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These are byproducts of reeling silk from the cocoon; silk accumulates on these rods and remnants of it remain. The resulting rods can be dyed or separated into layers, and used in paper making, stitching and silk fusion.

 

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  • Quilting Arts TV has a new home, and a makeover!
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  • 5 Ways to Create Your Own Handmade Quilts
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  • Meet Our New Assistant Editor for Quilting Arts!
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 113
    113 Flower Power Nature is a great source of inspiration for our quilting projects. First, we go from a floral photo to a funky wholecloth flower quiltlet that blossoms with color. Then featured guest Robbie Joy Eklow displays a small quilt in her graphic
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 112
    112 Tools of the Trade Needle and thread will always be essential to quilting, but today, an art quilter’s tool box also includes heat guns, stabilizers, and a myriad of other products and devices designed to achieve unusual effects and to make
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 111
    111 Text Messaging Writing on your quilts not only adds texture and interest, but can literally help get the message across. This show presents simple ways to add text to your quilts using the computer; hand-stitching, gel pens, markers, and lots more
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 110
    110 Quilted Collage—Getting Scrappy This program shows how to turn scraps into wonderful quilted collaged quilts using rubber stamps, sticky-backed fabric, and other bits and pieces of materials. First up explore fabric rubberstamping – what
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 109
    109 Home Décor Home Décor is using the techniques you’ve learned for quilts and applying them to decorating projects. First, show off quilting skills on easy yet artful coasters. Then join Carol Ingram for felted bowls sure to find
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 108
    108 Photo Fabric Collage Manipulating photos on the computer is a growing area of quilt design. New software and scanners are making it easier than ever to change the size, color, and tone of your photos and then transfer them to fabric. First Lesley
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 106
    106 Pictorial Quilts Learn to make faces—creative self-portraits and quilts with figures, done with fabric, stitch, and embellishment. It’s hard to keep from smiling when you create your own self-portrait. Then it’s guest Pam RuBert
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 107
    107 Quilting Every Day Experienced artists in every discipline know that creating a little art every day is a great way to hone skills and find inspiration. We start out with baseball card-sized artist trading cards; they are little and quick and great
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 105
    105 Free-motion Quilting and Machine Needle-felting Free-motion quilting allows you to draw with your needle while machine needle-felting transforms everyday bits of fibers into beautiful, textural designs. First up is machine needle felting. Then, featured
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 104
    104 Landscape Quilts Learn the tricks quilt artists use to create impressive landscape quilts. First Laura Cater-Woods helps make a whimsical landscape quilt. Then she returns with accordion-style landscapes. Next, Shelly Stokes creates the illusion of
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 103
    103 Embellishments and Encrustations Embellishments such as beads, sequins, yarn, and even metal add dimension and sparkle. Create shimmering fabrics out of fibers that actually fuse together when heated. The first feature is fabric foiling or adhering
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 213
    213 Basics Whether you’re a beginner quilter or a seasoned pro; it’s always a good lesson to start with the basics. First, we’re creating and organizing a recipe box to keep your favorite methods at hand, plus we’ll review the
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 212
    212 KIS KIS has become one of those popular catch phrases – keep it simple! There’s a time and place for intricate designs but it’s also important to keep it simple so that quilting will be something you can do every day. With the number
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 211
    211 Paints and dyes Perhaps one of the most exciting additions to the quilting market has been paints and dyes. We’ve opened the door to dyeing our own fabrics; creating one of a kind hand painted looks and added a whole new dimension of surface
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 210
    210 Graphic Elements Just about any design can be considered a graphic element. In particular the collage trend has its roots in graphic design where words are used for both their meaning and their appearance. First up, Laura and Linda Kemshall are back
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 209
    209 Photo Images On today’s show we’ve harnessed the energy of technology and applied it to our quilts. First we learn to take, alter and print one-of-a-kind images to create a fabric book. Then special guest Wen Redmond shows how to use a
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 208
    208 Green Quilting’s origin, in the use of scraps from clothing is the “original” green concept. In quilting today, this trend also manifests itself in different ways from recycling, to green products like bamboo batting, and even quilts
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 207
    207 Trends Learn what’s new in quilting on today’s show. First, learn how to combine needle felting with quilting for unique results. Next Rayna Gillman shows us how to turn outdated, or “ugly” fabric into an original design by
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 206
    206 Fabric and Design The use of fabric and design is at the heart of your quilting projects. First, Claire Fenton uses images to create a unique background or as she says: “one mans rust is another’s dyeing material.” Then Andrea Bishop
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 205
    204 Embellishment Contemporary quilts often include some form of surface embellishment such as charms or fiber, or maybe the addition of paint or another surface design. First is a lesson on using puff paints to create dimension on your quilts. Then Ruth
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 204
    703 Totes and Bags Time to tout your totes! First up on this episode is Candy Glendening, who shows how to create a messenger bag filled with pockets that will keep you organized, and a flap that is a beautiful piece of fabric art. Then Valori Wells demonstrates
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 203
    203 Texture This program explores different ways of achieving textural interest on our quilts. First, paint fusible web to create lustrous, one-of a-kind fabrics. Then the Kemshalls show how quilted fabrics provide surface textures that can be enhanced
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 202
    202 Color Color is the spirit within our designs; it evokes emotion, creates movement and reinforces our design and pattern. First, fabric designer, Tina Givens demonstrates a simple but striking appliqué technique using free motion stitching.
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 201
    201 Every picture tells a story . Every quilt project has a little bit of you stitched into it and we all have a story to tell. First up is Katie Pasquini-Masopust and a lesson on how to take your design from a picture to a quilt. Then Laura and Linda
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  • Give a Pillow Punch with Easy Sewing Techniques & Scraps
    Little by little, I'm establishing a style for our Colorado home, accessorizing with pieces of artwork here and some new furniture there. With one eye on the budget and another on the time I have available for decorating (almost none!) I have been looking for some quick, easy, and budget-friendly
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  • How do you build up your fabric stash?
