance!!!
This book looks AMAZING!!
I’m always excited about anything that Anna Maria Horner does.
This book looks great, I love to win a copy
I have this one waiting for me at the library as we speak–but I sure would *love* my own copy!
I would really love to have this book; I’m from Portugal and here we do not have crafty books so I keep updated on these matters by following sites like this one. Nevertheless, have a great weekend!
yes, please!
I am so inspired by both you and Anna Maria. Thank you for sharing all of your creativity. It inspires me to get adventurous! I would love to win this book–maybe it would bring me good luck on getting pregnant!
I am throwing my name in the hat for the giveaway. Thanks!
Looks like a lot of great projects are in that book! I’m loving the Center of Attention quilt. I just wish I had more time to quilt.
I could use a few dozen of those swaddled baby doll blankets! 🙂
Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I can’t even begin to say how excited I am about this book and I would love, love, love to win a copy! Thanks.
Why nog have another go at it, I would love to win (wouldn’t we all?)
Kind regards from The Netherlands,
Hannie
this book looks so adorable!
I’m so excited to see this book in person – I’ve read so much about it and it just looks darling! Thanks for the interview!
Love it. Want it.
I love her fabrics too. 🙂
I would really like to have this book. It would be an honor! I love your fabric!
i want this book more than anything!!
Sweet! Two great bloggers come together to combine their powers for good!
that would really spur me on in the creativity department…and perfect timing since I have a 1 month old!
Thank you for an inside scoop! I would love to win a copy!! Thank you for the give-away.
The pictures alone are worth getting the book for! I can’t wait to see it in person – Allison
Thanks for the review, the interview, AND the giveaway!
thanks for the giveaway – looks like a lovely book 🙂
Can’t wait to get my hands on this book…..winning would make it even better.
Lovely! I would really like to win.
I would love to win a copy! Thanks!
thanks for the interview and the giveaway!
Looks like a wonderful book, I’d sure like to get my hands on a copy!
I would love a copy of Anna Maria’s new book! I really love reading all about her projects and big family on her blog, and her fabrics are all so beautiful!
This book looks so wonderful, I can’t wait to try a few of these projects!! :o)
lovely book, lovely woman, lovely family — i would love to win this book …. thanks for the opportunity!
How awesome! I saw this book on another site and immediately fell in love with it! I’d love to win – please count me in!
Oooh! Ooooh! Me, me, me! Pretty pleeeeeeease! Thanks for the great interview, as well as the chance to own this special book. 🙂
Jenny
We just welcomed our 4th baby two weeks ago. I’d love to make some of those lovely things for our Ian. Sign me up to win! Thanks Erin.
I do love the way Anna Maria shares her colour with us – she’s so vibrant and wonderfully warm.
Thanks for the great interview.
Oh – I’d love to win the prize.
I love her first book, thanks for clarifying that this one goes beyond babies!
What an inspirational woman. I’d LOVE to win a copy of this book.
I would love to win a copy of this amazing book, please count me in.
i was just at the shop last night trying to find this book. but had no luck. i am so excited to get my hands on a copy of it. whoohoo!
I have a little one due in October and this book will be so perfect and helpful to prepare!
Great interview – it would be great to win the book!
Beautiful book!
My daughter is expecting her third baby and we would love to make something from this book.
A great idea for a book! The projects look fantastic.
This is my third giveaway entered for this book! Maybe I’ll win this one!
I would love this book . ..32 is the ripe age for babypalooza in my life! Thanks for hosting this blog tour ….
My daughter would love it if I won this book. Then I could do lots of sewing for her and the baby due in September.
This is such a great book! I just discovered Anna Maria and I can’t get enough of her stuff!
What a great book! I would love to win a copy!
I am so in love with her fabric. Such beauty. Great giveaway!
Thanks so much for the interview and the giveaway. The book looks amazing.
looks like a wonderful book. come on #142! 😉
It looks lovely! Just the inspiration I need!
What a fantastic sounding book! Thanks for the chance to win a copy.
Oh I so want this book! Please please pick me 🙂
Great giveaway! The book looks wonderful! Thanks!
This is pretty much a perfect storm of awesome… making me contemplate “throwing” an upcoming job interview so that I could stay home and make all her projects.
This book looks so fabulous!
Wonderful giveaway. she is an amazing artist and craftsperson.
What a great prize, thanks!
I’m just amazed by what I read about this book. Would love to win a copy!
Love it!! Baby #2 is due in November..lots of sewing to do in the mean time 🙂
What a beautiful book! Would love to win!
