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Category Archives: FABRIC ART
Experiment With Maverick Colors
Unrestrained Colors Pack Drama in your Art Quilts Part 1 of 3 – “mother fabrics”, and accented analogous color palettes Say you want to work with magenta, tangerine and lime green fabric. How do you effectively harmonize these colors in … Continue reading
Posted in COLOR & COLOR THEORY, FABRIC ART, MISC
Tagged Info you should know, Opinions, Quilt Technique
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Dandelions, Spirals and Butterflies
Elemental Shapes that speak to master quilt maker Jane Sassaman The colorful, energetic and delightful quilts that Jane S. Sassaman creates stimulate an uncommon sense of curiosity and adventure for the viewer. Jane has created over 75 garden inspired quilts … Continue reading
Posted in ARTIST PROFILES, FABRIC ART, WEBSITE REVIEWS
Tagged Contemporary Quilt Art, Inspiration, Quilt Technique
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Women Link Math and Science in their Fiber Arts – always have
Math Inspired Quilts Gerda de Vries, a quilter and mathematician at U. Alberta, Canada, recently said in a seminar at the Redpath Museum in Montreal, “The connection between textiles and mathematics is intimate but not often explored, possibly because textiles … Continue reading
Posted in COLOR & COLOR THEORY, FABRIC ART, MISC
Tagged Info you should know, Inspiration, Quilt Technique
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Slice Quilts
Fractured Images – Different Viewpoints excerpts from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette article by Patricia Lowry, April 14, 2010, permission granted to reprint First there was Cubism, then photographic collages and now – Slice Quilts, quilted fractured images that appear to … Continue reading
Posted in FABRIC ART, MISC
Tagged Contemporary Quilt Art, Quilt Technique, Virtual Newspaper
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Encouraging Art Purchasers
Virtual Auditions of Your Artwork Follow up article to Encouraging Corporate Clients, April 27, 2010 Sometimes, when people are looking in art galleries to select art for their home, the opportunity for a sale is lost because the potential buyer … Continue reading
Batik Bounty
What’s in Your Batik Stash? Most quilters have a sizable supply of beautiful batiks, those luscious fabrics and designs we cannot resist buying. Usually I don’t getaroundtoit. I mean making up the idea I had in mind when I made … Continue reading
Posted in FABRIC ART, MISC
Tagged Contemporary Quilt Art, Inspiration, Quilt Technique, Traditional Quilting
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Modern Quilting
Blog Review of The Modern Quilt Guild The Modern Quilt Guild blog is barely 5 months old and so has few features to review. Yet I believe it will become an important blog for quilters of all kinds and I … Continue reading
Posted in BLOG REVIEWS, FABRIC ART, MISC
Tagged Contemporary Quilt Art, Info you should know, Inspiration, Quilt Technique
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Encouraging Corporate Clients
Novel tip for encouraging art sales to corporate buyers, part 1 When a potential business client is sitting in a waiting room or corridor, the art already in place will be enhanced by displaying art work created by younger clients … Continue reading
Do Fusible Products Harm Fabric
Fusible Products – Could they Harm your Quilt Art?* Research by the Canadian Conservation Institute and U. Nebraska- Lincoln has been published about the long term effects adhesive containing products may have on paper and fabric art work. To assist … Continue reading
Removing Stains on Quilts and Textiles
Life leaves its marks – maybe you don’t want the “patina” Bubble gum, wine, ink, bleeding colors, mildew – what do you do when your art quilts, cherished family heirloom quilts, your childrens’ quilts and flea market finds come into … Continue reading
Posted in FABRIC ART, MISC
Tagged Childrens Quilts, Info you should know, Quilting, Traditional Quilting
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