The Arts Bloggers Provide More Unique Ideas, Including Quilting
June 15, 2008 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
QuiltingAndPatchwork.com
The Arts Bloggers provide more unique ideas this week. Check out these activities you may want to try…as a fun diversion or something to do with your children during the summer vacation.
The Artful Crafter suggests that you put your beachcombing mementos in full view all year round by arranging them on a pretty decoupage box.
Now that your children are home from school, experience some “time travel” quilt related adventures with them, says Mary Emma Allen here at Quilting and Patchwork.
Even though Father’s Day is over, you might like to make a special hand-printed t-shirt for your Dad to let him know he’s special…an idea …read more
The Artsy Bloggers With Some More Crafty Solutions
April 3, 2008 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
QuiltingAndPatchwork.com
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 …read more
Quilting & Patchwork Joins the Art Bloggers
February 29, 2008 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Home & Living
QuiltingAndPatchwork.com
A group of arts bloggers at the b5media Lifestyles Channel have collected a round-up of their posts. How about checking them out for fun and inspiration?
*Link to a Free Collage Sheet to download at Heather Goldsmith’s A Creative Journal. I’ll have to do that myself since I’ve become fascinated by collages, whether fabric, paper, or mixed media.
*How Important is Color? Katelyn, of Stamping Mad, asks as she muses on the importance of color in art. I’ve been fascinated by color this week as my daughter has been in the midst of dyeing fabric for her quilting art projects.
*At Cyndi Lavin, at Layers Upon Layers, gives us …read more
