It has been a heartwarming experience to connect with so many people and make many new friends by self publishing my rug book. It was with fear and trepidation and many thousands of dollars that Jack and I had 4000 copies printed and set out to sell and distribute them ourselves. It worked beyond what one might have expected. We did not start off smart enough to print labels on our computer and did not figure out how to have the post office pick up the packages, we trudged off with a dolly loaded with home wrapped packages and made a many a trip those first years! The books are now out of print, which just means we will not reprint them in hard copy and mail them to people. Our remaining last last box full is held for growing grand children or other needs here.
I am humbly pleased to say that there are still inquiries for copies of "Rugs for My Red Cape" so I am excited about the idea of publishing it in a new form... Some services offer the customer either downloads to a reader like Kindle or ipad or print on demand. That would be nice for my rug hookers. This is something whose time has come now. I have been watching it out of the corners of my eyes for a while, now it is feasible I believe. So sometime over the coming summer I hope to post the link here for a new edition of the book, in a very inexpensive and widely accessible form. The photographs are even prettier on an electronic screen than in the hard copy book. Wish me luck in this new venture! Edyth
Welcome to My Red Cape. Long ago in another time my husband Jack and I lived in a little old red house. It was the stuff of dreams to us for the few years that we were there. I live there still a number of hours every day in imagination, with old dolls and paintings and fabrics and feather trees. I draw inspiration and happiness from the memories of that space in time and share some of it here with friends who remember how to step with Alice through the looking glass and take delight in whimsies and antiquities.
~Edyth O’Neill
