Laura Spencer, of Writing Thoughts, recently awarded one of my other b5media blogs, Home Biz Notes, and me the Rockin’ Girl Blogger Award! For gals only, it’s fun to be included. It’s also a neat way to recognize some of the other bloggers who leave comments, give me inspiration, and help make this blogging world a […]
Throughout the ages, needlework has sustained women (and sometimes men) as they work their way through grief…loss of a person close to them, a pet, a job, a home, or relocation to an area where they know no one. (At a grief seminar, I learned there are many types of grief, other than that of […]
We’ve been watching a pair of nuthatches build a nest and hatch a batch of babies. We haven’t seen the babies yet, but we can hear them when Papa and Momma Nuthatch bring the food. Their birdhouse hangs in a tree not far from our deck.
So today, Beth took photos of the parents as they […]
I thoroughly enjoyed Cyndi’s interview of Angie Platten at Layers Upon Layers. Angie, a multi-faceted artist, does lovely work.
Cyndi has a number of photos of some Angie’s various types of work….journal quilts, fabric postcards, altered books, handmade books, ATC’s, altered CD’s, and fiber art. I particularly like the journal quilt Cyndi shows on her blog.
(To […]
William Lehman, at Artist Hideout, called my attention to his post about renowned quilter Nancy Crow. He had discovered a story about her in his local news which told how her rather accidentally become involved in quiltmaking when she discovered she couldn’t realize her dream of becoming a potter. She was allergic to clay dust.
So Nancy turned […]
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 […]
I look at nature and photography with different eyes and insight since watching the interview of Joen Wolfrom on The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims.
Joen explained how she chose colors from her photos for her quilts and quilt hangings. These weren’t landscape replicas as I had expected. She chose the colors from her […]
When I wrote the meme post, Simply Successful Secrets for a home business, I mentioned having fun. Comments I’ve received let me know that others feel this is important, too. Whether you have a quilting, fabric art, or related business, you can have fun while you earn an income.
Often we get so caught up into the […]
Writers say they have “muses” that inspire them with their work. Once at a writers’ workshop I attended, the teacher instructed us to describe our muse, either in words or a sketch.
Until then I didn’t even know I had a muse or was supposed to! However, as I put pencil to paper, a whimsical lady […]
Over at b5media’s Tangled Thread, Chloe Findlay takes us through a seven step process to fuse fabric for quilting, called Machine Fusion Fabric. It almost seems like magic as she combines fabrics, paints, and embellishments, along with machine quilting to produce a work of art.
This shows how, in this mixed media world, quiltmaking has taken […]
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