    Right now one of my biggest goals is to increase my fabric stash. I recently set up a new studio and finally have the space to store large quantities of fabric. This weekend I was in Portsmouth, NH getting fitted for a bridesmaid dress for my brother’s
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  • Pokey's Chicken Soup Recipe & Another 10th Anniversary Giveaway
    Congratulations to cronelv for winning the last giveaway for the complete QATV Series 700! Please email Lindsey Murray ( lmurray@interweave.com ) with your address and she’ll mail you the DVD set. This next giveaway has to do with quilting and food
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 313
    313 Stitch This: free motion quilting and threads and surfaces. Melissa Averinos is our first guest with a simple argyle stitch pattern that can be applied to all different items. Then it’s a thread tutorial; learn which thread to use with what
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 312
    312 Inks & Dyes: roll up your sleeves with paints and dyes. First is Debbie Crane and her great fabric books featuring paint. Then it’s Shelly Stokes for a lesson on adding patina to sewing notions. Next Dianne Giancola joins us for a tutorial
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 311
    311 Color Our World : color as a key part of design. First up is Laura Wasilowski and a whimsical birdhouse quilt designed right on the spot with prefused fabric scraps. Then visit the True Colors exhibit for an inspiring look at color. Last up is Kathy
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 310
    310 On the Surface: creative ideas for surface embellishment. Our first segment was filmed on location with Julaine Lofquist Burch and a unique way of marbling fabric using shaving cream. Then join author Laura Murray and unmounted stamps as rubbing plates
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 309
    309 Challenges and Personal Style: problems and questions. The first challenge is incorporating topical events into quilting. We take a look at the go green exhibit for inspiration. Then Joel Dewberry explores another challenge: how do you add your personal
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 308
    308 Retro Designs: a fresh twist on vintage designs . First join Marinda Stewart for placements with a vintage look featuring vinyl. Then it’s Darlene Zimmerman and a fresh look at crazy patch. Revive this technique for a modern purse. Last up modern
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  • Quilting Arts Tv Episode 306
    306 Home Dec: turning your art quilts into functional home décor. The first design is a table runner by Frieda Anderson. Then it’s on location with Kelli Perkins and creating stitchable transfers. Last up, we create pin woven portraits with
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 307
    307 Digital Designs and More : the latest digital tools for contemporary quilting. Melanie Testa is our first guest with a demonstration of a “machine drawn line” to add additional layers to your machine quilted surface. Then Jeanie Sumrall
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  • Quilting Arts Tv Episode 305
    305 Worldly Inspirations : art quilters are using their talents and skills to raise awareness on the environment. Hollis Chatelaine is the first guest with her amazing traveling exhibit entitled Imagine – Hope. Then, it’s time to make your
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  • Quilting Arts Tv Episode 304
    304 Stitching with Alternate fabrics : quilting with a variety of fabrics and textures. First is using batting as an exciting surface for stitching. Then meet Melanie Testa for a purse using organza and freezer paper screen printing. Next Jane LaFazio
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 303
    303 Fruits, Veggies and Flowers : the art quilt garden First designer, Lyric Kinard returns to create fabric with paint and veggies and a lesson on color theory. Then it’s off to a quilt show with Laura Wasilowski and bias fusing techniques for
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  • Quilting Arts Tv Episode 302
    302 Lifestyle Sewing : bringing artful sewing to your everyday life. First learn how to integrate color and pattern on every day quilted items with Anna Maria Horner. Next we explore journal quilting with Karey Bresnahan on location in Chicago. Journal
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  • Quilting Arts Tv Episode 301
    301 Fabric Collage : mix and match textures and techniques. Learn to mount a small collage onto a painted, gallery wrapped canvas with Lyric Kinard. Then meet designer Jane LaFazio; working with paper, canvas, and surface design techniques, she creates
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  • Announcing Our 2012 Quilting Arts Getting Pet-ty Calendar Finalists!
    Let’s face it: pet owners love our pets. My next door neighbor loves his labs so much, the only décor he has in his house relates to black labs--from every piece of wall art to the toilet paper dispensers! So it was no surprise to me that
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  • Top Product Picks for 2011
    It's January—2011 has arrived. Are you hard at work on your New Year's resolutions yet? If you're like me, at least one of your resolutions probably involves sewing—mine was to sew more, and to take on a couple more advanced projects
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  • Are You Missing Something?
    It wasn't until I packed away all the Christmas decorations, swept up the crumbs from the goodies we'd been nibbling, and tidied the house for my mom's visit last weekend, that I realized: something was missing.
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 413
    413 Catherine Nicholls is our first guest artist with a perfect free motion paper quilt collage inspired by photos she took of graffiti during some of her travels. Pokey shows how to make a colorful, whole cloth doggie jacket that will give the other
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 412
    412 Today’s show is all about tips for great quilting. Our artists have agreed to share a few of their favorite tricks with us. Our first guest is artist, Lyric Kinard. Learn a few carving tips and tricks to create a stamp from an eraser and then
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 411
    411 Today’s show focuses on perfecting your sewing skills. First up, Jeanne Delpit will demonstrate stitching techniques for mixed media quilting especially with metal. We’ll discuss needle tension and thread strength. Then, meet designer
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 410
    410 Today’s show features apparel. You can apply your quilting skills to wearables with great results. It’s a beautiful way to show off your art. We begin with Artist Julie Fei-Fan Balzer. She is using her quilt scraps to create amazing scarves
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 409
    409 Get ready to be inspired by innovative designers with the latest in contemporary quilting. We begin our show today with designer Terry White. She’s going to demonstrate thread painting techniques with her stitch samplers. Next, it’s mixed
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 408
    408 Today’s show focuses on real world solutions to quilting issues. The show opens with Jay McCarroll; he’s back to demonstrate fusing techniques. First, is a cute grommeted tote bag, then a revival of a knit shirt with fusing and last, fused
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 407
    407 Today’s guests share some of the new ways they’re interpreting traditional concepts into their quilt designs. Using basic quilting techniques, Frieda Anderson starts off with a new twist to free form quilting and framing your quilted pieces
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 406
    406 Let your inner artist shine with Quilting Arts. Pokey starts at her sewing machine to give tips and trips for practicing free motion sketching. Then, meet artist Maria Elkins for an easy fabric portrait – you don’t even need to know how
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  • Quilting Arts Episode 405
    405 Fabric is our focus on today’s Quilting Arts. We have ideas on both creating and using fabric in a unique way. Malka Dubrowsky is first with techniques for over dyeing commercial fabric. She also shares information on discharging. Then, meet
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 404
    404 Quilting arts is all about trends. First up, is Melanie Testa. Her trend is artists’ trading cards and she uses them to demonstrate alternate finishing and binding techniques for quilts. Then, meet designer Sue Kelly with the latest in surface
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 403
    403 Today’s show is about technique. To get started on a new project sometimes we begin with a design, or maybe a pattern or even a new medium - but how about using a technique as your starting point? Carol Ingram is our first designer with techniques
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 402
    402 First, is Jay McCarroll of project runway fame. He’s going to share with us a little bit about his inspiration, how he entered the quilt world, and some of the challenges of designing his first line of fabrics. Then, meet designer Alisa Burke
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 401
    401 First up, today is Laura Wasilowski. She demonstrates how to transform the surface of a small art quilt with threads and hand sewing plus an interesting fusing technique. Then, meet artist Yvonne Porcella as she creates an embellished frame around
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 512
    512 Liz Debellis starts us out with how to make a collagraph printing plate, from which you can create your own printed fabric. Then, meet Michele Muska for ruching and a challenge to try out new tools and trims. Next, it’s time to raid the medicine
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  • quilting Arts TV Episode 513
    513 Susan Brubaker Knapp returns as our first guest. Her inspiration was a plant from her garden. She starts out with a photo of a coleus leaf and creates a small art quilt using white fabric, textile paint, and thread. Then Jeanne Delpit is inspired
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 511
    511 First are some of the quilts from Quilt National—one of the most prestigious international showcases for contemporary quilts. Next, we’ll meet Paula Prass for a still-life framed art quilt. Then it’s time for Bonnie McCaffery and
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 509
    509 Get ready to raid your recycling bags. We prove that quilting can incorporate much more than just fabric. Natalya Aikens challenges us with eco-friendly quilting and new materials to incorporate into your designs. Then, meet Eric Drexler for a luxurious
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 510
    510 First we’ll meet Judy Rush; she describes her technique as simply stitching, then building, then cutting—basic concepts, but with a fascinating result. Then, it’s time to dress up your studio with a quilted table skirt that can be
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 508
    508 Angles and lines play a strong role in today’s show. Carol Taylor is first featuring her couching technique from her—Arc – i- Texture collection. Then, meet Alma de la Melena Cox for an amazing process called telamadera fusion, using
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 507
    507 Sue Cavanaugh starts us out with a demonstration of the special stitches that she uses to pattern her art quilts. Then, we have two on-location segments back-to-back. First, meet Kristal Wick and learn a brand new way to use fabric to create beads
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 506
    506 Today’s episode introduces us to some new materials to incorporate into our art quilting. Mary Hettmansperger leads off with metal embellishments on a quilted wall panel. Her experiences as a mixed-media artist, weaver, and jewelry designer
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 505
    505 All of our guests have started out with a traditional technique or pattern, but they’ve interpreted it in a whole new way. First up is Sarah Vedeler – you’ll be amazed at her technique for using machine embroidery to create quilt
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 504
    504 Our first projects are no-sew fabric fortune cookies for a great personalized gift idea. Then, it’s a lesson on specialty shibori dyeing with Dianne Giancola. Next, we’re off to International Quilt Festival and a collage door book with
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 503
    503 Make sure you have your machine threaded and ready. As we feature machine quilting. Our first guest is Teri Lucas. She’ll demonstrate her innovative free-motion designs and give us tips and hints for machine quilting. Up next is Carol Ingram
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 502
    502 Our feature designers are going to introduce you to some original ways to design with fabric . First up is Carol Taylor. Learn her unique approach to piecing narrow strips of fabric to create amazing designs. Then, meet Jennifer O’Brien a she
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 501
    501 The first show begins with Susan Brubaker Knapp. She creates art from her photos using fused appliqué and thread painting. Today’s inspiration is a lighthouse in North Carolina. Next, Pokey shares a stitched and stenciled book with photos
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 102
    102 Mixed-Media New technologies and products—plus a willingness to think outside the sewing box—make it possible to pair fabric with just about anything you can find to create textured and very unique artistic expressions. First make lustrous
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 101
    101 Surface Design There is a rich array of commercially printed fabric to choose from ––but you can also make your own with paints, oils sticks, and stencils. First we go to our host’s personal studio and combine simple household tools
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  • Is Social Networking History for Fiber Artists?
