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Greetings! What a pleasure to find a small group of others in the quilting arts world! I am enjoying exploring the forum and related resources. I work with a variety of techniques -- clearly as many here do! - including mixing quilting and embellishment with felting and found objects. I'd really...
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Hi to all like minds,It is a joy to be able to communicate with other art quilters,I am a disabled woman so my teachers have been from t.v. and books,and now artquilts mag.I started out as a silk painter(just because I thought the flow of paint was fantastic.My whole world opened when I watched a quilting...
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My name is Jennifer. I've been quilting for more than 10 years. A couple of years ago I became interested in art quilting. I think I am finally ready to take the plunge and call myself a beginning art quilter. Check out my progress on my website .
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Hello art quilters -- I am new to this and want to know how large the hanging sleeve needs to be for a small art quilt. Should it be big enough for a 1" dowel or will a smaller sleeve be sufficient?
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Hi Everyone! I've been interested in drawing and painting portraits ever since I can remember. A few years ago, I began to sew and quilt. I wanted to take it a bit further and combine quilting with painting to create an art piece. I found quilting arts magazine and was in heaven!!! I look forward...
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Glad to be here, still have alot of checking the site out to do- but it looks like a great place so far! Tracy :-)
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Hi Debbie, Happy 4th to you too. I am also celebrating my 19th wedding anniversary today. In celebration, my husband helped me soda soak some PFD cotton and silk and make 5 batches of dye concentrate. What a good day! In answer to your printer question, I use an Epson printer because of the pigma ink...
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Hi. I've just join here and wanted to introduce my self. I'm Birgitte a Danish textil/fiber artist living in England with my American husband. I make art quilts and free style machine embroidery pieces, often combined with a bit of mixed media. I love working with texture, building up my surfaces...
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HI! I am all excitied about meeting new quilting friends. I am an art quilter working mainly with smaller pieces. I mostly fussy cut clothing and applique it to background fabrics. Some of my pieces are mixed media too. I am currently trying to get a bigger quilt finished for a show at the end of the...
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I first called myself an artist when I finally had a room of my own filled with fabric and beads and paint and equipment!!! It took me a while to get used to it - I used to call it "the back bedroom" or "the other room", but it is in fact a "studio". So, now I am an "artist"...