Fabric postcards with circle designs have been coming and going at our home. One of my daughter’s postcard exchange groups has a theme of “Circles” for their latest swap. The postcard design needed to have at least one circle in it.
One arrived today from England with circle stitching and sparkly circles sewed on it, too. […]
Crazy quilts fascinated me as a child….and still do as an adult. I recall the one, all satin, silk, velvet, and brocade with elaborate fancy stitching, that my grandmother draped over the back of the horsehair sofa in her “parlor”, or living room in today’s lingo. I’ve also collected discarded crazy quilts that my daughter […]
Quilters usually are thrilled when they can find patterns, blocks of the month, classes, and other information at no charge. At Victoriana Quilt Designs , you’ll find many of these at no cost.
There also is a great deal of information for the beginning quilter.
Are there any sites you’ve discovered that you find particularly helpful and […]
Quilt restoration expert, Nancy Kirk, holds free quilt restoration teleseminars for those who want to know more about this topic. She has one scheduled for Tuesday, May 15.
Also, if you can’t join Nancy at the teleseminars, she has replays available here. Nancy also teaches live quilt restoration workshops.
This is one of the neat aspects of today’s […]
If you’ve been following the Fiber Explorers’ Round Robin pages (they’re making books for this session), my daughter Beth has posted more at her Meandering Threads blog, under a post, More Round Robin Pages.
It’s always fun to see what Beth is making and the pages others in the group create for her “Nature” book. Here’s […]
If you’re involved in quiltmaking and fabric art as a business, you may want to check out my recent post, Being a Home Worker in a Home Business, at Home Biz Notes. There I discuss my experience when I made samples and later the finished products for a customer who was involved in finding markets […]
Patricia Bolton, editor of Quilting Arts Magazine and Cloth Paper Scissors, will be hosting a PBS quilting show, “Quilting Arts TV.” The show will debut near the end of 2007. Ttaping of the episodes soon will begin.
Those who read Quilting Arts Magazine and/or Cloth Paper Scissors are familiar with Patricia and the work she inspires […]
Business owners, whether they operate from their home, a shop elsewhere, or solely online, find themselves taking risks…some more than others, as they venture into their own enterprise. If you’ve ventured into any type of quilting or fabric art venture to promote and market your products and/or skills, you’ve had to take some risk…money, time, […]
Knowing of my interest in quilting, Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei, who writes the Eye on DNA blog, called my attention to quilts and other art work inspired by DNA.
“How could this be?” I wondered. “I think of DNA as something scientific or medical. What does it have to do with quilts?”
However, Hsien directed my attention to […]
The Alzheimer’s Art Quilt Initiative, under the direction of Ami Simms, has put together a book, Alzheimer’s: Forgetting Piece by Piece, about the quilts contributed for this auction fund raising projcet.
The color proofs have been okayed and now are back with the printer. A June release is anticipated, although it may be ready before.
The […]
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