    Did you know social networking was a thing of the past? It's true! Social networking goes back hundreds, even thousands of years, and fiber artists of all stripes have been in the thick of it, from quilting bees to sewing circles to knitting patterns and traditions that are passed from one family
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  • Quilting Arts February/March 2011
    Check out our new machine quilting column, “Stitch This! Free-motion Motifs to Try” by Heather Thomas. Enjoy Lisa Kerpoe’s second installment of “Resists from the Kitchen” with a look at mashed potato flakes. Don’t miss Lyric Kinard’s suggestions for quilting
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  • Pokey's Fabric Winner & A New Quilting Arts Series 700 DVD Giveaway
    I had every intention of posting the latest winner this past Wednesday but then you may have seen in the news that Boston got hit with a pretty huge snow storm. I worked from home that day, but not without spending a good amount of time trying to dig
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  • Quilting Arts Episode 713
    713 Unique Quilt Embellishments This episode features two unique approaches to embellishment. First, you’ll learn how to dye embellishments with Dianne Giancola, who shows how to color a range of materials to match your quilts, from buttons and
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  • Quilting Arts Episode 712
    712 Gone to the Dogs This episode features unique pet projects that will enable you to dress your pooch in style! First, Pokey demonstrates a reversible doggy jacket, complete with fusible appliqué and machine stitching. Then, Susan Brubaker Knapp
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  • Quilting Arts Episode 711
    711 Quick Quilt Gifts and Décor Quilting Arts celebrates the way artists are taking a contemporary approach to quilting by blending their passion for various textile arts. Valori Wells opens this episode with a mixed-media shadow box, combining
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  • Quilting Arts Episode 710
    710 Colorful Mixed-Media Quilting This episode focuses on how to create a series of quilts. First, Beryl Taylor demonstrates her series Never Ending Circles, vibrant and whimsical pieces of fiber art which are constructed with reverse machine appliqué
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  • Quilting Arts Episode 709
    709 Quilts Gone 3D Visit any movie theater and the latest trend is 3D films. Quilters are not to be left behind in the movement, which is why this episode features textiles with dimension. First, Candy Glendening creates mod house ornaments, small structures
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  • Quilting Arts Episode 708
    708 New Styles for Quilt Designs Art quilting can take on so many forms, from an emphasis on mixed-media to embellishments or unusual piecing. This episode explores two different styles for making contemporary quilts. First up are piecing techniques from
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  • Quilting Arts Episode 707
    707 Stitch Intensive Use your sewing machine in creative ways! In this episode, two top designers share their unique stitched projects. First, Jamie Fingal teaches new ways to use free-motion zigzag stitching and zippers to create one-of-a-kind art quilts
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  • Quilting Arts Episode 706
    706 Patchwork Party Contemporary patchwork is in, and today’s episode opens with a discussion of fabric choices between Pokey and Pippa Eccles, who also show how to create a table runner for all seasons. Next, learn a unique method for piecing from
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  • Quilting Arts Episode 705
    705 DIY Fabrics for Quilting Let your personality show by making your quilt unique. What better way to accomplish this than learning how to easily design your own signature fabrics? First, Kerr Grabowski gives a lesson on surface design, demonstrating
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  • Quilting Arts Episode 704
    704 The Quilted Home Quilters love to decorate both their home and their apparel with textile art. The first décor stop in this episode is the kitchen as Pearl Krush creates a sweet and sassy kitchen collection with an apron, placemats, and baked
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  • Quilting Arts Episode 703
    703 Totes and Bags Time to tout your totes! First up on this episode is Candy Glendening, who shows how to create a messenger bag filled with pockets that will keep you organized, and a flap that is a beautiful piece of fabric art. Then Valori Wells demonstrates
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  • Quilting Arts Episode 702
    702 Upcycling The motto of this show is “don’t throw it away!” This episode teaches how to upcycle scraps into stitched treasures. First, learn about the inspiration and techniques behind Victoria Gertenbach’s Work Quilt series
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  • Quilting Arts TV Episode 701
    701 Quilt Design This show features some of the most innovative fiber artists of today as they share their ideas for making one-of-a-kind quilts. Jean Wells is first and demonstrates how to create an elegant portrait finish for art quilts. Then Jeannie
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  • Stitch News and Free Stuff!
    Free project: Feel Good Love Pillow, designed by Malka Dubrawsky. Free project: Improv Scarf, designed by Alissa Haight Carlton . The winter/spring issue of Stitch should be showing up in stores as I write this. While you are waiting to get the latest
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  • How to Piece Quilt Batting
    A friend of mine has been bitten by the quilting bug and is rapidly moving from novice to intermediate quilter. I'm quite proud of her. But because she's been working on more traditional-style quilts in a larger format than I usually work, I don't always have the technical answers she's
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  • New ways to Create and Display your Artist Trading Cards
    Cheryl Johnson decided to change up the way that she displayed and created Artist Trading Cards. For some inspiration on how to spice up your own ATC collection read on. What was your inspiration when you decided to change up the shape of ATC’s
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  • Improve Your Quilting Through Repetition
    There's an old joke, from well before my time, that is still around because it's a classic. An elderly gentleman is walking down the street in New York City. A younger man steps up to him and asks, "Excuse me, sir, but how do I get to Carnegie Hall?
