Quilty Pleasures, Peanuts style

QuiltedComing in January is Peanuts Quilted Celebration, another one for all you crafty folk out there. It has applique designs! A CD-ROM! A foreword by Jeannie Schulz!  All brought to you by the American Quilter’s Society! Am I gonna preorder a copy of this one? Of course I am! Am I going to make a quilt? Not on your life! I have no competency at fabric-based crafts! Any quilt that I made would probably go on a murderous rampage, suffocating anyone that gets in its path in badly-made-quilt discomfort! Sure, there’s a chance that might not happen, but is it really worth taking the risk? No!

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Peanuts books, they keep on coming

Peanuts books will continue to come in 2026, no matter what the politicians say! (Not that they’ve said anything about that, but I’m just generally mad at politicians at the moment.) May brings Be A Good Sport, Charlie Brown!, which is an abridged-for-board-book version of the storybook I reviewed back in …

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Gilded Age Peanuts

There are many products generated as Peanuts “collectibles”. There have even been some special editions of books that would qualify, such as those leatherbound Easton Press editions. Still, I think the upcoming board book edition of It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown is pushing the line a bit. The publisher …

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Crafty Peanuts books

A couple of craft-ish new books popped up on the horizon. Coming next June is a revised and expanded edition of Peanuts Cross-Stitch; where the old one had 16 patterns, this one comes with a whopping 24. At least, I assume that’s whopping. I don’t really spend time with craft books. …