Looks like a fun book! Thanks for the giveaway and great interview! 🙂
This looks like an amazing book! Thanks for a chance to win a copy!
Love this book, and how nice to have Anna Maria around for a chat!
What an AWESOME giveaway! Of course I would LOVE to have a copy of this adorable book! I love making things for my friends babies. Thanks so much for the chance to win! Anna Maria ROCKS!
Great blog. Looks like a great book, too!
I’d love a copy of this book!
Such a great interview, and I would LOVE to win a copy of this book!! Thank you for the chance, and congratulations to Ms. Horner on a FABULOUS addition to her book collection.
What a beautiful book! I’m expecting number three at the end of summer and would put this book to good use.
This book looks amazing, I would love a copy! Cat
Great interview. I would love to win a copy of this wonderful book.
I would love to win this book. My 6 year right now is wearing a blouse made out of her fabric. Her stuff is gorgeous!
how great! i’d love to win!
What a beautiful book, I would love to make some of these projects. Thanks for the opportunity!
what a beautiful book for a beautiful season of life!
Love her! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I absolutely love the book and know it will have just what I need to make a very lovely gift for a friends little one!
Every time I sign up for this book, I want to win MORE than the last time. It’s amazing.
The book looks great. Nice giveaway!
Since all my friends are just now starting their families I know this book would come in handy and a HUGE way!
Excellent interview and the book looks just stunning! I would love to have a copy for my own crafting library.
Thanks for the interview and book giveaway!
What fun and great projects. I received her 1st book as a gift. I just love Anna Maria Horner’s style.
Great projects for little people…can’t wait to get my hands on this book.
Oh yes please! I love basically everything Anna Maria does and would really adore owning this book! Thanks for the chance!
The more I read about this book, the better it sounds!
I really need this book!!! It really looks just lovely!
I love what you’ve done with AMH’s string hexagon pattern.
I love Anna Marie and her fabric lines, too. I have “Seams to Me” and have been following the birth of this book on her blog. I can’t believe you already have the quilt top done for Sixth Times a Charm, your fabric selection looks great.
I love Anna’s fabrics and am just about to order some to make a cosy quilt for our new baby who will be born in September. This will be my last baby so I love the idea of a book that will also cater for my older children. I’d love a copy of the book.
Blog tour.. clever!! I’d love to win. 😀
I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of this book. So many of the projects appear to be amazing!
oooohhh, I’m expecting and this would be a wonderful book for me right now, the baby that’s coming and for the rest of my family (2 kids) at home! Thank you for the giveaway!
Oh how I would LOVE a copy of this book. It looks enchanting!!
I would really love this book!
great questions! so much fun learning more about the thought process that goes into putting a book together.
I’d love to win! Thanks for giving a giving us a glimpse in the a very creative mom’s life.
Thanks so much for the chance to win! I’m at an age when so many friends and family members are having babies and soon I hope to join them. I know I would be kept busy making gifts for everyone.
I would love to win this book – What a great interview!!
This book looks beautiful. I know several families that will be growing this spring (all for the first time) and I’d love to make them some of these things 🙂
ooooooh please!!! I love Anna Maria (and you!!) Thanks for the opportunity to try!
I too am an enormous Anna Maria fan. Her fabrics, her books/patterns are…perfect (to me). I love the saturated colors and they wear well. Even on my busysuperactive (that’s all one word in our house) 2-year-old twins. I’ve been itching to get this book as we have family and friends who are all expecting and adopting right now. yay!
Love the interview! The pictures make me want to do more projects. I really ought to finish the ones I’ve abandoned, hehe. Thanks for the opportunity to win a copy!
Thank you for the glimpses into the book and the great interview with Anna Maria. I love her approach to color and even though I don’t sew, her fabrics always catch my eye.
Wow – how amazing – I love that center of attention quilt…fantastic interview!
Wow – how amazing – I love that center of attention quilt…fantastic interview!
Great interview! I was wondering if it would be good even if you no longer have babies.
I have her first book and i love it. I can’t wait to get my hands on this one!
With baby #4 on the way, this book would certainly get some use around here! I have ‘Seams to Me’, and I love how easy it is to read, and the spiral bound format is fantastic.
I love Anna Maria’s colors! Thanks so much for the chance to win this fabulous book!
Such a lovely book- I would love to win a copy!
Great interview! I definitely must check out this book.
Love those dresden plates!! So much inspiration…
I’d love a copy of this book. I have 4 kids, 1 niece, 2 nephews and one on the way to sew for. i love seeing all the creative things my fellow mommies come up with. Thanks for your awesome blog!!