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  • My Latest Quilting Arts @ 10 Giveaway--Free Fabric!
    In celebration of 10 years of Quilting Arts, I offer my 2nd (of 10) giveaways this month. This time I am giving away a stash of my own hand-dyed, screen-printed fabrics, some of which look something like this: My question to you: What is on your art quilting
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  • Quilting Arts TV Series 700 DVD winner! (And help with the next giveaway)
    I have randomly selected a winner and want to extend my congratulations to... PJMOCKIT! PJ, please email lmurray@interweave.com to claim your Quilting Arts TV DVD set! I find it funny what PJ wrote: My quilting memory is of several ladies gathered around
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  • Let Your Imagination Fly
    Where do you stand on art dolls? Some people love 'em. Some hate 'em. I've seen doll art flourish as angels, goddesses, and other feminine totems, then fall out of favor as an art form (been there, done that), and then be reinterpreted by a new generation of fiber artists who call them "stuffies"
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  • 10 years of Quilting Arts, 10 Giveaways, 10 Special Moments
    It’s official; Quilting Arts has hit the double digits! In January 2001, Quilting Arts was born, and if I do the math (and I’m horrible at math, so never ask me to figure out the tip), that means Quilting Arts is 10 years old. To celebrate
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  • Get Through Winter with Wearable Art
    As I write this, the snow is coming down, I'm wearing extra warm socks and a scarf, and I'm wondering if I remembered to put the ice scraper in my trunk. The very thought of a being outside in a silk slip dress makes me shiver.
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  • Call for Submissions: Fall 2011
    Designers, it's time to get creative to kick off the new year in style by sending us your amazing design ideas! The Call for Project Submissions for the Fall 2011 issue of Stitch is now available online . We are always looking for new designers and
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  • Time-wasting Mistakes You Can Avoid in 2011
    One thing I've learned, and that I love, about contemporary art quilting is that you can't really make a mistake. Everything that happens is grist for the creative mill and happy accidents often serve as "aha!" moments. On the other hand,
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  • Zap Your Scraps with this Easy Collage Postcard Technique
    What does your studio look like right about now? If it's like mine, there are scraps of fused fabric here, wrapping and collage papers there, plus bits of ribbon, piles of magazines and catalogs, and, yes, I'll admit it, even some crumpled candy wrappers (Santa remembered my sweet tooth).
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  • Winter/Spring Stitch preview
    Chipmunk Hot Pad from The Art of Applique section. Kimono Wrap Top from the Knit Wit section. Spaghetti Strap Necklace from the Sew Small, Sew Stylish section. The new issue of Stitch hits newsstands January 18, and it's the exciting start of our
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  • Basic Grey Charm Pack Winner!
    Congratulations to suzanne.david , the randomly selected winner of a charm pack of Basic Grey fabric! Suzanne, please email your mailing address to me at lmurray@interweave.com so I can send out your charm pack! This was the last giveaway that I have
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  • Winner of Kate Spain's Fandango fabric roll
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  • Interview with Kathy York
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  • Quilting Arts December 2010/January 2011
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  • Thinking Outside the Bolt
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  • Announcing the Latest Fabric Winner & Lost Footage: International Quilt Festival!
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  • Interview with Fabric Designer Kate Spain!
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  • New winner for Hideaway Fabric bundle!
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  • Quilting a Story: A Quilting Arts Reader Challenge inspires a series
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  • Strategies for Coping with Post- International Quilt Festival Show Blues & Free Fabric
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  • Announcing the First Facebook Blogger of the Week: Susan Ettl!
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  • Easy Patchwork Projects: Keep 'Em Coming!
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  • What Is Your Type?
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  • Recap of International Quilt Festival
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  • Easy Handmade Holiday Cards
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  • New car vs. new sewing machine?
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  • My first Houston Quilt Festival!
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  • Announcing the “Hideaway” Fat Quarter Winner!
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  • Easy Fabric Jewelry Ideas
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  • Announcing the Kona Cotton Fat Quarter Winner!
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  • Report from the International Quilt Show Floor!
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  • Prepare Your Studio for Holiday Success
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  • Interview with Lauren and Jessi Jung: a Mother and Daughter Fabric Designing Duo!
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  • Create Your Own Art Quilt Reference Library
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  • Shopping Project Runway Style At Mood Fabrics
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  • Episode 611
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  • Episode 610
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  • Episode 609
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  • Episode 608
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  • Fashion and Fabric: Fall Museum Update
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  • A Perfect 10: Quilt Studio Bliss
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  • Merging Intellect and Aesthetic: An interview with artist Gabriella D'Italia
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  • Call for Submissions: Stitch Spring/Summer 2011
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  • Quilting Arts TV Sponsors
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  • Who Can Resist a New Fiber Obsession and Contest?
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  • Send Us a Birthday Card!
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  • New York Fashion Week S/S 2011 - Part 2
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  • Getting Inspired by Fellow Art Quilters
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  • New York Fashion Week S/S 2011 - Part 1
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  • Quilting Arts August September 2009
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  • Interview with Melanie Testa CPS July/August issue
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  • Art Travel Giveaway
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  • Warm up, Samples, Winner!
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  • Ephemera Dilemma Solved
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  • Video Prompts Begin
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  • Pretty Purse Give Away
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  • Cloth Paper Scissors "Skeleton" finalists revealed
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  • Texture by way of thread
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  • Down-Under Design
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  • It’s challenging...
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  • Movin' on up!
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  • Fun times
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  • Doorway to Design Giveaway
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  • Quilting Arts Magazine April/May 2009
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  • Breaking news! Sneak peek for Saturday night at Make It University!(TM) next week...
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  • Announcing the 2010 Quilting Arts Calendar Finalists & A Giveaway!
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  • Quilting Arts TV - Series 400
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  • QA Workshop DVDs
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  • Life's a Beach Challenge Results
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  • You be the judge! Announcing the finalists for our 2010 Cloth Paper Scissors Calendar Contest
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  • Announcing the International Quilt Festival: Quilt Scene Fabric Winners!
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  • QA TV Taping Pt III
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  • Bernina and Quilting Arts TV!
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  • An Editor Spoof, Update on Reader Challenges, and Happy Valentine's Day!
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  • Upcoming QA TV Series 400 Taping
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  • Sneak Peek at a Special Quilting Arts Rock On! Art Quilt Entry

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  • Are quilters also closet Bubba fans?
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  • Our Patchwork Heritage
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  • You Made What?! An Interview with Mixed-media Artists Opie and Linda O'Brien
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  • Late Breaking News: International Quilt Association's "Celebrate Spring!"
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  • Quilting Arts Sneak Peek
    Want to see a sneak peek of the cover for the February/March issue of Quilting Arts (on sale February 3rd)? This art quilt is by Kathy York (who some may remember from this particular Saturday night event ). Doesn't it make you wish for spring? Kathy
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  • Winners in the New Year!
    Congratulations to following 10 people for winning the first QA Blog fabric raffle for 2009! Thanks to everyone for posting your resolutions, goals, and good wishes for the New Year. We loved reading what you all aspire to accomplish by the end of the
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  • 100th Blog Post & Happy New Year!
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  • Something to Ponder this Holiday Season: Do Quilting and Collage Editors Know How to Party?
