Layers Upon Layers: Mixed Media Art

May 7th, 2008

Call for submissions: Knit Graffiti

Are you a knitter or crochetier? Do you design (or want to design) unusual pieces of street art out of yarn?
If so, you should design a pattern for Yarn Bombing: The Art of Knit Graffiti, to be published by Arsenal Pulp Press in fall 2009.
A DIY guide to the art of yarn graffiti and a […]

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April 30th, 2008

Call for entries: Pretty Little Presents

PRETTY LITTLE PRESENTS
Editor: Valerie Shrader
Proposal Deadline: May 15, 2008
Lark Books seeks designers to make unique projects to feature in an upcoming sewing book, Pretty Little Presents, scheduled for release in fall 2009. This book, part of a series of sewing publications, will feature stitched, fabric gifts items no larger than 12” x 12” designed […]

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April 21st, 2008

Art Doll Quarterly

***FREE STUFF ALERT***
Have you seen Art Doll Quarterly? I’m sure if you’re a fan of art dolls, you probably have. Dolls are not an art form that ever really entered my realm or tugged at my imagination…until I saw this magazine! WOW!! The things you can make, and this is the magazine with both the […]

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February 14th, 2008

Yarn from newspapers

Art Attack Thursday!
Greetje van Tiem has figured out a way to recycle old newspapers into surprisingly attractive yarn! Greetje, a graduate student when she developed the process, says that she can make 20 meters of yarn from a single sheet of newspaper. It will never seem right again to throw out the news without recycling […]

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February 6th, 2008

Susan Lenz’s Cyber Fyber project

You may remember that Susan wrote a terrific artist profile for us back in August. Well, I was just blown away by the scope and magnitude of her latest project! She sent me this information to share with you:
CYBER FYBER is an exhibition scheduled for Gallery 80808/Vista Studios, 808 Lady Street in downtown Columbia, South […]

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December 27th, 2007

Wanna make a ric-rac rose?

Do you have lots of left over ribbon and trim from Christmas?
Sharon B, of inaminuteago blog, very kindly photographed herself making these. Aren’t they cute? Can’t you just think of a million things that you could use them for?
Thank you, Sharon!

Tags: Fabric & Fiber, fiber-art, ric-rac, roses, tutorials

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December 6th, 2007

Call for entries: New Fibers 2008

Fiber Arts Network of Michigan
New Fibers 2008
Deadline: Postmarked by January 2, 2008
Exhibition from May 6 to July 24, 2008
The New Fibers exhibitions seek to exhibit contemporary fiber art in a broad range of forms, from textiles rooted in traditional processes and materials, to sculpture, conceptual, and installation art. We particularly invite non-traditional fiber art.
Participation […]

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October 17th, 2007

Grace Willard’s gorgeous mixed media work

Grace has a gallery at Deviant Art, and her mixed media works are textural marvels to behold. Even her completely flat work looks like it isn’t. She shows a wonderful mixture of fibers and paper and ink and whatever else strikes her fancy. Love it!

The Gall

The Gall 2
Tags: Collage, fiber-art, Mixed Media, Paper

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July 19th, 2007

Sharon B shares crazy quilting resources

Sharon B, of inaminuteago blog, has compiled a long list of online resources that answer many basic questions on crazy quilting, as well as teach some advanced techniques. Thank you so much, Sharon!

Pastel block by Sharon B
Tags: Art Quilts, crazy-quilting, Fabric & Fiber, fiber-art, quilting

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March 28th, 2007

Knitting, crocheting, and…geometry?

“I had to try it,” Hinke Osinga said when her partner challenged her to come up with a 3D way to visualize the complex Lorenz manifold that they were working on. The 2D models were just not satisfying. Science News reports, “Eighty-five hours and 25,511 crochet stitches later, Osinga had a Lorenz manifold almost a […]

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