The book looks really cool! I’d love to have it.
This looks like a wonderful book – and I’m going to be a grandmother for the first time in December!
Please pick me! The book looks great!
I just saw this book in the store today; the projects look great! Maybe I will be able to sew my own maternity clothes the second time around!
The book looks fantastic. I would love to try making something–although I’m more likely to just look at the pictures and THINK about making something.
I would love to win this book. I love all things Anna Maria!
What a great giveaway! Thanks!
This would be so wonderful to win. I do love the fabrics!
I’m very curious about this book. I love Seams to me, and would love to be able to make something from this new book.
Thanks for a generous give away!
ooh, gorgeous book, I have her first one and love it! Thanks for the chance to win one!
The book looks great! I’d love to win it. Of course then I’d have even more projects I want to make… Thanks!
What a lovely book. Fingers crossed!
Ah! I’d love to get a peek at this book! It looks amazing!! 😀
The book looks gorgeous! Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy!
I just love Anna Maria’s bright and beautiful fabrics. This book looks wonderful too! I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed…
Lovely!
I would love to win this book. Absolutely beautiful!!!
I’d love a copy of this book for my craft library. I HAVE to make a Sixth Times the Charm quilt!
Thank you for the interview…I would looooove a copy of this book! I need the nursing top most at the moment but hopefully the maternity and baby clothes again in the future. 🙂
I would love to win this book and make some amazing handmade goodies for our 4th baby due in October. Thanks for the chance!
Anna Maria Horner is such a talented person!! I would love to win a copy of the book! Thanks for the giveaway!
I just love love love her fabric colors!!
Thank you for this great interview!
Love the idea behind the center of attention quilt. Thanks for the review and give away.
I love AMH and I loved Seams to Me- so this new book would be welcome in my home!!!
I couldn’t have described her fabrics better. Love them. The book looks beautiful too. Thanks for the giveaway.
I want to get my hands on this book!!!
Anna Maria Horner is so creative. I cannot believe some of the fabrics she comes up with. Thanks for the giveaway!
Wonderful interview! I’d be delighted to win. Thanks for the opportunity! 🙂
I am pregnant right now and would love to win, thanks!
This would be a fantastic book to have since seven of my friends are due within the next few months! It would be great to make some things to welcome all of these new babies. I love your Sixth Times the Charm quilt!
Lovely interview! This book looks fabulous!
Thanks for sharing. The book looks adorable and the pictures are fantastic.
lovely book!
This book looks amazing, and I just found out that I am pregnant, so I am definitely getting the baby-sewing bug. Great timing!
Oh how I would love to win this one!
I have my fingers crossed! I love Anna’s fabrics so much, and would love to win the book!
I love Anna Maria! I would love this. Thanks for the giveaway, and what a fun interview!
~Keri
What a wonderful idea for a book! Please count me in.
woweee! i would love a copy of that book. sweet.
Interesting interview! I learn something new all the time.
What a fantastic interview! I’m pregnant with my second and am totally buying this if I don’t win.
Love the book! Thanks for sharing!
The book looks fabulous! I just love Anna Maria!
Baby due in July… I’d have time to make something special 🙂
It sounds so very perfect! Friends of mine are having little twin girls in a few months, I could totally pull out one of the projects in this book for them.
Beautiful book. Great projects! Thanks for the giveaway!
I’ve had my eye on this book!
ok, i don’t even have kids of my own but i can see all sorts of projects in this book i would love to make!
love the quilt top you made, erin! and thanks for this awesome giveaway!
Oh! What a great book!
Thanks…
I would love to have this book- I already have her first book and I am in love with everything she does!
This book sounds fantastic! Thanks for the opportunity to win it!
I could totally use this book right now!
I love Anna Maria’s fabrics – it would be awesome to have one of her books!
I adore her fabrics and would love a chance to be inspired by her projects.
The thank you notebook is adorable! I would love to win 🙂
It looks like such a lovely book. Thanks for the giveaway
i’d love to win a copy!
i’d love to win!
What a great book! I love all the fun colors of her fabrics
Oh, how I love her as a crafter and a mother. Thanks so much for the opportunity.
Oh, how I love her as a crafter and a mother. Thanks so much for the opportunity.
I would love to win a copy of this book. My sisters and cousins are all reaching the ages where babies are coming, and this looks like just the thing to get me started on making stuff for them.
Thanks for the chance to win this gorgeous looking book!!!