    Why yes, we do!    Some of the women of Quilting Arts and Cloth Paper Scissors. Left to right:Geri Stevens, Sally Murray, Helen Gregory, Barbara Staszak, Pokey Bolton, Barbara Delaney, Cate Prato. If anyone was near the town of Stow, Massachusetts
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  • Move over, Frosty...
      Move over, Frosty. You’ve got some stiff competition this winter! Sue Pelletier’s snowmen article from our November/December issue of Cloth Paper Scissors inspired a number of people to feel flaky this winter and make some snowy concoctions. 
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  • Quilting Arts Magazine December/January 2009
    Katie Pasquini Masopust: profile and technique; Hollis Chatelain’s new exhibit; Byzantine inspiration; quick purses from wholecloth quilts; mid-arm quilting machines; dyeing and discharging fabrics; needle-felting techniques; dyeing with RIT® dye; men’s ties in quilts; Goddess on bikes
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  • Author Interview & a Blog Raffle!
       Above: Debbi Crane, Pokey Bolton, and Cheryl Prater at Make It University! at International Quilt Festival/ Chicago in 2007.   We have a very special guest with us today: Debbi Crane , co-author of MIXED MANIA: RECIPES FOR DELICIOUS
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  • Quilting Arts Pays a Thanksgiving Tribute to Sally Murray
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  • Special Quilting Arts & Cloth Paper Scissors News for 2009
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  • Humor in Hard Times
    Since the economy is on all of our minds lately, I interrupt our regularly scheduled art quilt blogcast to share some humor with you: The fact that I woke up this morning and it was 18 degrees outside.   18 degrees…in November!  The mail that
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  • A Solid Gold Weekend & Free Quilted Jacket Pattern For Your Pooch
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  • Announcing the Winners of the Quilting Arts Book and Stash of Fabrics!
    I want to thank everybody so much for your in-depth responses to my questions about winter woes and planning a three-day art quilt retreat at my house. I was amazed at how long and thoughtful those responses were!  What many of you said:  Coping
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  • Today's the day! SAQA Reverse Auction and Close of Giveaway
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  • Post-partum Quilt Show Disorder & a Giveaway!
    Ever since I returned home from Houston, I've been suffering from what I dub PPQSD: post-partum quilt show disorder. I'm home from the show I look forward to most every year, and now I'm back in my sleepy, bucolic town of Stow, MA. Quilt show
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  • Houston: What A long, strange (and wonderful) trip it's been!
    What an amazing, beautiful, surreal, funny, busy time we had in Houston! Thanks so much to everyone who participated in Make It University!(TM) I had every intention of blogging every day from the show floor. Ha ha, that's a good one. The laugh is
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  • Houston: International Quilt Festival Scrapbook Pt. 1
      Festival is proving to be incredible...and incredibly boisterous. A blog entry sans words; I will add commentary to this post and previous posts as soon as I down a Zeus Juice and get more than four hours of sleep at night! (Check back soon if
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  • Houston Day 2 - 3
    The fun continues... Caroline Devoy & Co. who have some scrumptious fabrics out with Michael Miller... See what I mean? I want to thank all of the companies in our industry for making yummy products that will attract the next generation of quilters
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  • Houston. And so it begins...
    Blog woes: I apologize for not posting over the weekend. If anyone has a Typepad account, you may know they're having lots of technical problems this month as they switch to a new server. I'm praying to the blog gods that they get this fixed soon
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  • Talkin' Turkey (From Photo to Mini Quilt)
    The other morning while putting on a pot of jo', I spotted this surprising sight out of my kitchen window: Twelve hours later, same skyline: And the following morning when I tried to go to work: A gaggle of wild turkeys on my street stopped me in
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  • Stitch, Fall 2008
    ON THE COVER: Asymmetrical Folds skirt features Sew Eco Elaine Lipson Organic + sustainable fabrics = lasting beauty Handsewing Revolution Marlene Blessing Natalie Chanin from Alabama Chanin: style and stitch visionary projects Gifted 10 luxurious fabric
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  • Quilting Arts Magazine October/November 2008
    Designing with sheer fabrics; soy wax for batik; quilts from photos and drawings; expert advice on selling your art; mixed-media canvas books; quilt storage and preservation; printing on fabric with Maggie Grey; collaged journal quilts; collaborative stitched book project; more “Go Green!”
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  • Is there an author in the house?
    Here at Quilting Arts/ Cloth Paper Scissors headquarters, we have been holding our collective breath for a while now, anxiously awaiting the arrival of….drum roll… Cate's book ! Many moons ago, our features editor, Cate Coulacos Prato , did us proud
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  • Tricks and Treats
    What's that saying: When the cat's away the mice will play? My husband's been out of town for the past week, and while he was gone, play I did… A few things have been on my mind lately: my beautiful hometown of San Francisco, the Grateful
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  • Harvest Time At Quilting Arts and Cloth Paper Scissors
    **Please note there is a 10/1/08 update in the post below... Studios is here! In case you hadn't heard the news, the new Cloth Paper Scissors STUDIOS issue is now available! It is absolutely gorgeous (thanks to the hard work of editor Cate Prato and
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  • Fabric Stash Giveaway Part II
    Thanks so much to everyone who sent Barbara your favorite art book titles and answered my Snooze or Cruise vacation question from my previous entry. Some of your responses were hilarious! This past vacation I had intended to only be a cruiser, but alas
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  • How well do you know your editor? A two-part giveaway!
    This is the first of two blog entries where you, cherished blog reader, have the opportunity to receive a fat (and I mean FAT) stash of stenciled, screened, and stamped papers and hand-dyed fabrics. I will be giving 15 of these stashes away. Challenge
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  • Collage & Quilt Opportunities Abound (and Meet the Joneses)
    Virginia Spiegel’s e-newsletter popped into my in-box earlier this week, letting me know that another Collage Mania auction to raise funds for the American Cancer Society will be taking place. Virginia’s efforts to raise funds and rally artists for ACS
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  • Home from QA TV Taping
    As they say in TV speak, it’s a wrap! All 13 episodes of our third season of QA TV have taped. Now the editing and captioning fairies will work their magic so that Series 300 will be ready to air nationwide starting December 26. I had wanted to give a
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  • QA TV: A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Studio
    I landed in Cleveland this morning and as the tires hit the tarmac, I thought of doing a reckless thing: of not going directly to the QA TV studio set to drop off my supplies and hang my clothes, but rather stopping somewhere I have wanted to go for nearly
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  • Stitches and Steamers
    I'm in lock down prepping for next week's QA TV taping, but when I woke up Sunday to gorgeous, sunny, 80+-degree weather, I just had to lug my fabric and stitching supplies onto the front porch and throw on a swimsuit. (You can take the girl out
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  • Quilting Arts Magazine August/September 2008
    Quilted pet portraits; rusting fabric; ArtQuilts at the Sedgwick; digital design; deconstructed screen printing; hand-dyed silk charmeuse in quilts; needle-felted landscape design; dyeing cottons with indigo; 2009 Calendar; the “Green” issue with “green” wall hangings, “Go
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  • One more fabric winner and sneak peek of the guests for Quilting Arts TV Series 300
    My screen-printed fabric packs are cut, sorted, and ready to go! Goodbye my colorful calico and crepe de Chine lovelies, I hope your new owners put you to good use… I only received nine emails yesterday instead of 10 so I am drawing another winner. Congratulations
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  • Fabric Winners!
