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If you’re making pincushions and you’re using sand and you need something to hold the sand in order to pour into the pincushions, use a clean salad dressing container if you’ve got one. Any small empty carafe type jar will work really well, but the salad dressing ones have those neat little tops that you [...]

Jill Buckley brings new meaning to the word “embellishment” with her textile art pieces. Jill challenges herself frequently and steps outside the box of even contemporary embellishment techniques when she designs. She has actually used rocks and paper in her textile art pieces with great success. Her latest piece, entitled Reality Show, contains preserved maple [...]

Scott Hagan may not think of himself as a quilter, but he knows quite a bit about how quilt blocks and patterns go together. A painter by trade, he sometimes works with quilt blocks on a very large scale, transferring traditional quilt block patterns to his chosen canvas, and painting in the patchwork pieces. And [...]

At first glance, Fraser Smith’s quilts are finely quilted, richly colored textile art pieces that beg to be touched. They hang in graceful folds from casually strung rope lines. You look both ways to make sure no one’s watching, and against all quilt-show etiquette, you reach out to touch the quilt and unexpectedly encounter not [...]

Welcome Spring and join the Yo-Yo Sisterhood of the Traveling Panties with Ami Simms! Ami hand-dyes her panties with beautiful colors every spring, and now she’s offered to do it for all of us. Check out Ami’s blog and website for the “full scoop” (pun intended!), and get your panties in the mail to her [...]

How can you integrate snow into your fabric art? Use it to dye fabric! Seriously! There’s a lot of it going on out there right now, at least in the northern hemisphere. Check out a great tutorial with step by step pictures and great shots of the finished products at Bunk’s Blog. Other great snow [...]