Great interview!
I’ve seen this book pop up several times now. Must be something good!
This book would be an awesome resource, thanks for the book recommendation.
I love Anna’s thinking about considering the entire family, not just the newborn. Would love to have a copy of this book to add to my library.
Oh, I’ve been wanting this book, but its not been in the budget as of late. Thanks for the interview!
The book looks terrific! Thanks for this opportunity.
Thanks, Erin and Anna Maria, for the interview and giveaway! Love the little snuggly quilt one of Roman’s sister’s is holding – and Erin, I agree with you, Anna Maria’s fabrics are fabulous!
Love her fabrics and what a fun book!
Ohhh! I have a newborn (6 weeks) and would love this book! Please pick me 🙂 Thanks for the chance to win!
Thanks for the interview and chance to win a copy of the new book!
I would love to win a copy! Everyone I know is having babies!
Oh now that looks just beautiful… BEAUTIFUL I tell you! Having bub #2 currently ‘on board’, I would be able to put that to work straight away!
I would love to win this book! Please count me in, thanks!
Robin
cokelush at gmail
oh goodness – i have been coveting this book! pick me, please!
This would be just wonderful! Thank you for offering it up!
Count me in!
i would love to win a copy of this great looking book…i looks like its full of some fun projects to make
I LOVE her fabrics & would really enjoy the book!
Adorable book!
I did not realize that the book had such a wide variety of projects–I want it, and if I don’t win I will have to buy a copy!
I love the ideas in this book!
I can’t wait to get a glimpse of this book, the photography is gorgeous, and the projects look lovely.
I love AMH’s patterns, fabrics and style…I can’t wait to check out her new book!
What a wonderful sounding book. I would welcome this book into my library.
I have a new grandbaby and a brand new
sewing machine…I need a copy of this book.
jann
I’ve enjoyed your blog. Thank you. The book looks wonderful.
I want to win, I lovea Ana Maria Horner Fabrics!!!
Oh I would love to win! I am expecting my first and second in the fall (yep twins!!)along with a new nephew this summer! I have been eyeing up this book on Amazon for a while now, but haven’t ordered it yet!
This book looks so cute! I would love a copy 🙂
I’m expecting our first so thanks for the great giveaway.
All her stuff looks so beautiful! Thanks for the chance to win!
Oh I’d love to win- love her fabric.
Great book, even though I’m way beyond the baby stage! Please enter my in the drawing Erin. Thx.
Oh how I would love to win and make all the wonderful things for my babe.
patricia
Pick me! pick me! please!!!!!
Having just had a little boy myself, I would love to dive into this book and make everything I have time for! Thanks for the chance to win!
Having just had a little boy myself, I would love to dive into this book and make everything I have time for! Thanks for the chance to win!
This book is so wonderful! I read about it some days ago, when I was searching for projects for my pregnancy and now you made a review, what a coincidence =) And it is really nice that we get a chance to win it, thanks!
Anna’s new book is on my wishlist and I’m so happy that you have an interview and giveaway! Thanks!
I think this is fabulous…thank you for the chance!
I am constantly amazed that while having 6 children she can continue to share such beautifully created and inspired fabrics and patterns…
oh please, oh please, oh please! I’d love to win this book. I can’t stop drooling over the pictures.
I love Anna Marie Horner’s work and would LOVE to win this book! Thank you for the opportunity!
The books looks lovely.
My hub and I have decided that it’s time to start trying for a baby (we don’t have any children yet) haven’t told friends/family yet. Though I suppose it’s okay to say so here since this is a pretty annonymous place 🙂 But, I’d love to explore the projects in Handmade Beginnings. I think either way, win or not, I’m going to have to get my hands on a copy of that book!
What a great looking book, fun and fresh.
Pure loveliness.
This book looks amazing, it would be lovely to win, I have so many pregnant friends and could make some lovewly gifts!
I’m so excited for this book, I hope I can win
This book looks wonderful…
how lovely! thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
Ooh, I’d so love to win!
Looks like a great book It would come in handy since EVERYONE I know is pregnant:P
I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of this book! It seems like I am forever buying/making baby gifts. Thanks for the chance to win!
I can’t wait to get my hands on this book! Thanks for the giveaway chance.
what a lovely interview! i would love to win a copy of her book 🙂
I so enjoyed “Seams to Me”, so I am particularly excited about the chance to win the new book. Thank for you for the opportunity!
Oh, please pick me. I love everything this woman does. She is so talented!
Looks so sweet. Thanks for having a little contest.
