What’s Up Wednesday
Ning, the place where you can create your own social network for just about anything, has a really nice group that many of you might be interested in: Fiber Arts/Mixed Media. I recognized many names and faces over there, including Arlee Barr, who wrote an artist profile for Layers Upon Layers awhile […]
International Quilt Festivals
Shows held in several locations.
Quilt Surface Design Symposium
Workshops held in Columbus Ohio for the non-traditional quilter.
Hudson River Valley Fiber Arts Workshops
The beautiful Greenville Arms Inn is the location of these New York workshops.
Tags: quilt classes, quilting, quilts
Technique Tuesday!
Here’s the image that I started with for this piece:
It wasn’t high resolution or anything: just a pretty picture. I used Golden’s Digital Ground White, and stroked it onto a piece of waxed paper, adding a few layers until the piece was covered where I planned to print. The image printed out […]
Make Art Monday!
I first mentioned the idea of using waxed paper to do image transfers in the spring: Golden’s came out with three new digital grounds which allows for inkjet prints and transfers to be brighter, clearer…well, and just plain possible on more surfaces than ever before. I used the Digital Ground White, and […]
Art Attack Thursday!
How sweet is this? And the pattern is free from the Berroco site! In fact, there are quite a number of free patterns available there which you might want to look at. And their yarn is just beautiful. Enjoy your visit :-)
Tags: fiber-arts, knitting, Wearable Art
If you collect ribbon, pretty soon you know you’ve got a snarly mess, either in a plastic bin, a dozen zip-lock bags, etc. Here’s a really clever idea for keeping them all straight…JM Day shows us how!
Tags: art-storage, tutorials
The Journey
Computer parts, wire, and digital images all live happily together in Bonnie Meltzer’s painted and embellished work. Not content to confine herself to one mode of expression, Bonnie makes jewelry, wall pieces, assemblages, and does web design too!
I invite you to spend a pleasant hour oooooing and aaaaaahing over all the treats on […]
Art Attack Thursday!
Lots of times in mixed media projects, we’d like to add a bit of hand-stitched elegance! Sometimes we can get away with just winging it, but other times the pattern is a bit more crucial. Here’s a great little tutorial from Melissa at Elemental Stitches on how to transfer your pattern to fabric. […]
Fabric Art Workshop
by Susan Stein
Fabric Art Workshop: Exploring techniques and materials for fabric artists and quilters. There you have it! If you would like to learn about different surface treatments that you can add to your quilting or other fabric projects, this is an excellently written book to get you started. Not all of Susan’s […]
Deadline for submissions: September 5, 2008
Information & application: Quilt National ‘09
Quilt National ‘09 is the sixteenth in the series of biennial international juried competitions dedicated to promoting the contemporary quilt as an art form. For more than 30 years, Quilt National has showcased the most exciting and innovative trends in the medium. The jurors will […]
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