    I felt a little blessed this weekend to have had a beautiful Saturday afternoon all to myself. I dragged an 8' table onto my driveway and loaded it with piles of fabrics (cottons, organzas, and velvets) as well as stamps, stencils, printing inks and
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  • Quilting Arts GIFTS and a Fabric Giveaway
    I feel such a huge sense of elation, relief and utter joy; I want to jump up and down, dance around the office, or go run along the beach and holler into the breeze. Why am I so giddy? The Quilting Arts GIFTS issue officially went to press today. I'm
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  • The Lowdown on Long Beach
    Artist Alisa Burke poses with a fan. For those of you who didn't come to International Quilt Festival/Long Beach and Make It University!™ with Cloth Paper Scissors, we sure missed you! Some pictures for you… Surviving the Runway Luncheon (Thursday
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  • Mixed-media Tea Party Challenge Results
    News flash! We have been steeped in challenge entries for our Cloth Paper Scissors Mixed-Media Tea Party challenge and invite the following artists to please send in their submissions to us as soon as possible. Many will be published; all will be displayed
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  • Stash Winners, Current Projects, and 2010 Quilting Arts Calendar Contest Rules
    I want to send a heartfelt thanks to everyone who stepped up and answered my burning question. I am blown away by the sheer number of responses and in awe of all the diverse gadgetry you have in your stashes! And now what I really want to know is… when
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  • Dog Days of Summer and a Giveaway
    Did you know that not only is today the summer solstice but equally momentous is the fact that it's National Take Your Dog to Work Day ? We, at Quilting Arts have truly gone to the dogs. Today we have four of man's best friends here sniffing around
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  • Quilting Arts Magazine June/July 2008
    Fabric design with discharge dyeing, crayon rubbing, and painting; using your stash; digital design; machine needle felting; stamped fabrics with Adinkra symbols; designing with thread scraps; image transfers on fabric and paper; surface design in fabric collage; silk bowls; mounting quilts; “True
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  • Thermofax Screen Printing
    A sample of my hand-dyed and screen-printed fabrics. What would you do if you had a month off and could do any one activity? If I could take this kind of time, I'd scamper off to some secret destination (preferably a small creekside cottage in Sedona
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  • Breaking News! New STUDIOS issue
    You are hearing it here first! Due to the reception of our first STUDIOS issue we are publishing a second edition, which will be available this October. I am really so thrilled to share this news with you. Cate Prato, our features editor, will be Editor
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  • I’ve been tagged, News for ATC Trade at International Quilt Festival/Long Beach, and a Fat Quarter Giveaway!
    Art quilter Mary Stori tagged me earlier this spring and as I just enjoyed a three-day weekend, I had a little time on my hands to finally put to paper a few bits about me. (And if you want to skip all that and jump to Quilt/ Collage news and the Fat
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  • There’s No Place Like Home––Announcing the Quilting Arts 2009 Calendar Winners
    "Window into Home 2" by Natalya Aikens We said we’d publicize the 2009 Quilting Arts “Celebrate Home” Calendar winners on May 23, but hey, the decision has been made so why keep mum about it? (Plus we want to display the winning quilts at Quilt
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  • Why The Sopranos Quilt Didn't Get Made
    As my friends know all too well, I am slightly obsessed with HBO's The Sopranos , and inspired by a recent call for entries for an upcoming show in Long Beach , I came darn close to formally entering an art quilt dedicated to my Jersey boys. But there
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  • 2009 Quilting Arts Calendar Finalists
    Okay, dear blog readers, it’s that time of year again to announce our Quilting Arts Calendar finalists. (I know it seems a little early to be thinking about 2009, but welcome to my world!) With this year’s theme, “Celebrating Home,” we received 243 entries
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  • Recap of International Quilt Festival/Chicago
    International Quilt Festival/Chicago was such a blast––a heartfelt thanks to everyone who visited and participated in Make It University!(TM) with Cloth Paper Scissors. The area buzzed with energy, creativity, and laughs the entire weekend, thanks to
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  • Quilting Arts Magazine April/May 2008
    Making stamps; painted backgrounds for art quilts; inspiration from Matisse; batik art quilts; profile of a hand embroiderer; thickened silk dyes; quilting with a longarm; finishing techniques for small quilt edges; free-motion machine quilting; working with transfer paints; stitched paper quilt design;
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    Go Green Quilt by Frances Holliday Alford Opportunities Knock Wanted! We have some very exciting publicity and publishing opportunities that I wanted you, dear blog reader, to find out about first. (Many of these aren’t even on the submissions pages yet
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  • Artwork in my studio
    It’s here, it’s here! The Studios issue has just arrived in our offices and oh my… I think it came out rather nicely. I hope you think so, too. In my extreme makeover article, I mention that I will share some of the artwork in my studio on our website
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  • True Colors Mixed-Media Quilt Exhibit
    "Illustrated Document No. 1" by Judy Coates Perez Last year we issued a challenge to readers of Cloth Paper Scissors® , asking them to make a mixed-media paper quilt that incorporates a color or colors that reveal the true you. It's always
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  • Studio Space
    For all of you Project Runway fanatics, you may have been surprised by the size of Christian Siriano's studio when Tim Gunn paid him a visit on last week's episode. Upon seeing Christian's cramped space, Tim said, "Wow, you really know
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  • Quilting Arts Magazine February/March 2008
    Collaged fabric panels with found objects; wholecloth facing technique; monoprinting fabrics, including sheers; free-motion machine quilting; mounting and framing art quilts; flour paste resist with Jane Dunnewold; painterly quilt collage; eco-friendly journal quilting; 2007 Journal Quilt Project; Goddess
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  • QA TV Series 200 Taping Complete
    The winner of the award of Guests Traveling the Farthest for the Series 200 QA TV Taping goes to... The Kemshalls! For those unfamiliar with this dynamic mother-daughter team, Linda (beautiful mother) and Laura (adorable daughter who's only 29!) hail
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  • QA TV Series 200 Sneak Peek
    We’ve started taping for Series 200 of QA TV and I thought to give you a special, behind-the-scenes sneak-peek at how we put this together. It all begins months in advance when Kathie Stull (owner/producer) and I discuss the themes for each episode. At
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    Apologies for the two-week absence, but I have been bowled over by a few important deadlines this month and I’ve also managed to catch the flu (no fun). While I sip chicken broth, huddled under my great grandmother’s quilt, I thought to share some happenings
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  • Quilting Arts TV
    For me ringing in the New Year often means a cozy night curled on the couch, TV clicker in hand, watching a frost-bitten *** Clark countdown to midnight. However, this New Year’s is a little more thrilling… because that stroke of midnight means Quilting
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  • Warm holiday wishes from all of us at Quilting Arts
    Whenever I'm in need of some holiday cheer, I pop " Love Actually " into the DVD player. I love the opening sentiment: "Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General
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  • Handmade Show & Tell
    My, my...what a busy group of elves you've been this season. I was thrilled to receive so many emails with pictures of handmade gifts you've been making this year! Here's a sampling of ten gifts (randomly selected) that I hope will inspire
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  • Quilting Arts Magazine December/January 2008
    The Kemshalls on inspiration and the creative journey; painted batting and interfacing as quilt surfaces; fabric collage techniques; discarded quilts re-worked with paint and stitch; profile of Pam RuBert; embellish with bead soup; needle-felted wonders; results from two challenges; Goddess on turning
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  • Fa La La
    On Saturday night I found myself with a free evening (yeehaa!) and made a set of fabric coasters to give my mom for Christmas. I was inspired by Julie Hirota's article in Quilting Arts Gifts for fabric coasters and how Julie manipulates her photos
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  • Great Finds
    I love snowmen, particularly ones who get into the spirit of the holidays, and this one's complete with his very own party hat! Isn't he cute? Sue Pelletier, a local Massachusetts artist dropped him off at Quilting Arts last week as a gift. Sue
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  • Home and Hearth
    Meet Edgar, one of our furry children that we got from a shelter in Vermont many years ago. Edgar comes and goes when he pleases; he's a stealth little guy, a prankster too. In his days of youth, he reveled in depositing dead mice on the front door
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  • Back from Houston
    I was away for a whopping eleven days for Quilt Market and Quilt Festival and in my absence Halloween came and went, the remnants of a hurricane whipped through Boston, and oh yeah baby... the Red Sox won the World Series! While I get my voice back and
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  • Four bits of news from Quilting Arts Headquarters
    1. Make It University! with Cloth Paper Scissors at International Quilt Festival is taking place in less than two weeks! If you can't come to the show (and we'll certainly miss you) you can still be a part of the fun if you send in some Fat Inchies
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  • Quilting Arts Magazine October/November 2007
    Digital imagery; delicate design with silk, lace, flower petals, and machine embroidery; the Kemshalls on finishing with embroidery, foil, and color; quilted fabric sculpture; textural book wraps; large-scale photograph quilts; thread sketching on stabilizer; showing artwork; binding techniques; embellishments;
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  • It's a Wrap!