Love her other book, this one looks great too!
What a lot of great projects. I could stay busy for months!
oh, me please! love it.
Oh I would love this!! It looks like a beautiful book. Thanks for the giveaway!
What a great giveaway!
thanks for the interview! I’ve been eyeing that book since AMH first mentioned it on her blog- thanks for the chance to win!
I’m expecting my first baby in October, so this book would be perfect!
I love your blog and love her blog & designs. Thanks!
Oh, my goodness! I’d love a copy of this [email protected]
I really liked Anna Maria’s approach to providing projects that include the whole family. What a neat lady and a fabulous book.
thanks for the interview.
would love the book.
I love that she includes the other family members in the baby-welcoming! We are looking forward to number five joining us in a couple of months.
Yes please! I’m following the tour, trying my bestest to snag a copy. Thanks for the lovely interview.
Erin, your blog and AM’s is always checked here almost daily. I love seeing new projects. It’s always inspiring. Thanks for sharing.
How great! I’d love to win this book!
Thanks for this great interview and for the giveaway! Almost all my friends are expecting babies and I would loooove to win the book!
What a lovely book!
I would love to win…. 🙂
Halldóra.
I love AMH, count me in! You lucky lady to chat to her!
I think Im still on time!!
love this interview and the book sounds great, in fact!
love love love this book I’ve put it on my wish list!
How exciting! I went out to find the book when you first blogged about it. I wanted to get it so I could make a few things for our first grandchild! I never did find the book. But now, maybe I’ll have the chance to get it from you! A double wow!
Thanks for the giveaway! I’m keeping my fingers crossed. 😉
This book is so beautiful. I’m three months pregnant and would love to make some of these projects for my family!
I. Love. Anna Maria Horner! and I would love love love to win a book! 🙂
I would be thrilled to win this book! It is absolutely the cutest!
I also love AMH fabrics. The patterns and colors speak to me like no other fabric line. And that is saying a lot since I am pretty beige normally. 🙂
I would love to win her new book. You can never have too many sources of inspiration.
This book looks fantastic. I am 43 years old and just bought my first sewing machine. I am in the middle of making my first quilt, nothing too fancy, but can’t wait for it to be finished.
The patterns in the book look fantastic and would love the opportunity to win.
This book would be a great addition to my collection.
I love her stuff. I would love to have a copy of this book!
AMH is so fabulously inspiring. I just love her.
No doubt this book is beyond precious!
So so so so so can’t wait to get this book.
OH, So pretty!
Beautiful! I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy of this book. Thanks so much for the chance to win!!
This would be perfect for me and my 7 week old!
great interview, erin.
with a baby due in three weeks, I would LOVE to add this book to my collection.
What an adorable book–thanks for the giveaway!
I would love a copy of this book! I have been busy making all kinds of things for my little one, but I need new inspiration.
Oooh! Pick me!
maria is so lovely! i would loved to win her book!
Would love to win this as I am expecting my second next month and would love to welcome him with some of these super cute ideas! Great Giveaway~
I just love her eye for color and the way she puts so much color together – I am dying for some of that voile!!!
Ohhh, I am so coveting that book! Every single project I have seen is just lovely! Thank for the opportunity to win!
What a great giveaway, I love the photos used in Anna’s new book, and would love to try out her great projects!
I enjoyed the interview, and I would love to be the winner of this book!
AMH’s first book was so inspiring, and I would love to win a copy of this one!! Sadly no new baby on the way for us, but I can already see making some of these projects for other family members. Thanks for the chance to win!
I would love to win! Thanks for the chance!
Thanks for introducing this book…it looks delicious! I’d love to make some of those goodies for my little ones!
what an amzing looking book!
Please put one more name in! I would love to have a copy!!
This book looks wonderful! I need some inspiration for my stitches…and of course I adore her fabrics.
Wow, I feel like I have barely any time to sew or knit … and I only have two kids! Anna Maria is an inspiration, and I would SO love this book — I have an old friend expecting her first baby and I need to make something for this very wanted child!
I’m sewing with her wonderful fabrics as we speak!!
Blessings…
Lee Ann
So lovely!
Oh I’d love to win a copy of this! And since today is my birthday, it’s a great time to win… : )
looks like an awesome book!
You are the winner! Sorry it took me awhile to contact you. Could you email me your address please? Thanks and congrats!
Hi!
Sorry, I am new to the post and response thing. I didn’t know this was here, I left a response in the other post listing the winner. I hope it is still available, thanks. I will email you now. ~ Jennifer