The cover of Blue Thread features a bow that Miriam Josefsohn might have worn in the 1912 campaign to give women in Oregon the same voting rights as Oregon men. Eliza Lane made that bow, which, as she shows us, is a cinch to make. Take it away, Eliza. Tools and materials: button with a [...]
All posts tagged Eliza Lane
Eliza Lane’s Super-Easy Suffragist Bow
Posted by Ruth on May 1, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/05/01/eliza-lanes-super-easy-suffragist-bow/
I Gave Whirlabout New Media a Whirl
As of this month, according to a rough estimate, about 157 million people in the U.S use Facebook. Nearly 15 million Facebook users in the U.S. are thirteen to seventeen years old. Facebook is only one small corner of the social media available over the Internet. Communication between readers and writers, as witnessed by the [...]
Posted by Ruth on April 27, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/04/27/i-gave-whirlabout-new-media-a-whirl/
Cover Designer Kelsey Tells All
According to various Web sources, the phrase “you can never tell a book by its cover” first appeared in print back in 1946 in the novel Murder in the Glass Room, by Edwin Rolfe and Lester Fuller. But in the case of Blue Thread, I’d like to think that the contents does justice to the [...]
Posted by Ruth on April 17, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/04/17/cover-designer-kelsey-tells-all/
The Books Are In!
Abbey Gaterud, the interim publisher at Ooligan Press, interrupted my regularly scheduled life yesterday to announce: THE BOOKS ARE IN! When I arrived at Ooligan HQ, folks were in a total frenzy! OK, not really. Everyone was sort of sitting around, getting the business done. A large box labeled RUTH FELDMAN occupied one chair. The [...]
Posted by Ruth on January 11, 2012
http://bluethreadbook.com/2012/01/11/the-books-are-in/
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My name is Ruth. I write books and articles for children and young adults. Blue Thread is my eleventh book, and the first one in which I have knowingly stretched the truth.Visit this blog to satisfy your curiosity about:
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