    We just finished taping the first series of Quilting Arts for PBS, and I have a few more pictures to share with you... The queen of complex cloth, Jane Dunnewold. She'll appear in our very first episode and I'm feeling pretty lucky that she'll
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  • Make It University!™ with Cloth Paper Scissors is one month away!
    Just think: This could be you... On November 1, 2007 from 12:00-2:00 PM, I'll be holding a luncheon lecture entitled Surviving the Runway: The Ultimate Challenge with Cloth Paper Scissors at International Quilt Festival. It's not a lecture, exactly
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  • QA TV Becomes a Reality!
    We're mid-way through taping Quilting Arts TV so I thought it would be fun to share my journey with you thus far. Let the pictures do the talking... I had to chuckle when I boarded my flight to the taping and saw this on the back of the seat in front
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  • Quilting Arts Magazine August/September 2007
    Machine needle felting with yarns, specialty fabrics, and digital image inspiration; the Kemshalls on quilting; binding techniques; autumn-themed art quilts; digital prints in fabric collage; discharging fabrics; India ink resist with Jane Dunnewold; 2008 Calendar; Inchies; from theme to series; Goddess
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  • Oh the weather outside is delightful
    The calendar says the summer solstice will blessedly be upon us in a few days, but in Editorial Land, this can only mean one thing: How are those holiday issues shapin' up? Admittedly I'm still thawing out from last winter, but while I'm deadheading
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  • Quilting Arts Magazine June/July 2007
    Design primer: space, notion, and rhythm; the Kemshalls on sketchbooks; rubber stamp stencils and Paintstiks®; paint and dye with Lutradur®; exploring fusible thread, water-soluble fabrics, and more; expanded squares with Jane Dunnewold; "Flower Power"paper quilt challenge results;
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    Here at Quilting Arts headquarters, we have questions of great, worldly importance that only you, dear reader, can answer: 1. If you had your dream quilting television show (oh…say…one that was called "Quilting Arts"), what exactly would you
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    I've been mum about something and it's just about killed me to have kept this secret for so long. Coming the end of December a brand new quilting show called "Quilting Arts TV" and hosted by yours truly will join the PBS programming
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  • Quilting Arts Magazine April/May 2007
    Finding Inspiration; Scale, proportion, and balance; Finding Your Voice with Fabric Collage; silk painting with resist; understanding tone, value, and light and dark to create mood and feeling; Artist Profile: Frances Holliday Alford; five artists, one quilt; holographic effects; contour drawing with
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  • Back from Chicago and 2008 Calendar Finalists
    Above: Debbi Crane, Patricia (Pokey) Bolton, Cheryl Prater Thanks to everyone who came by MIU in Chicago last week! Between a flooded basement (came home to two feet of water) and a head cold, I'm just a tad beat, but I'm still laughing as I think
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  • Studio News
    Wanted! If you have designed a studio space either in or outside of your home, and would like to share your space with the greater community, I'd love for you to tell me a little bit about your space . We're interested in stories about how you
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  • Odds and Ends
    Almost here! 1000 Artist Trading Cards is not available until next month, but I got my advanced copy a short while ago. What I love most about this gallery-style book is that these ATCs bridge both the art quilt and collage worlds. Lots of styles, themes
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  • Quilting Arts Magazine February/March 2007
    Theme-based work; Tim Gunn makes Wearables Work for You; designer labels; machine needle felting; Clear Vision: Part II; pricing your art; textural surfaces; The role of tradition in quiltmaking; MetroTextural; More results from our Abstract Art Quilt Reader Challenge; Goddess on knitting. On the Cover
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  • Call for Art--Two Special Exhibits
    I wish I could explain my absence by saying I've been tossing back pomegranate margaritas on a Fiji beach, but alas, that remains a fantasy. Quick blog post to let all of you clever, creative people know that we're coordinating two additional
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  • Interview with cover girl, Cheryl Prater
    Are you pulling your hair out, wondering what you could possibly get your mother-in-law for her birthday? Just ask Cheryl Prater, daughter-in-law extraordinaire. If you haven’t seen the January/February issue of Cloth Paper Scissors yet, Cheryl’s shares
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    Okay, my heatgun-wielding, rotary-cutting lovelies, I have big news, but before I share, I want to tell a story: Back in the day when I was in sixth grade, my art teacher plopped a pile of colored felt, a bag of needles, and skeins of DMC floss on the
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  • Happy New Year!
    And a blessed one I hope it will be for everyone. I don't have any new year's resolutions, except to make efforts to spend more time in my studio and less on the net. (My guess is this is a common goal for many of us.) After my father passed away
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  • Quilting Arts Winter 2006
    Art Design Primer: Color and Value; Xpandaprint; Artist Profile: Deidre Adams;create transparent quilt art; Frayed Edges group; water-soluble stabilizers; creating translucency; The making of an art quilt; creative coffee cuffs; magical card case; results from our Abstract Art Quilt Reader Challenge;
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  • QA Raffle Winners
    A big round of applause to every single one of you beautiful people who donated funds to Teens Alone ! In thanks to those who sent money, you'll be getting a handmade coffee cuff (as seen in the latest Quilting Arts ) by Yours Truly. (I admit I'm
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  • 2007 Calendar, Teens Alone, and a Rare Raffle Opportunity
    'Tis the season for giving, and have we got a special deal for you right now––buy a 2007 Quilting Arts Calendar and get a 2006 Calendar for free! And if that's not reason enough, here's another: Quilting Arts, LLC, donates $1 for every calendar
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  • Fabric Journal & More Blog Challenge Results
    Congratulations to the following five for winning a free one-year subscription: Terri Stegmiller Sandra Spagnuolo Carol Wiebe Sue Bleiweiss Joanna van Ritbergen In thanks to everyone who emailed me their thoughts on inspiring artists and works, I thought
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  • News flash!
