RECENT PRESS: (click each link below)
- Health March 2022 – What Lights You Up? (article on creativity)
- Phoenix Magazine July/August 2021 – The Great 48 (Best of the Valley)
- Cloth Paper Scissors May/June 2018 – The Case for Drawing article for my Spark creativity column
- ABC15 TV 2019 – Paradise Valley students’ letter to company prompts change
- Phoenix Magazine April 2018 Featured as Artist of the Month
- Cloth Paper Scissors March/April 2018 – Finding Beauty in the Ordinary article for my Spark creativity column
- Cloth Paper Scissors Jan/Feb 2018 – article for my Spark creativity column
- Easy Quilts Fall 2017 – article about my Dreamer collection for Windham Fabrics
- Where Women Create Summer 2016
- ModBlock Magazine Spring 2016 – article on the importance of negative space
- AZ Central December 2016 – Owner of vandalized Middle Eastern restaurant thanks supporters
- Amy Butler’s BLOSSOM Magazine – Issue #3 – featuring our Prayer Flag Project
- Uptown Magazine – November 2015 – “Entrepreneurial Endeavors”
- O, the Oprah Magazine – August Issue 2015 “Can You Keep a Secret?” features my book and a mini interview (!!!)
- www.Stampington.com – Somerset Life magazine (July/Aug 2015) & Somerset Studio magazine both feature a review of The Little Spark
- RISD xyz Alumni Magazine – “Finding It Hard to Start?”
- Arizona Republic – “Phoenix Artist Could Win $20,000 for Blue Moon label”
- Canva.com Design School on Canva.com – 40 Books to Unlock your Creativity
- www.abcnews.go.com – A Look Back at 2014 Craft Books
- AZ Central February 2015 Kids Craft Idea: Soul Boxes
- www.ElephantJournal.com – featured my piece: 8 Ways to Make 2015 Your Most Creative Year Yet
- Sew Mama Sew contributor: 10 Ways to a More Creative You in 2015
- www.azcentral.com – “Cool Home: Keeping ‘The Little Spark’ on in life, home”
- www.apartmenttherapy.com – “Kristoffer and Carrie’s Imaginative Home”
- www.makemodern.com – Australia -“Maker Profile: Carrie Bloomston of SUCH Designs”
- www.publishersweekly.com – “Creativity Enabler: PW Talks with Carrie Bloomston”
- www.raisingarizonakids.com – “‘Gratitudes’ and ‘gratefuls'”
- blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com – “Carrie Bloomston on Writing Little Spark, the Book Her Publishers Didn’t Want, and Choosing Creativity Over Fear”
- www.wheretraveler.com – “My Valley of the Sun: Carrie Bloomston”
- azbigmedia.com – “Local fabric designer pens book on unconventional creativity”
- www.al.com – “Thousands of ‘Happy Flags’ being created to greet the Dalai Lama in October”
- www.al.com – “Artists contributing to Dalai Lama celebration with 4,000 prayer flags throughout the city”
- www.ctpub.com – “Ignite Your Creativity”
- International Quilt Festival Quilt Scene :: featured interview
- Quilting Arts Holiday 2014 :: LOVE Pillow featured
- PatSloan.com Podcast/Interview
- Modern Sewciety Podcast/Interview
- Stitch Magazine :: Summer 2014 :: Flirty, Fun Sarong project featured
- Stitch Magazine :: Spring 2014 :: Create Collage project featured
- My yoga and consciousness writing featured on ELEPHANT JOURNAL here, here, here, here, and here.
- Homespun Magazine :: Australia :: November 2013 :: LEGO sewing machine
- QUILT SCENE :: 2013-2014 :: Bangle bracelet tutorial featured
- Fat Quarter Shop blog :: interview about COLLAGE fabric :: July 2013
- QUILTmania:: Special Kids issue 2013 :: Giggle & Squeak! See virtual magazine HERE.
- Windham Fabrics blog :: interview March 2013 :: Inspiration for COLLAGE
- Work Style magazine (from Switzerland) Autumn 2012 :: interviewed for People: Unusual jobs
- CraftFoxes.com :: Interview (Handmade Conversations)
- GenerationQ Magazine :: Premiere Issue 2012 :: Pinhead Pincushion
- QUILTmania :: Special Kids issue 2012
- Quilts & More :: Summer 2012 :: featured in Hot Stuff
- STUDIOS Magazine :: Summer 2012 ::
- STITCH Magazine :: Spring 2012 :: Everyday Containers
- American Quilt Retailer :: COVER :: Issue 103 January 2012
- STUDIOS MAGAZINE :: Winter 2011 :: Studio in Vignettes
- STITCH Magazine :: Winter 2011 :: Cheezy & Friends finger puppet pattern
- I Am GenQ : Generation Q Magazine
- Tall Jill & Short Jill blog
- The Jolly Jabber :: Fat Quarter Shop blog
- IN THE ZONE Non-Sewing Tools We Love : Generation Q Magazine
- Jackelope Ranch :: 100 creatives
- Examiner.com :: Fostering Creativity
- Phoenix New Times press