Deborah from The Blue Hare talks about what went into making her entry in the recent Bloggers’ Quilt Festival. She says she even included a poem in this art quilt. She shows several closeups so you too can swoon over … Read More...
Enter High Fiber Diet exhibition
The Bellevue Arts Museum of Bellevue, Washington, USA, has released a call for entries in BAM Biennial 2012: High Fiber Diet. The announcement says,
… Read More...Artists are encouraged to take a creative approach to the fiber medium, considering both traditional expressions
Read CQ Mag Online
The latest issue of CQ Magazine Online is available now. Included are articles by Lynn Schoeffler, Sharon Boggon (who created the gorgeous block of the month shown above), Allison Aller, and Lisette Root. Go to the free … Read More...
Denyse Schmidt’s work at Ralph Puccini
Modern quilt maven Denyse Schmidt has a quilt collection showing at the Ralph Puccini International museum in New York. Get more info here. If you can make it there don’t miss it.
Image credit: Ralph Puccini International
Write for Fiber Art Now
A new publication, Fiber Art Now, is seeking articles about fiber and textile arts and notices of fiber events. The submission guidelines say,
… Read More...The mission is to connect and inspire the fiber arts & textiles community with the most compelling
Bead it forward
Bead&Button is now managing Jeanette Shanigan‘s Bead-It-Forward bead-quilt project and invites you to participate. Beaders from around the world stitch 1.5 x 1.5-in. (3.8 x 3.8 cm) beaded squares depicting the year’s theme. The squares are then joined into … Read More...
Newsy: Online study group on creativity
Annie from Annie’s Quilting Stash will be hosting a study group starting in November using the book, shown. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron is a classic book on creativity. I own it and can wholeheartedly recommend it. Go here … Read More...
AAQI grants for Alzheimers’ research
KerryKatieCakes, who is an active proponent of the Alzheimers’ Art Quilt Initiative, shares a bit of information of how the charity spends its money. You’ll want to read this. Go to her blog post.
Crafty faves meet up in Texas
Read the story of an epic meet-up! Virtual friends Kristin Roach of Craft Leftovers, Diane Gilleland of CraftyPod, and Rachel Hobson of Average Jane Crafter met in Rachel’s home town for some real-time socializing and crafting. You’ll enjoy … Read More...
Bite Sized Scrapbooking is Now Free
The Bite-Sized Scrapbooking subscription service is now free of charge and will run until January 27th 2012. Bite-sized Scrapbooking is a system that breaks down the process of creating a layout into three distinct steps, and guides you to work … Read More...
BASICS reach 300 quilts | Call for more
Quilters are some of the most generous folks you’ll meet and for some, making charity quilts is the way they got hooked on the hobby. Well whatever the path if you are a quilter, Victoria at Bumble Beans Inc. needs … Read More...
Learn surface design from Shiva King
Cathy Hsiao of the Textile Arts Center previews a surface design class to be offered by Shiva King on Thursdays, November 3 through December 1. Her unusual applications of screen-printing techniques are fascinating. If I lived anywhere near New York … Read More...
Arm Knitting and Finger Knitting
Arm knitting and finger knitting. It’s here and ready to be explored. Quite simply you use super chunky yarn and lose the needles.
It’s pretty fast too, as you can imagine. So dig out your super chunky artisans yarn, … Read More...
Boggers’ Quilt Festival starts today
Bloggers’ Quilt Festival Fall 2011 starts today at Amy’s Creative Side. There are already 120 linkies to some awesome quilts. Don’t miss it. Go to Festival.
Canadians: Join EAC
KerryKatieCakes fills us in a bit about the Embroiderers’ Association of Canada. If you’re a Canadian stitcher, you definitely should check it out. See her post.
Learn lace-making techniques
The Metro Chapter of the IOLI (Westwood, New Jersey, USA) is having a lace day and classes November 5-6. Included are an exhibition, a luncheon, and classes for all levels from children to experts. Find out more from the LaceNews… Read More...
Lytro ready to release 1st light-field camera
Whoa. this looks super neat. This new camera captures all the light in the scene you are shooting. You will be able to refocus after the fact and create 3-d images. And it doesn’t sound to crazily expensive either!
Vitrum Studios Celebrates Their 10th Anniversary!!
Congratulations Vitrum Studios!! They’re celebrating their 10th Anniversary! How cool is that? And what do they do? Have a sale on Bullseye Glass. Yea ha!! So if you’re out there on the east coast and you need glass Vitrum … Read More...
You need The Needle Index
Mary Corbet of Needle ‘n’ Thread tips us off to a fantastic little resource for stitchers: The Needle Index published by the Valley Quail chapter of the Embroidery Guild of America in California. See her post to find out why … Read More...
Getting to know you…5,4,3,2,1 things
Bloggers, check out the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Things About… series at CRAFT:. They want to know more about you:
… Read More...One Project You Are Particularly Proud Of
Two Mistakes You’ve Made in the Past
Three Things That Make