Tamora Pierce SAL - Release 4 Design Insights

Release 4 is still in in Emelan, and it features the thread that Sandry wove that bound the four together. We went with a natural colored fiber for the thread. You also start seeing Briar's Shakkan (though more of that will be in the next release!)

This set of books are The Circle Opens, and we went with a simple book cover version, along with the quote "New learning never hurt anybody" which is from Shatterglass.

I'm very excited for the next release, as it contains one of my favorite graphics for the whole piece.

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Tamora Pierce SAL - Release 3 Design Insights

The third release is the first in a new section of the bookshelf - and happens to sit directly under the Tamora Pierce nameplate. I love this series, the first Circle of Magic quartet, they're something I reread every year without fail.

The quote "Her bark is worse than her bite" is said about Rosethorn, and I've been told fits me pretty well too. The dragon up on top of the books is something Tina is very proud of (and honestly I didn't think she could draw a dragon in pixels that small, so I'm impressed by it too!) and is Chime (well, representing a little figurine of Chime).

We had a couple cover designs to work with on these ones, but opted to go with my favorite covers.

It's a smaller section, to make up for the two larger sections coming your way next, and maybe help me get caught up on my stitching too!

Tamora Pierce SAL - Release 2 Design Insights

This week's release features Alanna, with one of my favorite iterations of the book covers. For Alanna we put in the necklace on the previous release, and also this sword and shield figurine. We took inspiration from the descriptions of Alanna's sword, and the pictures on different covers, and of course her shield needed to have a lioness on it!

We also have a plushie kitty laying across the top of the books, with purple eyes, because we couldn't leave out Faithful/Pounce from this section (he would have been more in the middle, but the height of the books in the first release made that difficult, so he ended up laying across Alanna's books).

The quote was chosen in part because it would fit on the small books, but also because Alanna truly does believe in deeds, not words. She proves that over and over again in her books, and shows that you need to be the change that you want, not just wait for it to happen for you.

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