Artquiltmaker

Artquiltmaker Blog is on the move

Jaye — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:39:30 +0000

This blog was intended to be the new Artquiltmaker Blog, but it never quite lived up to the expectations. Now this blog’s big sister is the new Artquiltmaker Blog. After weeks of work and lots of help from Deirdre, Artquiltmaker Blog is ready. I am moving the blog to my own domain with a new look, new features, a new layout and continuing the creativity and quiltmaking. Come and join me at my new blog: http://www.artquiltmaker.com/blog.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Coffee Sketch

Jaye — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:32:54 +0000

Nina Johansson is another sketch artist whose work I am admiring lately. I have a soft spot in my heart for coffee cups and hot drinks. I really liked this drawing. It is one I would buy a card or print of if offered.

clipped from 3.bp.blogspot.com

Illustrated Journals

Jaye — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:27:39 +0000

clipped from gabicampanario.blogspot.com

Anna Maria Horner and Blogging without Obligation

Jaye — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 22:15:17 +0000

You may have noticed the little badge I added awhile ago from TartX. The Blogging without Obligation badge is a reminder to myself that if I don’t post every day, nobody will die and the world won’t end.

To that end, I ry and be patient with people who don’t post as often as *I* would like them to post. Thus, I was thrilled today when I saw a couple of posts from Anna Maria Horner. She obviusly reads her blog comments, because her post is answers to a number of questions that came up in comments when she posted her multi-tasking bag -soon-to-be- pattern. I really liked the post. I clipped a little piece of it to get you there easily, though I really wanted to clip the part about the patterns and couldn’t.

clipped from annamariahorner.blogspot.com

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

oilcloth: Is being rolled onto bolts as we speak which is fabric talk for the last thing that happens before it ships to stores. You’ll have to check with your shops to ask if they’re carrying it, as I’m not sure that every store who has my quilting cottons will also have these. Though I know they’ve been popular picks. We’ll also have them listed in the shop in precut 2yd quantities as soon as they get here. They’re 55″ wide and I think will be retailing for 19$ or so a yard. AND GUESS WHAT? YOU DID IT! You banged your pots and pans & helped me get 3 MORE prints of Good Folks sent off to the mills for more oilcloth varieties! Yay you! It will take a little time to print and coat the wider goods, but you have this, this and this one to look forward too.

Inspiration Monday

Jaye — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:52:23 +0000

Inspiration comes from everywhere and I found it on the Blog. freepeople.com site, which I had been looking at because of a cool bookmobile. These little vignettes are hilarious. The post links to a Flickr group for more.

clipped from blog.freepeople.com

plastic life

Quick View

Jaye — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:04:33 +0000

I liked this video, which Deirdre was kind enough to share. It was a really nice taste of her work and a bit of creativity in itself.

clipped from www.elizabethperry.com

1000 Days – One Minute

By Elizabeth Perry on September 28, 2007 1:51 AM

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Find a Teacher Service by Ami Simms

Jaye — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:40:34 +0000

This kind of site is a long time in coming. I am glad to see that Ami Simms has identified the need and taken the bull by the horns. I hope that many teachers will sign up and will make this a successful service.

clipped from findaquiltteacher.com

FindAQuiltTeacher.com is a service that makes hiring quilt teachers easier by providing detailed and useful information about many teachers in one place and presenting this information in a standardized format.

Journals for Today

Jaye — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 04:04:35 +0000

I am now following an artist called Michael Nobbs on Twitter (he followed me first!). On his site, he has an ad for journals called Myndology. I liked hte colors so I clicked on the ad and then watched the video. These journals are so cool, because you can rearrange the pages and add pages from different sized journals. Not only that, but the colors are tempting I have the feeling that I have to try one! Just call me magpie!

clipped from www.myndology.com

Sketching Life

Jaye — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:02:06 +0000

Following up on my blog post yesterday, Deirdre sent me a tweet about another artist which led me to this blog on sketching. I like the simple yet bold lines.