Christa’s Quilt Along 5.6 – Hugs ‘n Kisses Pieced Backing – Christa Quilts I just love creative quilt backs, don’t you? For today’s Quilt Along lesson, I will show how I made my pieced scrappy backing for Hugs ‘n Kisses using fabric from my stash. It took me 4 hours to complete my pieced backing. Step 1 – Choose Your Backing Fabric (30 Minutes) Top 100 Personal Development Blogs - Learn-gasm Personal development can affect all aspects of your life, from controlling your negative thoughts to gaining the self-confidence to excel at work. If you’re in need of some inspiration to get you on the right road to improving yourself, the Internet is full of blogs that can offer guidance, advice and support to aid you in your journey. We’ve brought together 100 here, in no particular order, to help you get started. Must Read These are some of the most popular personal development blogs out there, so make sure to add them to your bookmarks. Work Development
Organize and Decorate Everything — Organize Your Life and Decorate Your World Here is another garland I made for Emilee’s birthday and to decorate her bedroom door. This is another great way to give money as a gift. To make the Dollar Bow Garland you can make as many bows as you like and in any denomination. My folding skills aren’t amazing so I decided on making a simple bow. Start by folding the bill in half length wise. Fold one end of the bill toward the center, then the other end.
Dispatches from Spain Contributor post by Serena Olivieri A twitter friend told me about this lovely shop in the beautiful neighborhood of Las letras (literally: the letters, meaning humanities, since lots of spanish writers during the golden years lived there) in Madrid, so I went to take a look. I was really pleased to find in this shop a great connection between nature & fashion. Ad Hoc is the result of a mix between flower shop Vinca per Vinca, represented by Cayetana and the fashion design shop Ad Hoc, with Clara being the owner. This collaboration started 4 years ago, they chose an old flower shop to set up their business and also kept some pieces of the vintage furniture - good choice! What I really liked was the atmosphere of the place, the scratched walls, the colours, the wooden furniture and the plants.
Fan of MarketPlace wins a fair-trade quilt from MarketPlace: Handwork of India! Want to be the next winner? Fan of MarketPlace wins a fair-trade quilt from MarketPlace: Handwork of India! Want to be the next winner? Thank you to Lorene and Connie for helping to create this quilt! We just plucked the name of our lucky winner from our raffle drum full of entries. Thanks to all of you who bought chances to win this beautiful hand-made quilt.
the honesty revolution.com Illustrators can get lonely sometimes. They sit in their studios for hours on end… talking to their pencils, cursing at their Adobe Suite, and confessing their love to the charming recorded voice of Robert Krulwich. (Or is that just me?) Now I have learned of a new thing they do: Illustrator Blog Tours!! Sassy & talented people — like the effervescent Jaime Temairik— tag you in their blog and send you questions about your latest book. All-In-One Moving Guide: Printables, Checklists to Organize Your Move Moving frequently accompanies some of the biggest moments in life: Setting up your first apartment. Buying your first home. Upsizing. Downsizing. You’re opening new doors, settling into new places, moving forward – what’s not to like? Of course, there’s the, um, move itself?!
A Group Gathering: Collar Piece: Nancy Nicholson Bold and colourful with moreish motifs of birds, cats and fluid forms, designer & artist Nancy Nicholson's work is highly illustrative and joyful to behold. Based in Kent, Nancy works predominantly in paper and textiles using her own designs to produce stitch kits, 3d 'interactive stationary' and one-off hand & machine stitched pieces. Nancy comes from a dynasty of artists with a rich textile bent. In brief, her Father, Roger Nicholson, was a professor of fine art texiles at the Royal College of Art and her Mother, Joan Nicholson, was involved in the Needlework Development Scheme in the 1950's (you may even be familiar with Joan's work for Golden Hands magazine in the 1960s & 70s?).
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Tanglewood Threads: 2012 Scratchings The beginnings January 1 through 3 January complete. Posted February 19, 2012 How To Give Your Photos a Dark Processed Lomo Effect This post was originally published in 2010 The tips and techniques explained may be outdated. Follow this step by step post processing guide to give your photos a dark lomo style effect with high contrast, blue tones and vignette burns. The effect is based on the popular lomographic technique and is similar to the processing effect used in many fashion shots and advertisement designs. Overall this effect does a great job of adding impact to a plain photography with cool colour casts and unusual saturation. View full size photo effect
Sew Wild Inspiration This giveaway is now closed. Thanks! Alisa Burke, mixed-media artist, painter, designer and creative spirit, joined us on the blog earlier this year with her fun Doodle Pillow tutorial. We enjoy all she does over at Alisa Burke, and we’re excited to check out her latest book, Sew Wild. Alisa writes, “Sew Wild gives you the green light to make great surface design and mixed media art by breaking the rules and showing you there is no right or wrong way of creating.