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Each time we gear up for another International Quilt Festival Make It University! TM with Cloth Paper Scissors® event, we try to balance keeping popular components with adding new features. As our staff brainstormed ideas for IQF/Chicago April 16-18, one thing we made sure to include was an art trade...
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Heading out for a party on New Year's Eve and want to carry a stylish bag? Resolved to carry an eco-friendly tote bag rather than choose paper or plastic in 2010? Still looking for a last-minute homemade gift to whip together before Christmas? Maybe you just can't get enough quilted handbags...
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Quilting Daily
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22 Dec 2009
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Filed under: quilting, quilt, cotton, handmade quilt, Melanie Testa, Quilted Bag, www.quiltingarts.com, Studio, quilted shoulder bag, quilted handbags, handmade quilted, quilted tote bag, quilted bags
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One of the most exciting ways to change the look of fabric is through resist dyeing techniques. Resist-dyeing is one of the oldest ways to transform cloth, used the world over. These methods are exciting, because they are unpredictable-perfect if you're a person who likes to play, because each time...
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Downsizing and de-stashing are popular buzzwords today. We all just have so much stuff. So I think those of us who like to make gifts for others want to create something that's useful as well as beautiful. If it helps use up scraps from our stash, so much the better . I recently made this eyeglass...
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The deadline for our "Mother Earth'"Art Doll Reader Challenge is coming up. Don't be left out. Show us your art and help us celebrate Earth Day when we publish some of our favorites in the March/April Issue of Cloth Paper Scissors. H ere are the rules 1. Create one mixed-media art doll...
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Greetings! As busy as we all were at Festival (check out Pokey's photos), it's not surprising that the time just flew by and here we are back in Massachusetts (a bit tired but truly inspired). It was a great week! We thought we were coming back to snow! but surprise; it's 70 degrees today...
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Barbara Delaney
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22 Oct 2009
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Filed under: Cloth Paper Scissors, Quilting, Festival, Quilt Scene, Melanie Testa, Open Studios, Jamie Fingal, Dye, IQF, Make it University, Quilt
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Brace yourselves! I think I'm about to set a world record in the Blogosphere for the number of photos in a single blog entry. I took nearly 250 shots at International Quilt Festival/Houston, but I cut the lot down to 49. (The ones I don’t post in this blog entry, I’ll put in the photo...
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Pokey
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Pokey
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20 Oct 2009
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Filed under: Techniques, SAQA, Cloth Paper Scissors, Make It University, Quilting Arts, Quilt Scene, Quilting, Jamie Fingal, Fabric, Kathy York, Bernina, Leslie Jenison, Inspired to Quilt, Melanie Testa, design, Judy Perez, 35th Anniversary, International Quilt Festival, Quilt, art quilt, Quilts, Quilter
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Welcome to the Fall 09 Studios Tour! **Notice: For some reason, not all of the links here will "refresh" to today's new posts with the tours. I am particularly having trouble with blogs on blogspot. I have refreshed, cut and pasted into new lines on this post, triple checked the links,...
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Cate Prato
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2 Oct 2009
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Filed under: studio, Beads, inspiration, studios, design, winner, cloth paper scissors, blog tour, quilting, Melanie Testa, Techniques, Inspired to Quilt, quilters, Art Quilt, Quilt, Patchwork
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As a follow-up to Melanie Testa's article "Visual Journaling with Found Papers & Ephemera" on page 68 of the July/August issue of Cloth Paper Scissors , I asked her several questions: HG: How do you store all of your found papers? MT: I have plastic bins that are large and flat, and...
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OK, Everybody! It's time to take the “Quilting Arts Uncensored: The Stuff You're Not Supposed to Know” Quiz! Are you ready? Which of the following statements is true? A. For the very first Quilting Arts calendar we published in 2001, the printer mistakenly flipped a couple of the...
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Pokey
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18 Jun 2009
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Filed under: Techniques, Cloth Paper Scissors, Quilting Arts Uncensored, Long Beach, Make It University, Quilting, Jamie Fingal, Fabric, embroidery, Leslie Jenison, Alisa Burke, Melanie Testa, draw, beads, Quilt, Quilts, art quilting
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Last night I went to my Alma Matter, The Fashion Institute of Techology and gave a small talk to a silk painting class. The teacher was one of my favorites when I went to school there, Zsu Zsi Dalquist. Or at least I hope that is how you spell it. Zsu Zsi would give us points for entering class with...
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You know, we all surf around, sorta aimless, often to the same sites? I have been checking out some really notable sites lately and figured I would share some of them with you. These are blogs whose artwork really gets under my skin, makes me look forward to reading them and I even sometime savor them...
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Gosh! That is the title song to a TV show I used to watch as a child... Hello all. This is my first post to the NEW Quilting Arts website as an author. I am pretty excited about all of this. I think the site looks great and offers so much to our community, I am glad that we now have a social networking...
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While we're working to prepare the final details for the covers of the "QATV" Series 400 DVDs, it's fun to reflect on the TV taping...now that we've been home for awhile. I can't believe that Pokey and I spent a whole week and a half traveling together - and we were still getting...
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It was a whirlwind working on the new series of QA Workshop DVDs. I had the opportunity to work with all of the artists during the preparation and taping. They are such pros at what they do! I thoroughly enjoyed watching every single Workshop taping. I felt like I was getting a private lesson from each...