The Artsy Bloggers With Some More Crafty Solutions

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Among our weekly crafty suggestons, you’ll find journal keeping, quilting memory journaling, knitted dolls, custom soaps, collage techniques, scissor shapening tips, and mixed media monograms.  Even quilters like to dip into other types of art. 

Heather at A Creative Journal gives us 14 Reasons to Keep a Visual Journal

Check out Noreen’s Esperanza – Knitted Doll of Hope at Hankering for Yarn.

Eileen, at The Artful Crafter, gives directions for transferring any design to a bar of soap, How to Make Custom-Design Gift Soaps .

Visit Layers Upon Layers where Cyndi shares another project combining handpainted backgrounds and digital layering for a very personal collage.

Katelyn at Stamping Mad shows us how to create a Mixed Media Monogram Letter.  While making this letter, I discovered that art doesn’t always do what we want it to do.

Mary Emma at Quilting and Patchwork discusses Saving and Sharing Your Quilting Memories. What fun to find ways to save your quilting memories to share them for future generations.

Having problems finding a good place to sharpen your expensive fabric scissors? Chloe at Tangled Thread shares some tips to help you.

Enjoy!  And let us know about some of your favorite quilting and fabric art projects…or other crafts you’re involved in.

(c)2008 Mary Emma Allen