    Thanks to reader support over the years, starting in 2007, both Quilting Arts Magazine and Cloth Paper Scissors will be going to a six-issue publication schedule. Here's how the publishing schedules break down: Quilting Arts Magazine February/March
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    I'm home in body but not in brain, so let the pictures of International Quilt Festival in Houston do the talking! See those relaxed, confident smiles on Virginia and Nancy's faces? Just the night before, they counted the loot from the FFAC postcards
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  • Seven days until Houston!
    Now the countdown really begins--one week until the Houston festivities commence! Quilting Arts Magazine/Cloth Paper Scissors® are taking out four booths in the Make It University section (right smack in the middle of the vendor area) and we are planning
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  • Countdown to MIU--Houston!
    Make It University/Make It U! will be making its debut in Houston this fall November 2 - 5 at the International Quilt Festival, and I just launched the webpage with the schedule of workshops and events . I'll be updating it weekly (at the very minimum
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  • Quilting Arts Fall 2006
    Art Design Primer: Unity and Focal Point; Embellishing with Attitude; MajorMinors II South African Fibreworks Exhibition; Artist Profile: Karen Stiehl Osborn; Embellished Stitches & Exotic Threads; Interview with South African Artist: Rosalie Dace; Art Quilts at the Sedgwick; The Art of Journal Quilting;
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  • Interview with Debbi Crane
    Once upon a time, in a land far, far away (code for cyberspace) a lonely, art-starved editor thought to free herself from her type-filled, copyediting, desk-chained days by hosting an ATC blog swap. Soon, news of the blog swap spread like spilled walnut
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  • Inspired
    We enjoyed beautiful, Indian summer weather this past weekend, and I took a photo break Sunday afternoon to capture some images of my bucolic little town where I work and live: Stow, Massachusetts. When mishaps from the Big Dig aren't backing things
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  • In Thanks
    I’m simply overwhelmed with the outpouring of support I’ve gotten over the past week. Thanks everyone for the kind words on my father. I’ve been feeling a maelstrom of emotions: grief, of course, coupled with compassion for all of you dealing with cancer
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  • Bye Dad...
    My father passed away yesterday; he died of lung cancer and died young (age 59). He got the diagnosis in late June and went very rapidly. I thought about whether or not it was appropriate for me to be posting something so personal on this blog, but decided
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  • Back from the UK!
    Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth last week at the Festival of Quilts in Birmingham, England. While I recover from a massive case of jetlag, I hope you enjoy some pictures... I was so thrilled to learn that Jean Littlejohn and Jan Beaney of
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  • Fabric Collage Postcards and ATCs
    I just got the sweetest letter yesterday from a seven-year-old boy named Will. I met him this past spring in Chicago at Make It U! and I remember finding him staring up at the wall of fabric ATCs we had displayed. Eyes wide, mouth agape, and neck craned
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  • News!
    Fellow Artists, If you sent in ATCs for the blog swap I'm starting to mail mine back next week. If you did not get a Grant of Rights form from me via email for the ATC book please email me directly-- editorial@quiltingdaily.com and put "Grant
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  • Scribbling away
    Time and time again I hear stories from friends and readers about creating art as a way of restoring inner calm, and it certainly holds true for me. I came back from my Phoenix trip only to learn that there was a grave family emergency on my hands and
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  • Summer Reads
    If you submitted ATCs for the blog swap in May, I’ll be sending mine to you in mid-July. So sorry it’s taken me a couple of months, but we’ve had a rather intense publishing schedule for both May and June. I also might have missed some people for the
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  • Quilting Arts Summer 2006
    Twisted Insertion Stitches; sun prints; The Art of Abstraction: Part II; Artist Profile: Linda&nbsp;and Laura Kemshall; Quilting with Hand-dyed and Discharged Cloth; Deconstructed Screenprinting;&nbsp;Journal quilter Jeanne Williamson; More Results from our "Creative Self-portrait Challenge";
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  • Alex Anderson Interview
    Something I forgot to mention... A few weeks ago while in Minneapolis for Quilt Market, Alex Anderson stopped by our booth to see if I’d like to be interviewed for her new Podcast feature on her website. Before I could answer, my husband, John responded
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  • Quilt Market News & More
    It’s been an exciting and busy May for us at Quilting Arts headquarters. Not only do we have a lot of material going to press, but we also visited beautiful Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN for the Spring Quilt Market. I was pleasantly surprised by the beauty
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  • The first official blog swap
    I've been M.I.A. lately, simply because we have our hands in a lot of projects here at headquarters. One of our endeavors is pulling together artwork for a book on mixed-media ATCs. You heard it here first (well, unless you were in Chicago): Rockport
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  • Inquiring Minds
    Are you dabbling? Have you been experimenting with a new technique or material (or mastering an old one)? Or maybe you're dreaming of creating something but haven't had time? What have you been up to? To keep (or jumpstart) those creative juices
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  • 2007 Calendar Contest Finalists
    Today's the day we posted the finalists on the Quilting Arts website , and we do it with mixed emotions. With more than 130 submissions, we were simply blown away this year, and the decision to narrow them down to the following was extremely difficult
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  • Surfacing
    We returned from Chicago late Sunday night/ Monday morning, and three days later we’ve finally chiseled our tired, groggy selves off the floor. Thanks so much to everybody who joined us in Chicago last week. We were stunned by the sheer number of people
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  • Setting a Shipping Record
    More than 2000 pounds and 80 boxes later, we’re on our way to Chicago for the International Quilt Festival/Spring. I don't know who's more shocked by this record-setting shipment––the dog or the UPS guy. I will try (key word being "try"
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  • Studio before and after
    The Big Clean If you saw my letter from the editor picture in this latest issue of Cloth Paper Scissors , you'll know what I mean when I say my studio easily could have been mistaken for the set of "The Swamp Thing." With the amount of clutter
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  • Paper/Fabric ATCs
    My latest obsession—experimenting with paper and stitch © Patricia Bolton Two weeks ago, I committed to making more than 200 ATCs for Spring Quilt Festival/Chicago next week (what was I thinking?!), so I’ve been in my studio late at night experimenting
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  • Whoa baby!
    This is too cool for school... check out the loot that Jacquard Products sent us in addition to our order for paints we placed with them last week: I asked for some product to help with my workshops for Make It U! and I'm positively bowled over by
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  • A Word on the Journal Quilt Project
    I've held such hope to enter the Journal Quilt Project since it's inception in 2003. I'm not alone. Every January the activity on the Quilt Art list surges as people like me who've never formally entered a show, are excited at the thought
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  • Countdown to Chicago and news on ATCs
    I'm so thrilled––International Quilt Festival/Spring and Make It U! with Cloth Paper Scissors® is just three short weeks away. I recently received the floor map of where the Make It U! section will be, and it's smack in the middle of the quilt
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  • Happy Times
    Happy times I just returned from a Caribbean quilting cruise we sponsored where fellow friends and artists including Lesley Riley and Laura Cater-Woods taught. Although as a sponsor I didn’t take classes, the trip afforded me the chance to simply sit
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  • Welcome!
    I’ve always been slow to catch onto anything hip (proven by the fact that I’ve yet to watch a single episode of “Project Runway”). Yet I’d get email after email from friends and colleagues who’d apprise me that they were journaling on the Net, and for
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