One of my daughter’s favorite magazines for ideas and updates is Cloth Paper Scissors. The current issue (July?August 2007) contains more than 50 pages of mixed media techniques. There’s also an article, “A Year Captured in Fabric,” about fabric collage journaling.
If your quilting interests have taken you into the quilting and mixed media arts world, you’ll find […]
Many quilters enjoy designing and creating the quilt top, but would rather have someone else do the quilting. When I operated a quilting business from my home, rather than simply doing fabric art for my own enjoyment, I hand quilted several old quilts. (Machine quilting was just coming into vogue.)
Nowadays, many quilters have taken up machine […]
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 […]
According to the latest e-mail newsletter I received from Quilting Arts Magazine, paper quilts are all the craze now. This is a preview of an upcoming article in the latest issue.
Paper quilts! you say. These often involve a collage effect and include the use of paper, fibers, expandable paint, netting, and other embellishments. Quilters […]
“Mom, my ATC [Artist Trading Card] is in the new book, 1000 Artist Trading Cards,” my daughter exclaimed.
Sure enough, when we received a copy of the book by Art Quilting magazine and edited by Patricia Bolton, there was an ATC by Beth Mastin (along with other quilters and fabric artists). Beth’s card also appeared in the magazine […]
I mentioned in the previous post there is some thought that the stitching arts are on the decline, especially sewing. Emily, at Quilters Village mentions the revival of the stitching arts.
“Now that quilting, sewing, knitting and other handcrafts are “cool” again, a younger crowd is starting to stitch again, and adding their own twists to […]
Those quilters and mixed media artists who enjoy Quilting Arts Magazine and Cloth Paper Scissors will find it exciting that Quilting Arts, LLC has joined the Interweave Press Family.
You can read about this exciting event at Patricia Bolton’s blog and her story behind her successful magazine and company that started in her in-laws’ sheep barn.
I also […]
Old-time patchwork can be turned into Christmas gifts and decorations. Yo-yo’s, which once were very popular with quilters, seem to evoke a great deal of interest when I write about them. Some quilters contact me concerning their memories making these as children and with their children. Other quilters want to know how to make yo-yo’s.
These decorative […]
My daughter seeks out quilting calendars and particularly likes the one produced by Quilting Arts magazine. She also entered their contest this year for calendar selection. Her fabric art entry was one of the 30 selected in the first selection. We all were thrilled even though she didn’t make the final 13 used for the 2007 […]
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Written by Mary Emma Allen [email] for b5media.
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