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My next give giveaway will be the book What I Learned from God While Quilting, by Ruth McHaney Danner and Cristine Bolley.
Leave a comment with your name and e-mail (this will be available only to me, but is the way I can contact the winner). Share with us something about your quilting/fabric art experiences. If you’re just [...]
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At the b5 Lifestyles Channel, our promo day theme consists of food…Potluck Summer Pitch-In for summer meals and more. The Food Bloggers, a group I’ve joined that shares food ideas, memories, and recipes, have a number of interesting posts this week. So I’ll share them with Quilting and Patchwork viewers and Lifestyles Channel readers.
*Think outside the basil box [...]
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Sometimes it’s difficult to become inspired about quilting during the sultry days during July and August, especially when humidity is high, along with the temperature. Many of us don’t have air conditioning, so plan our days to work at our projects in early morning or the evening.
The Dog Days of Summer….this was an expression of my childhood during [...]
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Here’s another great line-up of creative ideas from the Arts Bloggers.
Check out the links to collage workshops, provided by A Creative Journal.
At Tangled Thread, Chloe is using fabric to cover notebooks - they’re great for gifts or just as a treat for yourself.
Fingerprint Mini-Mosaic with Scrabble Tiles. Here’s a tutorial from guest poster, TheScrabbleGal
Instructions for a [...]
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QUILTERS BLOGGING
As I was writing The Power of the Quilter’s Blog, I realized I’d like to start featuring other blogs and web sites periodically. There are some I return to again and again. There are some I receive updates and newsletters from. Also, there are those I haven’t discovered yet!
So I’ll start featuring various blogs/web [...]
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You don’t need a blog if you’re a quilter or fabric artist. However, it does make life fun and puts you in touch with so many more quilters, right from your own home (or wherever you access the Internet), than you’d meet otherwise. A whole new world opens up for quilters with their blogs and [...]
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THURSDAY THIRTEEN
Do you like to try new qulting techniques? Perhaps there are some you haven’t even heard of. Some may be “as old as the hills” while others are new innovations. I know my daughter is continually informing me of ones she’s trying or desires to.
For Thursday Thirteen, I’m mention 13 Quilting/Fabric Art Techniques to [...]
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As I glanced through a quilting magazine, I saw an introduction to Victory Garden quilts by Eleanor Burns. Since I was a child during the Victory Garden years of World War II, in the 1940s, these brought back memories.
Even the fabrics were reminiscent of those we used in making clothing and other items in that era. [...]
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Periodically it’s good to take stock of where I am in my writing and what I’m offering you here at Quilting and Patchwork. I have a series of questions. I know the answers will depend on where you are in your quilting and fabric arts work, what appeals to you, what you have time to [...]
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The Arts Bloggers have come up with an interesting array of ideas this week. Some of them Christmas in July. However, others can be made throughout the year, yet serve as gifts, too.
Christmas in July? Chloe has issued a challenge to start your Christmas or holiday crafting now!
Favourite Art Supplies Sharing some of my favourite [...]
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