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Project Hours: 4 hours Design and Materials: 1 hour Execution: 3 hours The product for this technique is called Mask Ease by Scratch-Art.  This stuff is a vinyl mask that you apply to a prepared screen for screenprinting, and it acts as your resist so you can screen through it.  I have some pictures of the process this time, to explain better.   I did not have a screen around, so I used some

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Project Hours: 3 hours Design and Materials: 1 hour Execution: 2 hours This is was one of two screen printing techniques I tried using a new product.  This product is called Scratch-a-Print2, which I got from Dick Blick.  The idea is that these very thin sheets of tissue paper are wax coated on one side, and you "scratch" your drawing into the front, rubbing the wax off onto some paper

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Project Hours: 5 hours Design and Materials: 1 hour Execution: 4 hours This week's technique is from this month's issue of Cloth Paper Scissors.  Melanie Testa had hinted that this technique was something she helped test for a friend, and turns out that friend is her road-trip roommate from CREATE, Patricia Gaignat.  I had the pleasure of meeting her at CREATE as well.   I am not going to give

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I was given this adorable bloggy award by Kelly of Maxi Fortend!  Thank you Kelly! Rules: 1. Answer this question: If you had the chance to go back and change one thing in your life, would you and what would it be?  Well, for me the answer is no.  I'm in a pretty decent spot in life, and wouldn't change anything.  Could things be even better? Sure.  But I can accomplish those things going

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Project Hours: 8 hours Design and Materials: 2 hours Execution: 6 hours It was soooooo good to be back in the "saddle" again.  I took this thread painting class from Elin Waterston at the Cloth Paper Scissors' art retreat called CREATE.  I had one day, so I was limited in my choices of classes to take, and when I saw this one, I thought it wasn't going to be something I was interested in, but as

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As you may know, this summer has been extremely busy and while I am happy to have made my sister's wedding flowers, after the initial design they were a bit monotonous to make.  I felt pretty uninspired, and because my work schedule freed up, I spent Friday 8/27 at CREATE in Rosemont. Now, I don't have pictures of the event because I was silly and didn't bring my camera, but you can see some

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The wedding is over, and life is returning back to normal. The flowers were great, we received many compliments on how they looked, and her photographer even wondered if I did this as a business! (uh, no!)  When I get some pictures of us in our finery, I'll post them, but being an attendant in the wedding means I couldn't take any photos.  ************************ My sister had the most adorable

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How fast has this summer blown by?  I can't even tell you... ********************** So these are the bouquets of flowers made for my sister's wedding.  They are all finished except for a couple of things left to fiddle with.  I think they turned out just like the picture of them in my head, so that makes me happy, and ultimately all of the hard work worth it.  There are also about 20 boutonnieres

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Project hours: 7 hours Design and materials: 1 hours Execution: 6 hours Before you get all excited that the Techniques are back, this is one that I have been working on this summer while it's been all crazy.  I have about 3 more weeks before the summer of crazy is over, at which time, the Technique of the Week will resume! (yay!) The Slow Cloth movement is one that I am trying hard to embrace,

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I'm part of a lecture program for the Chicago Modern Quilt Guild.  They are having our fiber art group, the Divas, as part of their August 15th meeting.  I'll have a few minutes to show my work and talk a little about my weekly quilt project.  (This is separate from their show and tell, our group is the feature presentation for the evening).  If you are near their meeting, stop by and see us!

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So, How are you in this lingering heat? This phrase comes from a Japanese tradition of sending a little postcard in summer that inquires how your friends and family are doing in the heat of summer.  I particularly love Japanese traditions like this.  They make me feel happy. So please consider this my little postcard to you! When I was a kid I loved "Little Twin Stars" by Sanrio so much that I

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 This is just one peek at the closet makeover.  I tore out (literally) the wire shelves that were put in by the builder in this small walk in closet.  I got two bookcases from WalMart for $25 each that now house my books and (when better organized) small containers of bead, buttons, and other notions. On the wall just inside the closet, I hung my "pin quilt", which is just a black piece of

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...Of the blog variety... I made some changes to the color, layout, and even a spiffy new banner at the top made for me by my dear husband!  I love it! If you read my blog in a reader, I hope you will pop over to the blog site and let me know what you think.       In addition to that, I had a nice long time on my plane ride back from the San Diego Comic Con to think about a lot of stuff about my

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An ATC using "found poetry" made for an ATC art retreat I went to last month. This uses paper attached to the fabric using gel medium, and the edges are ala Melanie Testa in a recent episode of Quilting Arts TV.  

