You’re excited about your quilting or fabric art business. You’re making items you enjoy, giving talks, teaching workshops, and/or writing books. It’s something you basically enjoy. You work for yourself, from your home, and can be somewhat flexible about your hours.
However, no matter how much you enjoy this venture, there will be times when […]
Quilters and fabric artists, who are earning their living from their art, may desire to look into retirement plans for the self-employed. Perhaps they’re doing this parttime and have a retirement plan where they work or a spouse has one. Yet they might never know when they could be depending on their parttime work for full […]
Halloween and Day of the Dead was the theme for the Arts & Design Showcase carnival this month. Noreen at Hankering For Yarn hosted this round-up of posts from channel bloggers and visitors.
Here you’ll find numerous ideas for items you can make for Halloween decorations and festivities. I also contributed several “spooky” suggestions […]
Jen, at Domestik Goddess, comes across so many novel ideas for home decorating. The lastest is a Faux-Finish Concrete Carpet which she pictures with a patchwork design. As Jen asks, “Why not stencil the concrete to look like a luxurious carpet?” Thus you’re eliminating the bare concrete floor look.
She provides instructions and resources so you […]
When your quilting group gets together near Halloween, plan a “spooky” theme to create a memorable occasion. Perhaps you meet every other week, as my daughter’s fiber arts group does, to share their work and quilting ideas. You may meet to quilt one another’s quilts like the pioneer ladies did. Or maybe it’s luncheon […]
Writing careless, unprofessional e-mails may turn off customers. Or they may give customers, editors, and others the idea that you’re as sloppy with your quilt art as you are with your online writing.
Celine at Pimp Your Work has some good tips about writing e-mails in her post, 7 Ways to Make Your E-mails Unprofessional. She […]
It seems more and more patchwork tote bags catch my eye as I look at displays, browse blogs, or check out books. Are they the quilting fad right now? Or am I simply more aware.
I mentioned Emily’s tote in a previous post, Create a Patchwork Tote Bag. Today I came across Chloe’s post, Eco-friendly Fabric Totebags, […]
Create a patchwork tote bag…..see this lovely version. Over at Domestik Goddess, I discovered this lovely patchwork tote made by Jen’s teenaged daughter Emily. She stitched it from odds and ends in her mother’s fabric remnant stash.
For a description of how Emily went about making her tote, visit the Domestik Goddess blog (link above). Jen […]
Many people around the world are celebrating Blog Action Day, October 15 to create environmental awareness.
What is our environment? What do we mean by environmental awareness? How does this affect quilters and fabric artists?
I think quilters may have been some of the earliest environmentalists, although they would never have thought of themselves that way. (Besides […]
I discovered The Quilt of Life at Christian Crafter and have put it on my “must read” list. This book, a patchwork of devotional thoughts, was written by by Mary Tatum . Kristen, host at Christian Crafter, has quoted from this book, and Mary Tatum’s thoughts about quilting reflect the linking of the […]
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