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No No... it's not an oncoming train...  The summer from hell is almost over.  I promise that next year I will not be so busy!  I wanted to post a picture of what it is that I have been working on since my sabbatical from the Techniques of the Week.  These are the flowers for my sister's wedding in mid August.  She wanted to have fantasy flowers for her wedding, and these are shaping up really

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I did it.. I submitted my article.   Many thanks to Kelly, Carol, Diane, Toni, Megan, and Debbi!  Your swift kick in the pants encouraged me to just get over it and send it off already! ha ha!   Now the long wait for a response begins... 

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The "nerd prom" is coming up (That would be the Comic Con International- San Diego).  It is always the same weekend as the big quilt show in Long Beach, CA.  Comic-Con is absolutely huge, the biggest show in the US for pop culture by far.  I have a ton of things to do before then... ugh ****************************** During the July 4th weekend we went to my Father-in-Law's for a family reunion.

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This was one of those "my mind must be trying to tell me something/working something out" kind of dreams.  I usually dream about work. I guess it's how I process stress.  But last night's dream was about something I have wanted to do for several months. Way back when when I started the "art quilting" end of my quilting hobby, I was asked "What is your goal with all of this stuff?" and I thought

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Trying to get back on a normal schedule of sleeping and eating after a trip overseas, then back to back trips out of town each weekend is pretty darn hard.  Really.  This has contributed to how far behind I have fallen on my artwork.  Yikes!   *************************** That's momma bird Ethel's babies, the mourning dove family that had taken up residence in my now-dead fuschia plant.  She had

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Perhaps the best laid plans are the ones that go awry.  Not only did I have my entire 52 weeks of Techniques planned out, but I even thought that with this busy summer schedule I could actually get it all done.  I have been trying to get my techniques done in an agonizing manner.  I have been trying to keep up with them weekly and failing miserably, which was just making me feel bad about it.

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Hey ya'll!  I'm way behind on my art making because real life has gotten the way.  It happens sometimes, you know?  So anyway, I'm hoping to be back to posting some artsy goodness very soon!  There will be at least a "This N That" posting this week.   I'll be at the Wizard World Philadelphia comic book show this weekend, so it will be a week before I'm able to post Techniques.  Sorry about that,

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Scandinavia! No, really!  My DH and I took our first vacation in 3 years and took a big trip to Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. It was fantastic, I highly recommend it! Now, as far as quilting goes, I thought ahead and brought 2 weekly projects with me. My trip was over both weekends, when I usually do my weekly project, and I knew I'd miss 2 weeks if I didn't do due diligence on planning.

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I don't know why I didn't post this lovely set of placemats I made for a friend who has just refinished his kitchen and dining room with lots of nice, new furniture and cabinets.  He's a tiki collector, so these tiki placemats with "pimento" accents are hopefully a nice addition to his dining room! There's a reason I haven't posted my new Technique of the Week yet, so please bear with me, it

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One of the most searched terms that gets folks to my website are "zombie quilt".  It seems like forever ago that I started sketching cute, adorable, brain-eating zombies for my quilt designs.  I ended up making screens for fabric printing of these 5 designs, because, these were weekly quilts for October 2009 (and that month had 5 weeks in it). I screened the zombies in black and then went back in

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This is a catch up post that will fill in some of the blanks with not only what the heck I am doing in between these weekly quilts, but also as a catch up for the end of last year when I was not posting as much.  I had lots to say, just no time to say it!  These lovelies are my "keys and keyhole" weekly quilts from September 2009.  I bought some neat keys and keyholes from the Tim Holtz

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